More: Tanner is full of human qualities. He sleeps on the bed, preferably with his butt on my head. He his a talker too. For food, attention, a walk, to go outside ( he has a dog door) he likes to be catered to. But the ball. He can be eating steak and if you pick up the tennis ball and head for the front he will beat you there. He loves that we live in a cul-de-sac and has full reign over the area during the day to follow the ball as it flies through the air. Sometimes he catches it high feet off the ground. Though as he ages I try not to through it up too much.