Because I don’t have any interesting, new photos of anything else to show you, I figured I would give you yet more evidence that Chappy is a clever dog.

You already know how resourceful a thief he can be, but did you know he’s musical, also?

Yes, Chappy plays guitar.

When I pulled out my old guitar for photos a few weeks ago, he decided that it looked scary and threatening, so he barked at it.

Which, since this IS a musical instrument after all, and designed to resonate, it … thrummed right back at him.

So he barked again. And it thrummed again. Bark. Thrum. Barkbarkbark. Thrumthrumthrum. It went on for a while, really, and was highly entertaining. He took great pleasure in his performance. It’s really just a shame that the guitar wasn’t remotely in tune.

But, there’s more.

He’s also obviously a sculptor of some talent. Look what he did with his blanket.

Now, you have to make allowances for the medium (a blanket) and the fact that he doesn’t have, you know, thumbs, but this is pretty impressive.

You don’t see it?

Here, I’ll help.

This looks like, well, a sculpture of CHAPPY, asleep in his crate. That’s his tail right by the door, then you can see a back leg, and the front, and the hunch of his shoulders, as if his chin is stretched out in front.

That’s better than *I* could have done with a blanket!

Of course, he might simply be trying the “pillow-under-the-blanket” trick to make me THINK he’s in his crate while he runs away from home. Mom was broiling london broil for supper earlier and that means she had the oven fan on and Chappy HATES that–the smoke from the broiler plus the noise from the fan makes him try to hide as far away from the kitchen as he can.

And, honestly, it looks like he’s planning something to me…

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