Hickory Hollow Llewellin Setters

[Laura]

Rex posed the question to me in an e-mail recently asking if our Llewellins hid stuff around the house like other breeds have been known to do (like my German Shepherd has done)... My answer was no (at that time)...

Now I must recant that statement. I gave our Llews some rawhide retriever rolls one evening when I wanted to watch a TV program. The rawhides are pacifiers, if you will, which allow me to get in some "alone" time while sitting on the couch when they are in the same room which is otherwise impossible. HOPE is so excited to get a rawhide that she wants hers and everyone else's too! She ate hers, then sweeps the room for any abandoned ones that might still be lying around.

The next morning I went into the nursery to weigh the puppies and I noticed a pile of puppy towels in the corner, stuffed behind another object, which was obviously not where I had left them. I pulled the towels out, one by one and low-and-behold, there was half of a stolen rawhide bone!! What a sneaky little girl! She knows that she doesn't get rawhides when mom isn't around (choking hazard), so she thought she was pulling a fast one on me and was going to hide it until mom went to work!! Ha Ha.

It would've been fun to watch her carefully bury her treasure under those towels... Too bad the puppy cam wasn't pointed in that direction!
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Laura Whitlock
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Website: www.hickoryhollowllewellins.com

"Llewellins are like potato chips, you can't have just one!"

[huntinwithdaisy]

Our girls also like to hide their chews so they can treat them selves later. Sometimes they run around all over the house looking for the right place, hiding or burying their treat, retrieving it and re-burying it. One day about a year ago, while trying to bury a rawhide chew, Daisy rubbed her nose on it until she was bleeding. It seems she gets so intent on hiding it so no one can find it that she feels no pain. I keep a close eye on her now so that doesn't happen again.
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[Rex]

Our guys still don't hide or "bury" their treats in the traditional manner. I have noticed that when we pass out the bully sticks, Gracie will take hers outside, leave it, then come back inside a few minutes later to wait for an opportune time to snatch an unattended bully stick from Leo or Harvey. She'll chew on the pirated one awhile, then go back outside and chew on the one that she originally had placed there......not sure it is really hiding or just a little diva thinking that she should have it all
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Dr. Rex Williamson
"My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dogs already think I am."

[Laura]

HOPE does the same thing. WOW, these two dogs are more similar than I even imagined they could be as sisters, even though they really could be twins!
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Laura Whitlock
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Website: www.hickoryhollowllewellins.com

"Llewellins are like potato chips, you can't have just one!"

[Laura]

Before we noticed HOPE hiding her rawhide retriever rolls, none of our other Llewellins hid treasures, but... Now that Jimmy's home, our experience has changed.

Tonight it was the funniest thing. I gave all the dogs rawhides to pacify them, but Jimmy didn't dig right into knawing on his, he just sat right next to me like a statue holding it in his mouth.

When I went into the kitchen to rustle up some dinner, I peeked around the corner to check on Jimmy. He was still sitting there all stoic with the rawhide in his mouth, while the others were making quite the racket chomping on theirs. What a good boy!

After about another 5 minutes, I checked back with Jimmy again.... this time he looked like a Cheshire Cat caught in the act. One of the three dog beds that adorn our living room floor was scrunched up and he was standing over it. When he saw me "hiding" his bone, he dug it out and held it in his mouth again.

I went back to cooking and checked back with Jimmy after another 5 minutes or so. This time he was laying on the loveseat looking quite content, no guilty look and no bone in sight. Our dogs aren't allowed on the furniture, so after a prompt "OFF" command (of which he readily obliged), I noticed a pillow out of place. I lifted the pillow to find his "treasure", ever so neatly tucked between the couch cushions. I couldn't have placed it better myself. I just chuckled out loud, it was such a funny sight! I only wish I had caught him in the act of hiding that one. It would've been fun to see.
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Laura Whitlock
HHLS Webmaster / Forum Administrator
Website: www.hickoryhollowllewellins.com

"Llewellins are like potato chips, you can't have just one!"

[Rex]

Imagine what Jimmy must have been thinking when you found his rawhide ...."Wowl I wish I had a nose like hers " What a funny scenario they painted. I can relate especially to the "...racket chomping" and "...dog beds that adorn our living room floor." That's my kind of house .
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Dr. Rex Williamson
"My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dogs already think I am."