Life Lessons To Be Learned

So, Lance left me on Sunday afternoon, but not alone. He left our precious perfectly prim and proper puppy with me to take his place. All was well around here yesterday and due to the wonderful advice of my doggie guru, Alisabeth, we found out about the haven of Bear Hollow. It's a beautiful little park area with a fenced-in area specifically for puppies to romp and play. There were no other puppies in sight yesterday when we got there, but after about an hour one showed up. The owner wasn't exactly friendly and I wasn't sure he would want his dog being jumped on by the most hyper dog on the planet. I felt so bad making Finn leave without even letting him play.
After my second class today I came home to a wonderful surprise from my little angel! I bought a 12 pack of toilet paper and a pack of 3 boxes of tissues yesterday from Target which sat untouched in my room until today. Baby Finn decided it might be fun to rip open both packages and tear 7 rolls of toilet paper to shreds! I salvaged 5 but I still feel a little funky about using those! The boxes of tissues are long gone! To make this situation even worse, when I walked in I found him lounging on my bed taking a nap! Does this remind anyone else of that scene from Beethoven when the dad walks in a finds the room ripped to shreds and the dog asleep on the bed?
To take the place of these products, Finn decided he should purchase a new training or "Bad Boy" collar immediately after his mother cleaned up the hurricane in her room! Technically, I don't feel like I can punish him because I didn't catch him in the act, but his bottom did get a little spanking.
After getting his new collar, we decided to go back to Bear Hollow to try it out! It works great by the way! He used to be able to pull me all over the place, but with the new collar he doesn't pull or try to run away! Yay! He absolutely LOVED playing with the other puppies and he gets along so well with them! His second favorite activity besides making new friends is getting wet. One of the dog owners filled up a huge bowl with water for the dogs to cool down with and for some reason Finn kept going to the bowl, sticking his two front legs in, and digging in the bowl splashing water everywhere! Horrified, I ran down the hill to make him stop and thought that would be the end of his misbehaving but he did it two more times! I was so ashamed! Finally a really nice guy filled up a big bucket and put a fallen limb infront of it so he couldn't splash anymore water!
Aside from being disgustingly dirty and tired, it was all in all a really nice afternoon! In other news I got a 92 on my first English test! Go me! A's in both my classes already! I'm ready to start celebrating the 4th of July even though my family won't be there when I get home!