In other words, you (the dog’s owner) are only a means to an end, and can be replaced.
This kind of ruins my favorite aphorism on pets: Dogs have family, cats have staff.
I did like watching the little boy helping load the machine.
Now that’s cute…but if you’ve got a dog that likes to play fetch…Why the heck are you loading up the “throwing robot” & not outside with said dog???
My greyhound doesn’t fetch…he’s awesome but fetch is not in his DNA. Chase & kill…yep. But fetch? Nope.
My wife says that this breed has weak bladders. Is that true?
Got to get one of those for my dog. Her interest in chasing a tossed ball generally exceeds my interest in tossing one.
John Guilfoyle:
If you can ask that question, then you’ve never had a dog who really likes to play fetch. They are tyrants.
If you try that with a basset hound, they look at you like you have lost your mind. Then they lay down and go to sleep.
Neo…I’ve had that “love-to-play-fetch-tyrant” dog…and frankly…I have, & would gladly again, throw my arm into uselessness. It’s more fun than a lot of other things I can think of. But to each their own in this case.
“All dogs are made in Heaven,” say I. Thanks, Neo!
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John Guilfoyle writes:
“…if you’ve got a dog that likes to play fetch…Why the heck are you loading up the “throwing robot” & not outside with said dog???”
From the description at the YT site (my boldface):
Far from being a replacement for me, I was always right there with him enjoying his fun. And with all the troubles that I went through to build the ball machine, I still end up throwing more balls than that the machine could count! According to the computer, he played with the machine by himself only 3 times in his life.
I also love dachshunds. I walked a neighbor’s dachshunds for 5 years before they moved 5 miles away. Now I see them every two weeks or so. Judging from the comments I got from walking them, there are quite a few dachshund fans around.
But neither of the two dachshunds like to fetch things.
Of the two dogs, from my years I walked them, I concluded that one loved to walk- he always started jumping up and down when I came- and the other was indifferent to walking. Sometimes you had to drag him off the couch. The only time he showed excitement at my arrival- in his case by barking- was when he really needed to relieve himself.
Last week when I was visiting them, I got some feedback on walking them when I got the leashes out. The jumping up dog jumped up. The indifferent dog started barking- without any subsequent release of bowels or bladder. So even the “indifferent” dog liked the walks.
The only thing less appealing to our late beagle than chasing a ball was a bath. Rolling in bleep, good, taking a bath, bleep that.
But if you were to load up the machine with a squirrel or a bunny, now you’re talking. It would be greeted by at least two minutes of ear and glass shattering barking followed by a wild chase around the house. We were always careful to do the bunny toss outdoors, which annoyed the neighbors no end, but kept the furniture safe.
My family counts among its number a long-haired black and tan dachshund:
The Mighty Siegfried, who sits on my lap as I type this very comment. He is brave and loyal. He is gentle and affectionate and loves to be close to either my wife or I at all times, usually pressed right up to us if at all possible. He’s either a small dachshund or a large miniature dachshund. We aren’t sure and we got him from a shelter. He was abused severely according to the staff. It shows sometimes.
He is as stubborn an animal as I have ever known! I’ve owned a number of dogs (A black lab, a husky, two German Shepherds, an Australian Shepard, a Miniature Schnauzer) and he was the most difficult to house train. By the widest margin. He was about 2 years old when we got him and one of the complaints of the previous owners was that they were unable to house train him at all.
He pees every time we get home in a fit of excitement, wagging his little tail right through the urine on the floor. We think this might be a holdover from the abuse he took before we got him, since he also wets himself whenever my wife sweeps the kitchen (we think that his old owners used to hit him with a broom) so she tries to only sweep when he is out in the yard.
But we wouldn’t trade him for anything.
At night, he sleeps next to my head, putting half of his little wiener dog body right on my pillow. It frustrated me at first but now, I’m not sure what it would be like to sleep without him right there.
Its a good thing they have a decent lifespan for a dog.
While most dachshunds are well tamed pets, they can be quite vicious if left to their own devices. Years ago we came home to a small massacre in the chicken yard. The neighbors two dachshunds had burrowed under the chicken wire and had a field day chasing and killing. What a mess. The little dogs were very happy with themselves and greeted us with wagging tails as if they had performed a needed service.
I have known several dogs that were proud owners of Dog Cannons, like that one.
We Badgers don’t really approve of dachshunds.
I have known wonderful dachshunds but there are others that look identical that are constant barkers.
That dachshund is smarter than the one I had as a kid. Mine would probably just stare at the ball, certainly not catch it and return it to the machine.
I love dogs. But Dachshunds bark way too much. At least in my experience.
“In other words, you (the dog’s owner) are only a means to an end, and can be replaced.”
Hardly. You can see in the video the dog trying to get the machine to play another doggo favorite: “Hand vs. Jaw.” Except the machine never grabs the ball, to start the tug of war, and the dog keeps taking longer and longer to give up on teasing it and just reload the ball.
I doubt there are any dogs that would actually play with these for very long, unless their masters were there filming or otherwise giving the dog attention.
This is, oh, at least 10 years old. The dog has probably gone to doggie heaven, where there are a hudred different such machines for every dog, the cats are all declawed and limping, and the cars go down the street at 10mpg…
Btw, tattrrd… This dog purportedly played with it endlessly. Not unsurprisingly, the owner was an engineer.
That dog would be sold as dog meat grinded up for the consumption of Chinese lower class residents, if found on the streets without an owner in certain countries. It is just a future walking hot dog if it offends anyone.
The USA believes itself superior, since all the dogs are sent to DC instead to become politicians like Hussein.
As for the pet dogs, Americans glossed over and ignored how Katrina residents had to leave by military evacuation order, but the pets they left behind were then executed by the Gov death squads.
How convenient training for the future death squads of the US. Testing on animals is a trait of psychopaths people say, but it is also a trait of certain societies and governments like the USA.
Spreading sweetness and light…..
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“We dachshunds salute our robot overlords!”
In other words, you (the dog’s owner) are only a means to an end, and can be replaced.
This kind of ruins my favorite aphorism on pets: Dogs have family, cats have staff.
I did like watching the little boy helping load the machine.
Now that’s cute…but if you’ve got a dog that likes to play fetch…Why the heck are you loading up the “throwing robot” & not outside with said dog???
My greyhound doesn’t fetch…he’s awesome but fetch is not in his DNA. Chase & kill…yep. But fetch? Nope.
My wife says that this breed has weak bladders. Is that true?
Got to get one of those for my dog. Her interest in chasing a tossed ball generally exceeds my interest in tossing one.
John Guilfoyle:
If you can ask that question, then you’ve never had a dog who really likes to play fetch. They are tyrants.
If you try that with a basset hound, they look at you like you have lost your mind. Then they lay down and go to sleep.
Neo…I’ve had that “love-to-play-fetch-tyrant” dog…and frankly…I have, & would gladly again, throw my arm into uselessness. It’s more fun than a lot of other things I can think of. But to each their own in this case.
“All dogs are made in Heaven,” say I. Thanks, Neo!
.
John Guilfoyle writes:
From the description at the YT site (my boldface):
I also love dachshunds. I walked a neighbor’s dachshunds for 5 years before they moved 5 miles away. Now I see them every two weeks or so. Judging from the comments I got from walking them, there are quite a few dachshund fans around.
But neither of the two dachshunds like to fetch things.
Of the two dogs, from my years I walked them, I concluded that one loved to walk- he always started jumping up and down when I came- and the other was indifferent to walking. Sometimes you had to drag him off the couch. The only time he showed excitement at my arrival- in his case by barking- was when he really needed to relieve himself.
Last week when I was visiting them, I got some feedback on walking them when I got the leashes out. The jumping up dog jumped up. The indifferent dog started barking- without any subsequent release of bowels or bladder. So even the “indifferent” dog liked the walks.
The only thing less appealing to our late beagle than chasing a ball was a bath. Rolling in bleep, good, taking a bath, bleep that.
But if you were to load up the machine with a squirrel or a bunny, now you’re talking. It would be greeted by at least two minutes of ear and glass shattering barking followed by a wild chase around the house. We were always careful to do the bunny toss outdoors, which annoyed the neighbors no end, but kept the furniture safe.
My family counts among its number a long-haired black and tan dachshund:
The Mighty Siegfried, who sits on my lap as I type this very comment. He is brave and loyal. He is gentle and affectionate and loves to be close to either my wife or I at all times, usually pressed right up to us if at all possible. He’s either a small dachshund or a large miniature dachshund. We aren’t sure and we got him from a shelter. He was abused severely according to the staff. It shows sometimes.
He is as stubborn an animal as I have ever known! I’ve owned a number of dogs (A black lab, a husky, two German Shepherds, an Australian Shepard, a Miniature Schnauzer) and he was the most difficult to house train. By the widest margin. He was about 2 years old when we got him and one of the complaints of the previous owners was that they were unable to house train him at all.
He pees every time we get home in a fit of excitement, wagging his little tail right through the urine on the floor. We think this might be a holdover from the abuse he took before we got him, since he also wets himself whenever my wife sweeps the kitchen (we think that his old owners used to hit him with a broom) so she tries to only sweep when he is out in the yard.
But we wouldn’t trade him for anything.
At night, he sleeps next to my head, putting half of his little wiener dog body right on my pillow. It frustrated me at first but now, I’m not sure what it would be like to sleep without him right there.
Its a good thing they have a decent lifespan for a dog.
While most dachshunds are well tamed pets, they can be quite vicious if left to their own devices. Years ago we came home to a small massacre in the chicken yard. The neighbors two dachshunds had burrowed under the chicken wire and had a field day chasing and killing. What a mess. The little dogs were very happy with themselves and greeted us with wagging tails as if they had performed a needed service.
I have known several dogs that were proud owners of Dog Cannons, like that one.
We Badgers don’t really approve of dachshunds.
I have known wonderful dachshunds but there are others that look identical that are constant barkers.
That dachshund is smarter than the one I had as a kid. Mine would probably just stare at the ball, certainly not catch it and return it to the machine.
I love dogs. But Dachshunds bark way too much. At least in my experience.
“In other words, you (the dog’s owner) are only a means to an end, and can be replaced.”
Hardly. You can see in the video the dog trying to get the machine to play another doggo favorite: “Hand vs. Jaw.” Except the machine never grabs the ball, to start the tug of war, and the dog keeps taking longer and longer to give up on teasing it and just reload the ball.
I doubt there are any dogs that would actually play with these for very long, unless their masters were there filming or otherwise giving the dog attention.
This is, oh, at least 10 years old. The dog has probably gone to doggie heaven, where there are a hudred different such machines for every dog, the cats are all declawed and limping, and the cars go down the street at 10mpg…
Btw, tattrrd… This dog purportedly played with it endlessly. Not unsurprisingly, the owner was an engineer.
That dog would be sold as dog meat grinded up for the consumption of Chinese lower class residents, if found on the streets without an owner in certain countries. It is just a future walking hot dog if it offends anyone.
The USA believes itself superior, since all the dogs are sent to DC instead to become politicians like Hussein.
As for the pet dogs, Americans glossed over and ignored how Katrina residents had to leave by military evacuation order, but the pets they left behind were then executed by the Gov death squads.
How convenient training for the future death squads of the US. Testing on animals is a trait of psychopaths people say, but it is also a trait of certain societies and governments like the USA.
Spreading sweetness and light…..