My  Diesel is smack in the middle of his second chewing phase (between six and ten months, the exploratory phase). We now have to make do without the pillow in his  basket and without the rug in his home bench (he also has a bench in the car) and not a day goes by without him digging up roots, chewing on branches and twigs he finds an drags home. He could also easily apply for a job with the public health department: not a tin can or plastic bottle is safe from him. It is all flattened and taken home. Then at the door, like a good boy, he gives it to me in exchange for a small treat and my green (for garden and kitchen waste) and grey (for the rest) refuse containers get filled rather fast.

The above brings me to the following.

Did you know that the average dog has a biting power of over 180 kg per square centimeter? And that that of some breeds, like a Rottweiler for example is even 400 kg per square centimeter?

 

 

And yet I can easily put my hand in Diesel's mouth. He'll only bite it softly and lick it.  He is so soft in the mouth that of the dove he fetched the other day not a feather was ruffled.