This is Scoby. Scoby lives with a man named Josh and likes to hang out at the Long Beach Dog Park. Napa really wanted to be friends with Scoby, because she likes little dogs, but Scoby was not interested in doing anything but staring at that mangled tennis ball. After watching him stare at it for a good 15 minutes, I asked him what he was doing. He glanced at me briefly and seemed to indicate that he wanted me to throw the ball for him. What he actually wanted was to snatch the ball just as I was about to pick it up, and then drop it as soon as I withdrew my hand. And he wanted to do this about 400 times.

While I was obliging him, Napa got bored and started hitting on a Papillon. Ivy was busy checking the trees for squirrels and could not be reached for comment.