Marc came home last night, although about three hours late, since his flight got delayed from thunderstorms (we don't get enough of those in CA!). So I puttered around the house by myself all night, before going to pick him up at 11:30 pm.
Earlier, my mom had given me a whole box of cherries to bring home with me, and I'd left it on the kitchen counter before heading upstairs. A couple hours later I went back downstairs, and found a slightly mashed cherry on the living room carpet, and little red stains on the carpet around it. There was also a dog standing near it.
I went into the kitchen expecting to see cherries all over the floor, but the box actually looked undisturbed, save for one cherry sitting on the counter. Which happened to have a cat next to it. The other cat was on top of the refrigerator, trying to look as innocent as possible. Hmm, who was the guilty party? I would've expected if the dog had gone after them, the whole box would've been on the floor. And the cats had shown a particular liking for cherry stems before, but it wasn't their style to go and mash something on the floor.
I cleaned up the carpet and put the cherries away. Later, Bandit came up to me with one of his toys in his mouth. When I went to grab it, I noticed a few red spots on the side of his mouth. Aha! Caught red-handed. Or red-muzzled.
I don't think he acted alone. Re-enacting the scene, my theory is that one, or both of the cats went and pulled two cherries out of the box by their stems. One either fell on the floor and the dog grabbed it, or he jumped up on the counter and pulled one off, thereby leaving the box undisturbed. Then the dog proceeded to gnaw on the cherry a bit, before deciding that he didn't like how it tasted, and dropped it on the carpet. He might have rubbed his face on it a little too, which would explain the red muzzle stains, and the flatness of the cherry when I found it.
Anyways, as you can judge by that long story, and the amount of thought I put into it, I had a little too much time on my hands last night.
My boss sent me this today in my e-mail, about "why you should never put your picture on the internet." I was rolling in my chair.
If your detective story wasn't funny enough, that link had me seriously cracking up. Ohmygosh!!!! This will have to be shared. (Which I guess is further proof why you shouldn't put your picture on the Internet)