Does your dog have a "baby"?

[PeanutButterChocolate]

Our dog became quite attached to one of DS's rejected teddies when she was a pup and still takes it to her basket with her every night. It's one of those blanket/bear hybrids and she kneads it with her paws (like a cat "making the bread") and falls asleep with it in her mouth. I've never known a dog to do this before.

She also has a favourite stuffed Pug that is strictly for throttling. She likes to run around with it and do the "terrier shake". No other toy will do.

So much weirdness but so cute.

[AnonymousBird]

Yes, my labrador has two. One at our house and one at MIL's. She doesn't touch the DC's teddies, would not even go near them, despite one or two of them being very similar to her own toy (which, incidentally, we also call her "baby"!).

But she cuddles and nuzzles her own one, walks around showing them off in her mouth, brings it to show anyone who comes to the house as if to say "look what I've got". She is very gentle with it, and curls up in bed around it as well......

[PeanutButterChocolate]

Awwww....

[RedwingWinter]

That's so cute.

Dog2 has a stuffed fish that he carries around and sometimes cuddles up to. It is a squeaky toy but he doesn't make it squeak. If he is happy about something he runs to get it and parades around with it.

[BehindLockNumberNine]

Yes, Sam our lurcher has Mollie the Cow, a soft cow toy with a squeaker, some freaky udders and rope legs...
It is for chewing, making squeak, tossing around and chasing around, as well as snuggeling up to...
He also has Frank the soft toy monkey, who is striclty for cuddeling...

[PoohBearsHole]

We have an elf and a donut
Both are now missing stuffing, however they are just sat in her bed with her, they never get taken outside, she has outside toys - like a log

I find it very odd, but they are her babie's so I leave it.

[deste]

Ours has a few but his favourite is a beany Winnie the Poo. Unfortunately it is disintegrating slowly, in fact one of the legs came off tonight. I am on the lookout for an identical one for him. He also has a dog and a chicken, both are unrecognisable but he keeps going back to them.

[PeanutButterChocolate]

Right. I'm on it. A MN campaign to find a new beany Winnie for Deste.

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Am slightly disturbed (yet highly amused) by the use of the term "making squeak" Love it. Am going to steal it for real life

[Avantia]

My lab has an old teddy - she will go off and find it when someone comes to the house - walks up to them wagging her tail carrying it in her mouth .

When I say to her 'find teddy' she knows what to fetch .

[Catsmamma]

Keller is very good with toys....the occasional savage shaking but he is not at all destructive, he had a polar bear that he took into kennels with him and he kept it pristine, until he came back home and Maggie savaged it

I find the labs are unholy terrors for unravelling/gutting toys...we never keep them for long if there is a lab in the house

We often keep the "skins" if the stuffing is easy to get out, it's quite unnerving to see a flat monkey skin being pulled three ways!!

[GrittersWifeAndProud]

My greyhound Sprocket, has the sofa. He snuggles into it all day and cuddles the cushions on it. That's his baby :o He doesn't carry it around in his mouth though.

[PoohBearsHole]

So its a lab thing taking out the guts? I knew it. Mind you mine is still a baby herself!

[deste]

Winnie is just a skin. I did try to put it together now and again but it is beyond help now. If anyone knows where to get one, it was 6 inches long with a red top.

[Hullygully]

Before mine was spayed she had a squeaky snowman that she loved. She carried it everywhere, even on walks, and if we stopped she would lay it tenderly on the ground, curl up round it and whimper quietly, unfortunately it was obviously making her quite distressed, I think she thought it was a dead baby...

[PeanutButterChocolate]

at Sprocket's sofa-baby!

[QuickLookBusy]

Oh Hully that is so sad.

My dog has had several "babies" the first ones "pinched" from DDs' bedrooms

She always treats them very tenderly, which is surprising as she is a Jack Russell. She cuddles up with it at night and goes to sleep with it in her mouth. Thankfully when they do get a bit holey and have been put in the washing machine one time too many, she doesn't mind it being replaced.

[retrozebra]

Maisie has a floppy rabbit that she snuggles up with. She either uses him as a pillow to rest her head on or sleeps with him nestled between her chin and front paws when she's curled up. She has a toy fox for general shaking and chucking about.

Bill is only interested in toys for gutting purposes. He is currently embarked on unstuffing an old sleeping bag. He prefers humans for snuggling and if I don't put my arm around him when he's lying next to me, he will shove with his nose until he manages to winkle his head under my arm.

[D0oinMeCleanin]

The greyhound has the whippet as her baby. This would be sweet but she's possibly found a new home now, so it's rather heartbreaking

The new home has a resident dog already in place so hopefully she will adopt the new dog as her baby.

[PeanutButterChocolate]

Oh how sweet, D0oin! Our neighbours have two whippies. They are very affectionate and the most beautifully trained dogs I have ever met.

[MissBetsyTrotwood]

DS2's singing Macca Pacca. A most discerning dog, our Billy - only a toy that emits the sound of RSC actors singing nonsense will do for him. He has a love/hate relationship with it though. One moment it's prey, the next it's his snuggle.