Hi Dopers. Maybe you can help me.
My dog is miserable. The gardeners threw away her ball. No other ball can replace her ball, except another ball exactly like that ball.
I have searched every corner of the web. I have paged through, quite literally HUNDREDS of pages of balls. I’ve checked Ebay, every retailer, every wholesaler, and I’m now convinced that the balls I used to get for her are simply not available new anymore.
But they were once available, because I bought about 4 of them over a couple of years. And I figure I can’t be the only person in the world who bought one.
So I figure maybe some dopers with dogs might have a spare they’d sell me in sympathy with my poor Golden Maggie, who would be ecstatic if I could get her her ball again.
They were green, but I seem to recall that other colors were available.
Where I bought them, they were sold loose, no packaging, and they were kinda pricey, around $10 each.
They were largish, solid, heavy rubber, very tough.
Now, if I can properly describe it… it is as though you start with two or three balls, and the extra two you slice up like an orange, into quarters. (Exactly like that, actually…maybe I’ll do this with a couple of pieces of fruit! Yeah, I’ll give it a try). Then you glue those quarters on to the untouched ball, all over.
The effect this has is to create a wacky bounce pattern, of course.
Now, there many, many balls with things sticking out, and I even foudn one that looks like it has HALF balls stuck on it. I have actually purchased about 20 different balls that seemed like they might be worthy imitations, and I was trying both shape and material…maybe it’s the rubber she likes, I don’t know. But nothing was right. She’s like Goldilocks or the princess and the pea. It’s THAT ball or nothing.
So if you have one of these rolling around in your backyard and your dog isn’t picky…would you sell it to me?
Thanks!