Trader Joes is kind of a cross between your corner store and the grocery store. It's small enough where one can circle the entire store in less than 15 minutes but large enough where they sell raw refrigerated meat that has not expired. Granted they don't carry any of your standard name brands (um, coca cola) except in their liquor aisle, it's a pretty good place to get your groceries. However, they do have this annoying habit of carrying something that you will like a lot only to pull it from their shelves after three months because nobody else likes it (for the love of god, bring back the pad thai mix!!).
They have a fairly small pet section but one day as I was perusing the aisles, I came across this stuffed toy bone.
The dogs have a sordid history with plush animal toys. They like to go for the eyes within the first five minutes and then it's over. I figured we should try this since it didn't resemble any living creation. (Yes, I firmly believe that plush animals resemble living creatures.) In addition, the exterior of the bone was made of 100% wool.
So what else did Barksdale do, but try to skin the thing.
