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My Yorkie DESTROYS her toys - ideas? Our yorkie is now 1 year old, and destroys all toys that she gets within DAYS of getting them. We've tried Kong Wubba's (she's had 3) and they are reduced to rags. Balls, ropes, and they are all destroyed. I'm happy to say she only destroys her toys and nothing else around the house, but my husband just bought her two balls held together by heavy rope for about $7 and it's in shreds. Does anyone have any recommendations for a very heavy chewer? Thank you so much!! |
Charlie did that up until he was about a year old and then he quit. I chalked it up to him teething. I would buy him the rawhide bones to gnaw on...I know some people don't like them and i watched him very carefully with them but its the only thing he didn't tear to shreds. |
Try the black Extreme Kongs. My heavy chewers have not destroyed those. For soft toys, I make my own squares and bones out of polyester/cotton blend material with a tight weave (makes it more difficult to tear with teeth). I use premium stuffing from the fabric store and Kong squeakers from the pet stores. They aren't the cutest toys in the world, but my boys love them and can't destroy them. My boys also do well with Ty Bow Wow Beanies for some reason. I am working on carrying these in my soon-to-open boutique. Be careful with any kind of rope. You don't want your pup ingesting a bunch of string which can cause blockages. I'm sure you know, but supervise your pup with any toy and check toys frequently for damage. |
Romeo tore up all his toys within hours! I found that if I got him toys designed for larger dogs those would last a bit longer :D. I think sometime after he turned a year the chewing stopped and I have a toy chest full of new toys. |
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besides the black Kongs, buy some beef femur bones that are about 2 to 3 inches long. They can't splinter these at all. |
I've purchased toys at Dollar Tree, they have a small selection but when my lil guy destroys then I don't feel so bad, lol. You can make knot balls out of old jeans as well. |
ZoE is a toy destroyer too! All stuffed toys are defluffed & squeaker removed, and then decapitated & delimbed within about 10-15 mins. I reattached the head & limbs and sew up the holes and it becomes a 'skineez' type toy. She also destroys any of her rubber squeaky toys. And chews the "legs" off her cuz balls. She's never chewed her kongs though....I don't think she realizes she could...she just assumes they are for stuffing treats inside for her to lick out :p. I too have made her some toys out of heavy canvas. I doubled stitch all the seams, turn right side out, stuff it and put a squeaker inside and then sew the edge on top....triple reinforced!!! They last much longer than anything I've every bought, but aren't real 'cute'. |
Doodlebug is my "destuffer". If I give him a toy with stuffing 5 minutes tops and I have a destuffed toy. There are two toys that he loves and either have stuffing but are fabric. Bottle buddies are great! Their stuffing is an empty water bottle. I've bought them from PPE in the past but they don't seem to have them in stock right now. Here's a link to Target instead. AKC Bottle Buddies Dog Toy : Target Also Skineez are another favorite in our house. They have no stuffing either. Here's a link for those as well. Crazy Critters Raccoon Dog Toy 24"x2" : Target |
My 3 lb. Jilly tore up every toy she got, some quicker than others. She let some "live" longer. I never did find anything that she didn't eventually destroy or mar to the point I would take it away from her. I just sighed and gave up, realizing she would always cost me in the dog toy department as everything had to get replaced frequently. |
My Bella is the same....new toy lasts 5 minutes if it's lucky...lol...Every stuffed toy is now a skinee....nylabones even the larger she chews the ends off them. Kongs she chews the ends on them also. The worst thing is she swallows what she chews...She has pooped a rainbow of colors...lol I love to buy her new toys but it just seems such a waste of money. The kong wubbas...she has now gone through three. The tennis ball with the ropes, she chews a hole in the ball and shreds the rope. The ones with the water bottle inside, she figured out how to open up the velcro and then started to chew on the bottle. Her toy basket is pitiful looking as I still keep the stuffless toys because she still carries them around and wants us to throw them to play fetch. If anyone ever finds something that endures the teeth from these 6 pound pirenahs ...please let me know....by the way she is 21 months old so I don't think it is a teething thing.....oh and I forgot about my new sandles, she LOVED them |
Charlie does too. He has a favorite one. It's a blue bunny rabbit. Poor thing doesn't look like a bunny anymore though. lol But it's still his favorite. Out of a box of toys he always goes for the eyeless, noseless, earless blue bunny. :D |
We put old chewed up toys (like tennis balls and kongs) into socks and let them play with that! |
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I, also, have a "destuffer". Abigail cannot seem to rest if there is one toy in the house left with stuffing. She's six y/o , so I cannot attribute it to "teething", either. At least she quit eating the house (yes, literally) when she grew up. I would be careful of nylabones. Indestructible though they may seem; many a pooch has gone to the vet to discover balls of nylabone inside tummy. |
I dont know if you have ever heard of West Paw one of my clients had a greyhound and they destroyed everything!!! Never destroyed the West Paw toys before. Plus if you save your reciept and they do destroy one they give you a free replacment. |
Eating toys Hi. I have owned 4 over the past 20 years. The toy destruction will stop around 1 year of age. I buy a lot of toys from big lots. You have to look at the quality. They have a lot of milk bone products and a few other brands. The price range is 2 to 4 dollars if they her destroyed it's not a hug deal. I would also make a few toy boxes. I would put them in the room your little one plays in. That way they don't get fixated on just 1. I avoid any rubber toys just Incase they tear it up if they eat the rubber they can have tummy problems. The fiber filled toys. If they eat the stuffing from the fiber fled ones it will pass through there system. The other thing that will help is rawhide they can chew on that and not their toys. I would also allow about 30 min a day to play with them and their toys. I hope these tips help |
All three of mine are master tou destroyers two will actually eat toys! We love the kongs, pet stages rag rope ball is our fav, zannies lil barnyard squeakers and cheap stuffies so no tears are shed when 3the pirrahna dogs shred it in under an hour. I have bought a lot of natural fiber untreated rope and made rhwir own toys and we're lucky the local pet store sells locally made dog toys made of fleece like thwir beds both made by the same lady these seem to last a bit as it is hard to shredd and aurvives the washing machine. We did like the Orca toys but as two got older no longer puppies my schnorkie and mini schnauzer figured out hiw to use their new jaw power to peel off chunks. |
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I forgot I have on several occasions taken a ripped beyond fashionable pair of heans and recycled them to dog tiys those are the best!!!! |
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Also, what about something made of fleece and then stuffed? Jaeger's bed is fleece, and he's been beating the crap out of it for 4 months and hasn't ripped it yet. |
Try Tuffies Our Ziggy is a toy destroyer. I found a toy called a Tuffy that I bought from QVC of all places and he loved it! It took him several years to destroy it and is now on his second one. It is made of really tough material and is sewed really well in several layers. No stuffing ever came out. He loves the ring. I highly recommend these toys. Here is the website Tuffy's Toys, Durable Dog Toys, Unique Pet Toys - TuffieToys.com. I found them at a small doggie boutique near my home so that's where I bought the second one. Good luck with the toy destroyers!;) |
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My 2 boys "kill" toys that are way tougher than those and yet every TY toy they have is still not torn up! The sqeakers are broke but they still don't tear up the toy. I don't know what it is about those toys! Also they like the fleece Kong Wubba with 2 ends of the ties but killed the one that is the tough canvas type material. Only place I can find them now sometimes is at Homegoods and TJ Maxx . |
2 years old and still chewing.... My Charlie is two and his love for chewing has not slowed at all. Any stuffed toys are shredded and emptied of all the stuffing within minutes, luckily he just throws it around and doesn't eat it. We have to buy actual bones for him to chew because he shreds plastic ones, even those marketed as 'tough chewers'. I've told the boutique owners in the area, that if they ever need a product tester, give me a call. Charlie will put any chew toy through the ultimate test! To change things up we freeze pumpkin in ice cube trays, and give him carrot sticks occasionally |
Oh my gosh Mikki does this too! She gets the stuffing out and kills the squeaker in every one of them. It's driving me crazy. Poor Rosie doesn't even get a chance to play. I will look at the Tuffy's toys. But what is TY toys Kristin? Do you have them yet? |
I bought a Tuffy bone-shaped toy and within 30 minutes it was pretty damaged. Actually it arrived in the mail with strings hanging off of it. The squeaker barely worked too, and there was only 1 squeaker on one side of the toy. There are supposed to be two squeakers, one on each end. For $10 I was really disappointed. |
For you that like TY Bow Wow, they have a few on sale at the TY store. I got some for $3.99 each. And free shipping. Ty Store |
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My boys like the Chuck it balls. We tried the Kong squeaker ones, but they didn't last - de fuzzed them and killed the squeakers. So, bought these and have lasted a month and still going strong. They bounce well and the puppies can gnaw on them (when tire of playing fetch) and still look like new. I'd recommend those.  Amazon.com: Chuckit! Ultra Ball Small 2-inch, 2... |
My personal preference on toys, I'll just cgime in here saying I hace one dog with bad teeth two I want to keep with having perfect teeth, is while indistrictice harder toys seem to have appeal, I'd rather clean up a shredded mess and replace toys repeatable instead if dealing with broken chipped irriplacable dog teeth and doggy dental care is more expensive than a ton of toys. |
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