[Higgin's Mom]

I've heard about lots of dogs who have eaten socks. While he never ate socks, I had a Golden Retreiver who loved to play "tugsock" with one of my husband's socks tied in a knot. Harry was strong enough to pull me right off the couch! Tugsock was his favorite game! Then we got a little Sheltie puppy.....so cute.....Lucy, her name was.....and she was very petite, and quite tiny at about 7 weeks old when we got her. Well, big ol' Harry the Golden was sitting and looking at this little baby the morning after we got her. Then he quietly got up and went over and got his tugsock and brought it over and offered it to little Lucy. And she took the other end and started tugging like mad! Harry could have flipped her into the next county with one tug, but he didn't....he tugged sooooooo gently.....and they played tugsock every day until Harry was kidnapped by my grandchildren because they needed protection from moose on Kirby mountain......Harry and Lucy were very special dogs in my life.

Higgins grabs everything, especially Don's socks! But he hasn't damaged the socks, so far. Just about everything winds up in that pup's mouth, but he doesn't seem to swallow anything. His favorite thing to chew up is wood.....twigs and branches and such. And he has always loved the old, fallen, very crisp little live oak leaves. Has chewed them up and spit 'em out since day one. When he was little he had a thing for little rocks, too, that worried us (we watched him like a hawk to make sure he didn't swallow one). He would dig 'em up and toss 'em around. Then he would dig another hole or two and move his store of little rocks, one by one, from hole to hole. It really was funny to watch. He still loves to dig and to bury things!