Thursday, January 19, 2012

Ball Obsession disturbs humans.....



What does the above image look like to you? A baby doll? A plastic version of a human baby? Right, that's what it looks like to me too.


The dog's perception is rather different to ours. Bender does not see the above object as a baby doll.



Can you guess what Bender thought it was? When we let the dogs loose at the Yardie Creek Caravan Park in Exmouth, Bender immediately started searching the yard for balls. He retrieved a couple from the kid's sand pit, and they were quickly confiscated. We were trying to have an adult conversation, and he was more disruptive than the kids.


Starved of balls, he found the youngest girl's doll and picked it up by it's head. It looked a little disturbing, him carrying a baby around in his mouth by it's head.


It was met with laughter and cries of "the Dingo got my baby!" (for those who aren't Australian, context of the quote here).


We also confiscated the baby doll from him, but from then on he was obsessed. He picked up the baby in preference to the boring old tennis balls every time. L joked that when her girl grew out of the dolls, we might be getting a very strange package in the mail full of baby heads.


Can you imagine throwing one for Bender in the park or at the beach?




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Mwuuuuu ha ha ha ha ha! I love the idea of seeing him chase a doll head through the park! That would be classic!
I love ball obsessed dogs. One of our police dogs will do anything perfectly in his monthly training exercise if he can just be rewarded with a rousing game of fetch.
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yeah when I took Bender to agility and tracking they were all very impressed with his ball drive.... i started to use it with Bender to encourage him to find his articles when tracking, by sticking the ball inside a sock.... and turns out, the only thing he likes more than balls is tracking someone through the bush :)
I can see the next big toy at pet stores; baby head tennis balls. Bender is totally focused in that pic. Ball or nothing.
1 reply · active 694 weeks ago
yup - he is very good at focus :) if I ever see a baby doll in a bin or lying on the side of the road, I might just bring it home for him lol
Maybe it could be a new way to discipline kids... " Behave or the nice doggy will use your head as a ball...." You can tell we haven't got any can't you? Hehe! Deccy x
1 reply · active 694 weeks ago
hahah the kids were a bit scared of Bender as it was! They loved Barbie though cos she doesn't jump and prance around like him.
Oh, that's a crack up! And yes, I well know why it would be somewhat disturbing to see Bender running around with a baby doll in his mouth. Baby Azaria will be forever entrenched in most Australian's minds. I don't think I'll see what Frankie thinks of a baby doll! He'd probably try to disembowel it even if it was made of plastic!!
1 reply · active 694 weeks ago
hah I really didn't think Bender would notice it lying in the yard - but I don't see the world like he does!
Too bad that pesky body was attached to Bender's new "ball" though, LOL.
HA! HA! Oh - I could just picture Bender in my head, carrying the baby doll...too funny!

Hsin-Yi
Ha! We use a similar doll for baby testing when profiling new greyhounds. Seems to work pretty well and most are respectful.

I saw the movie about the "Dingo's got my baby". LONG time ago! :-)
That is the most amazing doll that I have ever seen in my life and it is really looking like a real baby. I have the same doll at home but it is bit different from the one I am having.

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