Doesn’t this little dog look happy as Larry? Or Jerry in actual fact, seeing as that’s his name. Then again so would I be if I had a constant ball-throwing machine… and I was a dog.

This awesome contraption was built by Jerry the dog’s owner after he got bored of manually throwing the ball for his pet dachshund to collect.

It took two years to build and fine tune, but I’m sure both owner and dog feel it was worthwhile. Even the little boy seemed to enjoy helping the dog load it.

I just feel sorry for the neighbours, as the machine is surprisingly noisy. And that’s even mentioning the fact that the ball hits the wall every time.

Maybe the dog should be renamed Steve McQueen as he reminds me of the legendary actor in The Great Escape, continually bouncing his ball.