More: Desmond tired to coerce anyone and anything to play ball with him even a huge bull snake. With people he would put his ball at your feet. and then keep nudging it into your foot till you would play with him. He loved to swim and would never get out of the water. My beloved boy died of cancer in 2016. Kahloe is now 13 yrs old and is the smartest sweetest beautiful lab I have ever seen. She could always outsmart Desmond and loved to tease him. Her only interest in a ball was to take it away from Desmond. She can understand English, can sing, count and tell what time it is.