Do your dogs try to bury their dental bones?

[tritonx]

I just gave Fraser a Greenie dental bone and he trotted away with it stored vertically in his mouth. When I got through to the living room he was trotting around whimpering and looking at me as he paced about. He went to his bed and started to dig there, gave up and then went round the back of the sofa, emerged the other side and then asked to go outside where he is now burying the bone in the dirt with his nose. Buh? Usually he eats it, but on a few occasions he has wanted to bury it. He doesn't do that with anything else.

[elaine.e]

William used to bury filled bones in the garden when he was a puppy, then dig them up again a few days or weeks later and try to sneak them back into the house, all covered in mud and slugs

He stopped doing that eventually but still likes to hide his favourite toys from puppy Louis by taking them upstairs and putting them under duvets or rugs

[aliceandlouis]

This so reminds me of our old boy, Harvey,  who never ever ate a chew/dental bone when given it - he always had to 'bury' it somewhere (preferably outdoors) - but if that was not an option then they were stuffed down the backs of sofas, under cushions or throws or tucked in the corner of rooms and the invisible 'earth' carefully nosed back over the object to 'obscure' it from plain view   He would then panic if anyone approached where it was 'hidden' and would have to move it - SUCH a responsibility!!  In our family we now call such items 'nothings' because of course, Harvey wanted us to know that there was 'nothing' there...
Sadly I fear that Louis has discovered a number of these 'nothings' secreted in the garden because he often comes in licking his lips - followed by the inevitable consequences a few hours later - ho hum.

[supergirl]

When Misha was an only dog she used do this all the time. Sometimes outside or sometimes you'd find them under cushions on the sofa.  Ones that were buried outside would sometimes found again soggy and mouldy under a cushion on the sofa

After Roly arrived she stopped doing it, I guess fear that he would find them.  Roly has never done it - everything gets eaten

[johndoran]

No chance of Bonnie Boo burying any food, specially a dentistick.No sooner is it in her mouth then its gone, as quick as that.She really is a little Gannet

[tritonx]

So funny. Fraser has done all of those things, trying to bury his bone indoors. He whimpers with frustration. It's only the greenie bone. He doesn't do it with anything else. Wonder what it is about that particular kind. In the middle of this post, I went to look out the window as Fraser's been out in the garden for a while. There he was with a plastic flowerpot over his muzzle.

Needless to say, I'll have to go out and clear away all the stored flowerpots and move them out of his reach. I gave him a chew to distract him from the removal of the flowerpot and now he's pacing about and whining at the back door, wanting to bury it. Oh, now it's in his bed and he's kind of frantic, trying to cover it. This level of frustration is new behaviour. Woops, back to pacing and whining and coming over to me to plead for something, not sure what. Back door, I suppose. Guess I'll have to distract him with something else. Oh, the joys

[Countrygirl]

One of my cockers, Rumpole, never used to eat a bonio immediately he was given it.  It was either buried in the garden or hidden under a cushion or behind a curtain.  They were left there for quite a while until he ate them, the ones in the garden were ingrained with soil but he seemed to like them that way.

[Bounty]

yes maggie did she buried it under the cushions on the sofa

[terwish]

In our house Sparky eats his own dental bones - then tries to steal the pups bones and hide or them - trouble is he's not very good at stealing and he's even worse at burying - so the pups just watch where he's hidden them (usually in a shoe or under a cushion or somewhere equally obvious) and then go and get them back!

The look of puzzlement on his face when he goes back to where he put them and they are gone is a joy to behold!

We have given up trying to interfere and just let them get on with it!

Trish XxxX

[drika]

Lizzie buries everything! In my garden, which is NOT big, there are the following:
1 lovely butchers bone,1 dental bone,four socks,an old mitten found on our walks,two pieces of towel, and umpteen cardboard tubes, plus two pairs of my undies which she nicked out of the washing machine. She also,like the others say on the forum, "buries" things under cushions and looks quite put out if you find them. What fun they are!!

[Hurtwood Dogs]

Dave used to have an entire cupboard of stuff under a holly bush in the back garden. Everything he was given or that he 'found' was stashed there but he's grown out of it thank doG! He's always been a little prone to guarding and can still be a bit funny with chews if we're careless.