Today we went on a very, very wet walk. Morph didn’t even mind having his raincoat on today so that just goes to show how wet it was! I am still on the hunt for a decent coat with no velcro if anyone can reccomend any? I know I have seen some in the past that are more like horse rugs-style and they have like straps that sort of wrap around the body and can be adjusted length wise. Please do let me know if you have any recommendations for us!
Anyway, so on our wet walk we were playing with Morph’s bally on a rope which is exactly the same as this:
We had a few near misses where I threw it one way and Morph shot of in the complete other direction, but thanks to his ‘find it’ command we didn’t lose it. I saw another dog walking behind us so I called him over to play tuggy and keep him close to me, so he grabbed hold of the ball and we had a good game. Then he ran off waiting for me to throw it…so I called him back to play tuggy again and he grabbed hold of the ball and ran off with it in his mouth. I was a bit confused…I looked down and I still had the rope in my hand. Huh? Oh dear…the bally on a rope now looked somewhat like this:
(artists impression)
Morph didn’t get it at first, but of course only wanted the part that I had so we spent the rest of the walk playing with a ‘tiny bit of rubber on a rope’ instead of a ‘bally on a rope!’ Said toy has now been binned and a replacement shall be brought tomorrow, but it did last a long time but unfortunatley not all of our toys can stay with us forever. Rest in peace old friend bally on a rope!
Saint Lover said,
November 30, 2008 @ 6:58 pm
RIP Bally! I guess that is now on Morph’s santa list!
theborderblog said,
November 30, 2008 @ 8:54 pm
aww poor bally! Felix would have insisted on carrying the bits around! lol
Georgeous George said,
November 30, 2008 @ 11:20 pm
Morphy, I have a rainmac like a hooman pac a mac, I couldn’t find it today (I think Dad has it buried in his stuff, I heard Mum suggest it and I think knowing disorganised Dad it’s in some black hole) anyway, I couldn’t check but i think it has no velcro but has clips and a belly flap to keep the belosh dry. I will let you know if Mum finds it, it came from partners at London Colney. My skinny sister has a very warm coat from Hurtta, there’s a link on her bloggy, that has clips too.
Lets hope for dry walks this week.
George
Holly & Zac said,
December 3, 2008 @ 11:30 pm
Hi,
We found your blog through dwb’s and thought we would drop by and say hello. Those photo’s of Morph are great. He is very photogenic and handsome. :-)
Lindsay said,
December 4, 2008 @ 8:23 pm
Aww, the best toys are always missed when they go. Morph will be glad to get a new one! At least he shared with that other dog.
Happy said,
December 6, 2008 @ 5:42 am
Just dropping from DWB to say hi! Love the pictures of Morph!
Ruby the Mini Dachshund said,
December 13, 2008 @ 4:13 pm
Hi Morph
Sorry about your Bally. I hate velcro. Mom removes the velcro from my coats and hammers in snaps. I hope this helps.
Love Ruby
Dannan & The Girl said,
December 17, 2008 @ 2:16 am
Oh, RIP Bally! Dannan always likes to play with the smallest piece left over when he tears a toy apart, too.
We haven’t found a coat without velcro yet, either. I think I’m going to make some modifications on my own. Either remove the velcro entirely and replace with snaps, or sew some fabric/felt on top of the “pokey” velcro side, and then sew on snaps.