I like to play games. That’s ‘cause I’m a doggy. We like to play. Sometimes I play alone. But mostly my mom plays with me.
We play ball. Mom throws the ball. I have to run and jump real high to catch it. Sometimes we have a visitor who plays ball with me. That’s fun. I like to play ball.
I play other games too. I play hide-and-seek with Mom. I hide behind a tree when she looks away from me. Then she has to find me. She always does. That’s when she gives me a big pet on the head.
Catch-up is a fun game too. That’s when Mom walks ahead of me. I let her get way far ahead. Then I run and run and run to catch her. She laughs and tells me I’m a good girl.
One of my favorite games is to play with my leash. Mom gives me my leash every day when we walk home from the mailbox. Sometimes it jumps away from me. And one day the wind blew it away from me. I always capture it back. I’m a good leash walker.
Sometimes when Mom’s busy I have to play by myself. That’s when I play with my chew bone. I chew it and chew it. But it doesn’t do much. I don’t think it minds my chewing it.
The other game I play alone is Watch the Floor. I keep looking and looking at the floor. Sometimes I find treasures. Once I found a creature that moved. That was kind of scary. I put my paw on it. I wanted to show Mom. But the scary creature ran away.
Another time I found a stone. It came off Mom’s shoe. I chased it across the floor. One time I found a dot on the floor. It smelled good so I licked it. It smelled better than it tasted. I know ‘cause I tasted it again to make sure it wasn’t very good.
Playing is fun. Mom says we need to play some every day. I think my mom’s right. We need to play every day. Play makes me happy.