Good To The Last Dollop

Barley, a dog, angles her body to get her tongue as far as she can into a glass jar of peanut butter.

I don’t use peanut butter for much myself, but it’s a staple for my parents. Between my visits, they’ll get a jar down to the last dregs, then keep it at the back of the fridge as a treat for Barley to enjoy when we next make it into town. For her part, Barley has proven very adept at navigating the particular challenges of extracting food residue from a glass jar. She understood right away that it wasn’t a contained she could carry in her teeth the way she could a plastic yogurt container, so her extraction procedure relies heavily on precision tongue use and on keeping her angle of approach aligned with the where the jaw makes contact with the carpet, to keep it from rolling away.