The Pyrenees---Southern France

The Pyrenees---Southern France

Monday, January 12, 2015

Fun for Everyone

      I missed posting on Thursday. I was busy exhaling after finishing report cards while I simultaneously tried to avoid a certain staff member who was waiting for me to finish the 2nd quarter writing assessment scores (54 kids, 9 skills to score per paper, with 7 possible scores for each skill) and lined up the gods of sleet, hoping to press them into service this morning.

       No such luck. The rain in Spain (and St. Louis) stayed mainly on the plain...and it stayed unfrozen.

        While I was procrastinating with the writing assessments (after all, I am the Princess of Procrastinators) I got to play some fun games with Monster Pup. I'm planning on getting a patent on them and pitching them to the investors on the show Shark Tank. Here are Radar's thrill-a-minute games:

  • Out of Your Socket--You take one end of his rope toy and he grabs onto the other end with his pearly-whites. Then he shakes and yanks on the rope with such violence, you arm is nearly yanked out of its socket.

  • Poop! Poop! Who Gets the Poop?--Radar has developed into a master recycler. He will eat no poop before its prime (which means, according to his discerning palate--that he'll eat fresh-from -the-sphincter poop, he'll eat frozen poop, he'll eat old, dried-up poop). You may think you've poop-scooped the yard, and then you see him chewing something. Approaching him is the signal for him to speed up his chewing.

  • Naked Blonde Mud Wrestling--Okay, he is a blonde and we do mud wrestle in the tub, but he's not completely naked. He does have a collar on.

        If you have a dog or cat (or a clever guinea pig), what games do they play? Mr. Wonderful on Shark Tank will probably want more than 3 games as part of my package deal. Otherwise, he might be reluctant to invest $350,000 for 25% of the business... 



16 comments:

  1. It is Rope the Old People here. Biscuit pulls our shoe laces like lassoing us bringing us to knees!!!

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    1. None of us--no matter how young--are as energetic as a puppy or a young-at-heart dog.

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  2. My poor old blind and deaf Indy-boy doesn't play much any more. He will, however, carry around any of his toys for a minute or two if I hand one to him. Bogey loves all un-toy items. He enjoys batting around a balled up piece of paper on the hardwood floors (it scoots especially well there). He also adores boxes and is compelled to climb or jump inside any box he can squeeze his chubby self into.

    Pat
    Critter Alley

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    1. Boxes and bags--irresistible to kitties. (Our Foley is getting quite old, too. So much white in the face, and a fuzziness to his mind is evident.)

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  3. We play a little POKER. Both my sweet, sweet Juno with her Border Collie heritage, and poor dim-bulb Ann, the black German Shepherd, like to follow me to the kitchen door poking the back of my thigh or calf with their noses in an attempt to turn me away from the door to stay with them.

    The tan tabby plays a game called I HATE YOU WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING. He drapes himself across the steps from the garage and glares through squinted eyes as if to say, "I ain't movin'. Step on me and see what you get."

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    1. It's amazing how much disdain a feline can toss around.

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  4. Aw, Radar. He sounds like a real charmer. :) My Rigby, too, is a poop eater. And yeah, what the heck is up with that? Ugh. My two dogs love to chase squirrels more than anything in the world. The biggest game player is our youngest cat, Luna. She pesters the oldest cat until she chases her, and then it's GAME ON! all through the house. Love the fur babies.

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    1. I wonder, too. What really gets me is when they want to give me a kiss right after going on poop patrol. They're busy licking their chops after finishing up their latest snack, and then head towards me...Yuck!

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  5. We have had fun times with cats. One played hide & seek with my daughter, luring her into the bedroom and jumping from behind the door. He was also fond of jumping into paper bags, so we held them out for him and he'd leap in. We tilted the angle each time until he was jumping straight up and falling back out.

    Another would "hide" his toy mice under the stove and then" look" everywhere for them. acing extremely surprised to have them "attack" him as he innocently walked by.

    (See Sioux, I could be the Quotemark Queen as well as the VP of Ellipsis.)

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    1. Oh Marcia, you poor woman. You think quotations could ever rival the wonderful ellipsis? I pity you...

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  6. Our cat has a slow processor. Call him for a neck rub and he Thinks about it three minutes.

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    1. Linda--I think your cat is just contemplating it...

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  7. Oh, I do so love The Shark Tank! Libs plays "Chair, Chair, Chew" pretty much every day. What she does is jump from chair to chair to chair to chair until plop! She lands on one and chews it up! Such fun.

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    1. We have some furniture that survived--barely--the last puppy we had. Aaah, good times.

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  8. Buddy was a poop-eater, and you described it just perfectly. Unfortunately. Catsby likes to play the game, "Make Mom Paranoid" by staring intently at a spot just behind my back in an empty house. And for the pièce de résistance, he will suddenly gallop away.

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    1. Cats are quite clever. Dogs want to please us. Cats want to keep us on our toes...

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