Ok. I saw like 5 seconds of this this clip on Cali and Neal’s GeekBrief.TV and then did a YouTube search to find the original video.
From the description:
I built the ball machine because I thought my dog Jerry, might like it and that it would be something fun for me to build. So after two years of on and off work, with many safety features such as IR proximity sensors to protect Jerry and my son from the machine, I finally complete.
Far from being a replacement for me, I was always right there with him enjoying his fun. And with all the troubles that I went through to build the ball machine, I still end up throwing more balls than that the machine could count! According to the computer, he played with the machine by himself only 3 times in his life.
I recently put this video on YouTube to keep alive my earlier memories of him and (hopefully) provide some “humorous distractions” for anyone that might drop by.
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I love this, a man and his dog, what sillyness, what friendship. I love how the dog waits, and has learned to see or hear the cocking mechanism, then takes off to intercept the ball. Classic pavlovian conditioning, plus…
Poor dog needs a real friend. I have seen this before but I did not know you could actually buy it lol
what this dog needs the most is brains, lol .. hilarious !
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OMG – that is brilliant! Next he’ll have a treadmill for when it actually want to go for a walk lol.
No but seriously, that’s one brilliant piece of mechanical engineering. Makes me wish I had a dog so I could have one lol.
That is fantastic, all we need to do now is train ours to drop. I can just imagine him flying through the air with ball intact in his jaws!
He’s an English Cocker Spaniel that we called JD after our favourite drink. Mad as a hatter but what a companion.
Thanks for brightening up a tough Monday!
A nice way to keep the dog busy. It is nice inventation.
Dogs won’t need pull you to throw a stick for them anymore.
Poor dog!!
No need for the owner if this heats the dogs food too :)
A very interesting blog, I have never come across this type of machine before in eigther england or spain. If you dont mind I will
embed your video in my blog Adogs-life
Graham
Totally wicked to the extreme.
Daddy wanna bone? taheet
You can already buy the only automatic ball launcher, GoDogGo® RemoteFetch, for dogs through http://www.godoggoinc.com and other resellers.