Well, pigs prematurely taken from their mothers also root incessantly for something to chew or suck on; and if they are pigs spending their abbreviated lives in a factory farm, where maybe 500 animals are crowded into a space no bigger than a living room, the thing they try to chew on is the tail of the hog in front of them.
"A lot of local people and Hawaiians love the taste of fish," Cobb-Adams says, "so having a big piece to chew on is no problem".
A dog that is chewing on what it is allowed to chew on is not destroying furniture or other items and is also not barking incessantly.
"Things," says Mercy Qansah, as a young goat bounces by in search of rubbish to chew on, "are not the way we expected them to be".
Some rawhide bones to chew on are a good distraction too.
Exploring political comedy, interrogating his own supposed leftwing bias and conjuring with the possibility of rightwing comedy, his latest set offered passion and plenty to chew on, and was a masterclass by a no-frills standup at the height of his powers.
With no new economic data to chew on, it was a quiet days trading in Europe on Wednesday.
Doctors suggest lightly massaging the gums of babies who are teething or giving them things to chew on that are cold but pliable, like damp washcloths that have been twisted and frozen, and rubber teething rings.
Of course, the other thing to chew on here is the idea that Lynch has already made one sequel to Mulholland Drive, and that was Inland Empire – another giddy headtrip built around another ill-fated movie-within-a-movie.
"As soon as you give the market anything to chew on, they are going to tear the limb off".
