Odd (?) behaviour from a newly RAW fed dog...

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Last week we moved Sam, our whippety lurcher with a history of digestive problems, onto RAW food.
It was a scary step, taking him off the vet-prescribed Royal Canin but I digress..

Right, he is happy with the pre-packaged mush, atm he is on the frozen pellets made by Nature's Menu, eats it happily and poos are formed and pick-up-able (the latter being a particularly pleasing development!)

Five days ago we introduced chicken wings, as a snack / light lunch type of meal (he needs to be on four smallish meals per day). The initial one he licked for a while whilst I held onto it but after a few he got the hang of crunching them and I would just give him one and leave him to it in the garden.
For the past three days he has burried the wing and then ignored it for anything up to a day, after which he digs it up, shakes the mud off it and runs around the garden with it, a sort of trophy lap, before settling down and eating it.

He has had no ill effects from this soil-additive to his food so am not overly worried. However, is this 'normal'? Is he suddenly harking back to some instinctive hunter-gatherer instinct?

Am not worried, more bemused and wanted to share...

toboldlygo, my dog would be ecstatic if he had proper furry rabbits and feathery pheasants on a regular basis, will try to find a gamekeeper. How friendly do you have to be to get them free ?

This casts a whole new light on Lady Chatterley's Lover. I bet she didn't really fancy Mellors that much, she just wanted some rabbits for her pointy.

uptown abbie you could just borrow my cat for a while. he catches wood pigeons and leaves them for the dog. i often look out the window to see a sea of feathers where sadie has had fun running around shaking the thing.

swallowed, clever cat you've got there, mine only catches tiny cute micey things and leaves their heads on the doorstep. We're tripping over rabbits on walks and dog makes no attempt to catch them, he's caught a couple of pigeons but only because they were sitting by the path looking dazed and not able to fly.

my dog would go mad for the rabbits - she caught one once when she was really young - impressive stuff if a little traumatising!

she is great at finding dead things, everywhere you go she'll find something dead and want to carry it around with her. today we found a dead mole, a dead blackbird and an unidentified bird. she'd make a great cadaver dog i reckon.