Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for August 31, 2020

at least Snoopy has his dignity

We had a little Sheltie that would chase balls and low thrown Frisbees until they came to a stop, and then just sit there looking at us until we went to get them and throw it again. Shelties are genetically wired to be herding dogs, not retrievers. At least it wasn’t yappy, like Pomeranians. Those little ankle biters are good punting dogs. You can usually get at least thirty yards with a good downwind.

(Disclaimer: that was a joke. I have never actually done that except in my dreams.)

A friend had a Jane Russell terrier that looked sultry at a thrown ball.

Snoopy has just decided he won’t play ball, except as an equal…

I have a Beagle mix who loves to play ball! He will bring the ball back but does not like to give it up! (And he does have a baying bark)!

I had a cat who loved to play “fetch” on the stairs. One of us would toss one of her “jingle-balls” down the steps, she would run after it, pick it up, carry it back to us & wait for the next toss. If we didn’t toss it hard enough & it stopped before hitting the bottom, she would hit it so that it would. It HAD to be at the bottom before she’d pick it up.

“Snoopy don’t play dat”.

The way C.B. describes it, I wouldn’t do it either.

Beagles don’t “bark”. They howl.

Pick up and bring back are major considerations.

Next frame, Snoopy bites CB for even suggesting such a boring game.

Well when you explain it like that …

Never known a dog to do it that way. Would get plenty of ball chasing from Spotty, Jadie, Ginger, and Josie, but no barking while jumping up and down and no barking all the way after the ball. Spotty even when he was too tired to want to play any more would always bring the ball back (then when he was too tired he’d just either flop down at my feet or wander off to lay down, though by that time we were both too tired to keep going). Jadie and Ginger were likely to take the ball and wander off when too tired. Josie was and is still as much keep away both when not all that tired as when she was tired.

Australian dog owners that play boomerang with their dogs never have to worry about fetching and returning.

homey don’t play that