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My Akita loves nylabones. I get her the extra tough largest ones that have "flavoring". She chews on it a little everyday but only when she has to be in her kennel and I guess gets a little bored. I have to replace it every few months because she puts big teeth mark dents in it then I worry about slivers of it breaking off. My Beagle won't chew on anything at all unless it's food lol and haven't tried a small one with my Yorkie yet. |
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Oh yes! My Moochie loves her Nylabones!! I just recently had to replace one! :thumbup: |
My dog loooves her Nylabone. I just have the small "original" flavor (? is it a flavor?) dura one. I did buy some flavored flexible ones. I also bought her a princess pink wishbone nylabone but she doesn't seem too into that one! |
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I usually replace mine after 4-5 months (almost daily chewing), but that's because my dog only chews one end! One end she will ignore, and the other end will be chewed down. I give her two kinds: the original dura one and the original flexi one. I tried the flavored ones (chicken) and she didn't like them. I have not tried the healthy edible line. |
Nylabones are GREAT!!! Our Graysee loves her nylabones! She has two flavored bones, and one blue, nubby unflavored bone. She also has a bigger, ridged yellow bone. I don't think any one in particular is her favorite; sometimes, she'll get out ALL of them, each one in succession, and chew on each for 5-10 minutes. She also likes to toss them around! When they start to get really chewed up on the ends, I'll take my Dremel tool and grind down the prickly, rough edges, and they're ready to go again! In three years, she has yet to completely chew up more than ONE! |
Mine love them...sure helps with tarter on their teeth. Last time at the vet he couldn't get over how clean their teeth were. The only thing is they hoard them & try to keep the others from getting them. I woke up with 5 in my bed one morn. I keep several around. |
Both of my pups love Nylabone Flexis. They are the only type of bone allowed in the house. Flexibone and Gumabone seem pretty safe with supervision. The Gumabones are the only ones my vet's dogs get if anything. I think they carry minimal risk compared to other bones or even other types of Nylabone products. I wouldn't let them have anything at all except my hound will chew the carpet if he gets bored. I don't feel like there is a huge risk of teeth breakage, esophageal or intestinal obstruction, or bacterial infection with them. |
My pups love Nylabones. I use the hard ones because of my fear of intestinal obstructions. I have too many to watch them closely enough at all times. |
I've been sort of unhappy with Nylabone. The only one Jackson likes from them is the FlexiChew and I bought him the wolf size, or maybe super. It was pretty big and he's not what I'd call an aggressive chewer (it could take him 5 days to chew a 6" bully stick) but he chews the ends off really fast, and two times his gums or mouth must have started bleeding (there was some blood on the chew afterwards two times). The plastic like sticks up to where it cuts his mouth. So I'm no longer getting them. Big chunks of plastic coming off just don't see safe to me. He will chew the DuraChew for all of 30 seconds. I've even tried making it seem REALLY exciting and fun -- he wants nothing to do with it. |
I'd definltely stop using them if that was happening with my kids. Thankfully I've seen no signs of blood or mouth irritation (but could see how that would be possible because of the texture after it has been chewed for awhile - but I'd also assess gum health if that was going on). No big chunks of plastic coming off here. Ellie doesn't get much of anything off and Rylee gets tiny pieces. We changed from the wishbone style to the whatever it is bigger bone style and the ends don't seem to wear down as easily (he is an aggressive chewer). Just too nervous to use anything with a higher likelihood of breaking teeth because it can be $400+++ to fix it. And the thought of an obstruction isn't appealing (so if they were getting big pieces off, they wouldn't get them). And I won't have anything bacteria laden around Ellie and she can't touch animal products anyway. I wish there was a perfect dog chew. Don't think it exists. :( |
ETA: The little plastic pieces from the Flexis have got to be horrible for the intestines. Will have to show my vet so she can approve or disapprove this exact type. But the Durable ones I'd think would be very hard (can't really tell through the packaging). If they have no give, I won't use them. So I guess we take the small risk of intestinal issues with the Flexis. |
Well, all I can say is that I have used the hard ones for years and have had no issues. Yes, you probably can have one but I think the chance is more remote than likely. I also use the Hartz chew bones...they are a hard plastic, too. Guess I need to bite one to see how much give there is..haha! Seriously, I do know it is not recommended to use hard chews because of the teeth, but I am totally against anything they can ingest. As you said, nothing seems to be perfect in terms of chew things. |
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It looked kind of like this:  Amazon.com: Hartz Chew N' Clean Dental Bone,... But yeah, I probably won't be wasting my $$$ on Nylabone anymore. |
Yep, that's it. My pups love them. |
It's a hard call. Going to have this convo with my vet in a couple days..again. If I thought E was getting anything beyond a tiny piece here and there, I'd immediately take them away. I'm not so concerned about Ry. I don't give anything unless I'm in the same room and I stop them periodically to check the chews. Pretty much either have tooth break risk or obstruction risk. I guess obstruction risk is more severe, but teeth issues can get really nasty too. Ry's toofers can break - he's insured. LOL. But E's teeth, not so much.:cool: My vet has a special interest in dentistry and gets a lot of the miserable tooth cases around here. Going to see what she thinks breaks teeth the easiest. I know she has mentioned ice, Nylabones, and bullies do too. No give = terrible for teeth. I don't trust the Hartz company and don't want to give them $$ if possible. But then I don't trust any of them.:rolleyes: |
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I don't care for Hartz either; but I have to say these bones are something that caught my eye a long time ago. Took me a while before I broke down and tried them....my pups love them! |
lola has a few but rarely even goes to them, they dont seem fun to her. |
Geno is obsessed with his nylabone but I only allow him to have it when I am with him just in case something happens when I'm not there. |
Hepburn loves Nylabone Hepburn is seriously in love with his nylabones. He weighs just under 2kg and he carries two small ones around in his mouth a time if he thinks I am about to clean up toys because he doesn't want them put away. He has a smaller chicken flavored flexible one (called nyla), a larger chicken flavored flexible one (called big nyla), a smaller blue unflavored nubby one (called spiky nyla) and a weird looking red and white one with fours end that is flexible on the ends but hard in the middle (each side of the bone splits into two ends) (called bacon nyla because it is bacon flavored). He won't sleep in his bed or mine with out his spiky nyla and he never goes out on the town without one either. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and all of them have migrated to the bed. I will probably be replacing the large one soon since it is a hand me down from my parents and has some wear on the one end. Otherwise, he rarely gets any pieces off of them and despite daily chewing, they all look brand new except the large one. |
Mine love their nylabones. Especially fighting over it. Mine are puppies and teething so I don't know if that's why they like them so much. |
Cali is 2 mos and she really likes hers for teething. My Border collie/lab mix loves her Kong toy as well. |
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