Dog doesn’t like playing with toys

I have a 5 year old poodle mix who has never been particularly fond of toys apart from holding them. She will chase a couple times and carry them outside, but after 1-3 minutes (if not two throws) of throwing or tugging she completely loses interest and tries to roughhouse. Roughhousing seems to be the only type of play she wants to do, and I cannot keep up with that. She gets overexcited and starts biting way too hard and doesn’t listen, so I stop play any time she starts it. The issue is she also doesn’t play with any of her toys. She has stuffies, balls, a rope, a frisbee (which is the ONLY toy she actually kind of likes but I can’t find it right now). I feel like I’m failing her by not being able to play with her. She just doesn’t look interested, looks at me like I’m dumb when I try to grab toys, and then gets sad when I don’t allow her to jump and bite me. She wants to play but just… doesn’t. I have been working on this by ending play every time she does it, but we have just barely played at all now. She won’t stop doing it and hates her toys and I don’t know what to do. I feel like a horrible owner because she wants to play, I just can’t be bitten and jumped at every day.

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