(Video)How to play w/ yr dog when you're at work (a.k.a. "When Engineers have dogs")

Jesses Hunting ^

[yankeedame]

When Engineers have dogs

[Stoat]

Wonderful!  Thanks so much for posting!

Here's more on this from the inventor:

I built the ball machine because I thought my dog Jerry, might like it and that it would be something fun for me to build. So after two years of on and off work, with many safety features such as IR proximity sensors to protect Jerry and my son from the machine, I finally complete.

Far from being a replacement for me, I was always right there with him enjoying his fun. And with all the troubles that I went through to build the ball machine, I still end up throwing more balls than that the machine could count! According to the computer, he played with the machine by himself only 3 times in his life.

I recently put this video on YouTube to keep alive my earlier memories of him and (hopefully) provide some "humorous distractions" for anyone that might drop by.

Please enjoy the video.

YouTube - Jerry needs no help playing with his ball.

[Slings and Arrows]

Always a pleasure.

[Daffynition]

Super! You know where this is going, don't cha?

Seven ways to geek-ify your dog

[metmom]

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[HairOfTheDog]

Joe 6 Pack has the doggie list now. :~)

[metmom]

Ok. I guess I missed that. It hasn’t been a good week, mostly.

[thackney]

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[Joe 6-pack]

WOOOF!

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[kalee]

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[potlatch]

Thanks for the ping Joe. I enjoyed the you-tube, really funny.

[dervish]

thank you. Needed that laugh.

[Gator113]

Best laugh I’ve had all day!

[devolve]

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[potlatch]

If the ball throwing contraption wasn’t so big he could make some money off of it.

[Shyla]

My dogs would love that.

For years when I had puppies in the house, I would call my home phone and yell (when the answering machine was on) No, leave that alone, lay down, don’t touch that!!!!

: )

[metmom]

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[the OlLine Rebel]

Hmm. Well, I’m no longer an engineer, just a housewife, but if I had to do something for my dog. Well, it’d have to be a large trebuchet that tossed Jolly Balls outside some 50 yds. Inside stuff doesn’t do much for her since pup days. Loves JB too much and only plays outside as a rule!

[the OlLine Rebel]

“The down side was we couldn’t unplug the stairs.”

I believe that’s called, “baby gate”. ;-D

[afraidfortherepublic]

Thanks for the VIDEO. I've seen it before, but it always brings a smile to my lips.

On the other hand, when you own your own business, you just bring the dog to work with you. Mine has taken over the corner office as his own -- moving my husband (the President) to a smaller side office between purchasing and engineering. He never sits still anyway, so it hardly matters.

My Golden sleeps under the President's desk and comes to the door whenever he hears anyone pass by (the coffee machine is outside his door) hoping that if he looks longingly one of them will take pity and give him onne of his treats which are right there on the table. He is well fed.

In the beginning we put a baby gate across the door, but he doesn't need it any more. He will stay in there all day with no barrier. He stays even when he hears us leave for lunch. But, he knows when it is 5 PM because he will sneak out of the office at that time and go around the filing cabinets (where I can't see him) and head into the Purchasing Agent's office where he can be sure that he will get head scratches and no scolding.

This is a very quiet dog who doesn't whimper and doesn't bark, or this couldn't work.

[magslinger]

That dog could clear a four foot chain link fence. He’d laugh while hopping a baby gate. Doors weren’t much use in stopping him unless they were locked. He never did get lock picking.