A method and apparatus for reducing the risk that a thrown toy will injure an animal. An upright support engages a torso-encircling brace member. The online user experience for users in the catchment zone is modified to achieve the objective. Preferably, each handle has a spring that biases the handle in a closed position so that the distal portions of both handles abut each other in a resting or closed position. By installing this storage medium in the digital copying machine and setting an original to be read in the digital copying machine, the original image is read according to the read control data stored in the memory card, and the obtained image data is stored into the memory card. In characteristic manner, according to the method, the Doppler transducer is associated with a programmable memory which contains at least one correction data item for correcting the Doppler signal transmitted by the transducer to a transducer control and computer unit.