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Wow! Loki has two regular large Kongs and one Kong bone thing with space on both ends to put the treats in. He also has a rope toy and usually one of those big white knucklebones, but right now he's out of those and I need to pick up more. He's a champion chewer and would devour a stuffed animal or a squeaky toy. Now I'm reading this and feeling like we need to buy him more toys, though!
All caesar's toys are the colorful rope toys...any cute little things he rips apart, that includes ones
with tennis balls on them...I would say he probably has between 20-30 of those rope toys of
varying lengths.
Izzy has a ton of stuffed animals and balls. When he was younger he used to destroy the stuffed toys within moments (even the rugged, 'designed to withstand any strong chewer' ones) but as he's gotten older (now 4) he tends to play with them more than chew. Eventually he does destroy them, but now it takes him weeks, sometimes months.
When I first got Izzy as a pup, my older dog Kaya had her own set of stuffed toys. Her favourite by far was a large pink "Arlene" from the Garfield comics, a toy that she'd had for years and cherished. But within two days, Izzy - all of 10 weeks old - had beheaded Kaya's precious Arlene. (RIP, Arlene...)
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We have 3 dogs and we're always tripping over their toys even though we have a couple of toy boxes. I received a shipment of toys last week and expect another one any day now. Our Pitt Dane loves the Kyjen Hide A toys and is very gentle with them but between the 3 of them any toy with stuffing and squeakers gets demolished.
That's the hardest part - finding non destructible toys. We've tried Kong, Tuffy and multiple others. I get off the cheapest going to the % Below store and getting a few soccer and basketballs. Even if they puncture them - they still love to play fetch with them - of course they too end up in the garbage once they start pulling pieces off of the covering.
No toys. The papillons refuse to play with toys and Wyatt McRiot can shred the toughest toy within minutes.
All three dogs love a small squeaky squirrel from Dr Noys. It must be that specific toy and none other. I haven't been able to buy them for years. The last one is terribly frazzled. I let the Genuine Little Princess carry it around occasionally if Wyattt isn't home. I'm afraid to bring it out when Wyatt is home because he is crazy to get a hold of it and it is small enough for him to swallow whole in one gulp.
One of my long departed Papillons loved those little cheap plastic practice gold balls. The kind with all the holes in them. She'd drop them on a hard floor and then bat and chase them. It seemed to be more about making noise than chasing. She loved making noise. If she got one of the small squeaky squirrels she would stand there literally for hours, squeaking it until she finally drove one of the humans insane and got it taken away from her.
Long ago, my son had two Schipperker that loved to fetch whole walnuts in the shell. There was a race course set up with hurdles. Throw the walnut and we had "little dog walnut races" as they flew across the floor and over the hurdles, trying to be the first one to get the walnut. Neither one of them would play fetch with anything else.
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That's the hardest part - finding non destructible toys. We've tried Kong, Tuffy and multiple others. I get off the cheapest going to the % Below store and getting a few soccer and basketballs. Even if they puncture them - they still love to play fetch with them - of course they too end up in the garbage once they start pulling pieces off of the covering.
Sounds like % Below must be a discount store, like the Dollar stores here. This is similar to what I do; I often scavenge the local Salvation Army or Value Village thrift stores and find wonderful, durable stuffed toys as well as basketballs and soccer balls for my dog, and they usually are around $1 - $2 in cost. I have one stuffed 'soccer ball' that I found in a local thrift store bin for $2, and Izzy's had it now for almost a year, with only one tiny tear (fixed with needle and thread) in it so far.
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