Yeah, This is MY Dog Bone – Gimme the Word and I’m On It!

So I just heard a good story from one of our customers I wanted to share with you.

He gave his dog, Belle, one of our Happy N’ Healthy Meaty Y Knuckle bones, which are pretty humongous bones meant for large dogs. Belle qualifies as she’s about 70 lbs. So, following the directions on the label, he put the bone outside on the deck for Belle to enjoy. And then he stood back and let her have at it since she was pretty intensely focused on that dog bone!

After she enjoyed the treat for a while, he called her name, which she knew meant he wanted her to come back inside. Well, being the Lab/”hound dog” mix she is, she wanted to make sure no other dog or human had access to her bone. So she ran off the deck with the partially chewed dog bone in her mouth.

Curious, her owner walked around the deck to the back of the yard to find out where Belle was. He saw her furiously digging in the dirt beside a large tree so she could bury her bone.

I always thought that was pretty much a cartoon thing – that dogs took their treasures – bones and treats and such – and buried them in the yard for safekeeping. But, no, it’s evidently not a cartoon thing. Or a myth. After all, there was Belle, dirt flying out in an arc behind her, digging a hole for her bone!

She had been a stray and the vet had estimated that she’d been on her own for a couple years before her owners adopted her, so she knew how to hunt for her own food. And she clearly recognized the value of a good dog bone!

Belle was so good at burying that bone, her owner couldn’t easily extract it from the ground. Heck, he couldn’t even find it for a while! Not only that, but had he not seen where Belle was scratching in the dirt, he wouldn’t have known where to look. Why? Because she’d not only dug up the hole to hide her Happy N’ Healthy dog bone – but she’d patted all the dirt back in place over her hiding spot. Good dog!

Hmmm…maybe they could hire her out to work with a gardener planting trees and bushes? Perhaps it would be a workable plan if they also offered her some bones and treats as incentives.

Anyway, he dug up the bone and brought it inside and washed off all the dirt. And then stored it in the refrigerator for her to enjoy another day. And, don’t you know – ol’ Belle planted herself in front of that fridge and refused to budge!

We love to hear good dog stories – especially ones with happy endings! So, if you have any dog stories you’d like to share, please do. We’d love to hear ‘em!