bury their bones?

I bought Breeze a couple of those rawhide bones to chew as I thought it would help her through the teething process and she loves them, but they seem to dissapear. I got her another one today and after we played for a while in the garden, she came inside and I gave her the bone. She ran straight in the garden and I saw her bury it.

Why do they do this or is it just a puppy thing?

Certainly not a puppy thing - my three year old does it with her marrow bones :D She has several favourite spots and usually digs them up after a couple of weeks, then tries to bring them indoors to eat them :D :D Ugh :D

Daisy

I believe it's called 'cashing', wolves and some species of foxes do it.  They bury food to preserve it, hide it from predators and save it for later.  It's just instinctive behaviour in dogs.  Some will do it with raw hide, biscuits, doesn't necessarily have to be bones.

My two year old girl Opi does it every now and then - usually with bones (natural and the white rawhide type).  She's not very good at it though - the last one she "buried" on the sofa by nosing dog hair over it :) and before that, she buried a rawhide bone in the 4" gravel-filled gap at the back of our patio!  I saw a pile of gravel, and was most perplexed until I saw her nosing more gravel onto it, then it clicked what she was doing :D  The first time she did it she buried one of those sterile stuffed bones, de-stuffed, under a small table (one of the foot suqare nest-of-table ones), and covered it with a huge pile of dog hair!  Not nice, and she'd chewed it a bit so it all stuck!

My other dog doesn't do it, nor does my brother's, and my old spaniel X didn't do it.  Very much an individual thing :) Opi's a nutter as well, which helps I think!

Why do squirrels bury their nuts? ;)

Because they don't want them now, but are saving them till later when they might.

By the way, did you know that rawhide bones/chews are dangerous for dogs?

why are they dangerous ? mine love them !

They are indigestible and if the dog swallows large chunks they can cause serious problems.  Like any chewy toy they should not be left with a dog unattended as they can also get them stuck between their teeth - this can then cause them to panic and do serious damage to themselves (my Springer got a pigs ear stuck between her teeth on her upper jaw and started to tear at her face with her front claws trying to remove it - luckily this happened while I was there, I daren't think what might have happened if she'd been alone at the time....

Didn't know that. I am always around when I give her or my staffie a pigs ear, but I thought that this was okay as her teeth are not that developed yet. Apart from kongs (which she isn't too fond of) what else can you get for a teething puppy that is safe to leave with them?