For our 1st walk together, we went to a park near my house. This full-sized, fully-inflated b-ball sat in the middle of the empty park grounds, like a Xmas present for Apollo. He went right to it and had no problem picking it up in his powerful jaws. I couldn't KICK it out of his mouth. Of course, b4 u cud say "free throw" he had punctured it, which only made it easier for him to get a grip on.