my doG blog: Tim Loves To Fetch His Egg Babies

The other day I asked myself, "What is the most used toy in our house and if there were some weird reason I could only have one dog toy for the dogs which would it be?" My answer came quickly, Egg Babies!!!! The ones in my house have had the seams re-sewn quite a few times, most of them don't squeak anymore, some have been de & re-stuffed, they all have dried dog slobber on them, they have been left out in the rain, lost in the gardens, left in the car, lost under furniture, and sometimes two dogs will even go as far as to guard one on occasion. I love them because they are quiet (like I said most of the squeakers are gone by now) and they don't damage things when thrown, they are inexpensive, and they have so many uses in play with the dogs.

We haven't gone on our trail walk in a week, there has been a huge bug hatch, biting flies and mosquitoes, as it is in a very lush and damp area. The bugs were so awful the last time we went we all headed back to the car after just a mile.

Tim is a young terrier, he is just shy of 2 years old, so he has some energy to burn and has taken up fetching egg babies. Sometimes only Yellow will do, but today it was Blue. We have two Blues and he knows the difference between the two, so if we threw the other blue egg baby, he would not fetch it and bring it back. Then this evening he was back to Yellow. Such a funny boy.

I got some great pictures and a couple videos of him too. He really is honing his fetching skills and many times will scoop it up after the first bounce, he twists and turns to track it down. Yup Tim has his low confidence side but when he is in terrier mode, he is like a whole other dog!

These two videos were recorded the other day when Yellow (this one still has it's squeaker!) was his egg baby of choice. You can see in the second video that Dave threw the little squirrel and Tim was not into chasing the squirrel that day. I love to see Tim when he is happy and bouncie like he is in these videos.

Birdie playing some tug with Dave cracked me up. That was her tossing her head back and forth, not Dave :)