The Looking-for-Treats Game

Sometimes it's fun to do something simple, loooking for treats in the grass for example. All you need is some treats, cheese cubes in our case, and a place to throw them on to, preferably somewhere not too easy to find them. The dogs take this very serious, and do their very best to find them all. Jessie however has some other serious business to do.......

Mad Ball Game

My dogs have this peculiar ritual they go through, every time we play this ball game. It's always the same scenario: Jessie and Floyd each have their own ball, and they love me to throw the ball and then they run or jump to catch it. In the meanwhile, the 3 Musketeers (Jai, Yoshi and Suki) herd Floyd and try to nip him in the butt (in Jai's case) or in his collar (in Yoshi's case) or either one (in Suki's case). Jai and Suki run around him and are practising their flanks in the meantime, or they're sitting or standing eying Floyd. Yoshi lunges at him from under the porch stairs or eyes him from close by, or makes flanks too, whatever suits her best. I try to stop them from doing this, but somehow they listen better when they're working sheep than when they're annoying Floyd. I guess the latter one is more fun...

Jessie can catch her ball without being harassed, I guess that's the privilege of being the alpha female :)