Pooch Cafe by Paul Gilligan for June 30, 2013
June 29, 2013
July 01, 2013
Transcript:
Poncho Presents: Ways of Fetching a Thrown Ball Other Than Actually Going to Get it. Use a trained eagle. Hire a student. Convince master to play at the exit of a moving walkway (tricky!) Surreptitiously attach a string to ball (Reel in string.) Arrange it so another dog and his master are playing fetch on the opposite side of the same hill. Hypnotize master into believing you fetched the ball. (For extra fun, make him cluck like a chicken)
Fetching is a trait called ball drive. Dogs either have it or they don’t. It’s the basis for training military and law enforcement working dogs. Neither of our two dogs fetch. If we throw a ball or stick, they just follow the arc and look back at us, saying, “If you want that thing back, you need to go get it yourself.”