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05-16-2015, 08:48 PM | #1 |
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| Best NON Food Toys? I buy Moxie all sorts of toys, rope toys, little balls, stuffed animals, toys w/ parts to chew on and pull. But unless the toy involves food (like a kong), she quickly loses interest. She loves her food treat/ toys, such as pigs ear, beef trachea, lamb lung, chicken feet, bully sticks. But it's just too much fat/ protein/ calories for her to have tons of animal product in addition to her food, so I would like to get her more engaged in non food toys. What do you recommend? What has worked? And what can I put in a kong besides DogsButter? Everything else she gets out so quickly! |
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05-17-2015, 06:48 AM | #2 |
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| Jackson won't 'play' with toys unless I am actively engaged with him. He also won't chew on nylabones etc. He figures out food puzzles so quickly that it really doesn't occupy his time very well. The only thing he really likes is the Kong Wobbler -- I'll put some treats inside of it and he will spend a decent amount of time pawing at it and flipping it around to get the treats out. Also the regular Kongs, I used to put some kibble & treats inside of them and then 'seal' them up with plain yogurt or peanut butter and freeze it.
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05-17-2015, 10:54 AM | #3 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| Tibbe is now usually bored by toys that don't involve some kind of mental or physical interaction, either with me or a toy he has to work at to enjoy. Regular old squeak toys don't seem to challenge him much anymore and he prefers to be challenged in his play, either by me getting involved with him or the toy being an interactive type one. I often feed Tibbe his meal using his interactive toys such as putting kibble or moist food in his kong toys - 3 tiny ones usually - and two foraging type game toys, where he has to work to slide a lid back to get his 2 - 3 pieces of kibble inside each slot, some of which might be empty by my choice, to encourage him to use his nose more. By the time he's worked through all of those toys and games, he's "foraged" for his meal which satisfies a basic canine predator/hunter/seeker instinct, had a good romp around the room, used his brain and is full and satisfied in more ways than one. Given the choice, he always chooses to have his meals in the form of foraging toys/games over a bowl of warm food! I've given him a choice of the toys/games on one side of the kitchen vs. his bowl of food on the other and he ALWAYS immediately goes for the foraging way of getting his meal. Since Tibbe has MVD & IBS and is restricted to prescription food, I make his treats from his kibble soaked in water, cooked to hardness and dried for a day and he works just as hard to those as he does liver treats and considers them wonderful "paychecks" for doing his command or trick right. If your dog doesn't have IBS issues, you could soak his kibble in rich meat broth or soup or whatever to give it extra flavor and then microwave or bake it, dry it and use that for treats. Then he doesn't need as much food for meals as he's getting part of his kibble during the day in his treats. He loves when I hide a treat, chewie or his squeak ball under a plastic, upside down cup with an empty one about 2 feet away and he has to choose which cup his goodie is under, sometimes with my lead in pointing to the right one and sometimes I leave it up to his nose. I have him turn his back while I'm hiding it and he turns around and bounds toward his choice, knocks the cup over and retrieves his object. He's almost always right in picking the cup with a goodie under it. He'll play that game for as long as I'm willing to keep setting it up.
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05-17-2015, 01:43 PM | #4 |
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| Dinky too won't play by himself. Once in a great while he will chew on a toy...like twice a year! His favorite toy is a red vinyl ball with the face of a bull and a vinyl tail attached. He likes to grab the tail with his mouth and shake the poor thing to death. It squeaks which thrills him too. Most of the time, he wants me to throw it for him. he has an orange tiger and a white puppy toy just like this one. They will not do. It must be the red bull. He does not like bully sticks either. He must be entertained! DH breaks up a treat, wraps it in an old sock, folds the sock, then ties his floppy monkey toy around it. Dinky loves to unwrap the whole thing and stick his snout into the sock to get the treat pieces. Last edited by dinkster; 05-17-2015 at 01:45 PM. |
05-17-2015, 03:04 PM | #5 |
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| Bella loves the long, skinny fox from Petsmart that has a squeaker in the head and tail. Her very first squeaky toy was a small pink bunny, so whenever I say, "Bring me the bunny!" she brings me whichever squeaky toy she wants to play with. |
05-17-2015, 04:25 PM | #6 | |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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Tibbe has that Petsmart fox too and we call it "Foxy Lady". He's killed off the squeaker in the head but still attacks the tail with great verve. We play tugowar with Foxy Lady sometimes too since she's so long.
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05-17-2015, 06:06 PM | #7 | |
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They also love plain old cotton rope, the big, thick kind used to tie boats to the docks....with a knot in both ends, it is "Game On" !!! | |
05-18-2015, 04:29 AM | #8 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Burbs of DC
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| the bacon ball! its a rubber toy but scented like bacon! OMG its so funny to see emma with it. You can see it in my GE thank you thread and see how she goes wild for it.
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05-18-2015, 06:01 AM | #9 | |
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05-18-2015, 10:28 AM | #10 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| I've got to get that for Tibbe! Can you find that at Petsmart or Walmart? But you can't smell it in the air all day when it's out, can you? I'd probably get sick to my stomach from it if it smells loud.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
05-18-2015, 10:35 AM | #11 |
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| I'm sure you can. There is no smell and it doesn't smell on their breathe either .
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05-18-2015, 10:54 AM | #12 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| Oh, good. I'm going to look for one next visit to either place. I think he'd enjoy it a lot. He loves new toys.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
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