Photoessay #2051 - Fetching

I loved the punchline of this cartoon "I started out fetching."  The dog in the cartoon clearly has gone way beyond fetching.  For my dog Teddy, fetching remains the ultimate activity.  An end in itself.  He knows the reason that he has been put on this earth ... to fetch.  OK, he brings the groceries in and he will have another chance to do that tomorrow.

He never tires of it.  He always works on selling me "See, I drop the ball at your feet and you throw it.  Then I go get it just as fast as I can.  I will jump high or crash through brush or slide.  Anything to get that ball.  And then I bring it back and I drop it at your feet.  Then you throw it again, it's a great game!" 

I used to take him to the dog park and I wouldn't throw the ball.  So he would work every single person to try to get them to throw it.  He had a system, drop the ball at their feet, nudge the ball towards them and look up, repeat until they give in.  Dog park people generally would.  Some would say "Teddy, I know your ways and there is no way I'm throwing that ball because it never ends, I'm not doing it!" But Teddy would keep nudging the ball and looking up until they gave up.  "I know I shouldn't do this, " they said but they did it anyway.

"That's some quality fetching," one man said and sighed as he tried to convince his boxer to bring the ball.

So, if you need any fetching, if you want to throw a tennis ball and have somebody bring it back to you, I've got the guy for you.

Just went to the NCAA Regional #16 at Husky Stadium.  Good game, they beat Harvard 2-0.  Generally well-played.  Some grumbling among the softball ranks as Washington had lost 16 of their last 20 games.

Oregon's hosting!  They host Thurs-Sat because BYU is in their regional.  Portland State and Mississippi State eliminated from that regional.  Ducks have to beat BYU tomorrow.  BYU is a good team....