Could be that or just that she knows in a home setting there is no good hiding place where others won't run across her "treasure" soon, no matter where she hides it. Domesticated dogs living in homes and yards realize they have no good places to secrete their goodies away securely and thus are always nervous about them and moving them from one hiding place to another frequently. Tibbe sometimes whines/whimpers when he gets a treasure he wants to try to hide and carries it around looking for a good place to hide it for a while and does - then he'll be re-hiding it very soon, bemoaning his ability to really "hide" anything in his world. Without the vast spaces in his territory like his wilder kin and close proximity of other critters to easily happen upon his hidden treasure, he seems more than aware that really hiding something is only an illusion for most dogs today.
__________________  Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |