[nagdu] Working Our Dogs

[d m gina]

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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