So maybe they aren't perfect after all

There is a flaw in those little blue orbs, they can get through the fence.

More than Two Weeks and Still With Us

Congratulations to the Blue Racquetball!

The real test of these balls will be when Milly shows up. She likes to collect all the toys in the play yard and make a nest of them. She then sits prettily on her lumpy collection and proceeds to shred the toys one by one.

She can clear the play yard of toys on any stay longer than a weekend.

My Salvation

The Blue Racquetball.

I was complaining to one of my clients about the dogs' ability to destroy tennis balls faster than I can buy them. He told me he only buys Blue Hand Balls for his dog.

I figured it was worth a try. I could only find Racquetballs, but they are blue and they seem to be holding up. This hasn't been a very rigorous test of the life span of a blue racquetball - I only have 3 dogs in the kennel. One of them was Roxy and she had one wedged in her teeth for at least 3 days straight. I have yet to have to clean up a pile of blue rubber shreds - I take that as a positive sign.

Only problem so far is that they are smaller than tennis balls and therefore harder to find. I did discover that you can kick them and get a much more satisfactory flight than that of a kicked tennis ball. This is important attribute to remember once the ball is no longer blue, but rather a lumpy brown conglomeration of spit and dust.