Cute puppy plays with monster ball

Here is a video of my Labrador retriever Lilly playing with a big orange ball. I call it her monster ball not only because it is so big but it has a picture of a monsters face on it. Lilly was only a puppy here. I’m not sure how she is in this video but we got her when she was eight weeks old and it wasn’t too much longer after we got her. She was probably about twelve weeks old or so. She was a rescue dog and we think from pictures we have seen and people that have seen her that say they have a dog that looks exactly like her that she is a Labrador retriever pit bull mix. I could watch her all day running back and forth playing with the ball and flipping over the top of it. When she got a little bigger she eventually “killed the monster” by popping the ball. We bought her three balls about the same size that looked like giant tennis balls but she eventually popped all three of those. Forget about squeaky toys she started to tear them apart and get the plastic thing that causes it to squeak and all the stuffing out of them. After my wife tried sewing them several times we finally gave up and would have to throw them away. We didn’t want her to swallow any of that stuff. We had to take her to the dog emergency room once after she swallowed a sock.Now we only get her toys that are made for aggressive chewers. Even now though her favorite toys are sticks. She loves chewing sticks and frequently picks up sticks that are more like logs many times her size. It’s so funny watching this little dog carrying giant sticks around. She has always been full of energy. When we first got her she would run all around the house for about ten minutes then all of a sudden just stop go to her bed and within seconds her head would drop and she wall fall fast asleep only to wake up ten to fifteen minutes later and start the same process all over all day long. Now we have to take her for long walks to burn up all the energy or she starts getting really wild and runs all over the house chewing on the furniture or us. We hired a dog trainer and he said that just by taking her to a park where there are a lot of people or other dogs will calm her down a lot and that seems to be working. We left her at a kennel for the first time when we went away and when we called to check on her they said she had a few friends there her size and was having a blast playing with them. We looked up her breed online and learned that it needs a lot of social interaction with other dogs. When we get back from vacation we want to start taking her there maybe once a week just to play with the other dogs. I hope you enjoyed watching my dog Lilly when she was a puppy playing with her monster ball.