Brains and fur

Today Dillon taught me the lesson don’t judge brain power by the amount of wall licking a dog does. We had this genius idea of using the cunning method of kong toy + squeezy doggy paste as a distraction to ‘eat the entire kitchen’ while we are out. The initial experimentation went well this weekend. To add a control aspect to this we did it under supervision. The kong + squeezy doggy paste lasted during this session over 2hrs and even then there was still some left.

It all seemed good and the kong acted well as puppy crack to divert the little darling. He was nicely tired as a result of chomping and licking all day at the kong. So, we move to today where the experiment kicked up a notch as I had to do a skype call so waggy ones barking wasn’t going to be a great plan. Dillon was left but seemed happy as a puppy with doggy paste in his kong. That is until I spoke to Simon and saw the result of this second experiment. Sadly the kong didn’t quite make it this time, well it is sort of intact if you count about a fifth of it being in Dillon’s belly. Our kitchen though has no more Dillon sculpturing as it seems eating kong was enough fun.

What I learned from this is never underestimate the furry ones. Whilst it seems like a great idea to put squeezy paste in a kong the actual fact it is ‘in’ something means not all dogs will accept this. What do you do when you have no opposing thumb but chompy teeth and you’ve got squeezy tasty paste in your kong? Eat through the kong of course. Seems a logical concept to me. Now, this would have been great if we had a puppy proof kong but Dillon the combat toy proof tester seems to yet have something that could be Dillon proof. We’re going to up the anti and try the black kong but I’m not convinced this is going to withstand chomping when I view the evidence of the chomped kong. It only goes to prove they may lick walls (well chomp them in Dillon’s case) but they aren’t half as stupid as they like us to think.