On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 03:20:16 +0100, doobydoobydo wrote
(in article ):

Visitors often laugh at our Golden Retrievers toy box (just an open plastic
stacking/storage box), but he knows they are his things, to do with as he
wishes. Keeps him happy. I just need to teach him to bring them all back
in from the garden every night, as I often have to go out there and pick up
at least six cuddlies scattered around. Don't like leaving them out as have
witnessed fox pups playing with my last dogs toys. He's an orally fixated
gundog, he loves his teddies and is partial to the odd sock, which he
parades around with in his mouth.

How funny, we used to have a tabby cat that carried socks around. We used
to leave her a basket full of socks every day and retrieve them from around
the house in the evening. She chirruped as she did it, and I always thought
the socks were a kitten substitute. Perhaps your dog thinks he is carrying
round a puppy.




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Sally in Shropshire, UK
Whitton Open Gardens weekend 1st & 2nd July; enjoy the conservation
churchyard recently filmed for the BBC Heaven and Earth Show and see the
Burne-Jones/William Morris window: http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk