Fiscal Responsibility for Dogs

Dogs are charming, playful and loyal creatures, but too often they become trapped in a cycle of dependency due to overindulgent humans who insist on making decisions on their behalf. Don’t let this happen to your dogs; teaching them to choose and pay for their own treats will help them develop good budgeting and spending habits to see them through their lives.




Submitted in the public interest by Sharon H. and Andrew Y.

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22 thoughts on “Fiscal Responsibility for Dogs

  1. EdmundH March 1, 2017 / 12:42 pm

    I’ll bet the good doggie gets to keep the Canadian Tire money too!

    • Birdcage March 1, 2017 / 12:47 pm

      People from outside of Canada won’t know what Canadian Tire money is!!!!

        • murkle46 March 1, 2017 / 1:22 pm

          Cool!”Monopoly Money”!

        • Birdcage March 1, 2017 / 2:27 pm

          I have a drawer in my kitchen with a secret envelope in which I have been collecting my Canadian Tire money for YEARS. I might have enough for a lawn mower or a bbq at this stage!!!!! Weirdly, I hate to use it. Feels like an important stash for the perverbial “rainy day”.

          • belphebe March 2, 2017 / 4:33 pm

            Several years ago, I went to a craft fair (where people sell all their handmade items) and one of the sellers accepted cash, credit cards, and Canadian Tire money as payment! He said that he bought all his supplies at Canadian Tire anyway, so it only made sense.

        • Smartypants March 1, 2017 / 5:41 pm

          My browser won’t let me view Wikipedia, but I imagine Canadian Tire money is like our old S&H Green Stamps in the U.S.? You’d get some with each purchase at the supermarket, put them in a little booklet, then go to the Green Stamps Store and use them to buy a toaster, etc.

    • Murray C. March 1, 2017 / 10:35 pm

      Can he count his change???

  2. Scoobie March 1, 2017 / 12:43 pm

    The way he walks out with the bag at the end

  3. Birdcage March 1, 2017 / 12:47 pm

    That was ADORBS!!!!!!

  4. allein ? March 1, 2017 / 12:49 pm

    He even walks himself into the store!

    When he hesitated putting the second bag in the basket, I think he was thinking, “But I want ’em now!”

    On behalf of retail workers everywhere, just teach them to count their loose change at home and change it for bills before you go to the store! (I’m all for teaching young kids – or dogs – to handle money, but at the register while the line grows behind you is not the time for learning to count your baggie full of coins!)

    • Duckie ? March 1, 2017 / 2:07 pm

      I agree, Allein, but my favourite memory of working in the pet store was when a family came in to buy a puppy. The kids had obviously been saving their allowance for a long time, and when they bought their puppy and supplies, it suddenly became MY job to count (and after, roll) close to three hundred dollars worth of coins. Good thing we weren’t busy! Puppy was spoiled rotten with toys and treats, and they often came in after to show how much he had grown, and all the new tricks he had learned.

      • allein ? March 1, 2017 / 2:38 pm

        I didn’t actually mind so much when it was quiet. But I also never had to count 300 bucks in coins, either. 😉

      • Smartypants March 1, 2017 / 5:38 pm

        Duckie, you have the patience of a saint! That’s awesome.

  5. Chase March 1, 2017 / 1:45 pm

    Aw! My old doggo, when allowed to pick the direction of his walks, would always lead us to Canadian Tire where he’d sit and wait for the automatic door to woosh open, and then trot in to get treats and pets from the cashiers! He loved it! This video is so sweet. I love stores that love pups.

  6. Duckie ? March 1, 2017 / 2:20 pm

    Thread Jack! Check out Fiona! She has a big girl bottle and everything! And she’s fat!

    • Ricky's Mom March 1, 2017 / 3:42 pm

      Yay, Fiona!

      (That is one huge bottle.)

  7. Madame X March 1, 2017 / 2:47 pm

    That’s it. I’m moving to Canada, where the women are strong, the men are beautiful and puppehs buy their own treats!

    • allein ? March 1, 2017 / 2:52 pm

      I’m assuming the wallet the hoomin is holding belongs to the dog. Doggie needs some pockets…

      • Ricky's Mom March 1, 2017 / 3:41 pm

        Ricky is unimpressed. He has never yet put a paw in his pocket to pay for anything, and he’s not about to now.

        • allein ? March 1, 2017 / 3:44 pm

          🙂

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