[Aliantha]

When we were kids, we had a big dog called 'Pirate' and he was crazy about chasing the ball, so one day my brother and I got the idea of tying the billy cart to him then throwing the ball. (we had a really long yard. Almost 100 metres).

It went really well, except you had to bail out at the end as he turned around because the cart would always flip due to the fact that we couldn't get him to do a wider circle when he picked up the ball and raced back with it.

After a while, we decided that throwing the ball wasn't giving us a long enough ride, so we started hitting the ball with a tennis racquet. That was even better except for the rock garden at the bottom of the yard. Sometimes we landed in it.

Pirate loved the game. He'd get so excited when he'd see us coming with the cart and rope and ball. I miss that dog so much. He did everything with us as kids.