Dog interlude

So there we were at the dog store to get a couple treats, and what do we come across but the Holy Grail of Finn toys, a squeaking tennis ball. Admittedly he is only fleetingly interested in balls, mostly to chase them and that's it, not much interest in bringing them back, or really in chasing them with any regularity. But the squeak, now that is the gravy, the money shot as it were. He can just sit there and squeak and squeak for hours, and he actually gets a pretty wide range of tones and length of sustaining of notes. And for awhile there were two balls, but one has mysteriously disappeared almost immediately. So now Bella is driven mad by the fact that Finn has this ball and all he wants to do is squeak it. To her a ball is for kicking or throwing, if it squeaks, well that's interesting, but the innermost purpose of a ball is movement not sound. To Finn to whole point is that it squeaks, who cares what shape it is. This has caused a conflict of epic proportions. Finn will sit and squeak with Bella tensely watching and waiting for him to drop it, which he inevitably does. Then she swoops in, snatches it and brings it to the nearest person for them to kick. In doing so she puts in on the floor in front of this person, enabling Finn to come over and recover it for more squeaking. And so the circle turns.