Alayne saw blind Austin digging a hole in the gravel so he could bury a soft chew toy shaped like a bone. She went to get the camera, but as soon as he heard Alayne walk up near him, he pulled the toy bone out of the hole and took off. She followed him around the yard, bone in his mouth, as he sought a new spot to hide the bone in. (Apparently he thought Alayne might try to steal his bone, for reasons still unclear to us.)
At one point, thinking he had thrown her off his trail, he stopped to bury the bone in the tall grass underneath a cottonwood sapling:
But then he heard Alayne again — "Dang, I just can't shake this woman!" — so he grabbed the bone and headed out across the yard again:
Finally — perhaps thinking that if he showed he didn't care about the bone any longer, maybe she wouldn't want it — he laid the bone down and wandered off nonchalantly.
Alayne picked it up and carefully put it back in the hole Austin had originally started digging for his bone when she first saw him:
That evening we held a refresher class in our popular "Burying Bones 101" course, with special emphasis on the first module — Choosing The Right Bone For The Job.
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