My dog Preston (some kind of lab/rottie/border collie superfit athlete dog) and I play “weasel”, which is a furry knot at the end of a bullwhip. It’s very much like playing with a 65 pound cat, since Preston is amazingly fast and agile.
The game is I whip the weasel all over the yard and he chases and leaps and tries to catch it. He used to release it pretty quickly when I stopped pulling on it, but he’s developed a new aspect to the game: the goal line.
My yard has a few beat up lily plants and a bird of paradise, all low to the ground. These form semi-green mounds in 3 spots. Well, Preston has decided that he hasn’t REALLY “won” a point or a round unless he takes the weasel over to the mound, or what is apparently his goal line, and places it there. Seriously. Once he’s at the goal, he lets go, but rarely before.
Of course the mastiff “helps” the bulldog take her down, since she understands if the bulldog never wins it stops being fun for her, but they both knock each other over a roughly equal number of times when they have a bout.
I 'spose I could set the camera on a tripod and just let it go, hoping I get something usable. I actually want to shoot some video for the guy who invented and sells the weasel, because it’s such a great toy and Preston plays with it in a way that’s so much fun to watch it would be a good promo tool for him.
But if I did that I’d have to find a way to remove my ass. I don’t know how to do that on video. Or in real life. I have an ass problem.
