When I was a kid there was a woman who lived across the road with a dog called Bruce, when she took him for a walk on the beach, if she found a good stick for him to play with, she'd leave it on a big block of concrete after the walk so she could use it the next day - but sometimes she'd find the stick was different to the one that she'd left, or that there was more than one. Eventually there was a collection of sticks of different sizes on the concrete block, so you could just take your pick. If I see such sticks now, I call them "Bruce sticks". Our dog only likes balls.
Do you own a dog ball propeller ?
A couple of days ago, I watched a dog fetching a stick, foverer jumping in the river. Tireless !
A dog ball propeller? You mean like those things that look like shoe horns? I've heard of a tennis ball going down a dogs throat, so I use a half sized football and kick it, it's a lot easier to find a half sized, white football in long grass than a mucky green tennis ball. She's about 14 years old now, so if you kick it she just watched it passivly, and walks of.
Collies seem to like to foresee stuff, there's not much point in chasing a sheep away, you'll just end up making it go further, but if you can foresee the sheep running off, you can go around and head it off. I can remember when we first had Tip, I was throwing the ball for her (she would always run to where she thought that you were going to throw, rather than just stand, waiting), and I thought that I'd open the window and throw it outside, by the time I'd lent over and opened the window, she was already outside and waiting. It's times like that when you realise that you have a dog that's smarter than some work colegues .
Beautiful.
"dog- a small household god, designed to absorb the excess of the world's love"
Aubrey Beardsley
"dog- a small household god, designed to absorb the excess of the world's love"
Aubrey Beardsley
Ladies, ladies,
If your man says he'll do something, he'll do it.
You don't have to remind him every six months.
If your man says he'll do something, he'll do it.
You don't have to remind him every six months.
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