It’s hard to get through life without letting one slip out inside an elevator at least once. You have to hope that either nobody will notice, or that they will take it in their stride. If there are enough people, it’s hard to point fingers, but you can be sure someone will smell it.
Dogs don’t care about keeping farts in, so they’re an easy one to blame…but it seems that blame can go both ways. This dog has no way to raise a hand when people ask who farted, and thus it’s the person with the dog in the elevator who will be blamed. He’s the closest person to the dog, after all, so it makes sense. And everybody has heard the dog get blamed. Sometimes they just don’t buy it.
Gotta Chew Something
One of the best pieces of advice for new dog owners is to stock up on chew toys. Dogs of any age have to work their jaws, but puppies need a lot more than older dogs. Their teeth are still coming in, and they want to strengthen their jaws – it’s an instinctual action. They’re going to chew on something, and it might as well be something you don’t want destroyed.
Amazingly, this dog has the strength to chew right through solid wood, so much that the chair was rendered structurally unsound. “Give a dog a bone” isn’t just a nonsense saying. They need them. Or other things to chew. Maybe this was an old chair, and they gave it to the dog on purpose? No, it’s still not that safe to chew wood.
The Good Book
Despite that not being the intended purpose, lots of animals chew on books. Dogs, cats, me when I was two...but it’s not a great idea to do it and it can make a big mess. This dog, for some strange reason, has decided that the treat of choice for the week will be the Bible.
People spend their whole lives chewing on the contents of that book, but they aren’t usually outright eating them. Maybe this dog was just looking for some answers, but it incredibly went through a pair of copies in just a couple of days. Maybe the gold foil on the edges was tasty. Maybe it was the smooth, marbled leather around the exterior. We wonder what translations he went for. Hopefully not The Message.
Looking for Buried Treasure
Well, we don’t know, maybe there was something good under the lawn. Like Yellowbeard’s lost pirate treasure. Maybe the dog got a whiff of some long-dead animal skeleton (unlike all those alive skeletons) and wanted to see if it could be discovered. Maybe there was just a little bit of garbage there. Dogs have a lot of reasons for digging, is what we’re saying.
However, we’ve also heard that digging can be a sign of stress – this dog seemed to have plenty of time to run around and dig in the yard, so maybe it was upset at being left alone for too long. Well, the lawn got a little bit of damage and the dog will need a bath, but that’s all the owners will have to worry about.
It Doesn’t Matter if He Likes It
While it seems like there isn’t too much to punish here – the younger one didn't really seem to mind it too much – it’s still the sort of thing that has to be nipped in the bud. Otherwise, both of the dogs will be doing it before too long, and it won’t just be them peeing on each other, too.
They’ll be peeing on stuff in the house, maybe on the kids, and maybe even on the adults that are taking care of them. Can’t be allowed. So, shame on you, dogs, shame on you. You pee on the trees, bushes, fire hydrants, flowers, or the swing set, but not on each other. That should be taken right out of the equation as quickly as possible.