Dogs CAN see in the dark! They love chasing glow in the dark toys making night games easier on both them and their pet parents!
Now in the darkness of winter, you can find Sonja and her 10-year-old dog, Ben, outside enjoying their play-time ritual of his favorite
game!
“Ben insists on it! He sees just as well in the pitch dark as he does during day light,” said Sonja. “If I lose sight of him I look for his disembodied Frisbee disk floating, very Halloween-esque like, above the ground, at Ben’s mouth height.
“Ben is a 50 pound Australian Cattle Dog, so an 8" Frisbee works best for him,” said Sonja, “Glow in dark Kong toys, balls and Frisbees come in many sizes for different sized dogs. His current Frisbee
has held up for three years, even though he loves ‘catching and killing’ the disk.”
Sonja recently moved and it appears right into Ben’s heaven! There are squirrels everywhere! She hung bird feeders in the trees and in no time, “Herds of squirrels appeared invading like a rodent army! Ben was thrilled!” laughs Sonja. “Even after six months, he still thinks he has a chance at a Squirrel Fricassee.
Unfortunately for him, the squirrels outrun
and outjump him. It is a hoot watching a strong-prey drive, eternal-optimistic canine thinking he can catch a squirrel! I hate to tell him that it is sooo not gonna happen! Besides, he probably won’t know what to do with it if he catches one. He would probably bring it to me to toss for him to chase again, and that is also not gonna happen!
One day, while playing Frisbee I tossed the disc and a brave squirrel, heading back from the bird feeder, ran
between me and Ben! I had a flash of wondering, ‘Will he chose to chase the disc or the squirrel?’ Well, the rodent won and Ben took off after the squirrel ignoring the fallen Frisbee. He is fast for a senior dog! Once Mr. Squirrel was up a tree Ben did go back, retrieved the disc and brought it to me.”
During an ice storm Sonja’s neighbors heating system konked out. “We sheltered two neighbors for 10 days. Ben loves them, but he was put out when one of them
slept on ‘his’ couch. Once they returned home, he quickly returned to ‘his’ couch and every evening we get a text message from across the street reminding me to say “Nite-nite” to Ben from them. It makes us smile!”
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