Stuffing-Obsessed Dog Takes It To A Whole New Level

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Ever since she was a puppy, Lili’s expertise has always been figuring stuff out. If there’s a way around something or a way to create something new, Lili will find it. 

“Lili and I took agility classes for a few years and she was the class clown,” Stephanie Williams, Lili’s mom, told The Dodo. “She would get bored with jumping over jumps and simply walk through them because she knew the bar would easily fall down. She figured out how to escape from a closed kennel by pushing the perimeter of her kennel with her nose to find the weak point of the kennel. Once she found it, she pushed her head through, and eventually her whole body. I had to set up a camera to figure out how she was escaping.”

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Stephanie Williams

When Lili was recovering from surgery on her leg and had to wear a cone, she kept trying to figure out a way to get the cone off. Since she couldn’t fit in her kennel with the cone on, her mom decided to put her in her bedroom while she was out. Lilli wasn’t super excited about that idea though and was still anxious about her cone — so she decided to find a project to work on to take her mind off of things. 

“[I] opened my bedroom door to see Lili with her cone on, but foam scattered everywhere,” Williams said. “She dug a hole in the mattress 
 I re-stuffed my mattress to the best of my ability, put a mattress pad over it and thought this problem was temporarily resolved.”

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Stephanie Williams

Williams didn’t think much about the hole after that. Months later, she was washing her sheets and mattress pad, and happened to leave her bedroom door open. When she came back inside, she noticed a pair of eyes staring back at her from inside the mattress, and immediately couldn’t stop laughing. 

dog in mattress
Stephanie Williams

“When I walked into my room and turned the light on, I saw a giant lump in my mattress,” Williams said. “It was Lili. She crawled into the hole she created months earlier.” 

Now that Lili wasn’t wearing her cone anymore, she realized that she fit perfectly into the hole she’d dug in the mattress. She was so pleased with herself as she snuggled up inside the perfect hiding spot that she’d created, and probably wasn’t thrilled when her mom made her climb back out again. 

dog in mattress
Stephanie Williams

“I grabbed my camera and got a couple pictures of her inside the mattress, and recorded her venture out of the mattress,” Williams said. “She did seem quite cozy in her little burrow she had created. I wasn’t upset with her, the damage was already done from her digging the hole.” 

dog in mattress
Stephanie Williams

Lili has always had a very creative mind, but her mattress burrow will probably always be one of her favorite creations.