Does your dog like to bury bones or toys? Cubbie isn’t typically the burying type. However, once in a while he gets it in his mind he NEEDS to bury something.
When the weather is warmer, he likes to do this outside. A few times this past summer I’d be sitting on the lawn chair reading on a book, and Cubbie would be roaming around the yard trying to find some perfect spot to bury what little bit was left of his bone.
I didn’t want a bunch of holes in the yard, so I would try to keep him from digging as much as possible. Sometimes, though, he was just too quick. Bone in mouth, he was a machine digging, digging, digging.
After about an hour outside, we went back in the house. But Cubbie kept going back to the door whining. I let him back outside, he re-dug up his bone and ran back inside the house with a dirt covered bone. Great, more mess to clean up! 
Tonight, Cubbie was in the burying mindset. I gave him a healthy, meaty type bone from Pedigree. He just eats it up. He got it down to about an inch left and started wandering around the house with the bone in his mouth.
First, I found him in the corner of the living room behind the couch trying to bury it. He was scratching at the carpet. Then, he went into the bedroom and started digging at the sheets. Next, he went onto the recliner and tried scratching at the arm of the chair. Then, he came to the couch and tried to get it in the corner of the seat cushion.
I made him stop when he tried to bury the bone in me! I had a blanket on my legs while sitting on the couch, and he was scratching at it trying to bury his leftover bone in my leg! It kind of tickled while he scratched, but it also hurt because he was trying very hard. After getting him to stop, he finally just laid down next to me and the bone. I have no idea why he felt the need to bury that bone so badly, but apparently no spot in the house was good enough.
Sometimes he puts bones in the very bottom of his toy bin for safe keeping, and every once in awhile I’ll find a bone in a random spot while I’m cleaning. I know he thinks he’s “protecting” his bone. I just find it funny how much work he’ll go through to find just the right spot to store it. Whenever I decide to move out, I’m almost worried what I’ll find and where!
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This post was written by dwagner on January 27, 2009
I love to read your blog and came across this one…. Made me lol. I have two Jack Russell terriers. My little girl is the same way. She hides toys and bones constantly and is very protective of them. If our male gets anywhere near her toys or bones she is right at him. I find things under our covers when I go to bed at night and when we arrange furniture oh wow what a surprise!
My parents dog will bury her raw hides anywhere. She will put them in the couch and think that we as humans can’t see it. She whines when we throw them off the couch. She thinks that we are doing her wrong.
Max does the same thing. When he gets a new toy he will bury it anywhere he can and once it’s burried if you are walking anywhere near it we will run and grab it as if saying “security breech”. We have him paper trained as well as trained to go outside to go potty. His favorite spot to bury things is under his clean puppy pads.
Our golden retriever will take the bones we give her and whine. She’ll keep watching you to make sure you aren’t watching her and then she’ll bury them outside somewhere. The funny thing is where ever she decides to bury it, she takes something else to bury with it (mostly an old glove that she stole). I’ve found pop bottles and a tennis ball in my flower bed also.
we have a yorkie-poo. is name is cody. whenever we give him a rawhide or treat he always goes and hides it around the house. sometimes we give him 2 treats a day. pretty much the next day, he cums out with a treat! i have no idead where he hides them but they r all over the house. it must b a thing for small dogs.
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Cute website! My silky terrier,Annie,likes to bury my socks in the corner of the room. Sometimes, she sneaks outside through the dog door and I find my sock in the flower bed