Walk into any room in my house and you are likely to come across a shredded dryer sheet on the floor. Why you ask? Delilah. Delilah loves dryer sheets; they are like a drug to her. She will dig in the laundry garbage or through a clothes basket to find a used dryer sheet. Then she takes the dryer sheet and holds it between her paws, and using her teeth she shreds it. Once the dryer sheet is “dead”, Delilah rolls in it.
First comes the shredding.
If you hand her a dryer sheet, she gets a dreamy look in her eyes, and she lifts her head back, and opens her mouth and takes the dryer sheet and shreds it; and then she rolls in it.
Aw Mom....did you have to tell everyone?
We think the reason she does this is to mask her scent; as she has rolled in other items that smell when we are on the trail. Animals in the wild; particularly wolves will roll in something foul smelling (usually something that is decomposing) in order to mask their scent from other animals, so they can sneak up on them and capture their prey.
The dryer sheets are a wasted effort, because if there is one thing Delilah doesn’t do; it’s sneak up on anything! When Delilah sees something that attracts or interests her she is not quiet about it. She is full throttle, intense and focused.
Too funny – does it help Delilah with static-cling? 🙂
That’s adorable. 🙂