Border Collie Tricks People Into Playing Ball
In a faraway magical land where everyone rides bicycles or walks, this clever border collie has a way to pass the time: tossing her ball over the fence and waiting for passers-by to throw it back to her.
Totally adorbs, Murray C. and Faye.
Goggie is *so* smart. I wish s/he lived near me, so I could play too.
I would be walking laps around that street every day.
I want to live there, on a quiet brick-paved street. I could live across the street from the pooch and we could spend the day “playing at the ball”, as the old song says.
Where is this? Get in the car, we’re going there.
Rooooad trippp!!
It’s in Holland.
Hmmm….might be a bit far for a drive…
We can swim!
I’m not athletic. So I would just drag out a chair and sit in the lane to throw the ball all day. Heaven.
So smart. And doggie makes the people feel useful!
So clever! I met a cat at the adoption place who did this – she’d swat her stuffed mouse toy out of the cage and I’d bring it back; swat and repeat; swat and repeat – I finally realized I’d be there til next week if kitteh had her way!
Pupper: I have trained you well humans .. Have a treat
I for one welcome our canine overlords.
As well we should .. least they release the flea horde on us.
The doggeh has worn a track in the grass along the fence! Looks like some of the neighbours are willing participants. I have a nephew-dog that soooooo loves a good game of ball – and will play it non-stop if he can entice someone into the game.
hubby: “Where’ve you been?”
Me: “working out, can’t you tell? I’m all sweaty.”
Hubby: “You were fetching for that dog again, weren’t you?”
Me (indignat): “It’s a workout!”
It’s remarkable to me that this dog could leave the yard (it’s not enclosed) and never gets past the fence along the street. You can see him poking his nose past the fence at the very beginning, but he stays on his side of the fence. What a well-trained sweetie.
I saw a three-legged dog zooming down the sidewalks on Central Park West today. I couldn’t run fast enough to catch him, and neither could several others who tried. I fear mightily for his safety, as he zipped across streets withouth stopping. He had no harness or collar on, and certainly no leash. I don’t know how he got loose, or if he had an idiot person of the “My dog is perfectly trained” variety, but I surely do hope someone was able to stop him and calm him down and get him to a place of safety. Beautiful coal-black smallish-medium-sized dog, short-haired and sleek. Lack of one leg didn’t slow him down at all.
Glad this adorable and very smart collie is okay behind his fence, but I’d still want an enclosure if he were mine.
That’s the thing to me, too — there’s no side on the fence! If you didn’t watch the first of the video, you’d think there was — that the dog was risking losing the ball in the hopes of tempting someone to throw it back to him. Do the people not notice the dog could get the ball himself if he wanted (do they see a dog behind a fence and come to the usual conclusion that it can’t get out) or do they not care — they’re in on the game? Maybe some of each; I’m sure he has regular playmates who come that way every day.
Also, he returns the ball immediately. He’s not waiting for someone to come along. He tosses it back so fast that I think I saw some passers-by return it twice. He’s not taking a chance on missing anyone.
On the other hand (I mean this facetiously), what if he’s trying to get RID of the ball and no one will let him? That’d be frustrating.
Clever doggie; nice collection of neighbors.
Aww, so sweet. I would play with her every day.