Last night I came home to my short boots (with heels) lying about on the floor with little black pieces of things lying around them. Uh oh. When I got the courage to check them, it turns our they are fine on the outside (except for a little ding along the outside of the sole) but Molly had carefully eaten out the inside liner bed. Oh, well, at least they are wearable, and I needed to get some new ones eventually anyway.
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. ~Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green