He warned me. He brought me every toy out of his basket and I ignored him. He stared at me for five solid minutes while I looked around him and at the television (shocking I know). He even went into his bedroom and ripped the stuffing out of his bed.
I fixed the bed and continued to ignore him. He ripped the stuffing out of his bed again. I took the bed and hid it in the garage.
All the warning signs were there. I feigned ignorance. Any dog owner with a slightly rambunctious pup knows when the behavioral tsunami is coming and instead of running for higher ground I simply went wandering out towards the newly visible beach.
That's when he struck. I was sitting on the couch upstairs thinking of something witty to put on my blog when I noticed that Benjamin Linus Bonora (whose puppy mug graces this very page) had been gone for an unusually long period of time. I walked down stairs and to my horror saw the insides of my favorite sectional couch (my only sectional couch) scattered all over the living room floor.
After a five minute stare down in which I laid the optical smack down on my dog (see "Modern Family" on Hulu for a full description of how to optically smack someone) I cleaned the mess Benjamin had made in an effort to get my attention (which he did now have).
Rather than continue to fester resentment towards my loyal companion I did the one thing I swore I'd never do. I woke up 40 minutes early this morning so I could walk my dog before work. When I returned home from a long day in the school building I walked him again pound the excess energy out of him.
It is somewhat hilarious how in order to make himself happier my figured out that he must destroy my valuable possessions in order to motivate me. It took my brothers at least 10 years to get that lesson (Benji is a year and a half...).
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Hey steve, remember that I made up the phrase "verbal smack down" ask any of my prior students!!!!
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