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Michael Romanos · 04-14-2006, 05:22 AM

Hi Barbara
I don't know what sort of ball you're referring to, but your Sassy has a talent and she loves her ball games, it sounds enormous fun for her and you, and I'd just encourage her to keep it up and expand on the amount of time spent playing and number of variations she can accomplish with it. If it was a hard or heavy ball, I'd be a little concerned at the amount of times she bounced it off her nose at any one time.

I have had very talented Corgis with ball and fetching games. Two of them were great at controlling soccer balls and rugby balls. Another use to do rugby skills with a tennis ball. Three of them just loved cleanly catching sticks that I threw huge distances, on their (the sticks) first bounce off the grass. Two Corgis were exceptional at fielding in cricket and bringing the ball back to the bowler, and so on including bouncing a soccer ball off their noses for me to catch up high. No nasal or nose passage problems occurred with any of this. If she snores, turn her over or give her a little shake to wake her so she will start sleeping again and hopefully, this time she won't snore. It's often a habit that's developed just like with humans.

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Michael Romanos Global Moderator Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Silverstream (near Wellington, the capital of NZ) Posts: 4,900 Images: 2	Hi Barbara I don't know what sort of ball you're referring to, but your Sassy has a talent and she loves her ball games, it sounds enormous fun for her and you, and I'd just encourage her to keep it up and expand on the amount of time spent playing and number of variations she can accomplish with it. If it was a hard or heavy ball, I'd be a little concerned at the amount of times she bounced it off her nose at any one time. I have had very talented Corgis with ball and fetching games. Two of them were great at controlling soccer balls and rugby balls. Another use to do rugby skills with a tennis ball. Three of them just loved cleanly catching sticks that I threw huge distances, on their (the sticks) first bounce off the grass. Two Corgis were exceptional at fielding in cricket and bringing the ball back to the bowler, and so on including bouncing a soccer ball off their noses for me to catch up high. No nasal or nose passage problems occurred with any of this. If she snores, turn her over or give her a little shake to wake her so she will start sleeping again and hopefully, this time she won't snore. It's often a habit that's developed just like with humans. Last edited by Michael Romanos; 04-15-2006 at 07:35 PM.