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Burying bones

Last night my husband and I decided to take Yoshi with us on the car ride to PetSmart to buy his dog food. While I was in the store, I also snagged Yoshi some rawhide bones -- his favorite. When I got in the car, I opened the bag and gave him a chew. He put it in his mouth and had this weird look on his face like he didn't know what to do with it. This was out of his normal routine. Normally, he gets chews only at home, so he didn't know what to do with it.

At first he tried laying down in the car. That didn't work. Then he looked like he was trying to bury it in the corner of the seat. Finally, he gave up and just dropped it on the floor.

When we came home, I gave him the chew back and he took it over to his pillow, his usual spot where he chomped on it for a tiny bit. He still seemed a little freaked out though, like he didn't know what to do with it.

He hadn't had his dinner yet, so I gave a scoop of food in his bowl. He approached his bowl with the chew still in his mouth. I watched him the whole time, waiting to see what he was going to do with it. This was very out of character for him. Next thing I know, he dropped the chew in his bowl and ate the kibbles of dog food around it.

When he was finished, he picked up the chew and walked around the house with it, trying to find a place to "bury" it. Yoshi will sometimes "hide" his bones in the corners of rooms. But they're always in plain sight, not very well hidden. He'll even put his nose to the ground as if he's pretending to shovel "dirt" onto the bone to cover it. So funny. 

I lost track of Yoshi and this chew after awhile, and so he either ate or sometime soon I'm going to discover a rawhide chew in a very odd place.