kennel, anyone??

So my normally sweet dog Spiro, affectionately known as SpirShadow, has always had somewhat of a trash-surfing problem. But he's so sweet, and he really doesn't know he's doing anything wrong; he will happily show off his treasures of moldy cheese and half-chewed old toothbrushes with complete shamelessness. And poor Spirs has gone through some lean times before he lived with us, so we try to overlook his forays into the trash, after all, it's as much our fault for leaving trash where he could reach it as it is his.

But lately we have wised up a bit, closing bathroom doors when we leave the house and putting any other items of interest (as far as we can tell) up out of canine reach. This has frustrated the Spirs a bit, but apparently not deterred him at all. The following is a list of items the Spirs has consumed (or attempted to)over the past week:

-3 toothbrushes
-an entire loaf of bread
-2 remote controls
-1 bottle of Selsun Blue Shampoo (really, WTF??!?)
-2 kitchen knives
-2 boxes of rat treats
-a bag of rat chow
-half a pound of jelly beans
-a can of soup (can only)
-several Q-tips (the evidence is in his copious Spir-poos)
-several paper towels and tissues
-month-old rotten turkey salad (breaking a glass on the floor in that process)
-licorice herbal tea bags
-2 tupperware lids
-disposable razor (handle only, thanks for small favors)
-toilet paper roll
-salsa jar and lid (he gets into the recycling now, too)
-several bowls of Oscar's food and special enzyme pills
-probably more things that I haven't yet discovered and frankly don't even want to know about.

A certain brown SpirShadow is now going to be locked in a kennel whenever we leave the house in the future, as he has demonstrated a complete inability to behave when left to his own devices. And to think, this ISN'T the dog that we call "The Evil One."