An apple-picking dog

If you look up in the apple tree you can see that the apples are getting ripe.

I never see apples on the ground, but I know that they fall down. I thought the deer were eating them all until yesterday.

Yesterday Socks was out with me. I was putting seed in the bird feeder and she was nosing around under the tree.

Suddenly she ran to the back door. She was begging to go inside.

What was that in her mouth??

She ran straight to her den under the big desk. Then she carefully set down the thing she was carrying - a slightly rotten apple.

Has Socks been eating the fallen apples?