Lacy needs a job. If she does not get one she invents one, usually involving my shoes. Morning run plus afternoon training or she is bouncing off the walls by dinner. Cattle dogs are built for work, not couch mode. Good overview here: akc.org/dog-breeds/australian-cattle-dog

Ranger will fetch until I quit. Scent work or a new trick tires him out faster than ball forever.

Same. Blue still looks at me like three throws is a warm up. Flirt pole in the yard helps burn the edge off. Then he can actually settle inside.

No.