• Nougat@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    Dogs disembowel their toys because that’s what they would do to an animal in the wild in order to get to the meaty goodness inside.

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      9 months ago

      She kills a lot of critters in the back yard (we have a dog door, so she can go chase them whenever she wants) but surprisingly never disembowels them (and rarely eats them too). I don’t get it.

      She does “kill” her toys the same way she kills critters- grabbing them by the head and shaking them as hard as she possibly can.

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        9 months ago

        Looks and sounds like lab behavior. Though I’m sure other dogs do the same. I had a lab mix growing up that was great at catching just about everything, but got bored once they stopped moving.