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My Springer mutt Molley has all of a sudden started burying bones. She pilfered a raw hide from the neighbors yard and buried it in a flower pot in the yard last summer. They she got ahold of another rawhide and "buried" it in a box of stuff at the shop. She buried a deer skull that she pilfered from the neighbor in the fire pit out back and an antelope skull in the gravel at the edge of the drive way. What drives them to do this? Why did it start all of a sudden? She's eleven, we've had her for 9 years, she was found abandoned, three quarters starved in a meth lab in Casper.

Survival/ security

She is an old dog & she is reliving her puppyhood. Her mind has gone back to that meth lad & she's fearful of going hungry so she is hoarding bones & stuff.


Mike

Why do squirrels bury acorns?

because they want to!

What makes a Muskrat guard his musk?

Who put the ape in apricot....

there's an ap for that

Why do old fardts buy half a million rounds of 22lr?

What makes the hottentots so hot...

Because they all have degrees in forestry and they are planting oak trees.


Mike

Gave the bitch lab a shot-up deer shoulder last night.

She buried it asap to hide it from the yellow male I have. Even though she's inside a fence excluded from him.

4am, she's clunking that hunk of bone on my back deck. lol

9am it was buried again. 😄

I guess that it would be steatopygia............ if'n your into that sort of thing!

Wadda they got that I ain’t got....

Do hottentots tot ?


Mike

My beagle dawg "Shorty" buried his carefully chosen stash in a designated spot and routinely gave the area the sniff test only reincarnating a select few when they had "matured"

Nasty odoriferous chit but he was in heaven.

It helps to wipe a dogs nose occasionally.

My dogs hides toys from me. A 'toy' can be anything from a bone, to a squeaker, to an empty water bottle. He hides them in the basement where he figures nobody will ever look - in my laundry basket.

I have my girlfriend's Catahoula about half the year...she goes home during hunting seasons. But that dog remember everywhere she hid stuff, and hauls out bones from all over. I've seen her quietly go check to see if anything has disturbed where she has interred something. Here she is with an entire muskrat that just a short while later was completely buried.

My Airedale buried all kinds of items in our back yard. He favorite toy was some chewable Christmas lights on a rope. She would bury them and then lay on top guarding it. I would watch her make her rounds sniffing areas of buried goodies. She was a funny dog.