Dog Games

Maddie's favorite game in the whole wide world is fetch. If she was male, Fetch would be the perfect name for her. She is all about the ball. All about the ball.

Sidney's favorite game in the whole wide world is Maddie playing ball. She chases and retrieves the ball, and he chases her. He not only chases, he nags, nips, barks, bumps, and races her. He's not interested in the ball. Just in messing with her. She's in her bliss, and he's an absolute pain in the pa toot!

Come to think of it, Reno's favorite game is to tease me. It's very much like Maddie and Sid playing. It's entertaining, challenging, downright amusing, and sometimes the female comes up snapping.

Kobe's favorite game is napping, resting, snoozing and farting. Once in a while he'll pick up Maddie's ball, but then is not quite sure what to do with it. Mickey digs tug-of-war. Who knew it was such a vocal game. Sometimes he'll snatch up the ball and run. He loves to be chased. But he's not a retriever by any stretch of the imagination.

My game? Well, perhaps shopping - can you say E-Bay?, writing, cooking, loving the dogs.

Games are good, some of them that is. Not so much mind games. But, dog games, I love to watch them. One minute they are total slugs, and the next it's "game on". You would never hear a dog say - I can't play right now I'm watching TV, or reading the paper, or working. We should embrace play like that.