Apparently our house does not have the proper design elements. Pippin decided we needed to bring the feel of the outdoors indoors. To that end, she ran outside only to come in seconds later with a large piece of yard bark. As she was in the process of reducing and distributing (chewing and spitting) it artfully on the office floor, I stopped her and took it away. Out she went and came back with another piece, which she went quickly to work on. Again I removed it from her jaws. After the 5th time, I decided enough interior design work for the evening and closed the door. It was time for both of us to take a rest. She is nothing if not persistent, but then luckily, for the cleanliness of our home, so am I.