Jet's Furkid Palace: Barbie does play with toys, really.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Barbie does play with toys, really.

Quite a few people who know Barbie in real life would have trouble imagining this:

In public she is generally pretty reserved. Even offleash she runs but she doesn't really wrestle or play biteyface with anyone.

Last night the dogs were particularly wound up. I took them for a 45 minute walk, and I walked them back through the park, which might have been what got them so excitable.

After the walk, Barbie had a drink, and I went outside to work on a bicycle. The dogs came outside with me and spent the whole time playing full octane chasey. Our yard is only 150 sqm but it is sort of a narrow U-shape around the house, Barbie reckons it is a perfect race track. What gets me is how effortlessly she clears the 4 foot retaining wall while at top speed. Added into this game of chasey was some frantic digging in the sandpit we call the yard, and more chasey. Bender doesn't usually dig, but he started when Barbie started doing it. I told them both off for digging, Bender stopped straight away, but Barbie needed to be told more than once :P

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GreyhoundsCANsit · 733 weeks ago

Beryl and Barbie are very similar in character, although I think Beryl might be more playful at home? She's a bit of a fun police when she and Lucy and Frankie get together but she does love to run, whether by herself or with other Greyhounds. I don't know about clearing 4 foot fences though. She can clear a ditch that wide. Will have to measure some of the rails she pops over at the park:)

The kids haven't been doing much tug of war with toys lately possibly due to the heat and more recently Beryl's tail docking. But Wednesday night they were doing just this with a LIVE possum that Frankie had caught! Thankfully Beryl had the tail:) Blog post coming, lol. No photos tho!

Frankie liked the squeak on the crocodile, he wants one:) Beryl is snoozing on my bed after quite a long walk and a bit of a blat:)

Oh, and I am an Aussie, from Adelaide;) It's always good to hear an Okker accent:)

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jetsagenda 82p · 733 weeks ago

Barbie is pretty lazy most of the time. I put her stuffies away so Bender doesn't rip them up, and Barbie shows me she wants to play by picking up my shoes! :P She runs around with Bender in the living room at top speed for about 5 minutes at night and usually that's it.

Yeowch! Do you think Beryl would get scratched up by a possum? They can be nasty blighters. I'm sure the possums in NZ aren't very smart. They must have exported dumb possums. You wouldn't catch possums here anywhere near dogs and it's pretty rare to see them squished on the road (I remember last time I went to NZ there were little possum road pizzas everywhere).

I bet you have a Kiwi accent though, even though you are an Aussie ;). I used to joke that when I moved to Kalgoorlie, I came back to Perth with a Kiwi accent after being surrounded by all the Kiwis working on the mines ;)

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GreyhoundsCANsit · 733 weeks ago

Yes, Frankie tends to disembowel the stuffies too, but they still toss them around and play tug with them even though they've got the odd floppy limb:)

I think possums here are incredibly stupid! Why would you sleep on the ground when you should be up a tree? In fact, until Frankie started catching possums at the park I thought they always stayed up trees, except maybe to shift from 1 tree to another. But he can't climb trees so they've got to be tucked up somewhere on the ground. And there are WAY more possums here than in Oz. They decimate trees in some areas. Those sharp claws could have made mincemeat of Beryl!

I still occasionally get picked for having an Aussie accent after 35 years living here:) But when I go back to visit the folks I get told I talk funny, lol:)

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jetsagenda 82p · 733 weeks ago

Curse the people who thought introducing possums to NZ was a good idea. Though I'm sure Frankie doesn't mind.

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Summer · 733 weeks ago

Well I'm hardly interested in toys outside, although I go cuckoo for them back home. Momma-1 has to keep them else I'll pull out the stuffie to get to the squeaker! I think I might be obsessed with them. =s

Summer

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Carrie Noar · 733 weeks ago

Hee hee! I love it when ours get those little bursts of energy, although getting them to quit digging requires a force of nature! Once in a rare while Bunny forgets herself and plays with Morgan. They stretched out a pull toy to about three times its original length!

Did it get cooler last night at your house or something? That seems to be a trigger for the mad dash at our house.

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jetsagenda 82p · 733 weeks ago

Yeah Barbie digs and then sits in the hole, so when I tell her off for it I think she is puzzled, because to her it's the same as bed fluffing, and she doesn't get told off for that unless she does it in my bed.