Determined Canine

My neighbor is a vet, and she has beautiful dogs.  My kidlets love to play with the dogs, especially our host child.   Last week they played fetch for what seemed like hours, so around supper time I called all the kidlets over and told them it was time to give the dogs a break.  The kidlets went off to do various things like swing on the swingset, play with the cat, build with legos, etc.  The Banana curled up in the hammock in the back corner of the yard with a book.

Soon an energetic dog was sitting nicely at the property line, a ball in his mouth, whining.  He was trying his hardest to convince a kidlet to play fetch.  The kidlets were trying hard to ignore him.  He looked at the Banana in the hammock and literally threw his ball at her.  The ball rolled to her feet in our yard.  She sighed, picked it up and threw it back into the neighbor’s yard.

The dog energetically bounded off, retrieved the ball, and settled back in at the property line.

Repeat.

Repeat.

Repeat.

Finally I gave up and told the kidlets they could play with the dogs, and everyone was once again happy.

That ball does get quite slimy, though.  Yikes!