Here are two additions to our animal soccer team. So far, we have the elephant and Callie.
Now we’ll add Devin’s dog. Here’s some video from You Tube of Devin teaching his dog Sable to play soccer.
[youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4aXe3-rno]
And here’s a dog in Chile that just decided to walk across the street and join the fun.
[youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4I9Wroy644]
These two dogs will make great additions to our all-animal team as midfieldsmen because of their ability to move the ball up the field. So now we have Callie playing defense because of her ability to trap the ball, the Elephant as our scoring threat, and Sable and the dog from Chile in the midfield.
In the case of the three dogs, it seems to me that the dogs are doing the teaching, not the people. This is totally in the spirit of My Doggie Says…Messages from Jamie. How a dog named Jamie “talks” to her people. Why not have the kind of relationship with your dog where the dog gets to be in charge once in a while? As long as you don’t negate your “alpha” role, this seems like a healthy thing. Look how confident these dogs are in their doggie-soccer interactions with people.
Please let me know if you have any other nominations for the all-animal soccer (futbol) team. There’s now a page on the blog (see the upper right corner) where you can see video of all the players.
