[nagdu] Tennis balls for dogs Re:Working Our Dogs

Sat Nov 10 15:54:49 UTC 2012

This thread subject needs to be change, so this what I am doing. 

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On Nov 9, 2012, at 4:30 PM, "Larry D. Keeler" <lkeeler at comcast.net> wrote:

> yah, they do make em that big!  And, the cheap ones can actually fall apart! And, I have actually seen some dogs chew thew the fuzz off!  I was thinking however about some of the big dogs swallowing the balls and having to get them out.  I've heard of many zoo animals dying from that kind of thing!
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "d m gina" <dmgina at samobile.net>
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> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 4:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Working Our Dogs
> 
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>> Hello,
>> They don't chew the fur off the ball?
>> Or poke a hole in it?
>> I know one of my retired dogs had a tennis ball where it broke a tooth.
>> They had to go under the gum to remove the tooth.
>> I have never seen a ball that huge before.
>> Interesting.
>> Original message:
>>> oh, the tennis ball!  My son when he grew up, was and still is convinced
>>> that tennis balls were only used for tennis after being invented for dogs!
>>> I have a couple of really big tennis balls I baught at the pet store.
>>> They're about as big as maybe 4 tennis balls.  They have 2 kinds.  The cheap
>>> ones just look like tennis balls but can be chewed up and broken easily.
>>> The other is just like the smaller ones.  Including the bounce!  I sometimes
>>> get nervous with the regular sized balls because they're kind of small and I
>>> worry that they could be accidentally be swallowed.  But the big ones! The
>>> dog would have to have a really big throat because they're about half the
>>> size of a basketball!
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Debbie Cole" <debbieanne1124 at gmail.com>
>>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
>>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 1:16 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Working Our Dogs
>> 
>> 
>>>> I forgot to mention Leone's favorite form of exercise.  You see, we
>>>> don't ahve yards and are in a duplex apartment.  We drive up the hill
>>>> to the college ane lock ourselves in the Tennis courts and  I hit soem
>>>> tennis balls  over the net she retrieves them.    We do this on days i
>>>> don't go anywhere.  She loves this.
>> 
>>>> Remember...  "A happy dog is a tired dog"
>> 
>>>> On 11/9/12, Sarah <coastergirl92 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hello list,
>> 
>>>>> I was wondering how often do you work your dogs? I feel like I
>>>>> have to work Wizard every day and I feel guilty if I just let him
>>>>> have one day off.  How long is the longest you've allied your
>>>>> dogs time off?
>> 
>> 
>>>>> Sarah and Wizard
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: Sheila Leigland <sleigland at bresnan.net
>>>>> To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog
>>>>> Users"<nagdu at nfbnet.org
>>>>> Date sent: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 04:52:34 -0700
>>>>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Diabetic alert dogs and how alert dogs
>>>>> arepreventing aneed for a guide dog!
>> 
>>>>> Lyn my husband and I were at the convention last weekend.  Our
>>>>> dogs misbehaved and growled and were immediately corrected.  I
>>>>> would agree with you if we chose not to bring our dogs under
>>>>> control but we did and it didn't happen again.  When you know all
>>>>> of the facts then please make judgment calls on whether a dog
>>>>> should remain in a situation.  I don't know of any dog that
>>>>> hasn't made a misstep and the important thing is that the dogs
>>>>> were corrected properly and immediately.  In fact they were still
>>>>> lying at our feet.  They didn't stand up or approach in any way.
>> 
>>>>> Sheila Leigland
>> 
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>> 
>>>> Debbie Cole
>> 
>>>> debbieanne1124 at gmail.com
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