Great Pix Lori..
sigh..
Does/did your dax chase after & bark at balls when a "youngster"? My inlaws dog went crazy with balls. barked like crazy at them & chased them all over the place. Maybe in the absence of the prey they were bred to find, the ball took over?
Not really, but Bear has spent most of his life searching for that illusive badger that he is sure lurks in our backyard under the azalea bushes. LOL
Here is a photo of him from the thread that dutchess and Gizmo did on him a couple years ago....
Of course, he doesn't actually know what it is he is looking for, but he has always patrolled the parameter of the yard in search of 'something'. Isn't it amazing how certain traits are "in" the breed? My Lab lived to retrieve anything and everything, and we never taught him to do that. He just naturally did what his breed is supposed to do.