Sophia's Babies

Sophia has always been an interesting and somewhat peculiar character in our family. When you say her name, she raises her top lip and appears to smile.
We used to have to fill pie pans full of ice water for her to soak her feet in. Sophia can sometimes have traits similair to a cat. There are times that she will bring "gifts" to our door. These gifts are usually small, dead, smelly and unrecognizable.
All in all, Sophie, as we call her most of the time, has been a fun dog to have around.

One thing Sophia has always loved are her toys. Her favorite toy is her first toy we ever bought for her. It was a bright white pineapple with a squeaker in the center. She loved the pineapple and three years later, she still has this pineapple although it is now a dark gray, deflated, squeakerless toy. But she still loves it.

Recently we began adding toys to her collection. She has two polka-dot cloth squeaky bones, a squeaky hedgehog, a plastic spiky football and a rubber dumbell. Since adding these new toys to her collection, Sophie began nesting. She hides these "babies" everywhere. We started calling them babies because surprisingly, Sophie started lactating last week. She cries if you pick them up, cries if she loses one, cries if we move them, cries if she leaves one outside and basically just cries for the sake of crying. She even cries over the dead pineapple baby.

(Dead pineapple baby!)

At night, we gather all her "babies" together and put them in her bed in the laundry room and she jumps in to surround herself with them for a good nights sleep. I'm a little confused over what to do or if I should do anything. It really is amazing how much of a personality animals can have and how particular they can be about some things. I also just recently had to move our pet rabbit back to the edge of the living room where all the activity is because after moving her to the corner of the room for one week, she spent everyday turning over her litter box and emptying her food bowl in an extremely agressive way. Once I moved her back to "her spot", she was back to normal. Crazy animals!