Is Your Doodle Ball Obsessed?

[BG and Gavin]

The food group got side-tracked discussing their tennis ball obsessed doodles.  I have one too!  I thought the topic deserved front page coverage. (Maybe the FG'rs can cut and paste their stories here.)

Gavin will sit for literally an hour, in wait for someone to toss a ball to him.  Here is part of his collection which has to be kept on the window sill out of his reach:

And here he is with his favorite Kong Squeeky Tennis Ball

 

 

[BG and Gavin]

Yes, Gavin falls asleep with the ball in his mouth too.  Albus looks very focused in these adorable pictures.

[Debbie and Thomas]

Only once in a while will Thomas drive us crazy for his tennis balls.....he is more of a rock collector!!  But I have to tell you Gavin is looking gorgeous!! I love it when their hair is long and shaggy like that.  I should mail him a ball cause he is so cute!!

[BG and Gavin]

He would love that!  Thanks for the compliment Debbie.

[Suzann, Rosey & Bandit]

Yes, Rosey has 2 favorites, one battery operated and one she found in the lake last summer.  She also love the jolly teaser ball, wiggley giggley ball, tennis balls, these big super balls,  and she will put them in water, in her food, stare holes thru you to retrieve under furniture for her I could go on and on about her obsession..

 

[BG and Gavin]

I have seen that butt-sticking-out-from-under-the-furniture pose and accompanying stare before!.  The doods are nicely colour co-ordinated to your decor I must say :)

[Suzann, Rosey & Bandit]

why thank you !! We call it doodle decor... jump on all the furniture as long as you look good on it!! LOL!

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Jackdoodle is so obsessed with tennis balls that we had to prohibit them; no tennis balls allowed in the house. He kept dropping slimy tennis balls in people's laps. Now he must drop them at the back door before he comes inside. I have a bin on a high shelf where I keep them. He is allowed soft stuffed balls and rope balls in the house.

Jack is seriously obsessed; if he thinks there is any chance of you throwing a ball for him, he will continue to drop it in front of you for hours. If you don't notice it, he will keep nudging it closer. He will do anything to get you to throw a ball for him...sing, dance, paint the Sistine Chapel, anything. If a burglar broke in, all he'd have to do is toss a tennis ball to Jack a couple of times, and Jack would lead him to the silver and gift-wrap it for the man.

At the dog park, Jack ignores all the other dogs and waits for the tennis ball to come out. If I don't take the ball out and start playing soon enough for his liking, he starts running all over the park searching for stray balls that may have been lost or abandoned. His philosophy is finders keepers, losers weepers.

 

[BG and Gavin]

That's hilarious Karen! 

Perhaps we have to get Jack into a 12 step program.  And maybe you should look inward too.  I mean is it possible that YOU are an enabler??  Hmmm??

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Not me. I was the kid who was still sitting on the gym floor after all the other kids had been chosen for volleyball teams. I have no eye-hand coordination whatsoever. When I was a kid, I went to a camp where they had tennis lessons. When it was time for my lesson, the instructors flipped a coin and the loser got me.

If I never saw another tennis ball, it would fine with me.

[Adrianne Matzkin]

JD and Samantha must be related!! You totally described her to a T(ball) - WOL!!!!

[Deanna & Desi & Cori]

As mentioned in the "Food Group" discussion, Sedona is a BA - ball addict.  She had a favorite squeaky ball - a multi-colored ball with a "perfect" squeak.  The problem was it was not very hardy; it would lose its squeak very easily so we had to keep replacing it.  After several months and several "killed" balls, we discovered to our horror that the local store no longer carried THE ball.  In a panic, my husband found the supplier and ordered a case of balls.  When we opened the case, we discovered that they had redesigned the ball.  It is now yellow, with a much more durable squeaker.  In fact, the only dead ball so far was killed by my husband slamming it down on the concrete!

  

[Bonnie and Kona]

Okay, website please. Sedona is too cute with that ball. Kona and Owen are ball lovin' doods, too.