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Discussion on New life for an old Jolly ball
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Gldilox
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Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2003 - 6:58 pm:
I purchased stall balls for my darlings with hopes that they would play with them like the horses in the ad: alas, they were completely ignored. I finally took them down and left them laying around the barn, where my Lab puppy found them. This is his favorite toy: he can't bite through the thick rubber and can drag it around by the handle and "dribble" the ball against the ground. I've seen dog-size Jolly balls at PetsMart, but Barn Dog does just fine with the bigger one.
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Dres
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Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2003 - 7:20 pm:
hmm my jolly ball ended up being the dog toy too.. all tho.. she could and did chew right thru it.... a yellow lab, 100+ lbs , female...
have to say,it did last longer then most dog toys...
Ann
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Penner
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Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2003 - 8:03 pm:
Oh yeah!! 
I have gone thru 6 Jolly Balls in the last 3 years with my dogs! My Jack Russell & my Airdale terrier mix play tug with them until either the Airdale punctures a hole in it, or the Jack Russell finally tears the handle off (thats the part he hangs onto).
They have also been known to steal the horses Jolly Ball too out of the stall, when they can't find their own!
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Scline
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Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2003 - 8:20 pm:
I started my foal out with a huge discount dept store beach ball. It lasted most of the summer and finally he chewed a hole in it. Bought him a jolly ball and he loves it. Flips it all over the place with the handle, has even flipped it over the fence into the cow pasture. He loves it when we play soccer with it, we kick it at him, he'll kick it or flip it right back at us.
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Socaldug
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Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2003 - 9:28 pm:
my arab got was given jollyball the day i got him... he ignored it.
then he discovered the dog toy; a monkey head squeeky thing with rope loops for the ears. that horse flings all over and throws it across the yard just to go fetch it.
now, the horse plays with the dogs toy and the dog (akita) really loves that large jollyball!
to each his own i guess
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Bonita
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Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 7:45 am:
My horses love their Jolly Balls, but only in their stalls. My two-year old colt in particular gets a real kick out of his - loves stuffing down into the water bucket, squeezing it, & making all sorts of disgusting sounds that spook everyone else; also loves winging it out the window - he can really get some distance; & best of all, rears up & spikes it over the stall partition, bonking my poor gelding in the head with it.
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Sunny66
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Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 10:10 am:
My horse will play with his jolly ball...but not as much as with the muck buckets!! He and his buddy play tug-o-war with them and toss them at each other. My guy tossed it at his buddy and it landed on his buddy's bum as he was trotting away --- and it stayed there for about 15 seconds....hilarious!! ;)
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Jlmule
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Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 7:48 pm:
I have to take them away from my mammoth donkey, Pete, or I will end up with either a concussion or sore ribs from laughing at him. The first time I introduced one to him he was just a weanling. He was lollygagging in the round pen and I threw one over to him and then turned to go about other things. I quickly heard a loud "woosh" and dodged just in time to see this red thing flying over my head. Thinking it was just a fluke I retrieved it and threw it back in and turned again and walked off. The second time the flying cannon ball beaned me in the back of the head. When I turned to look Pete was standing looking at the ground kind of shuffling his feet in the dirt ("who me?"). Well, I scolded him and threw it back in and in no time it was again flying across and out of the round pen coursing for my head. Since then we have developed our game of "dodge ball" which he loves. He also plays soccer with it. When alone in the pasture with his jolly ball he will kick or roll it and then run ahead to get in front and kneel on it to stop it (I swear this is true!!) I wish I had a video of it. And red is definitely his favorite color.
Leslie
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Pbauer
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Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2003 - 8:14 pm:
The imagery in these representations are wonderful, and give great joy!!
Sincerely, Tonya
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Tangoh
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Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 1:04 pm:
Sigh......I bought a $40 jolly ball for my horses, and they totally ignore it. I've tried getting them to play with it by kicking it towards them, playing soccer with it, throwing it in the air. I tossed it right at my gelding one day. He never flinched, he watched it roll through his legs and to the fence and then he looked at me as if to say...'must you play with your silly toys in here?' We don't have a dog, so it's now just this useless $40 toy sitting in the paddock collecting dust. I keep waiting for the day when I see that it's in a different spot, hoping someone has been playing with it, but I think the horses think that I've just left MY silly toy behind!!!
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Shirl
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Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 2:01 pm:
Sherri, My horse does the same thing, so I bought a small chain, ran it through the ball handle, hung it from a railing, and now she will bite it occasionally to hear the air swooshing out of it! You might try that. Shirl
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Bonita
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Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 2:25 pm:
FORTY DOLLARS FOR A JOLLY BALL!!!! You must be kidding????? Where the heck do you live & where the heck did you buy it from?????
The very top price I have seen Jolly Balls advertised for - & I mean all over the country - is $18.00. I have bought mine for between $12.00 & $14.00 tops. In fact, I have NEVER seen them advertised anywhere for more than $18.00. Whoever sold you a Jolly Ball for $40.00 was really & truly ripping you off. Even the manufacturer doesn't sell them for that!!!!
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Tangoh
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Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 3:16 pm:
Oh you know, it was one of those days when I was on a mission, had to have one, and of course there was the $18.00 variety, but this was a spectacular one, very heavy, you can fill it with oats if you want and adjust a little door that lets the oats trickle out, so it was the top of the line model and I just had to have it, and of course, we're talking Canada here.
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Cassey
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Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 3:46 pm:
Hi Bonita,
That's $40 Canadian. Our prices are often 1 1/2 times the U.S. price. Eh?!
Dee
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Cassey
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Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 3:54 pm:
Oh yeah, don't forget the 15% tax mark up we pay...
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Tangoh
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Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 4:09 pm:
Yep, so an $18 ball in the US would cost $28.80 at an exchange rate of 1.6, which is what is was when I bought it, then add 16% tax here in SASK, and you've got another $4.60 to add on, making it 33. Okay, so I probably didn't pay quite $40, but darn close.
The exchange rate now is a little better, the US dollar is taking a bit of a downturn and I think the Canadian dollar is at about 1.3 US now.
Anyway, regardless of what I paid, the darn horses still don't like the darn ball!!!! I'm gonna try Shirley's suggestion.
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Suzeb
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Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 6:10 pm:
Hi All,
Ditto for the Canuck Dollar or the Looney as we so fondly call it. Anyway, I too purchased one of these things for Mr. Horse to play with and I got the "Look" like what are we trying to accomplish here, don't you know that I much prefer the taste of leather. So.... the farm dog now has the Jolly Ball and I am his best friend for giving him this toy. Perhaps he will return the favour with one of his big rawhide chew bones. Susan B.
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Imogen
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Posted on Friday, May 23, 2003 - 2:41 am:
I think it's all a consipiracy between the jolly ball manufacturers and the horse magazines (you know, those articles about want to avoid stable vices? Don't bother riding or feeding your horse enough roughage, just give it a ball to play with...)
Sorry for being a cynic, I know some horses do like them, but I notice at our local livery stable that there is an inverse relationship between jolly balls and people who actually go out and ride their horses as opposed to dolling them up and admiring them...
Imogen
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Rafter
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Posted on Friday, May 23, 2003 - 11:32 am:
Funny, my horse actually goes for the dog toys! He squeezes it to hear the squeeker. But we don't have any horse toys lying around. He loves to tip over the wheelbarrow though, or fling full size cones up and down...
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Roboski
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Posted on Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 10:16 am:
.....Or kick the third-filled muck bucket to kingdom come entirely around the field, or drag the rake around in his teeth,or chew the handles off the wheelbarrow the kid forgot in the paddock, or shake the halter & lead you neatly hung on the fence like a terrier with a rat, or rake his teeth up and down the inside of the plastic water trough & leave gouges and make the most facinating noise! Who needs toys?
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Jerre
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Posted on Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 10:34 am:
Gee, sounds like most of these playful horses are "the boys." Does anyone have a mare who likes to play? The most mine will do is herd the chickens out of the barn -- at a slow, head down and swinging, walk. Her jolly ball is never moved -- in fact, we've played volleyball with it over her back and she could care less.
Jerre
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Bonita
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Posted on Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 1:09 pm:
Yes, that's true here - only "the boys" are interested in playing with the Jolly Balls, winging buckets around, etc., etc.
The only thing one of my girls likes to do is chase anything & everthing out of "her" field. Crows, dogs, cats, even a red fox once, who just barely made it through the fence in time & then stopped & gave my filly the dirtiest look - lol!
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