February 19, 2009

$2.99 Worth of Happy

Monday while I was out running errands, one of my stops was the pet store. We were out of their small morning cookies and that's not acceptable. Lucy hasn't had a new toy in awhile so I went shopping. She loves anything small enough that she can tuck the entire toy in her mouth. Her favorite is a hedgehog - but they were out of the tiny ones. So I got this bunny. Dudley got it first, but he doesn't play with them for long and certainly not after the big dogs have slobbered it all up!
Lucy wasn't waiting very patiently for me to take the pictures. As soon as I said ok - she snapped it up!
Shortly thereafter, I took the bunny from Lucy and gave it to Beau. He's a big chicken and won't take the bunny from Lucy. Most of the time, when they are grumbling over a toy Lucy ends up with it. I think if you click the picture you might be able to see the tiniest bit of white bunny between their lips!
For Beau the game is really about teasing Lucy and getting her to wrestle and chase him. He'll keep more of the bunny out of his mouth and walk around squeaking it. He'll also often put it down just out of Lucy's reach and pretend he isn't interested. Lucy will wait for a bit before she lunges and the wrestling begins again.
Lucy likes to make music with her toys. Once she has punctured the squeaker then she doesn't care and Beau can play with it all he likes. Once Lucy shows no interest in the toy, that's when Beau will kill it! $2.99 sure gives them a lot of happy - no matter how short lived.

11 comments :

  1. That's cute! Gretchen has a similar bunny, but I bet hers is even smaller... we buy a lot of the puppy toys for her little mouth, although she's happy to grab the big girl toys and run!

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  2. lol sounds laittle like our house, Coco always tries to take from Lady and they do wind up tugging...such great play partners!!
    Love your photo's, beautiful dogs! Big pets to both!

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  3. They are well worth the $2.99. Love the photo of the bunny in Lucy's mouth. She looks like she is gently craddeling it.

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  4. Mine love getting new toys! They have so many that last week I cleaned them up and put them in a bag and am rotating them, so now they think they're getting new toys! So funny!

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  5. My guys love, love, love new toys....especially Sunny. The sqEAKERS stop sometimes but they never tear the toys up so I have mountains and mountains of toys

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  6. Believe it or not, despite how ratty he is, Larry's squeaker still works. Thor will carry him around and sometimes gently squeak him. Funny how Lucy likes the squeaky toys, too! She's so funny, loving the little toys, and how can you not want to spend $3 for a while lot of happy?

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  7. Fun! Beau sounds like Wilbur. Wilbur doesn't really like the rawhides but he LOVES to torture and tease Charlotte!! Wilbur does like the stuffed animals though especially those with squeakers. When he was little he didn't tear them apart at all until Charlotte came along and destoyed his toys within minutes of seeing them. oh well.

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  8. Isn't it sweet how happy they are when they get something new? Fudge loves to tease the others into chasing him. He'll hold something just out of reach and if that doesn't work he'll nudge them with it.

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  9. LOL I love it. Sounds like our dogs. Our female lab is a killer of all things stuffed and fluffy. Love the picture of just the ear left. :)

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  10. -so- cute!
    i've starting hitting up my friends for their kids old stuffed animals for my sadie girl. she loves them so.
    i need to share more pictures of my dogs. thanks for the prompt, miss g.

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  11. Whenever I stop at Target, I search the bins up front for whatever dog toys they have... usually $1.50 - $2.50 things like ropes, balls, some stuffed ones, etc... for as short as they live in our house, the price is just right!

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