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Doggy Self Service

Our dogs, Indi and Jeff, have a penchant for paper. One of their guilty pleasures is walking into the study, going to the rubbish bin, and selecting a delicious morsel of paper for themselves.

Hannah and I refer to this as doggy self service. They go to the distribution point, make their selection, and then proceed to tear it apart.

Jeff has just walked out with a nice heavyweight piece of paper and proceeded to tear it apart - using his ‘paws as hands’ - another cute trait of dogs. It got me thinking as to why our two dogs both love doing this so much. My only thought is that it has something to do with simulating the act of ripping flesh from a carcass. Perhaps that is the call of the wild? The tearing sensation of the paper and its associated sounds might relate to a canine pleasure?

In any case, doggy self service makes a huge mess with paper bits everywhere. But given the joy they get from it, and the cuteness that it offers me, I’m happy to live with it.