The Check Shredder

One day, Charlie got a hold of a check that my wife got as a birthday present.  He went deep into her purse to pull out the check and several receipts.  Charlie proceeded to shred each piece of paper to bits leaving the check unredeemable.

About a month later, Charlie decided to repeat this tragedy by ripping up some checks from students to pay for a field trip.  He must really like valuable paper products.  I like it better when when the cats attack the toilet paper.

Coupon Chaos

Charlie has been at it again with a little help from the cats.  This time he tore into our mail completely destroying a book of coupons from Costco.  Sure we wouldn't have used every one of them, but some of them might have come in handy.  Just another day with Charlie!

Power Cord Carnage

One day, my wife's computer battery ran low.  She plugged in her power cord, but nothing happened.  Upon closer inspection, the cord had been chewed through by a dog.  Because the cord would not charge the battery, her computer shut down and died.

On a good note, we had discussed getting new computers as both of our computers were a few years old.  Because of this destruction, we decided to go ahead a purchase two new Mac Books (and a free iPod Touch) from the Apple Store.  Now, we are Mac people and I keep finding new amazing things that I can do on the computer.

At this point, you would assume that this story had a happy ending.  However, a dog soon chewed through one of the power cord extensions.  Thankfully, a new mac comes with two types of power adapters.