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Does your dog take his bone and hide it? There is a reason why he does that...
Your small dog may not look like a wolf, but he is descended from wolves and is just doing what his wolf DNA tells him to do.
Wolves were great hunters and frequently killed animals so big the pack could not eat it all in one meal.
They didn't get to the top of the predator world by allowing other animals to share their leftovers, plus they knew they had to plan for times when they could find no prey.
Wolves, like modern dogs, are great diggers, so came up with the idea of storing bones and other tidbits by burying them. It seems simple to us today, but was a giant evolutionary leap for the wolf pack. It enabled them to dominate the food chain until man arrived.
Dogs, even little guys, retain far more of their wolf ancestry than people realize. Something deep in his brain tells him he may need that bone one day. It satisfies a primal urge to put something away for a rainy day.
It is common and many dogs do it. The interesting part is that none of the other dogs ever disturb a bone when the others bury it, even though it is in plain sight. They think like a wolf too, and realize it has been buried for the good of the pack.