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So every week my family cuts up cardboard for recycling. Sometimes we use a knife, and sometimes we just rip it. Pippin, who is always looking to help, has decided this is clearly an Important Thing The Family Does, and thus he must take part. Which, fair. He's seen everyone in the family do it. This appears to be a family activity. So when you go to rip up a box, he will gently take pieces of cardboard from you in order to helpfully rip them up into smaller pieces while you work on other pieces. Adorable.

This is not the problem.

The problem is, in his doggy brain, this now applies to all cardboard.

Including boxes we are currently still using.

What I mean by this is that we have created a well meaning monster, because this motherfucker is now actively HUNTING for cardboard in the house, and if he finds it he is going to break it into the smallest pieces he can before bringing you scraps of cardboard to show you that he has Done The Cardboard Job, just to take it off your hands! How helpful he is being! You can just put it straight into the recycling box! Oh, that other stuff scattered around? Yeah there was some weird stuff in the box, I took it out for you! Please enjoy the 50 million pieces of cardboard as well!

@ranchdiip

Here he is cardboard gremlin boy, he is very passionate about making sure the cardboard is in small chunks for ease

Andean Cock-of-the-Rock (Rupicola peruvianus), males, Squabbing on the Lek!!!, family Cotingidae, order Passeriformes, Colombia