Mad at Murphy

Murphy is evidently mad at me and I'm even more mad at her.  As you may recall, Buddy died and we let Murphy stay inside a few days because we felt sorry for her and figured she was mourning the loss of her constant companion.   BIG mistake.  Due to the hair shedding and tick season, we put her back outside.  When darkness came, she would stand at the doors and bark.  She would go to the windows and bark while scratching on the window screens.  We decided to lock her inside the garage at night so we could sleep.  This is what she did to the door coming into the house from the garage.

We decided to make her stay outside.  That didn't work because she kept us up barking.  The next step was to bring her inside at night and put her in the cage.  That worked rather well for two nights.  Last night, however, she started barking to come in and when we let her in to go to her cage, she stopped and refused to go in.  Hubby asked her if she wanted to go outside and she made a beeline for the door.  We thought all was well.  She didn't wake us with her barking!

This morning when I got up and let Giz out to do his business, THIS is what I found on the door coming in from the patio:

Now, we will have to replace two door frames.  That's not cheap.  I'm so angry at Murphy.  She has never done anything like this.   She's going in the cage tonight whether she wants to or not and it will probably be inside the garage.  At the rate she's going, she will chew and scratch her way in somehow.

Any dog lovers out there who have a suggestion for me?  This cannot continue. Do you think she's acting out because she wants to come inside, because she misses Buddy or both?  I'm just at a loss because this is so unlike her.  We've let the outside dogs come inside before when the weather was cold and nothing like this has happened.  I'm open to suggestions.

Hope your Monday is better than mine thus far!