Playing with water balloons is a summertime favorite, but once August rolls around and the weather starts getting cooler, no one feels like being drenched by these things anymore.

So when the air starts getting chilly, you need to get rid of all those extra balloons somehow. This family found a unique (and completely adorable) way of dealing with that problem.

That’s one way to get rid of all of your extra water balloons, right? But from the looks of it, this pooch’s humans got the short end of the stick. They had to clean up the mess, after all.