Zoe is obsessed with having something in her mouth. Whenever she isn’t lying down looking bored, she’s sitting with something in her mouth. Her favourite is a filthy old tennis ball that her grandpa gave her for Christmas (it was new then). We had to take it off her because she was becoming so obsessed with it that she would start hyperventilating without it. She had some sort of separation anxiety when she didn’t have it. So we’ve weaned her off the tennis ball, and now she’ll alternate between the following:
- The pink ball
- Her dinner bowl
- Her yellow bow-wowser (a fancy name for a ball shaped kong)
- Some sort of seed pod which fell off the neighbours tree, and
- An icecream bucket
In fact, some Jehovah’s Witnesses popped around for a visit the other day. Zoe greeted them at the door with an ice-cream bucket in her mouth. They were laughing so hard that they could barely get their speech out. They ask if I was interested in a pamphlet which I politely declined and they went away still laughing. That was much easier than teaching Zoe to bark and growl at folk who come around trying to sell something.
Who else has a dog this obsessed with having something in their mouth?
Russ just loves his squeaky toy - whenever he runs outside in the morning, the first thing you hear is him rolling around on his squeaky - hilarious!!!
What a great photo Mia! You can reassure Zoe that she isn’t the only obsessed canine out there (and here I was thinking it was just a Golden Retriever thing) When we have visitors Jonty and Bailey rush around trying to find a toy to present them with. If Jonty can’t find one she’ll pull the rugs off her bed and present them! I have countless photo’s of each of them asleep with balls in their mouths! Who needs to go out for entertainment?
Ooohh!!! That explains the ice cream carton and egg cartons in the back yard!