Re: Favorite New Toy: Paper Wad

Judith Althouse wrote:
Shelly,
Wow, what a big spender you are!

The intention wasn't that it be a toy. It was supposed to be a gentle boot to the head. Harriet's the one who decided it would be fun to play with it.

You sure know how to have fun. I bet Harriet just loves you.

Well, yes, I like to think she does. Sometimes, though, I think she was sent here to test my patience. Also, my sanity.

I guess dogs are like kids used to be. They could have just as much
or more fun with non-toy items like a pan and a spoon etc. I am talking
about kids of the past, not children of today, :) IMO

Children of today don't *have* to be over-stimulated, spoiled brats.

I wish I could recall a similar toy to the old paper wad that you have
come up with. I know around here some of the best fun we have had was
with non dog toy items and was discovered by accident as you did with
the paper wad.

One of my college roommates had a cat who I taught to fetch wadded up cigarette packets. Again, it started with me throwing the wadded up packets *at* the cat. Not to be mean or anything--I only did it after making sure the cat knew that her choices were to stop doing X or get beaned with a paper wad. Silly cat thought it was a game, and so that's what it turned into.

To this day, when I think of Romanesque architecture, I think of playing fetch with that damned cat. I spent many, many hours one semester studying while throwing wadded up cigarette packets for her.

Ooyee Gooyee.
I am going to try it, but I have just made a toy run and they are
probably not going to fall for it. Maybe, when the toy shelf is empty.

I don't know about "falling" for it. Harriet likes paper wads enough that she will drop her tennis ball when she sees me wadding up paper. Clearly, she thinks paper wads are superior to some toys. Also, I may have created a monster. I already have a cat who has a paper wad fetish, and it drives me bat*** crazy. The last thing I need is a dog who is fixated on paper wads.

I have discovered my young dogs like Nylabones. My old Buck who never
turned up his nose at anything he could chew on says No to Nylabones.
That is the only chewable he has ever refused.

Harriet is unimpressed with Nylabones. Elliott would chew them so aggressively that they weren't a safe chewie for him.

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