Best toys

[TrinityRun]

Originally posted by Knucklesmom
Forgive my ignorance - what is a boomer ball?

They look like This!

You can fill them with water, sand or nothing at all.

[Birdie'sMom]

To the people who use tires - I have heard people say this before - what kind of tires do you use - big ones, like a car tire or ones like from a lawn mower or something smaller like that. It sounds like a good idea - I bet Birdie couldn't destroy a tire!

[TrinityRun]

Originally posted by Birdie'sMom
To the people who use tires - I have heard people say this before - what kind of tires do you use - big ones, like a car tire or ones like from a lawn mower or something smaller like that. It sounds like a good idea - I bet Birdie couldn't destroy a tire!

Smaller tires like you'd see on a wheelbarrow or a cheap spare tire.

PS - come to think of it, I had one dog who loved when the kids had the tire swing. Lots of physical running into it and play.

Fun!

[whitney greenway]

Mine loves Greenies.

She chews them until they are all gone.

They are good for them, but rather expensive.

[Carina43]

Originally posted by tazdevl6

I thought about giving him a tire outside....or a tire swing...has anyone tried this...any suggestions???
thanks,
Nikki

Nikki - check out my initial reply to this post. I think your Chief & my Dutch might be brothers. :) Dutch has THREE tires (haven't hung one from a tree, thoug.) He loves them. And mine all love soda bottles too - you are right, I think it's the noise they make!

[robsaun317]

my rottie loves the toys that have the little talking noise box that sais something everytime she squeazes it.

[Jaegergirl]

maverick had a stuffed, squeeky giraffe when he was a pup. the breeder gave it to us and he had it for several weeks after we brought him home. but when he bit off his ear and found the stuffing, that was it for the giraffe. i read posts how some dogs had stuffed animals and would play with them, carry them around, and sleep with them. i thought this was cute and i wanted maverick to do that. so i went to the pet store last night and spent $9 on a stuffed monkey that had cotton rope for legs and arms. maverick like it alright...in less than 24 hours he's reduced it to nothing but a piece of material holding the cotton rope appendages together... i guess that's it for the fuzzy stuffed toys... : )

[tazdevl6]

Originally posted by Carina43


Nikki - check out my initial reply to this post. I think your Chief & my Dutch might be brothers. :) Dutch has THREE tires (haven't hung one from a tree, thoug.) He loves them. And mine all love soda bottles too - you are right, I think it's the noise they make!

lol..uh oh..TWO of them??????? I haven't tried the tire yet..you don't hang yours?? just put them on the ground in the pen?...he likes that??

I may try it when we get his new pen out..I thought about a tire swing or something like that....

nikki

[Jaegergirl]

well, that monkey with the rope legs we bought maverick landed us at the vet's office this morning! maverick has had bad gas the last couple days, messed in his crate yesterday (so much that it looked like more than one dog had pooped in there), has had loose stools, and this morning threw up what looked to be something the size of a small cat! no joke! concerned that something was terribly wrong, i rushed him to the vet this am. turns out he just has an upset stomach from that darn toy! poor pup! i didn't realize maverick had consumed so much of it!

so my question is what toy is safe and "rotttweiler proof" (i know nothing will be 100% indestructable). he already has a kong. he has his outside toys but what would be something good to play with in the house. i'm afraid plastic pop bottles would do some serious damage to his innards. and tennis balls... well he eats those too.

i think the dog is part goat!! : )

[Carina43]

Originally posted by tazdevl6



lol..uh oh..TWO of them??????? I haven't tried the tire yet..you don't hang yours?? just put them on the ground in the pen?...he likes that??

I may try it when we get his new pen out..I thought about a tire swing or something like that....

nikki

:)
I should try hanging one up, we have a huge fenced area for the dogs & there's lots of trees! Dutch gets a tire up on end and rolls it with his nose and paws, sometims he puts his head through it so its around his neck and runs in circles with it. He gets very silly with his tires!

[codglvr]

Jaegergirl, we stick with marrow bones for unsupervised chewing for the very reason you mentioned above. Ropes tend to be destroyed, along with stuffed animals, rapidly in our house so we only use them for training. I know it seems boring to many, but it ensures we are active with our dogs, otherwise they get bored. But if you've read in some of my other posts, we have also lost couches to my chewers in the past, so that's another reason we stay away from soft toys. They don't need any help in the toy:chewie association department.
Balder turned his self waterer at work into a toy, he carries around the three gallon water jug with water still in it! So much for finding a way to keep him from dumping the water. His favorite game is to dump the outdoor water bowls.

[Jaegergirl]

i think i'm going to stick with just giving maverick the marrow bones. i felt so bad for the poor dog after i saw what he threw up. i'm surprised he didn't choke!

yeah, it is boring, but it's not worth the risk/hassel giving him all that other stuff.

[Debbie]

TrinityRun...what size boomer ball do you have?

[Beckysmom]

My dog got a football and basketball (real ones) that had lost effectiveness for human use. She loved these. She also had two tether balls attached to long rope in turn attached to rafters in garage so that the ball was down at her level--she could either play with someone or alone as it sort of threw itself. The first was destroyed with use, so I got number two. Then when she grew up she lost her main interest in that. The teher balls were especially good during the winter time.

We get friends to bring spent tennis balls. And she likes the pressed rawhide bones. She loves "greenies" from Foster and Smith, but they don'g last very long at all. There is an indestructible ball from Cherrybrook that she never did destroy. But she also didn't much like it. She loved their hard rubber balls alittle bigger than tennis balls. Never destroyed them, but did lose several.

Her favorite "toy" was chasing squirrel like things.

Kate, mom to Becky, who died yesterday of llama kick and prednisone complications.

[Jaegergirl]

i figured i'd try out my second "virtually indestructible" toy this weekend. the first was a big blue bone made by "four paws products ltd" from petsmart. only took maverick about a day to demolish it. i was in a different pet store last night and saw they made a big red ball. maverick loves tennis balls but they don't last too long so i thought i'd give it a shot. even though it was made by the same company, it seemed to be a little tougher so i thought "what the heck". i should have known.. in less that 15 minutes, my destructo dog had bitten a huge chunk out of it. i took it away from him which, of course, bummed him out. i went to google and did a search for the company to let know that their toys are junk and got an error when trying to access their website.

guess we'll be sticking to marrow bones....

ps to kate. i'm sorry to hear about your sweet pup.