# Did a dog every east your homework for real? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 10, 2019, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-a-dog-every-east-your-homework-for-real/829258 "2019-02-10T02:22:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2019, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-a-dog-every-east-your-homework-for-real/829258/21 "2019-02-10T08:27:18Z")
My hamster chewed on my school tie - which I hated wearing - after I put it in a drawer I knew she liked to climb into 🙂 I’m female btw. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2019, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-a-dog-every-east-your-homework-for-real/829258/22 "2019-02-10T08:46:43Z")
My dog ate my high school yearbook, long after I might have been able to replace it. He took out a pair of not yet worn shoes too. Darn dog! ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2019, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-a-dog-every-east-your-homework-for-real/829258/23 "2019-02-10T12:49:52Z")
I’ve had students who were generally honest say they had a puppy ruin their homework–I think I’ve heard “peed on” once or twice, as well as “eaten”. And I’m not even sure modern students have even heard the expression. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-a-dog-every-east-your-homework-for-real/829258/24 "2019-02-11T04:07:59Z")
Yes. I had a dog eat my friend’s homework. She brought the bits leftover as proof. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-a-dog-every-east-your-homework-for-real/829258/25 "2019-02-11T04:30:55Z")
No, but our dog ate an entire box of my crayons. The poop was amazing! > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > No, but cats like to west on anything that I am trying to read. I’m convinced that cats have a third eye in their anuses, the way they’re always sitting on reading material. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-a-dog-every-east-your-homework-for-real/829258/26 "2019-02-11T09:45:29Z")
No, but it did soil it once. Got the poop off mostly, but I still wound up redoing it rather than turn it in like that. ---
**Author:** ![yendis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed8c4c/32.png) [@yendis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yendis)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-a-dog-every-east-your-homework-for-real/829258/27 "2019-02-11T12:39:16Z")
Dog ate my younger sister’s homework, some sort of art project thing. My parents sent the remains along with a note to explain. We all thought it was funny but my sister was not amused. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-a-dog-every-east-your-homework-for-real/829258/28 "2019-02-11T12:50:25Z")
Well, not a dog, and not homework, but my African Grey, Rocco, once tore up a bunch of money I was preparing for a deposit. I stepped out of my office for literally 2 minutes and he went apeshit on the cash. The bank helped me out, but I was short $5 after all wa said and done. I’m more careful now. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-a-dog-every-east-your-homework-for-real/829258/29 "2019-02-11T14:05:20Z")
A couple of weeks ago, my husband was given some eye drops which he was supposed to use several times daily before returning to the doctor the next week. Nearly right away, they went missing…after having been left within reach of one of our counter-surfing dogs. Husband was dismayed at the thought of having to tell the doctor that the dog ate his eyedrops. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-a-dog-every-east-your-homework-for-real/829258/30 "2019-02-11T14:13:36Z")
No dog issues but I once had a cat legitimately tear up a sheet of math homework I had left on the floor. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-a-dog-every-east-your-homework-for-real/829258/31 "2019-02-11T15:11:31Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Well, not a dog, and not homework, but my African Grey, Rocco, once tore up a bunch of money I was preparing for a deposit. I stepped out of my office for literally 2 minutes and he went apeshit on the cash. The bank helped me out, but I was short $5 after all wa said and done. > > I’m more careful now. [Then there was the time he ate my Uline catalogue.](https://imgur.com/oSIMXZc) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-a-dog-every-east-your-homework-for-real/829258/32 "2019-02-11T15:18:57Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > No, but cats like to west on anything that I am trying to read. When I was taking guitar lessons, our class used a loose-leaf book put together by our teacher. My cat Katie (of blessed memory) wested on it. Made some of the notes blurry, but after everything dried, it was still usable. When the teacher asked why the page was all crinkly with a pale stain, I lied. Said it was tea. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-a-dog-every-east-your-homework-for-real/829258/33 "2019-02-11T19:50:20Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > You mean “anything you’re twying to wead,” wight? Most people know that Dan Quayle invented the internet as an educational tool, but few realize that WWW actually stands for “weading, wighting and withmatic”. “World wide web” is a backronym. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-a-dog-every-east-your-homework-for-real/829258/34 "2019-02-11T20:20:36Z")
Our dog ate my daughter’s homework once. She didn’t think that the teacher would believe her, so my daughter took what little was left of the homework in as proof. The teacher laughed and gave her extra time to redo it. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-a-dog-every-east-your-homework-for-real/829258/35 "2019-02-11T20:46:38Z")
> [@TSBG](#): > > Yes, well, the dog ate my homework the day we studied proofreading. Maybe it was a Westie. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-a-dog-every-east-your-homework-for-real/829258/36 "2019-02-11T21:10:26Z")
My dog did chew on a textbook however. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-a-dog-every-east-your-homework-for-real/829258/37 "2019-02-11T22:10:47Z")
When our younger son was a high school freshman, he was assigned Thoreau’s Walden. He hated that book with a passion. The dog, who never ate a book before or since (we’ve had her for nine years; this happened 4 years ago) unzipped his backpack, took the book out, and chewed it up. We also have a picture of our son lecturing a bust of Thoreau at Walden Pond. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-a-dog-every-east-your-homework-for-real/829258/38 "2019-02-11T23:11:43Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > Most people know that Dan Quayle invented the internet as an educational tool, but few realize that WWW actually stands for “weading, wighting and withmatic”. “World wide web” is a backronym. I thought [Al Gore](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/internet-of-lies/) invented the internet. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2019, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-a-dog-every-east-your-homework-for-real/829258/39 "2019-02-12T13:54:07Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I thought [Al Gore](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/internet-of-lies/) invented the internet. FALSE NEWS!!! Or brain cramp. You choose. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-a-dog-every-east-your-homework-for-real/829258/40 "2019-02-18T20:46:41Z")
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