Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold.
First thing to break was my teeth. The great thing about artificial teeth is it only takes a careful wash and dry and a bit of Superglue - but this is the second time. A call to the dentist may be in order before they break beyond my powers of fixing.
The second thing was my own stupid lazy fault. I remember saying in one of the comments on Spike's harness that I wasn't going to leave it on him all day this time round. If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - well, colour me insane. Or, more likely, just an idiot.
Luckily he bit through the new one at a point on the webbing where I've been able to fix it. I cut a piece from the old webbing, sealed all the frayed edges with fire and sewed it as firmly as I can over the broken place.
Putting the harness on him and taking it off again six or seven times a day is going to be a pain, because he always wants to play tug with the damn thing, but less of a pain than this. Slap me with a wet fish if you catch me doing that again.
The third thing - don't these things always come in threes? - well, I'm going to do an
orac_zen and say nothing. But it doesn't look mendable.