On the occasion of my birthday, we decided to give Pippi a present, too. What we gave her was a toy called a babble ball. The babble ball is a blue hard plastic sphere. There's just one catch. Whenever it comes into physical contact with anything, it talks. Well, saying it talks isn't quite the right definition. The package said that it makes sounds and says phrases that number more than 20. Some of the things that the babble ball says are: "hot diggidy dog", "grrrrr", "na na na na na", "come here puppy", "oh, you got me", "pfrt, uh oh", etc.
Pippi naturally freaked out when the ball started talking to her. At first she jumped back a bit. Then, she made her way back to the babble ball and picked it up. Pippi was now approaching her new toy with a great deal of alacrity. She lay down with it and started to push it around with her snout. Following that, Pippi started pawing at it and pushing it around. She reacted to the sounds it made as she did this. Most notably, she growled when it growled at her. Finally, she started picking it up and throwing it up into the air in front of her. I'm sure she was hoping to turn this into a game of fetch, her favorite thing to do.
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