I’m trying to figure out why Freddie, my guide dog  absolutely loves running or more accurately bounding through bushes.  Well, he mainly likes the low ones but any bush will do.  
There are bushes that reach just above his belly in the business park that are very well kept.  The entire business park has very well kept grass and plants all over the place and you’d be pressed to find one bush that hasn’t been cut so all the tops and edges are flat.  They must spend thousands every year on gardening.  

I bring Freddie out every day at lunch for a bit of a run around.  There’s a few banks that he runs up and down, trees that he can have a good sniff at and plenty of hidden places where he can relieve him self.

His main activity though is running around inside a lot of interconnecting bushes that are cut very low. He bounds around inside them only to come out, have a shake, say hello before jumping back in!  I cant understand it!  There’s definitly nothing wrong with him doing it because he doesn’t leave much of a trace after him I hear but I’d just like to know why he gets so much enjoyment out of it.  

I came back today and had to dry him.  It was like he had just been caught out in the rain for an hour.  I’m not particularly bothered though as I probably get as much enjoyment listening to him jump around the place as he does doing it.