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Dog chew toys that don't get them in trouble: Add your dog's favorites! (Thanks, daisee)
1. Fun stuff
- We leave empty cardboard boxes for the dogs to chew up. Also these loofah bones (cleans their teeth while they rip them apart) and TONS of cat toys (with catnip). (from veritableqndry)
2. Hard-to-destroy stuff
-At dollar tree they carry "milkbone" toys... she beats the hell out of them and still they hold up. (not to mention their only a buck if they destroy them) (from wakethewicked2)
- I've had good luck with these -- the avatar dog has destroyed everything but this kind. They come in different sizes and shapes and you can put treats inside for them to dig out: http://www.petmountain.com/produc...-kong.html . I get mine at a local farm store, but I'm sure you could get them at places like Pets Mart if you don't want to buy online. (from callpocket)
- Here are a couple that have survived Sophie so far:
Dog chew toys that don't get them in trouble: Add your dog's favorites! (Thanks, daisee)
1. Fun stuff
- We leave empty cardboard boxes for the dogs to chew up. Also these loofah bones (cleans their teeth while they rip them apart) and TONS of cat toys (with catnip). (from veritableqndry)
2. Hard-to-destroy stuff
-At dollar tree they carry "milkbone" toys... she beats the hell out of them and still they hold up. (not to mention their only a buck if they destroy them) (from wakethewicked2)
- I've had good luck with these -- the avatar dog has destroyed everything but this kind. They come in different sizes and shapes and you can put treats inside for them to dig out: http://www.petmountain.com/produc...-kong.html . I get mine at a local farm store, but I'm sure you could get them at places like Pets Mart if you don't want to buy online. (from callpocket)
- Here are a couple that have survived Sophie so far:
- Busy Buddy bouncy bone - We gave up on the rawhide inserts. She rips those out in seconds but likes the toy without them anyhow and cannot kill it.)
- Everlasting treat ball -Again she pulls out the expensive inserts right off the bat...but she likes bouncing the toy. You can also hide dog kibble in the middle for the dog to try to get out, which entertains him for awhile. She hasn't managed to rip this one at all yet even though it feels soft and flexible.
- Jolly Ball: - Ours is bigger than the one at this link. It's hysterical to see her stick her snout in the hole and wave the ball in the air. It's bigger than her head. She runs around the house with it on her snout, growling and acting like a maniac. I don't know why she can't chew it up, but she can't.
- Then there are big Nylabones, which she can kill eventually. But they take a long time to die. (from olu)
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My dog is 112 in dog years. If she eats her breakfast and takes her medicine without
My dog is 112 in dog years. If she eats her breakfast and takes her medicine without
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No, nothing that valuable
Sometime back she broke into the bedroom and stole my leatherbound journal. She ate the cover. But she left the insides intact with lots of blank pages still to write on.
I hate to waste things, so I used the coverless one for awhile--planned to use it till I ran out of pages. (I come from frugal stock--it's a curse). But since it was no fun to write in a ragged, slobbered-on, coverless journal, I finally gave in this month. I got a new journal: slip-on cover of soft, fawn-colored, hand-tooled leather, replaceable soft-bound book inside. It was even a really good deal. It was really fun to write in.
Well, the other day Sophie the Bad was padding along behind me when I put away the new journal away on my dresser. All innocent-like. [You need to know that this is a chest-high dresser, some 5 feet tall.] Seemed like she was staring, watching the journal when I put it down....I told myself I was being paranoid.
But not so much. Today she broke into the bedroom again. To do this she had to push down on one of those long, skinny handles with her paw or nose. Then she had to rear up high enough to get the journal off the back of the dresser.
She dragged it off to her lair and ATE most of the leather. She left a pitiful scrap of it in her lair is all. Even worse, she left the inside, nearly new book part intact--compelling me to write in it to use it up. If I bought another nice leather journal, I'd feel wasteful. Plus it would be like buying her an expensive rawhide and keeping it out of reach. Sooner or later she'd get it.
Bad dog.
my Roxy pup ate some carrots
I complain, but actually I am just crazy about Sophie and hate to think--no matter what she just ate on any given day--that we'll only get to have her with us 10 or 12 years, if we're lucky. Dog friends are the greatest.
Wishing you comfort tonight and in the coming days.
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