<p>Well I have a cat that’s been known to play the piano in the middle of the night. Not exactly a Chopin etude, but rather his own more avant garde dissonant compositions.
The first time it happened I freaked out.</p>
<p>My dog took a whiz on my science newspaper articles when I was in Jr HS. I had them spread on the floor as I was cutting them out. She was paper trained :(</p>
<p>Our dog ate S2’s flour salt relief state map that he made in fourth grade.<br>
We made the mistake of sliding it under the bed to dry overnight.
We woke the next a.m. to find the green regurgitated eastern plains of our state all over the hall floor.</p>
<p>Packmom-
Yours cracked me up!! I,however, still remember the angst I felt having to explain the situation to my 7th grade science teacher. He didnt find it very funny (as least he didnt show it directly-- maybe he LOL’ed after class). He was really intimidating. I still remember his name. Mr. Shenck.</p>
<p>Cleaning it up was not fun at all but we have all LOL’ed over it many times since.</p>
<p>S was so upset and said the teacher would never believe the dog ate it.
She was a veteran teacher and laughed when I called to tell her about it. </p>
<p>Luckily, the dog did not find the Piedmont and Mountainous areas of the state quite as tempting so they went unscathed. S2 was able to patch it up and take in the next day.</p>
<p>No animals were harmed in the making of this project:)</p>
<p>Paper-trained dogs… LOL! We had a cat with a major hairball problem; she used to barf on D’s homework (why, oh why do kids spread their valuable papers on the floor?). Luckily, many of D’s teachers were cat owners and believed her when she handed them a laundered piece of paper :)</p>
<p>Lafalum - have you seen *Bad Cat * by Jim Edgar? </p>
<p>Our cat sometimes gets a yen to be petted at night, oh, say around 3:00 am. When it’s hard to wake us up to do her bidding, she discovered that the lamps on our night tables are operated by touch. She puts her nose against the lamp, and voila. Mom & Dad instantly wake up.</p>
<p>H (now ex) and I use toss milk jug rings for our cat who would jump in the air for them. Over time, kitty learned to bring the milk ring onto the bed during the middle of the night because H would toss it just to get the cat to go away. We had just moved into a new rental house when kitty brought what we thought was a milk ring onto the bed. H reached down to grab the ring and got a handful of dead mouse. Ewwwww! We moved out the next day. (We were very proud of our mouser cat, though.)</p>