Timken Learns "Catch" a Timken Pupdate

Tim has really been getting athletic with his Egg Babies, soft toys, and also food treats. I discovered he had graduated from just fetching to being okay with catching things that were falling down from above. Not that long ago this would have been a bit scary for him and in the first few months he was with us, this would have completely undone him, even our arms moving to throw something was scary.

But as he is allowed to go at his own pace he continues to blossom and although this probably doesn't seem like that big a deal in the grand scheme of things, I can assure you for us and Tim this is huge progress. Our arms and shoulders are tired from throwing the egg baby so many times as he wants to play this new game from the time he wakes up to the time he goes to bed. lol. As long as we are sitting in the yard or in the living room he will quietly bring us an egg baby and put it at our feet or very nearby and wait patiently for us to throw it for him to fetch or say the new magic word "catch" and he will sit on his haunches and prepare to grab it from the air. He can get pretty acrobatic with this and I got some if it on video and photos, lots of video and photos but I tried to pare it down for the blog post!

When we say "catch" Tim will sit and wait eagerly for us to throw it up in the air for him.

Tim has a very keen way of focusing on the ball when he is in "catch" mode. Here you can see his concentration.

After many attempts and successes at catch with lots of fetch thrown in for good measure, Tim finally tires himself out...for a while, ha ha.

  I recorded quite a few "catches", like 25 of them which is just a small portion of the actual amount he will do in a session! He could do this for hours. But when it is time for mom or dad to stop he is very sweet and just goes to lie down

This was the next day, he was at it again :)

I love how Skip photo bombed most of these pictures :)

Skip, in back, was rolling on his ball.

It is very emotional to think of how awkward Tim was when he first came into our care. He was not even able to run, had no muscle mass, in fact he even had a hard time walking, his back legs seemed to bow out and he was not in tune with his body at all. But look at our boy now!

Stay tuned as Tim---along with his furbro Skip---have something very awesome to share with you. They have started a whole new en devour and have brought mom and dad along for the ride.