My Dog Ate My Subwoofer

Our dogs are very choosy about what they want to chew. We are very lucky that they have decided to leave well alone certain things like dining table and chairs, and lounge furniture, but have taken a fancy to door frames and any pens that we leave lying around. Every now and then they decide to take a liking to something they have left alone for months. The other day I came home after leaving Charlie and Champa with the run of the downstairs for a couple of hours. The telltale signs of some bits of plastic lying on the floor set me hunting to find what they had been chewing. Not only had Charlie managed to pull off the front cover of my subwoofer speaker, but he had also decided to chew through the speaker fabric itself, leaving a holey mess that is unlikely to play bass sounds very well in future. How did I know it was Charlie? Because as I sat down to watch TV later that evening, he decided to have another go at it in front of me. Bless him.

Charlie is not always to blame though. Having discovered a yellow highlighter pen in pieces in the garden one day that I had obviously foolishly left within reach, I set about finding out the damage, and the culprit. Apart from a bit of highlighter ink on the lounge carpet (the sort of damage we have become accustomed to), there wasn’t any problem. Finding out who did it was fairly easy when I saw our two looking up at me from the dining room. Looking at Champa’s front paws gave it away a bit!