# My dog doesn't just play, he keeps score
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-doesnt-just-play-he-keeps-score/540747
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 25, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-doesnt-just-play-he-keeps-score/540747 "2010-05-25T20:58:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-doesnt-just-play-he-keeps-score/540747/1 "2010-05-25T20:58:03Z")
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.
I love dogs.
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### Author:  [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-doesnt-just-play-he-keeps-score/540747/2 "2010-05-25T21:02:26Z")
Sounds like a smart dog. Pic?
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### Author:  [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-doesnt-just-play-he-keeps-score/540747/3 "2010-05-25T21:10:41Z")
Doggy end zone. I like it!
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-doesnt-just-play-he-keeps-score/540747/4 "2010-05-25T21:37:19Z")
Rottweiler and border collie? That’s a dangerous mix; he could kill you _and_ make it look like an accident.
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### Author:  [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-doesnt-just-play-he-keeps-score/540747/5 "2010-05-25T22:46:19Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> Rottweiler and border collie? That’s a dangerous mix; he could kill you _and_ make it look like an accident.
Oh my god you did something unheard of: you made me literally burst out laughing!!
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### Author:  [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-doesnt-just-play-he-keeps-score/540747/6 "2010-05-25T22:47:58Z")
> [@Stoid](#):
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> Oh my god you did something unheard of: you made me literally burst out laughing!!
+1!
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### Author:  [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-doesnt-just-play-he-keeps-score/540747/7 "2010-05-25T23:12:39Z")
I’m stealing it, by the way. It’s too good not to.
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### Author:  [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-doesnt-just-play-he-keeps-score/540747/8 "2010-05-26T06:08:13Z")
Without video, this is the lame.
😃
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### Author:  [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-doesnt-just-play-he-keeps-score/540747/9 "2010-05-26T07:21:03Z")
I can’t whip the weasel and shoot at the same time! I need some help…
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-doesnt-just-play-he-keeps-score/540747/10 "2010-05-26T10:12:30Z")
> [@Stoid](#):
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> I can’t whip the weasel and shoot at the same time!
There are whole websites dedicated to this.
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### Author:  [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-doesnt-just-play-he-keeps-score/540747/11 "2010-05-26T17:22:33Z")
I had no idea this thread would be bring out the comedian in so many!
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### Author:  [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-doesnt-just-play-he-keeps-score/540747/12 "2010-05-26T17:34:21Z")
> [@Stoid](#):
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> Oh my god you did something unheard of: you made me literally burst out laughing!!
+2 😃
And another request for video!
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### Author:  [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-doesnt-just-play-he-keeps-score/540747/13 "2010-05-26T17:52:58Z")
> [@Stoid](#):
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> The game is I whip the weasel all over the yard…
You whip your weasel in your yard? You got pretty easy-going neighbors, I must admit.
😃
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-doesnt-just-play-he-keeps-score/540747/14 "2010-05-26T17:59:57Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#):
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> +2 😃
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> And another request for video!
Put it in a spoiler to satiate the two-click rule.
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### Author:  [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2010, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-doesnt-just-play-he-keeps-score/540747/15 "2010-05-26T21:49:51Z")
While mine aren’t quite that adept, my [Italian mastiff mix and English bulldog](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2469/3691408848_fa6ce068fd_m.jpg) do keep tabs when they’re wrestling.
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.
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### Author:  [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-doesnt-just-play-he-keeps-score/540747/16 "2010-05-27T01:19:11Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-dog-doesnt-just-play-he-keeps-score/540747/17 "2010-05-27T01:26:42Z")
> [@Stoid](#):
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> 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.
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> 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.
Just tell your SO to clear the hell out. Get a lawyer if you have to.