After dinner, we would put our plates on the kitchen counter, and mom would take care of them later before she went to bed. We had 2 cats and the 2 Dalmatians at the time. Once in a while, the cats would jump on the counter and clean scraps off the dinner plates. The dogs would "catch" them and bark to rat them out. Until....
One day dad walked into the kitchen and saw both cats on the counter eating scraps off of the dinner plates, then they would knock some of the food off of the plates for the dogs, so they wouldn't rat them out. Kinda like bribing/paying them off for their silence. The dogs and cats joined together for a conspiracy to eat the left over food off of the plates.
