Give it.....Not!

There are many funny moments when daddy tries to teach me new tricks, especially if they involve tennis balls. There are equally as many funny moments when daddy tries to do some refresher training. Here's a recent example of daddy revisiting the lesson of "give it".

It starts easily enough with daddy and I getting into position. To give daddy an early sense of how difficult the lesson will be, especially as there is a tennis ball involved, I poke my tongue out at him....sneakily, while he is looking the other way....

Then daddy tries to take the ball away from me in one easy step. Here he is lifting me into position so he can simply take the ball away as he says "give it".

And here I am showing him who's boss and who gets to keep the ball. A swift upward head move and there is no giving of anything!

Daddy tries all sorts of cunning manoeuvres but all it needs is another deft head movement and hey presto! No give it!

At the end of it all, I am declared the winner. To show daddy what a good sport I am, and to let him know we can try again another day, I make him happy by giving him a "High Five"!