Exams...puppies...and older dogs.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

We have had a fun weekend, despite the chilly to cold weather. The sun has been out and it has helped with some crabby attitudes. I walked three days straight, so that is a good thing for starting the spring. The walks in the woods have been great after we found a nice place by a running river to walk Findlay. He seems to like that as well. My goal was to tire him out, so I could do some work both outside and inside.

Having a 9 month old puppy who is over 80 pounds makes life interesting. You see, he looks like a big dog, take up space like a big dog...but still acts like a puppy at times. This weekend was one of those times. CB and I gave him a chew toy (along with the other two bugs - Annie and Koda and out the door to do a bit of yard work). You see, the chew toys distract him from missing us...translated... it keep him from mischief. SO, we thought all would be well upon our return inside the house. BUT NOOOOOO!!! He decided to chew his toy for sure, right after he took some things from the table. One of which was the camera, thanks goodness he left that alone. But the other things.... well... remember the story "my dog ate my homework". Yes, he took the midterm exams that I WAS GRADING. He decided to partially destroy four of them, leaving the others looking pretty good. I was NOT happy about this at ALL. CB spent about 3 hours pretending that I just bought her a new puzzle and taped most of them back together. At least she thinks they look good.

As you can see from the older two, they were totally unaffected by his actions. They were sleeping when we came back into the house. No warning, no barking, no telling us 'he did it' - nothing...just sleeping and being cute old dogs. Hmmm... life in doggie daycare. Guess the students will like the 'extra points' on all of their exams due to the teacher's puppy eating the exams. Oh yeah, he was tired and decided to 'rest' after he ate the exams...bad puppy!!!