Getting to Keep the Ball

betty sniffs near a ball, ready to grab it if I try to get it

So, my lot tried to teach me the game of ‘fetch’ at one point.

Fetch.  Really?

I honestly can’t see the point of bringing a ball back to them, just so they can throw it away again.

I like to play ‘keep’, it’s much more fun.

When they throw the ball, pick it up, then come back as if you’re going to return it and put it down. As they go to pick it up, grab it and scoot out of the way, then put it down again a bit further away. This can be fun for a while, but they’ll get bored in the end – you need to remember that humans don’t have a very good attention span, that’s why they all have those funny phone things they keep looking at or talking to.