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Bought a few little stuffed animals two Saturdays ago. Four for a buck.
Tried with paint balls and nothing looked good.
The pellets were kind of fun. This is the first time I have seen anything a solid as string being towed by the pellet. I guess that it is light enough that inertia doesn't keep it in place.
Poor puppy.
I thought I'd get some more unusual view of St Ives Bay whilst we sat outside at a cafe in the gorgeous sunshine. So I this is what I came up with! I really like how you can see the ball which the ball which the woman has thrown for the dog to catch.
It's the BoA photo group exhibition this weekend, it's the opening night 'party' tonight. I've even convinced Mrs GA to bake cupcakes to take for the occasion.
we got up early this morning and was on the beach by 6 a.m. for Summer, Morgan and Miss A to do a trash the dress series.. I was lucky enough to get in a few shots. Check out summers stream "summer96"
The most expensive ball (not counting the Jolly Balls) I've ever bought him. It's extremly bouncy, so bouncy that it throws him off all the time :) It's also supposed to be minty - LOL
Too bad it doesn't fit in the ChuckIt, but it has two very convenient holes in which I can stick my finger and throw it without getting all this yucky mud on me and my camera.
A Burst Of Shots Recording A Dog As it Leaps into The Water To ' Fetch ' A Thrown Stick !
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This would not be weird if not for the fact that he does NOT fetch, ever. And for some reason he chose the biggest stick he could find.
Barney came to our family with a few bits and pieces from his previous life, including a toy - a wubba (not this one). I took the wubba out on our 1st walk, thinking we could play fetch. It wasn't a major success - clearly, after giving him his toy, no-one had showed Barney how to actually play with it. He looked interested when I squeaked it at him and even more so when I threw it - he watched with a "ooh, it flies!!!!" face and chased it... Then it landed and stopped and he stared at it blankly for a second... and ran off to chase a passing jogger.
He'd grown up in a house full of teenage lads, who ran around a lot and had play fights and apparently allowed the dog to join in, without making any rules! I think Barney came to the conclusion that the teenagers were his "toys", excellent to chase and herd and catch. He was partly given up because as well as snapping at strangers, during play, Barn was regularly biting the people he liked - on their hands, arms and noses. He doesn't break skin but I speak from experience when I say it hurts!
It took a while before I convinced him that toys like balls etc were cool and fetching is fun. To this day, he's not 100% convinced that after the stalking/ anticipating bit and the chasing and catching part are done, retrieving the toy is also a "game". He'll do it a few times, then I get the "well you've clearly mastered the use of opposable thumbs and I can obviously overpower the toy with my general awesomeness.. so what next?" look. I'm sure he'd prefer it if I found a teenage boy to play fetch with (they're just as squeaky as a wubba but less predictable - better fun to chase).
Sadly for Barn, I find teenagers quite heavy and cumbersome to pick up and chuck - and besides, most seem somewhat... reluctant to be caught and dragged back in Barney's mouth! So, to keep him interested in playing fetch with proper dog toys for more than a few minutes, I try to introduce extra elements to the game. I break fetching up with "herding" games, I ask him to do tricks, or basic "obedience" (like making him wait for the toy to land before fetching it), and add physical challenges. The other day, I set up a makeshift jump and had him playing fetch back and forth over it. Clearly, it's no substitute for fun times to be had by terrorising teenagers but apparently fetching the wubba is much more enjoyable when you have to bounce over a something each way!