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Oh Lindsay! You had a schizophrenic day - one part was GREAT the other part HORRIBLE! I know you felt so bad for Layla - but I read about the deoderant on FB, so maybe that will do the trick.

Let me tell you a story. We had a Jack Russell terrier. We kept him in a kennel while we were gone, because he tried to destroy everything in the house while unattended. One day I came home and the neighbor met me outside. He said that my dog had been crying all day! I ran inside and Jack (yes, his name was Jack) had gotten two bottom teeth wedged between the wires on the kennel door, and he couldn't get them out. So, he was standing up all day with his teeth stuck in the door. I nearly died. It was very hard to get them out, but I had so much adrenalin going that I was able to bend out the wires. I felt so bad, but it wasn't my fault and it wasn't anything I could have predicted.

So, you couldn't have predicted that Layla would chew through the gate, you were trying to keep everything in the house safe and protected. Things like this happen, and we just have to try to get through them.

I bet the deoderant trick will work! I put ground chili pepper in places that I don't want critters to go. I've put vaseline on things and then sprinkled chili pepper onto the vaseline. It works pretty well!

Good luck!