A Girl and Her Dogs

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!

This is a toy even I love to play with! It reminds me of that old website HamsterDance (anyone remember that one?!) It makes such a cool sound (though if you leave it on the floor during the night and one of your dogs find it - it’ll scare the crap out of you!)

Anyway - it’s not the longest lasting toy for determined chewers (and those addicted to de-stuffing woobies), but it’s so much fun! To make it last I just give it to them every now and then and watch them while they play with it. If I see one going in for the kill, I distract them and switch it out for another toy.

I got ours at Petsmart for $9.99, but here’s a site (for the same price) that let’s you hear the song:

http://www.dogtoys.com/deedledudes3.html

Here’s what the Woobie Hunters have to say about Deedle Dudes ‘Willie’ the Singing Snake:

“I just love to eat the stuffing out of his head - piece, by piece, by piece…” - Sibby

“Falling asleep with Willie hanging from my mouth is one of my favorite things to do! And I love making him sing at 3 a.m. when Mommy & Da are sound asleep…” - Schtick

“He was too big to fit in my mouth, so I just bit off his tail and now I have my very own piece of Willie to carry around!” - Cashleigh

“Momma won’t let me even come near Willie - she says I’ll shred him to pieces in 2 seconds flat. That’s not true! It would take me at least 3 minutes! (I like to savor my kills and spread the stuffing carnage all over the house!)” - Berkeley

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