She could personally describe the mark.

She could attribute the explanation of the stitches to her father.

Neither required pretending she’d witnessed an accident.

She took her pencil and added:

Ben told me that Scout received four stitches after an old training mishap.

Then she moved to the word certification.

Ben had explained that the kennel’s working dogs and handlers were evaluated according to the requirements of their assignments.

But Clara hadn’t included the name or date of a specific certification document in her report.