Maybe she's not so bad after all

As many of you who are regulars here know, I have a Beagle. I love Beagles. I love my Beagle, although she's very bad sometimes. If we leave her alone too long, she rifles through things and shreds them. She's a senior citizen, 11 years old, so I'm wondering if doggy senility is setting in. Recently, we came home to find that she had shredded a bag of garbage that was a result of my husband cleaning his office. No doubt, she was hoping to find a wrapper with the meagre remainder of chocolate or something else delectable. When she finds those little treasures, no matter how small they are, she decimates the wrapper. It's amazing what she'll do for one lick of something sweet. She didn't find anything but paper in that bag, unfortunately.

Then, there was the time she ate a 3-pound bag of licorice allsorts candies. It was my birthday present. I had it in my tote bag, on the floor, and she managed to get her little snout in there and eat it all. She reaped the rewards for her actions through a very sore tummy, and I reaped the consequences of my folly for leaving them in there (i.e., cleaning up the evidence of her sore tummy). Ever since she found the candies in that bag, back in February, she goes to my tote bag looking for something else.

Recently, a friend of mine who works at a Salvation Army thrift store, gave me some used books she thought I might like. I did like one of them very much, and I read it. However, the other three weren't really books I wanted, so I kept them in a plastic bag, on the floor, near my tote bag. I plan on putting them in a box of books I don't need as soon as I find a box with which to do this.

About a week ago, I came home from somewhere and found said plastic bag in shreds by my tote bag. It looked like she was very angry because the bag was in total shreds. A few things that were in my tote bag were also on the floor, one of them a road map. Thankfully, the dog hadn't shredded that. The bag with the books in it was decimated. Guess which book she pulled out, and actully bit into the cover a wee bit?

The Purpose-Driven Life.

Maybe she's not so stupid after all.