A pair of pups stand by a big pile of fluffy green stuffing and a couple of shredded-up pillows, and it doesn’t take a genius to figure out what happened here. The owners stepped out of the house a little bit, the dogs got bored, and then they realized that they could whip the pillows around in their jaws.
They’re small dogs, sure, but small dogs can still do some damage. Even worse, these two dogs kind of seem like they could be brothers – and brothers that are united in wanting to cause destruction will have a hard time stopping unless an outside force separates them. At least this kind of mess won’t be that hard to clean up. You’ll just need a broom and a dustpan.
The Three Musketeers
Having one little dog can be bad enough, but having three of them in the same house? That’s just a recipe for disaster, as we can see here. Unless the dogs are the kind that fight each other, they’re going to compound their destructive power and work together to make some truly mighty messes.
These dogs have decided that they wanted to shred up what looks like some important documents, even if they get caught in the act. One of the dogs looks like he knows he and his bros are in trouble, but it seems like the other two couldn’t care less. One of them seems like it’s looking for the next piece of paper to tackle. Sorry, pup, but you aren’t going to be getting any more for a while. Or treats, for that matter.
The Villain Has Been Destroyed
Once again, we have a picture of a dog that is proudly standing next to the tipped-over tree looking a little too proud of itself. Of course, cover anything in sparkling lights and really shiny baubles, and it’s more than just dogs that will want to get a piece of it. Cats and babies are also waiting in line for a chance to take it down.
But they won’t get a chance if they’re in this house, since the dog was big and strong enough to knock it over all by itself. The family is probably used to this sort of thing, since that dog looks to be a German shepherd – a big, strong, oftentimes aggressive animal that is built for the hunt. Even if the hunt is just a sparkly tree.
The Dog Knows
Experts in training dogs say that berating a dog for something that it has done long enough ago (a few hours, say) will just be confusing for the dog. It might not be sure why you’re upset. You’re going to have to make sure the dog knows that you’re upset at it for something in particular.
In this example, we see that it’s a recent mess, the owner is pointing it out to the dog, and the dog seems to be getting the point. And we could just be reading into the dog’s expression a little too much, but it seems to understand that what it had done was a bad thing, too. Nice to know that it can work, sometimes. You have to be firm when you train them.
I Don't See Nothing
Their sense of smell is something like fifty times more powerful, and they have a lot more brain power devoted to making sense of smells, too. Their ears are keen, and they have comparable eyesight. Still, if they don’t want to notice something, nothing is going to change their minds.
Like how this dog is ankle-deep in a huge mess (looks like it’s the stuffing of a pillow) and seems to have no issue with the scene. A lot of dogs will look ashamed at what they’ve done, but not all of them will. Maybe that pillow was bothering the dog a lot more than all the others, and the dog finally got its revenge. Or the dog just doesn’t care that it’s been destructive.