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Date: 02 February 2010 12:22:18
It's not just me. Pooka is worse! I can hear her out on the balcony dealing with a bone - it's an enormous one (I think it might have been about 20cm either side of a cow's elbow.. now it's two bones...). She went to bed a few hours ago (it's now 20 past 11), but there is much clonking of bone on deck.
Her other addiction/obsession is Air Kong Squeaker footballs. I bought her a new one on the weekend (I believe it's her fourth. Actually I bought two because they're sometimes hard to find). I was pleased to see that they've changed the design so that the squeaker is in a lower-pressure position (and hence less likely to get broken by enthusiastic dogs - I did write to Kong asking them to make their squeakers more durable. It seems that they have listened!).
This morning we went to the park and she chased the ball solidly for about half an hour. When she lay down with the ball in her mouth and wouldn't get up again, I figured it was time to go home. We did another good half hour this afternoon. I confiscated the ball and gave her dinner to take her mind off it. Then when I was watching tv, she quietly entered the room with one of her BIG STINKY BONES and settled down on the carpet to have a snack. I ejected the bone from the house and she pottered into the laundry (where her food lives. Who knew that dogs can silently open plastic containers despite their lack of opposable thumbs?). She found the Air Kong Squeaker football! So then she ran around the house squeaking for another half an hour. I put her to bed... then the bone clunking started. Dad has reported bone-eating activity when he gets up for his 4:30am walks.
There will be squeaking footage to follow sometime.