ParNone
11-21-2003, 02:52 PM
I have a friend, who has a terrier that rips apart, in a matter of
minutes, any stuffy that she buys, just like Murph and Maddie.
So she came up with an idea for an entertaining terrier toy,
whereby she put a twitter mouse toy for cats inside a hamster
ball. Her terrier was absolutely nutty over it. I figured Murph
and Maddie would love something like that too, so off I went
to Petsmart for the materials. I dunno know why, but for
some reason I felt embarassed to be in the cat section buying
toys for my dogs, but I suffered through for M&M. ;)
Well I got home and put the thing together and M&M showed
no interest in it whatsoever, with the mouse inside the ball,
even though it was making a lil' squeaky noise inside it.
Oz, however, was estatic over this thing. He was nose poking
that thing all over the bedroom, then picking it up and chewing
on it, until he finally got it open and dumped the mouse out. As
luck would have it, he didn't care anything about the mouse, just
the big plastic ball. And as soon as the mouse was loose, then
Murph and Maddie, were like "Oooo boy, let me at it". So M&M
were happy with the mouse and Oz was happy with the ball, but
it didn't take them long to rip the mouse apart, so our lil'
experimental toy wasn't as successful as hoped for. Anywho,
here's a few pics (Oh and ignore the missing dust ruffle, it's
currently in the laundry):
Oz trying to reach the ball, after he nose poked it under the bed
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/ped231b952660439f5bfbcd6407a37c0e/fa80db8b.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/pcf60d6aa4471b00fdfc7b15746e01239/fa80db80.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/pfa5bf1485237f3e7623e59287b69d6da/fa80db7b.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/pa277f86a1309397aa038d2e6ca3ab22b/fa80db86.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/p58941b4426a3c0f34fb7ce847b5d43a2/fa80db7e.jpg
minutes, any stuffy that she buys, just like Murph and Maddie.
So she came up with an idea for an entertaining terrier toy,
whereby she put a twitter mouse toy for cats inside a hamster
ball. Her terrier was absolutely nutty over it. I figured Murph
and Maddie would love something like that too, so off I went
to Petsmart for the materials. I dunno know why, but for
some reason I felt embarassed to be in the cat section buying
toys for my dogs, but I suffered through for M&M. ;)
Well I got home and put the thing together and M&M showed
no interest in it whatsoever, with the mouse inside the ball,
even though it was making a lil' squeaky noise inside it.
Oz, however, was estatic over this thing. He was nose poking
that thing all over the bedroom, then picking it up and chewing
on it, until he finally got it open and dumped the mouse out. As
luck would have it, he didn't care anything about the mouse, just
the big plastic ball. And as soon as the mouse was loose, then
Murph and Maddie, were like "Oooo boy, let me at it". So M&M
were happy with the mouse and Oz was happy with the ball, but
it didn't take them long to rip the mouse apart, so our lil'
experimental toy wasn't as successful as hoped for. Anywho,
here's a few pics (Oh and ignore the missing dust ruffle, it's
currently in the laundry):
Oz trying to reach the ball, after he nose poked it under the bed
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/ped231b952660439f5bfbcd6407a37c0e/fa80db8b.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/pcf60d6aa4471b00fdfc7b15746e01239/fa80db80.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/pfa5bf1485237f3e7623e59287b69d6da/fa80db7b.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/pa277f86a1309397aa038d2e6ca3ab22b/fa80db86.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid89/p58941b4426a3c0f34fb7ce847b5d43a2/fa80db7e.jpg