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| Super cute, lovable and innocent right? Well think again.... |
You honeeyz may have gathered from previous posts that I have a younger son, a 3.5-year-old shih tzu named Benjamin Fitzgerald Hamilton (yes, very regal and presidential). He is as cute as a button and frequently poses in pics with me. However, he recently committed the ultimate crime and I'm having a very difficult time forgiving him and moving past his most recent transgression...
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| The Tragedy |
A few days ago I discovered him in the living room chowing down on a pair of shoes I paid several hundred dollars for and that I have come to love. Why he decided to do this when he has rarely ever chewed on anything in the past 3.5 years he's been in our household is beyond me. In any event, my shoes are just about ruined and my relationship with Benji seems irreparable (I have not had the desire to even look his way). I'm planning to send my shoes out to this awesome cobbler/shoe repair phenomenon in New York City, Mina's, who has previously restored a pair of shoes I nearly destroyed back to better than brand new.
The biggest issue here is leather and pony hair has been chewed away so I don't know if it's even possible to make them wearable again with missing material. My thoughts are if I can find someone who can even out the edges, add the black piping to seal the edges that they could be better again but in that case it won't be identical to the other shoe bc the edges will be shorter than the unscathed shoe. Or maybe I just give up and start over...who doesn't need an excuse to purchase a replacement shoe? But the thing is I don't think I can "replace" this particular shoe. I can find an animal print pony hair shoe, yes but I liked this shoe for so many reasons...the print is not a traditional leopard, it's giraffe, the shape isn't a round toe, point toe or traditional square toe, it sort of has a shape of it's own. It's a unique shoe in many ways but a the same time very much a staple (animal print and pony hair will never leave us) and very much classic that I could've had forever. Or maybe I just put Benji's destructive @ss on craigslist!!! Sigghhhhhhh..... What do you honeeyz suggest? Check out the damage below and let me know...
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| The culprit |
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| The end result... salvageable??? |
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| He's sorry (I don't care) |
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| Looks perfectly fine from the top front... shouldn't give up right?? |
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| A hot mess from the back side with an entire chunk missing...what to do??? |
