boren@randvax.UUCP (Pat Boren) (03/01/86)
Thought I'd give you dog psychologists another crack at Ginger. She's the wonder dog who's alone from 8AM - 5PM, and used to entertain herself by eating screen doors, chewing on the gate, otherwise destroying anything that would lead her out of the back. Now she's got another habit: she drags anything lying around (her blankets, towels, toys, leash, hammers, you name it) out to a particular group of juniper bushes. She doesn't bury anything. The blankets are what's getting funny. They're on an old bed in the garage just for her. She'll drag them out there in pouring rain. Once, I put the wet ones back in the garage (not on her bed), and she still managed to get those soaked things out past the pool and onto those bushes. Any hints what she's trying to do? -- Patricia Boren decvax!randvax!boren boren@rand-unix.arpa
jin@hropus.UUCP (Jear Bear) (03/04/86)
Perhaps she's trying to induce fermentation in the Juniper berries in mistaken belief that it will produce gin :-> . Seriously I think it may be superstitious behavior (I believe that's the technical term for the bizarre behaviors exhibited by rats rewarded at random intervals while residing in those cages with all the gizmos to play with). No, the rats reside in the cages, not the random intervals. -- Jerry Natowitz ihnp4!houxm!hropus!jin The Master Baker