 the politics of bones
#312168 - 01/17/2011 02:15 PM |
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I continue to be fascinated by Jethro and Skipper's behaviour with the bones. No matter where I put the bones for each of them (separate crates, separate beds, separate areas of the house), they seem to end up like this:
dogs and bones
After Skipper finishes with his bone, Jethro leaves his bone to go and eat Skipper's. Jethro will chew on both bones for a long time after Skipper has gone to nap in the sun.
I'm curious to know how other people "give the dog a bone".
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Re: the politics of bones
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#312171 - 01/17/2011 02:57 PM |
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I only have one dog (9 mo. old) so no politics involved but she has taken to hiding her recreational bones and bully sticks.
She'll chew for a while then walk around the house deciding on a good spot and spend alot of time nosing the blanket/pillow/sweater/whatever over it till satisfied.
Then she will promptly forget where it is and act worried the rest of the day till I dig it out, hand it over and the process starts again!
It's almost a bit too stressful for her to be worth it - I'm currently taking them away for a day or too, then offering them again to get her more interested in chewing than in hiding.
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#312173 - 01/17/2011 03:16 PM |
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Burying must be hard-wired.My dog has stuff buried all over the farm.
He has a dead pigeon that he's moved three times.
When he was a puppy and I was offering tons of stuff to occupy him and not keeping particular track I noticed a smell in the TV room. Under the sofa
he had a stash of about 20 things,including a marrow bone that had become just gross.
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#312176 - 01/17/2011 03:44 PM |
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Ha, ha,... I give Jethro his bones on a tea towel now so he can 'wrap' them up. I hated seeing him fruitlessly rubbing his nose trying to get the foamy cover to miraculously cover the bone. It is so funny seeing his carefully wrapped package lying there out in the open.
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#312204 - 01/17/2011 05:24 PM |
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I give mine deer antlers,,and the pup Ryane will be in her crate chewing it,then she pushes out the bone through the bars and and my other female will take it and chew on it. This can go on all day if i let it.
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#312208 - 01/17/2011 05:33 PM |
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My dogs love to go out to the barn with me and hunt for eggs. Most of the dogs will eat the eggs but the rottie carries them around and then eventually buries them. She knows where they all are and in subsequent trips tot he barn will run the other dogs away from those areas. Eventually they are unearthed and rotten - so a loud pop is heard because a tooth finds their way in and a horrid smell wiffs thru the air.
My rattie male insists on stealing bones from anyone he can - even tho given his own bone, always prefers to steal someone else's then either protects it, or like others, buries it under clothes or towels or sofa cushions.
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#312222 - 01/17/2011 06:35 PM |
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Falcon worries with his for a while as well... taking it from room to room trying to find just the right hiding place. Sometimes he'll even to bring it to me if I'm sitting down and kinda nose it between me and the side of my chair like "here - you hide it for a while". Eventually he'll sit down and enjoy the bone, but seems to have to have a "Plan B" in place incase the evil bone boogey man breaks in while he is eating it. 
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#312232 - 01/17/2011 07:30 PM |
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Ripley has never been a recreational chewer. He's definitely an eater. I give him bully sticks and they're gone in just a couple of minutes. He does not mess around with moving or hiding or burying, unless you count his belly as the hiding place.
Ripley & his Precious
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#312336 - 01/18/2011 01:21 PM |
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I just wanted to point out, that I personally would never let 2 dogs have such high value food items so close together like that. Even 2 dogs that are the very best of friends like Jethro and Skipper.
Anyone who has seen a dog fight knows how fast they escalate (owners often say "it came out of nowhere" or "everything was fine"), and we can't necessarily see the signs. Especially with resource guarding things like bones, it can be hard for a human to tell when the dog is just actively gnawing, or partially snarling.
I wouldn't want either of your dogs to get hurt, and there is a pretty big size difference there - all it takes is for one of them to make a split second decision, on one occasion, for a potentially huge problem. Once the dogs have fought, even if physically they are ok, behaviour wise it could be a whole different lifestyle you're facing.
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#312339 - 01/18/2011 01:27 PM |
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I just wanted to point out, that I personally would never let 2 dogs have such high value food items so close together like that. Even 2 dogs that are the very best of friends like Jethro and Skipper.
Anyone who has seen a dog fight knows how fast they escalate (owners often say "it came out of nowhere" or "everything was fine"), and we can't necessarily see the signs. Especially with resource guarding things like bones, it can be hard for a human to tell when the dog is just actively gnawing, or partially snarling.
I wouldn't want either of your dogs to get hurt, and there is a pretty big size difference there - all it takes is for one of them to make a split second decision, on one occasion, for a potentially huge problem. Once the dogs have fought, even if physically they are ok, behaviour wise it could be a whole different lifestyle you're facing.
I'm kind of shocked that the thread got this far before that crucial point was made.
It's a proactive management thing that is approximately 10 million times easier than dealing with the possible bad outcomes.
Just about every bad fight mentioned on here over a bone or other HV chewy includes one or more of these: "But they always get along perfectly! They have lived together as best friends for years! We always do this! What could have caused this now?"
"Once the dogs have fought, even if physically they are ok, behaviour wise it could be a whole different lifestyle you're facing."
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