Dogs of C-Kennel by Mick & Mason Mastroianni for May 21, 2023

Your dog has no golden retriever in him.

Dog heck, that’s me!

The field of vision is exactly the same for a dog when you almost throw a ball.

Unseen panel # 4, my dog when I throw a Frisbee disc. The disc will always be in that 1% region. He locks on like radar and see’s nothing else.

Both our dogs were very good with a ball. And, Benjamin excelled at frisbee.

Prey, Predator, Play….Not an instinct for play!

But if something they shouldn’t chase like a squirrel or a car comes into their “blind area”, Boom! Off they go!

That dog info shows a dog that is clearly not interested in the ball. Time to try something else. Time to try a forever squeaky toy. Yip yip yip yip yip

My Grandog is a typical black Lab – carries her own rock around in her mouth. Silently asks everybody to toss it. Once thrown, she will retrieve it every time – never the wrong one even if tossed into a rocky driveway.

At first, I wondered how she could find her own particular rock. Duh! It’s always the one covered in dog slobber.

The dogs that I dog sit for ….. the 2 labs (3 yr old and year and a half) love chasing tennis balls (the Hound just looks like, you guys are crazy) ….. will always pick out the one ball, even when I throw more then one out …….. :)

True.

Probably lost interest, since you keep fake throwing it.

My beagle chooses not to fetch but will teach people how to do it. She also tried to make friends with a skunk a few nights ago, around midnight. Luckily, I don’t let her out loose. I reeled in that 20-foot lead so fast that the skunk considered her a non-threat. I don’t use leashes that are extendable. I have a long regular one for when I don’t want to actually go down the stairs on my porch with her. Mostly, I take her around the block at least as when the weather is tolerable she wants to go go go.

My Queensland Heeler would be very focused on the ball and would never fall for the “fake throw”, instead keeping her eyes on that tennis ball. However if I did do a fake throw, one ear would turn back in the direction the ball would have gone, and I always figured that she did this “just in case”.