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A Girl and Her Dogs
The Tale of Many Tails
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Toys that DIDN’T make the cut (part 1)
Of all the many, many, many, many toys we have tried - the following toys did not meet our standards. It’s not that they were bad toys (at least not all of them), but they just weren’t tough enough to stand up to the teeth my goldens and golden mixes have!
Here’s the toys that we won’t be buying again:
- Good Cuz Bad Cuz (ate through the rubber right away!)
- Fill-n-Freeze Bone (one tooth mark and the whole plastic bone leaks!)
- Crazy Dog Bumble Ball (it scared some of them and the others ate the gumdrop-looking nobs off!)
- Giggle Ball & Wiggly Giggly (got water in it and stopped working)
- Rubber Chicken (was tons of fun for about 2 days, till it became shredded chicken!)
- Swirling Whirling Bongo Ball (chewed into pieces)
- Orbee Tough Christmas Bulb (um…tough? ha!)
- Orbee Tough Nut and Bolt (looked tough, but wasn’t!)
- Tug-n-Toss Jolly Ball with handle (they ate the handle off)
- The Stick & The Twig (they ate right through it!)
- Tractor Roller Bone (we found out it can’t roll very well without tires…)
- Boinky Babble Ball (the outer shell lasted about 45 minutes)
- K9 Flyer Jr rubber frisbee (chewed through it - doesn’t fly right with holes in it)
- Orbee Tough Bone (found pieces of blue Orbee bone all over the yard!)
Oh - and as far as treats go…one they have disliked so far are Durango Chiplets - they are tasteless (yes, I often taste the treats before I give it to them!!) and they are VERY tough to break (even though they look thin).
Hope this helps when deciding which toys to give your tough or persistent chewers! I will definitely be posting more of these as I try out new toys (I have a batch on their way in right now!)
Also, I welcome your comments on which toys you have found that work for your dog and which ones didn’t! Remember, these may work for your smaller, gentler dogs - they just didn’t make it through the 1 month challenge for our kids!
July 24th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
We generally have the same problem, we’ve never found any toys that can stand up to our power-chewers for an extended basis.
We do actually use the good cuz’s as our play time fetch toy for a couple of reasons, 1) the dogs seem to really like them, not sure why, 2) the feel stick out and give me a way to get a grip on and take it away from them when they are being buttheads and don’t want to give it up.
But you are correct it won’t hold up to chewing, so as soon as we finish play fetch with them, they go right back up on top of the fridge.