Pawprints on the pool table? "But Mom I was just down in the basement because it's cooler down there. I was trying to see if the pool table looked like a nice place for a nap. Sorry about the footprints. I guess I should have wiped my feet first."

Wallpaper unrolled? "But Mom, you and Dad were working so hard and I was just trying to help."

Downspout removal? "Well, gee, I was just being a chipmunk exterminator. Do you really want them maybe building a home in there and clogging up the whole thing and then the water would have no place to go."

Angie one of my RB poodles worked on the end of one of my downspouts throughout a whole summer. She had it chewed almost closed by the end of summer because we had chipmunks too and she was trying to get one. She eventually did! One day hubby and I were sitting on the deck and she came up to see us with a long tail hanging out of her mouth. GAG! After trying to pry it out of her steel mouth I resorted to the old *bribe them with a doggie biscuit routine." She opened up and we quickly grabbed one very dead chipmunk and popped him in the trashcan!