Ha ha ha! Sally, your games sound terribly fun
admittedly, there will be no funny business with the broom at my house - insert stern look here- because I would never get any sweeping done that way. I love that you have to throw three balls! Lol. We have the squirrel game too but I think the squirrels migrated to the kids toy boxes instead of lilahs...I should look into that.
Lilah is not really a toy eater, she also has destroyed a monkey (clearly those monkeys are asking for it!) and she will eventually kill a squeaker. She really likes skineez toys- they are like flat squirrels or sheep or polar bears with squeakers in their heads and tails and we just flop them around and squiggle them, maybe occasionally squeaking it ourselves and she has a ball 'killing' it. That is mostly how we play. Lilah does fetch a small tennis ball. But eventually decides she must keep it. Trick training is a fun way to engage, focus and expend a little bit of energy and regular walks are really beneficial. I wish we walked more and had a little schedule about it. Frozen veggies are a great treat, I hear a lot of folks use Cheerios. You could build your own mini ability course- sometimes we will set up a row of cans and practice weaving. We got a crinkly cat tunnel but the crinkle really freaked her out so that was a no go, lol. Hope your having fun and finding ways to engage! I know that was a really rough one for me. Honestly I still think Lilah should have a friend and she would be a happier player- it's gotta be tough being a pack animal, especially say a four pound one and nobody else is like you or your size and doesn't quite play the same way. We have a friend we do social visits with (a Maltese) but not often enough. Good luck!