Those are good. Let me tell what Tony and Val did here one day. Val is my son's Brittany and she is a sister to Tony. They both came from the same litter. Len brings Val over from time to time, so she and Tony can play in my fenced back yard and Kennel. They were both relaxing in the house, I gave them both a Raw Hide Chew. The ones that look like a cigar, long, round and brownish. Tony being the pig that he is ate, his in about 20 minutes. Val still had a good half of hers left. Tony watched her chew for a while. Then went to the picture window looked around and barked. Val came running over to see what Tony was barking at. Tony let her get to the window and he be lined it over and took her raw hide chew off the floor. I took it away from him and give it back to Val. A few minutes later, Tony goes the the window again and looks around for a bit then barks again. Val comes running over to see what is going on. Tony be lines for the chew again. Only this time he cannot find it. Val turns her head with a smile on her face. She has the chew tucked into the side of her mouth like a trucker with a cigar half in and half out. We now call those chews "A Cigar".
About the plotting and scheming thing....I can't seem to keep my 2yo Griffon in his pen without multiple wires wrapped around the latch. He notices immediately if you don't get the latch wired. For awhile, he would just hit the latch (before I was even out of sight) and run a couple of circles in the yard, then surrender himself back to the pen. Now, he just waits until we're inside, then he lets himself out. Once he figured out it doesn't ake long for us to notice he's delinquent during the daylight hours, he's decided to wait until night time to let himself out. He's found that he gets a lot more time out for each offense if he waits till we're sleeping. Besides, the neighbors aren't awake to harrass him about chasing their cats or steeling portions of deer carcuses. The neighbor is a taxidermist so there are always treasures for Duke in his trash cans!
