I've
posted in the past about having a very non-doggy dog. She doesn't like balls, toys, ropes etc. She used to quite like those tiny cat-toy mice, and she'd sit down and shred it in a lengthy session. However, I think I overflooded the market because her last mouse - and the larger rat for that matter - are still whole, and 3 years later are still lying in her basket. She also has a weird chicken/ball thing, and a stingray toy from the Melbourne aquarium (which she mainly uses as a mat to sleep on). Yet, about once every 6 months, I'll come home and her rat will be out of her basket. The assumption is that once every 6 months she remembers she's a dog and plays with the toy.
Since I've moved into my new house a month ago, however, the rat (today it was the rat
and the chicken/ball thingy!) has been out of the basket about 6 times on my coming home. Last week, the rat had even made it into my bedroom, which is proof that it wasn't just 'scratched' out.
The question is, is Pip really playing? Or has she finally linked the relocation of her gifted toys with my coos of delight when I come home and see that she's 'played,' and as a result deliberately places the rat outside the basket to receive extra attention?
