Did I mention Timber is *determined*?

I'm hoping I don't go home to find the entertainment center and its contents crashed in the living room.

The other night I was throwing the tennis ball for the Ts, and one of them missed the catch. The ball went over the TV and down the back, behind the entertainment center, which is up against a wall. The bottom half has a back to it, so there's a gap between it and the wall for a tennis ball (and a few videotapes) to fall down; I can't just reach through at the bottom to retrieve things. It's about 6 feet wide and 6-1/2 feet tall, and besides the TV (the old fashioned heavy kind) and stereo, it has magazines on the bottom shelves (to give it some ballast), DVDs, videotapes, CDs, and etc. In other words, it weighs a ton and there's no way I'm going to unpack it and move it to retrieve a tennis ball.

Timber does not agree with me. Timber apparently remembers that a tennis ball fell back there. Timber had his head stuck into one of the magazine cubbyholes (beneath the TV; probably the tennis ball is directly behind that section) and was pawing magazines while I was home at noon.

I got another ball and threw it for them to distract him, but I'm afraid he may go back to trying to retrieve it this afternoon. This is the dog who, while still a scrawny puppy, dragged the very heavy sofa-bed out from the wall, pawed two baskets out of the way, and wiggled under the futon to retrieve a tennis ball while I watched, amused and amazed. This is a dog who could do just about anything, I think.

I just hope he doesn't manage to tip the entertainment center over.