Golden retriever buries his own stick, then digs to get it back

Charlie, a golden retriever, kept digging at one patch of beach sand until his stick was lying on top of it again. According to his mom, Lauren, he was the one who buried it there.

Lauren and Charlie on TikTok (@laurenandcody)

The burying came first, by her account, and Charlie didn’t need help finding the spot again; his snout came up crusted in sand. What gets her is “the fact that he has little ideas and then goes and does them 🥹.”

Meet Charlie

• He remembers a good deal. A valet gave him a treat once, and now he won’t pee until he’s been “paid,” she wrote on an earlier video, adding, “A golden NEVER forgets.”
• He keeps appointments, too: he waits by the same elevator every day at the exact same time to surprise his best friend.
• When the time change made him miss his favourite part of Miami, she set an alarm; that post ends with him on the sand at sunset.

Burying runs deep in dogs: the AKC traces it to wild ancestors who cached extra food to dig up later. If your dog loves the hide-and-seek part, the AKC suggests having them “bury” a toy on cue in a pile of blankets, then cueing the retrieve.

Charlie, for his part, already has the retrieve down.

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