Thursday May 23, 2002

chuckit

A happy wag of the tail to Chris G. for suggesting it and the folks at Canine Hardware for making it. Chuckit is a fiendishly clever tennis ball launching device. The included tennis ball is a bit on the wimpy side. No problem, Zeke has a burgeoning collection. In fact it doesn't matter where we go for a walk: deep remote woods, busy highway shoulder, rest stop along the interstate...inevitably Zeke will pop out of the weeds with a tennis ball. It's as if tennis players, an otherwise prim and jaunty group of folks, fall into a deep purple funk after the match and console themselves by flying around in helicopters dumping traitorous tennis balls on the populace. Or maybe it's a deeper, darker conspiracy? Two days ago Zeke found a bright new tennis ball marred by a half dollar sized blood stain...