Does a dog know right from wrong??

Well, it may be confusing if the dog belongs to a large family ...and has a half dozen members of the family attempting to train the dog.

But, I do believe the dog understands what pleases a person ...call it what you will, dog sense, or whatever, it seems to be often superior to our common sense.

And children seems to understand the dog in some ways better than we do.  Of course they like to get the dog to fetch a stick, or do simple tricks.  It seems the dog gets more attention than anyone else at times, so it's a way the child gets to associate with the dog and experience equal value in the eyes of everyone. (Though it is also equally so ...that the dog gets much less attention than anyone else at times.)

It's cute the way children will defend the dog too ...almost as if they are in some way communicating to the parents that they are not as wrong or guilty as they feel parents make them out to be either.

Just recently, I was accused of defamation of character.  Our dog pooped in the driveway, anyway, that's the word we use, as we aren't so readily eager to define other words for it ...that they may perhaps hear in other much more crude areas of context.  I have no desire to brag about my knowledge on these things ...but I do know the difference between squirrel droppings and those of our dog.  

Anyway, this is what was said:

Me: "Summer pooped in the driveway again!"  (Somehow I feel I must validate myself by these grand discoveries.)

Son: "How do you know it was Summer ...it was probably a squirrel."