Oh Star, I love that picture!
Years ago one of the kids bought a huge, life-size, ugly gray rubber rat. I don't even remember why now - just one of those things that kids do. It was always startling to walk in to a room and see it sitting there! And wouldn't you know ... the dog adopted it as her favorite toy! It was almost as big as she was! She'd drag it around for hours, and because she treasured it so, she was always hiding it in clever little places so the other dog wouldn't find it. I'd find the rat in a laundry basket or in a closet with the shoes or hidden behind a door, and it would make me jump every time. That thing was around our house for years because nobody had the heart to take it away from her.