post camping trip behavior oddity

We'd taken a 3 day weekend last week and gone camping (see the companion blog http://thecoveredwagon.blogspot.com/). Tug has a crate he sleeps in on camping trips- we don't take his nice, large one due to limited floor space in our tent camper. This is the littler one that normally sits between our recliners in the living room and is his "time out" crate. When he was younger and uncontrollable he'd get popped into there. Now it's used when guests come over so he can be in there with us but not be jumping up on everyone.

When we came home Mama decided to set it behind our recliners instead of between them (which meant I no longer have anywhere to set my drink or the remote- we'd put a tray on top of the crate and used it like a table). Well, where she positioned it was where we've left a cushion for a few months- Tug doesn't like lying down on the laminate floor. So, the first night we're home Tug just walks into the crate (!) and sits down to chew a toy! We did a double take, of course. He won't normally go in except to retrieve a toy. I guess he got so used to spending time in it on the camping trip that seeing it where he usually lounges on a pillow crossed his wires somehow. You could have knocked US over with a feather.