Life's a ball...

Honestly.  Sometimes I just don't know about my human.  Good thing we keep her - she's not always the sharpest knife in the drawer..

Elroy LOVES balls.  We saw that from the day he arrived.  First she got him the Chuck-It ball.  Which he happily carried - and also chewed.  So then she got the infamous "Jolly" ball.  Which is still intact.  Somewhere in the woods.  That's where it was last headed.  So THEN she discovered that he really liked the HUGE exercise ball that she had.  You know the kind - you inflate it and you humans are supposed to do some kinds of exercises with it.  The operative words here are SUPPOSED TO.  We've had one in this house and the only exercise it has ever seen is her moving it from one room to the next.  Or the exercise used to inflate the thing.  And THEN, Elroy discovered it.  At first he was afraid of it.  And frankly, I am afraid of it too.  Frodo on the other hand likes to push it around with his nose.  And he barks at it.  Once Elroy saw that Frodo wasn't afraid of it, he went CRAZY over it.  Pushing it. Jumping on and around it.  Trying to pick it up...

My human thought it was cute and then realized he would probably rip it as he actually WAS beginning to carry it a bit- as it wasn't fully inflated.  So she though that maybe if it was FULLY inflated, he would just be able to push it around and play with it.  So she took it into the garage, found the bicycle pump and inflated the ball.  She was all excited about it.  She went down to the rec room and let Elroy have the ball.  I don't think I need to point out at this part of the story that my human is no scientist when it comes to the laws of physics.  By inflating the ball, it actually made it EASIER to break.  So you guessed it - one attempt by Elroy to grab it and the next thing we heard was a pssssssssssssss sound.  One dead exercise ball.

But not to worry - now she's looking at giant horse balls on the internet...

Yup.  It's a good thing we keep her.  She never ceases to amaze us....