Actually, Annie did find something dead she insisted on bringing home once! She was just a puppy. On a walk, she climbed almost all the way inside a large desert shrub growing against a fence. When she came out, she had a dry, leathery rabbit skin in her mouth-- basically, it was so old the rabbit had decomposed all gone, and only the skin remained. I tried to get her to drop it, but nothing doing. She was sooo proud of herself, she insisted on carrying that nasty thing all the way home. But no way did we let her bring it in the house! I finally got her to leave it outside and I threw it away when she wasn't looking.This story isn't so funny as it is cute: I bought the girls a bag of cow ears to chew on, and gave them each one today. After chewing for awhile, Dottie took hers outside and buried it in the sandbox. Annie kept hers out and available. Later this afternoon, Mr. Fundog told me that Annie was chewing her cow ear, then at some point she got tired of it, and got up and walked away from it. Dottie then swooped over, picked it up, and took it to where Annie was and dropped the cow ear in front of her, as if to say, "You forgot your cow ear. Here you go!" Way too cute. Usually Dottie swipes anything Annie walks away from for herself.
Also, the other day I took the girls up on the mountain to go rock hunting while they ran around. They picked up some little burrs. Even after intense brushing, they both still had several in their coats. Later that evening, both dogs were on the bed watching Mr. Fundog eat something. Dottie had her tail in the air, and Annie noticed a burr in her tail feathers. So Annie carefully leaned forward to gently pull the burr out of Dottie's tail. Is that sweet or what?
All the humans looked at each other & said "did you see that?" It was hilarious! Wish I had it on tape!
