Accountable Puppies, Owners, and Taxes

Anyone have puppies who like to help with taxes and financial aid applications?

You don't want to know...

They don't chew all the time. They're not random chewers. They're very very selective...

Most of the time we assume it's Ellie. She poked her nose at a couple of weeks worth of finished taxes and financial aid application envelopes as I left them on the couch before we walked into another room to finish the last form on the computer. I told her "no" and she left it. Or so I thought until we counted one, not two, envelopes 20 minutes later. Why would a dog chew up your taxes? They don't taste like food. The trainer says they don't want your popcorn because it's of some scrumptious value to them. They want it because you're eating it. Point made. They didn't want the popcorn in class when I wanted them to heel, only in our living room. But taxes?

So who did it? (The more important part of this post.) Ellie? Nyah conveniently disappeared for the rest of the evening into her crate, her safe place, so maybe it wasn't Ellie. And we don't know because we weren't watching them. :)

When the kids were little we found out, after-the-fact, that one person in particular tended to start things but that person wasn't usually the person who got into trouble. Took us a while. It came out one night in conversation after a very frazzled babysitter left.

The story of Adam and Eve and the way God held everyone accountable has profound implications for kids, parents, teachers . . . everyone, even puppies!