Chopped Liver

Yeah, my uncle so conned our Tug into thinking he hung the moon that on the second day when I got home from work I didn't even warrant a greeting...how do you like that? Chief playmate and ear rub provider for almost 3 years and I'm usurped in under 48 hours....

My uncle stayed a week and guess who just moped and moped when he left? Yeah, who's the one he came to then- ha!

An interesting thing happened a day or so after my uncle left. Tug did something we've never seen him do- he "buried" a "bone." Mama got some bone shaped biscuits and Tug didn't eat it right away. He jumped up onto the sofa and "dug" into the cushion- for all the world like watching a dog dig under a fence. Then, he placed the "bone" in the "hole" (crack between the cushions) and "covered it up." What happened was he took his flat, little nose and "pushed" the slip cover around like he was pushing earth over the bone to bury it. He just kept nuzzling it around but couldn't get his bone covered. There was a tremendous sigh and then he pulled the bone from the "hole" and ate it. All the while he was crunching away his ears were down like "oh, well, I guess I just have to get this over with now." What a strange little creature and how odd that we've never seen this behavior before now!