shock! dog uses dog toy as toy

We got Jane a subscription to Dogs Life for Christmas and part of the deal was a free bone 'shaped' object made of some kind of textile. Well, Judy wasn't into it (she's still pretty keen on oblutions, and strangely late in life has become very interested in eating, but otherwise it's mainly just sleeping) and so it made its way to us. As you can see it has a paw print design (dogs love that) and what you can't see are the words 'bite me'. Anyway, the truly amazing thing - and testament to Charlie's contrary nature - is that Charlie loves it, and bites it, and as you can see (although I actually woke her up taking this picture, so she is rising irritatedly from sleep here) she sleeps with her head on it. Dogs often seem to have this strange love-hate relationship with chewable/biteable things. I suppose it's just love really. Silver (mother to three litters) used to have a very odd attitude towards small soft toys - fascinated yet destructive. Millie incidentally (mother to no-one) couldn't give a loose root about such trivialities.