This list of chalkboard assignments may be used for your human when he does not behave well. The below variations and choices will help you pick an assignment for him/her.
- I will not bathe my master after he bathes himself in the mud puddle.
- I will not drag my master from the interesting sniffing spots.
- I will not complain "My arm is tired" after only throwing the ball 20 times.
- I will not confuse my master by throwing snowballs for him to fetch.
- I will not ask my master to play fetch with a boomerang.
- I will drop whatever I'm doing and take my master out as soon as he asks me to.
- I will get rid of those cats.
- I will not tell my master to hurry up already when he's looking for just the right spot to take care of business.
- I will make ice cream often and let my master lick the blades (rather than having to steal a lick or two).
- I will never eat until my master has tasted what I have and approved it for me.
- I will set up the kiddie pool every day it's hot - even in December.
- I will not leave my master at home any time I go in the car.
- I will share everything I eat with my master.
- I will allow my master on the couch.
- I will protect my master from that obnoxious little human thing at all times.
- I will not have another of those obnoxious little human things.
- I will not hide my master's ball in a place where I know he couldn't possibly retrieve it from and then ask him to go get it.
- I will not sneak around the backyard wearing funny clothes to test whether my master is a good watchdog.
- I will realize that all my guests are really coming to massage and stroke the master.
- I will stop referring to my master's necklace as her "collar."
- I will not cut my master's nails.
- I will not take shredded, soggy, yummy tennis balls away from my master.
- I will not abandon my master for trivial reasons like "going to work".
- I will not wake my master when I come home from work.
- My master's desires are always paramount. My master's wish is my command.
- I will not bring home any more cats.
- I will not stare while my master is doing his business.
- Bad weather is no excuse for not walking my master.
- I will open the back door as soon as my master sits by it.
- I will not laugh at my master for being confused over not being able to find the lump of ice that he buried earlier.
- I will let my master bring the rear end of a mouse which the cat kindly gave him to chew onto the lounge room carpet.
- I will not push my master away when she wants a hug after playing in a mud puddle.
- I will give my masters chewies that last throughout that stupid kid's entire piano practice.
- I will not feed the cat before I feed my masters.
- I will not enter shows held in horse barns and expect my master to be obedient.
- Dog bladders are not large.
- I will not yell at my master for creating "chew toys" from found objects.
- I will not run out of treats.
- I will ,make a turkey/stuff a stocking/buy lots of presents, for my master.
- I will not make my master wear silly-looking antlers or red hats.
- I will not make my master pose for pictures with some fat stranger in a red suit.
- I will not tie leftover ribbons and bows all over my master.
- I will not use decorations like tinsel that could be dangerous to my master.
- I will try much harder to understand my master's language.
- I will not chase my master around yelling come! when he is socializing.
- The ornaments on the trees are balls. Really.
- I will not ask my master to retire to his crate anymore.
- Give and leave it are useless request, so I will stop using them.
- I will always carry cookies and treats.
- I will never go socializing with other canines without my master.
- I will not take my master back to that horrid SPCA, she says it is a Christmas party but I'm afraid she'll leave me there.
- I will not order my master to get up out of the nice snow when he is obviously making snow angels and giving himself a coat conditioning.
- I will give up any idea of dieting as it could wreck my master's nice comfy "chair".
- I promise to leave all doors and windows in the house open as my masters might need to make a quick exit to eradicate cats from the yard.
- I will not come home from work and feel the sofa to see if it is still warm from where my master was sleeping "illegally".