Puppy trouble

I'd almost venture to say that most people have had a puppy at one time or another in their life. My friend got a yellow lab - he's about a year old now, but still having "behavior issues". Here was her email the other day.

"Does Charlie dig? Well, the simple answer is - yes, Charlie digs. Unfortunately its not that simple, Charlie doesn't just dig. Charlie digs under the fence to come and go from the yard, he digs holes to lay in and holes to put things in, he digs holes to uproot tree roots and holes to trip small children, his hole placement has no particular rhyme or reason, they just appear mid-yard where once there was flat, grassy ground. He also chews. Charlie chews tree branches and bush branches right off the plant, he has been known to uproot and completely destroy hardy shrub/trees. He chews peat moss bags into tiny shards of plastic wrap which lay all over the yard, Charlie chews children's sweatshirts of which bits and pieces lay all over the yard, He litters the yard w/ chewed pieces of trees and shrubs that lay in holes that he has dug. Charlie has strewn unopened skeins of yarn across the yard, he has chewed up plastic children's toys and stray socks that then lay in the yard in various stages of chewed-ness. Butter wrappers that once were resting unobtrusively in the covered garbage can have appeared - chewed into hundreds of tiny pieces - all over the backyard, apparently beamed Star Trek-like out of said (firmly closed) garbage can. We need Cesar Milan!"

That had me laughing pretty hard at work the other day.