A toddler caught red-handed after handprints mysteriously appeared on a freshly painted wall tried to blame - the dog.<br /><br />Video shows Nellie Toyne, three, repeatedly blaming pet Winston for the damage - pointing the finger at the six-year-old Shih Tzu.<br /><br />Mum Dolph Malone, 41, caught her guilty daughter after tiny handprints were splattered all over the stairway wall.<br /><br />Dolph, a sales advisor, had freshly painted the walls the day before the handprints appeared.<br /><br />She said: "I have just moved and started painting the walls white. I didn’t realise for an hour or so she has done it.<br /><br />"I didn't expect Nellie to blame Winston, but I knew I had to record her reaction to my question as to who did it as I knew it would be something funny."<br /><br />Dolph couldn't help but find the whole situation funny and couldn't bring herself to reprimand Nellie.<br /><br />"I found it hilarious, but I was trying to be serious to break her! Clearly she stood strong and held it together," Dolph, who lives in Lincoln, Lincs., said.<br /><br />As the family had just moved in, Dolph had a spare can of paint that she could re-touch up the walls.<br /><br />"I’m the cleaner around these parts ha! But when I did go to clean it she said to Winston “Did you do that Winst?' She’s so funny." She added.<br /><br />The footage was captured on April 6.
