2-ingredient dog toy

 Recipe for an awesome dog toy.

Ingredients

• tennis ball
• sock*

Directions

Put the ball in the sock.  (Optional: sew the end closed).  Throw.  

 * I actually used a sweater sleeve, from a torn/snagged sweater.  

Wow-and-golly, is this a great dog toy!  Fun to chew on!  Terrific for throwing inside a corridor of the house!  Easy for the human to grab hold of, even when the other end is clamped between dog teeth!  Fab for tug of war!  

We experimented briefly with a variation (two tennis balls sewn into the sock); Prewash nixed that alternate design style; she chewed out the extra tennis ball and returned the toy to its one-orb state.  The two-ingredient version is not only simpler, it's also optimized for canine/human interaction.

The delight my dog and I have had with this toy makes me think of wheels on luggage.  I look at movies of times past, and see people carrying suitcases in their hands instead of rolling the suitcases behind them, and think "wheels on luggage should have been an obvious idea!"   And yet, wheels existed, and luggage existed, but wheeled luggage wasn't an idea, until one day it was an idea, and then wheels on suitcases became the norm.

So, just sayin', tennis ball.  Sock.  Together.  We approve.