Our dog is a punk.

Griffin (our one year old Cairn Terrier), is a constant source of joy and annoyance in our household. If our dog is any indication of how our kids will turn out, I'm not sure we're passing the training test. Daniel and I agreed to keep Bandit (my dad's 8 year old Cairn Terrier) while he is vacationing for a few days in Pigeon Forge. Bandit arrived last night, and Griffin was leaping with glee at having a visitor. His joy turned to disdain, however, when Bandit proceeded to shred Griffin's stuffed burger squeak toy. Seriously... stuffing was strewn across the floor, the fabric (a fuzzy sort) was in tatters on the rug, and the squeaker squeaked it's last as it was torn asunder. Griffin watched, whining intermittently, as his toy (a dollar store special- yeah, we were really concerned about it...) was dissected and destroyed, glancing every now and then at Daniel and I as if to say "Look what he's doing!! Why are you just sitting there?? Aren't you going to stop him?!?" Finally, Griffin decided he'd had enough. He retreated to the laundry room (where we had placed all of Bandit's stuff), and to his delight, found a large bone in Bandit's crate. Next thing we know he's prancing into the living room, bone-in-mouth, jumping and spinning around, desperately trying to draw Bandit's attention. As this continues, you can just imagine him saying "Na-na-na-na-boo-boo, I got your bone!!" He went the extra mile to make sure Bandit knew he would not be getting his bone back any time soon. A bit vengeful, no? It was highly entertaining nonetheless.

Today was filled with more fighting over the bone (apparently, the 10 pieces of bone belonging to Griffin are now invisible), much wrestling, and bouts of jealousy from Griffin. Bandit's personality is completely "chill". If you pet him a few times and baby him a bit, he's happy. Griffin is not satisfied unless he is the center of attention in his domain. If I pet Bandit, Griff gets between us and shoves him away. Griffin will jump on top of Bandit if he's not first in line in order to gain center stage. We've noticed evidence of this jealous behavior before- Daniel can't hug me for too long without getting barked at. Bandit goes home on Saturday. We'll see how it goes from here. I think it's safe to say we have a brat for a dog- but we love him!