Have you ever read books or e-books written around the theme of “things my dog taught me”? The human never really did, but I’m sure there’s lots of nuggets of truth in them. The other day, our 1stworlddog friend, Bodhi, wrote a list of four things he taught his human. The human here thought it was particularly relevant for her, so we thought we’ll share it over here.
Tag: fetch
Quite some time back, a friend gave Donna a hand-me-down rubber chicken. It made a ridiculous squawk when squeezed and got Donna so excited she started barking at it in the flat. The chicken was condemned to storage since we didn’t exactly want Donna barking in the flat.
Sit, Wait, Run, Fetch, Tug
Is tough choice to fetch or tug
Donna wants do BOTH!
I made the mistake of holding my phone vertically while shooting this video —
You can see her visibly panting (tired and needing to drink) at the end of the video and getting enough of play.
Mikki isn’t comfortable with Donna and Donna can be a bit of a rascal at times in trying to get the golden retriever to play. Thankfully our mongrel knows better than to encroach too much into Mikki’s space. You can see the gap she leaves for Mikki in this picture.
I’m just fake rushing at you — is that what she could be thinking?
She made an about turn there and raced away again.
I remember there was a blog post I commented on some time back. Writer was writing about dogs that like to pick up sticks on walks. I replied that Donna doesn’t seem to have the propensity to do that, at the same time I was thinking that was just as well since there is always the potential of not so cute injuries resulting with dogs playing with sticks. Here’s another post at Team Unruly on Sticks – Not fun anymore.
Days later, I learnt that Donna did not have a disdain for sticks. It was just that her highness was more selective about the sticks she deigned to pick up. We were running down the stairs as her leash suddenly jerked taut. I turned my head back to find my dog with a stick of half-eaten satay in her mouth. @_@
In case you are not familiar with satay, it’s basically a yummy dish comprising of meat barbecued on stick/bamboo skewer and eaten with a spicy peanut dip.
Our dog doesn’t realise it, but she just gave a different spin on satay as a street food. But no, you are to leave it, Donna.
Leave it.
Here she is with a safer, soft toy in her mouth.
