mister was super playful and earnest today delighting me no end. there was one dark dude with shirt off pacing back and forth round the model yacht pond but he dint seem too crazy. mister found a ball and i led him to the ramp and tossed it in and he eagerly waded in and then stood by the ball and went into his water trance just blissful looking like a godling at total peace and then i started walking round clockwise and he followed round again to the ball which mysteriously disappeared and stood as if waiting but waiting in peace for nothing in particular, a ball if by chance it should reappear, and looking generally in my direction. i had to be fairly semaphoristic and noisy to lure him up the ramp. and when he emerged he was twinkle-toed with joy. we are still water dogs after all even if the lake is too far gone.