Ridge Extraction

Barley, a dog, meticulously removes the back ridges from a stegosaurus toy.

Barley’s toys stand up to her attention pretty well these days, but the one thing she cannot abide on a new toy is a Stitched Ridge, or similar flappy bit running some length of the animal. Such ridges, along with similar features like fins or frills, get worried away with her molars. Back when she had her incisors, she’s snip these right off (and usually disembowel the toy in the process) within the first five minutes, but now it’s a more protracted affair, more akin to Andy Dufresne making incremental progress toward freedom.