Fetch · hypothesis-support
Push-and-drive work for herding dogs, at lower sprint intensity than fetch.
A hard ball too big to bite, so a heeler drives it with shoulders and nose instead of sprinting flat out. For households testing whether the shape of work matters, it keeps the working brain fed at a different intensity than ball fetch. It floats, and the fourteen inch size is the point: jaws are supposed to fail on it.
Job bucket: hypothesis-support
Not a replacement for what your dog loves, and not automatically safer. It is a different load, to be tested like any other idea.
When it fits an active hypothesis, a love-move you already named, or you ask. Never as a cure.
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Method, not cure. Your veterinarian stays in the loop for anything clinical.