Pam that sounds like my Daisy! The whole trash thing... any time we leave the house, she goes right to the can and knocks it over. She knows it is bad though, and won't do it if we are home. She waits till the second we leave! The other day, everyone went to my sister's basketball game while I stayed home to do my homework. Daisy forgot I was home, and my family had not been gone more than a minute when I heard a loud crash. She had knocked over the trash! I went running in yelling "Bad dog, bad dog, BAD dog Daisy! You no knock over trash! That's what BAD dogs do! You bad bad dog!" and she put her tail between her legs and sat in the corner at the door, head hanging. They really know how to make you feel bad don't they?!