Adventures of SAM and the Rubber Tub!!

You can purchase toys for children, toys for cats, toys for dogs -- we even have a toy for our horses! I guess big people have toys too, but their toys are a bit more pricey than those of their children! If you can remember when you were young (some of us have to remember more years back than others!) what were your favorite things to play with? Pots and pans? Buttons? Sand? Remnants of Dad's carpentry projects? Many of the things we played with were not purchased for playing!!! My cats ALWAYS love playing with 'ta-ta's (little pieces of balled up paper) more than most things purchased! Sam has had LOTS of dog toys, but he doesn't really PLAY with them - he EATS them!!! When he first arrived to live with us, he ate his food out of Sheba's travel dish, then he ate the dish!!! (pictured left)
The toys I buy are reduced to small bits within a very few days. However he has found the best toy for himself right here under Eeyore's nose, Eeyore's rubber feed tub. Twice a day we have to hunt for the tub in order to feed Eeyore. Most often it's somewhere in the front yard. Before Sam claimed it, Eeyore and Tutu would carry it around the corral, and I had to hunt for it out there! Sam loves it SO much, he steals it while Eeyore is still eating! Or, he'll snatch it right out from under Tutu or Racey's nose when they come to finish off Eeyore's food! You see - when Doc finishes his, he displaces the girls to finish theirs! There's a hierarchy amongst the animals we have! Though Sam totally respects the equines (because of their size), I think he's definitely the TOP DOG!!
Note his feet - half the time he's in the air while he's tossing the tub to and fro! If you could see the tub close up, you'd see the chewed down edge - the tub keeps getting shorter!

He goes crazy when it comes to the tub!

And that's not all!! He's totally fascinated with Tober - day and night:
If Tober comes too close to the window, Sam barks and jumps on the window! OOPS!!

Got a little too carried away!! I'm sorry!!! Didn't mean to break the window!!!