An in-house auditor is on the way to inspect your company’s records. What do you do? Wait ’till the auditor shows up and release the hounds! No, seriously.

Or not. But that’s how Lisa Blechman of Santa Clarita, CA responded when IRS agent Ruth Seidman posted a summons on the front door of her home. The agent was conducting an audit of Mr. Blechman’s business, and as she approached the house, Lisa threatened to come outside with her dogs unless the summons was removed.

Seidman called her bluff and left the summons posted, but as she made her way back to her vehicle, Blechman threw open the front door of the house and released her two dogs to scare the IRS agent.

Ready for the bad news? Well, there isn’t any, except for Blechman — the two aging dogs didn’t come anywhere near Seidman. In fact, the pit bull suffered from severe arthritis and wouldn’t have been able to chase her down if it wanted to.

Flash forward to the trial, and Blechman claims that she had a medical history of anxiety attacks and “other ailments” that contributed to the attempted assault. Even though the agent was “confronted” with two sweet, old pooches instead of vicious, tax-hating Cujos, Blechmen was sentenced to two year’s probation.

We’ll keep you updated on how the dogs are taking the sentence.

Tags: Animal attacks, How to screw up an audit, IRS, Unleashed dogs