Written by the Crafty Canine
I like to hide things. Some things actually belong to me, like my old tennis balls and rawhide bones. But most do not, like my mother’s fuzzy socks, the kitchen towel, or toothpaste.
So just for fun, I made up a few hiding games.
The Hide Once game
This is a game I play most often. For example, the other day I was sniffing around my mother’s closet. It always has lots of smells and something good to hide. Once I took an old running shoe. Then I hid it under the couch. That’s one of my regular hiding places. My mother always looks there first, so she found it.
I also took my dog brush and hid it in the laundry basket. I hate that thing.
The Hide Again game
This is my favorite hiding game. I hide the same thing in different spots. Like one of the bones I bury in the backyard. I can usually find it again by sniffing around. Then I bury the bone again somewhere else. This can go on for a while. I never get bored.
The Not Finished Hiding game
Sometimes I get distracted in the middle of hiding something. One time I dragged a small branch in from the backyard. I started to hide it in my mother’s closet, but then I smelled dinner. End of that game. I left the branch sticking out of the closet.
The Found Again game
There are some things I never want to hide. For example, my keyboard, my food bowl, and a book my mother gave me called Hiding Games for Dogs. It had a game called Found Again, which had hints about how to find things I hid but never found again.
Like my favorite old tennis ball. I thought I hid it under my bed, but it disappeared.
Hint: Look in the trash can.
