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6:01 am this morning:  My dog jumped off of our bed.  I heard him vomit.  I woke up to one of those days.  My husband had been out of town for 3 days.  My child had recently contracted a cold that requires a bucket under his constantly running nose.  But my dog is the one who committed the inexplicable act of horror.  And it wasn’t the vomit.

Three days prior:   I was playing with Jaden in his room.  We were getting him dressed.  We were getting ready to leave the house.  It was about 9 in the morning.  I walked downstairs and saw the carnage.  Charlie had just consumed some key elements of Jaden’s MFT (most favorite toy.)  He ate part of the garbage can (see exhibits 4 and 5 below.)  That attaches to the garbage truck.  That has entertained Jaden for about 2 hours/day each day since Thanksgiving.  It was obvious the can would never attach to the truck again.  I saw red.  Then I hid the damage.  Through my anger I sincerely hoped I wouldn’t have to rush Charles to the vet.  He would cost a lot of Alans to fix.  We left.

Two months prior:  Charlie removed an arm and two legs from the man that sits in the garbage truck (see exhibits 1, 2, and 3 below.)  This caused some serious stress in Jaden’s life.  We stopped taking the man out of the truck to avoid the inevitable concern on Jaden’s part.  We thought that was the worst Chuck could do.  We were wrong.

6:05 am this morning:  I am scrubbing vomit out of the carpet in the bedroom.  I pray Jaden doesn’t wake up.  He does.  But not before I discover that I won’t have to take Chuck to the vet.  I found the missing pieces to the garbage can.  Yuck.

3:06 this afternoon:  Jaden found my hiding spot.  He insisted the truck come back.  And now he he cannot talk of anything else other than all of the “oh no’s” that surround it.

And my questions are these:  do dogs know?  Did he know he was going to methodically destroy Jaden’s favorite toy?  Is this revenge for the hundreds of projectiles hurled at Charlie over the past few months at the hands of Jaden?  Is this his way of getting back?  And, most importantly, is he done?