My dog's toys have been going missing. We lost several tennis balls, 2 Chuckit balls and a Kong toy over the last couple of months. I looked all over for them, both inside and outside the house. No toys. My daughter came to visit with her dogs and their toys. These toys also disappeared. I came to the conclusion that a pack of playful coyotes was sneaking into the yard at night and stealing the toys. Or perhaps it was a neighbor's pet stealing them. They certainly were not on the property.

Yesterday morning I was making coffee. My big dog was over in a corner of the kitchen worrying the hell out of it with both paws and nose. I got down on my knees to look and there was the last Chuckit ball we had lost. I went to pull it out of the corner and saw that this space between the trash compactor and the corner of the underside of the cabinets contained a small space where the compactor had been put in. I reached back into the space and pulled out 2 Chuckit balls, 3 tennis balls, a chewed and flattened plastic bottle, a Kong toy, and a couple of bones. What a hoarder Nutmeg is!