Can any of you tell me what wildlife potentially might enjoy eating rose buds off bushes right before they open to bloom?

*big sigh* OK...

Last summer this time, I had to put down my beautiful yellow lab. Part of the grief healing I planted my first ever rose bush. My lab's crematory ashes were under the bush.

WELL... my very cute, but omg SO sassy and different personality new lab pup decided to eat the bush this winter! PLUS, she almost dug the whole thing up... which included the ashes of my other beloved dog!

I thought the bush was a goner. However, it grew and was JUST ABOUT TO BLOOM... when the buds came up MIA. I'm thinking it's the new dog. However...

I *think* I have heard of things like racoons eating rose buds? Our yard is fenced. It's not a deer. What else?

The bush is so pretty too in bloom *another big sigh*.

Btw...
Here is the bush when it got a chance to bloom...



OH... here is the doggie too cute to strangle...