[Tessa327]

Originally Posted by emykay

We started with a little squeaky soft dog, and he pays attention to it when we squeak it, but if you put it down near him he just sniffs it and walks away. We also tried a rubber bone with little rawhide discs on it. He LOVES rawhide, but won't touch that thing. I wonder if he had some previous owners who yelled at him if he touched the kid's toys or something.

That's a possibility. I'm not sure how to train a dog to play with or have interests in toys but you may want to start with chew toys

Give it some time and try what you can. Maybe he'll come around. If not then I hope you'll accept the fact he just doesn't have it for his toys.