Retriever or Destroyer

Labrador Retriever as the name suggests are retrievers. They are used by the hunters to retrieve birds or other prey.
But Nyx, my lab, is less of a retriever and more of a destroyer. She enjoys chewing and tearing things apart. This was a big problem when she was a pup. It was impossible to leave her alone at home even for an extended period of time. We would return home to find shredded paper lying everywhere. Shoes, socks, kitchen towels, anything that was within reach was meant to be destroyed.

But over the years Nyx has matured. Now she is not so much of a Destroyer. But she still has moments of pure joy tearing apart stuff. The latest in the list being a lovely stuffed bunny. For the first couple of days, she was very gentle with the bunny. She was very 'soft-mouthed' while carrying the bunny around. 'Soft-mouth' (a desirable characteristic of a retriever) is the ability to carry the prey gently without damaging it.

And Nyx was so gentle handling the bunny. But a couple of days later she was determined to gauge out the eyes and nose of the bunny. And she succeeded. She gauged out the bunny's nose and pulled out all the stuffing. And then had this gleeful look on her face which said - I DID IT.