Let’s be honest: There are few things a dog loves more than a good ol’ fashioned game of fetch. Running and jumping through the air, jowls flapping in the wind in pursuit of a ball to proudly present to owner…It’s no surprise that when the ball is made of snow and—poof!—totally falls apart before your dog has any idea what’s happened, it’s funny. Really, really funny. Behold! Some of our fave snowball fakeouts.
Wait, What?
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That moment when you realize you don’t even know what’s real anymore. “What…am…I?”
Heads Up!
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At least he was only unprepared to catch a low-stakes snowball and not, you know, a high-stakes football. Because that’d be bad.
It Takes Two
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How many dogs does it take to fetch a snowball? It literally doesn’t even matter, because the snowball no longer exists.
#NailedIt
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Mad props, corgi, for not only catching the snowball, but keeping it in snowball-ish form.
Game Face
It wasn’t so much a catch as it was getting smashed in the face, really. Did you see his eyes, though? The look of real determination.
Not-So-Near Miss
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It was a really good effort. Just gotta work on that paw-eye coordination or something.
D’oh
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As you were, bully. As you were.
All Day, Oakley
He’ll be searching for hours. And hours and hours and hours. Until he needs a nap.
