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miezzi · 06-12-2005, 01:37 PM

OOOPPPS!!!! clicked one of the wrong pics!! Here's the other one I wanted!!

suzysmitt · 06-12-2005, 02:43 PM

I love the bone shaped box from Walmart. My husbands going to kill me if I don't stop buying her stuff. LOL

irmi623 · 06-12-2005, 02:53 PM

Thank you all so much for the great suggestions. I love the bone-shaped toy box, especially because you can personalize it and it's low enough that he can jump in, get a toy and jump out!

diva pup · 06-12-2005, 03:08 PM

I don't know if you have a Tuesday Morning where you live but they have the cutest canvas boxes, one was large and low. I am going to keep checking back to see if they have my color come in, when i went they only had it in a South Beach type pattern. Mignon chews her toy basket too so I was looking for an alternative.

milliecorrales · 06-12-2005, 05:14 PM

I too use an old laundry basket, the rectangle one, for the boys toys. easy for them to climb into or reach into to get their toys, although when Benni does not want to share, he simply sleeps on top of all the toys so Garett cannot get any. If you want your dogs to stay away from your good wicker, rub clear antiperspirant on the wicker, it works and your dogs will not go near it. Buy it cheap at the 99 cent store or discount store. Did it to my wood furniture and no chewing. Also one application lasts like forever. It seems that once they get that taste, they never go near it again.

natalie · 06-12-2005, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by miezzi

We just use an old laundry basket!!! Which is easy for him to knock it over so he can get any of his toys very easily!!!! But- he also likes to sleep in his toy basket too!!! Here are some funny pics!!!

Look at him dig! What's he lookin' for? Next thing you knnow, he'll go missing and then you find him at the bottom of the basket.

That's just too cute, I can't even see his head in the 2nd picture!

Connie · 06-12-2005, 09:50 PM

I bought one of those collapseable mesh laundry baskets and got it at the dollar store! When Maddie was smaller, she would get in it and run, just like a hamster in a ball. It was so funny! Now she is too big to do it well, so we just keep toys in it and I lay it on it's side and she'll crawl in there and just play inside it sometimes. I cut off the handles so that I didn't have to worry about her hanging herself.

miezzi · 06-12-2005, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by natalie

Look at him dig! What's he lookin' for? Next thing you knnow, he'll go missing and then you find him at the bottom of the basket.

That's just too cute, I can't even see his head in the 2nd picture!

There must be something good down there he's lookin for!! Gold maybe???? Oh well, that is also one of his fave places to ssleep!!! when we're not home!!! I'll come home and if he's really in a deep sleep- thats where I will find him!!! Like I've said before-- he could sleep thru a tornando, and not know what the heck happened!!!!

ldenise · 06-12-2005, 11:32 PM

I gave up trying to put toys away. Although I like the mesh hamper idea. I got one like that also but I keep shoes in it. I will try it your way.
when i try to do laundry Ahia will steal socks when i am not looking and take one under the coffee table and come back for another one. she steals them and has more in her pile than i do in mine. she is such a thief.

MyYorkieRox · 06-13-2005, 12:09 AM

I am definatly going to have to get the bone toy box, its soo cute!

Figment713 · 06-13-2005, 01:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Stitches29

We bought Maggie a multi-colored nylon mesh sided toy bin at Walmart. We found it in the pet dept. It can be collapsed when not needed. When you open it, it will pop open to form a cube. She loves it. She drags all of her toys out of it, and then gets inside and does the cube walk. So funny. At night, we gather up her toys and plop them all back in for another day. Below is a picture of it. That picture was taken a couple months ago. We have it on it's side so she could get her toys out. Now, she is bigger and she just drags her stuff out of it.

Brenda,

That is absolutely one of the cleverest ideas I've seen. (Gonna have to go out and search for one of these things!)

To date, we've used an orange crate type tying...like what you could use for record albums (those of you old enough to even remember record albums

)

I do, however, love the idea of a mesh crate that one can turn on its side. Heck, I bet with that I can train Molly (my gatherer) to pick things up and put them away. As things are right now she tries to gather all the toys left around by others and put them on the love seat. (Yesterday, she had managed to get 9 of them up there...totally out of reach of Mackenzie...)

Thanks for the good idea!

06-12-2005, 01:37 PM	#16
miezzi I Love My 3 Lovebugs! Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: north east ohio Posts: 4,776	OOOPPPS!!!! clicked one of the wrong pics!! Here's the other one I wanted!! Attached Thumbnails __________________ ~Mandy~Proud Mommie to Luigi, Brasco & Livi

06-12-2005, 05:14 PM	#20
milliecorrales YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 516	Laundry basket here I too use an old laundry basket, the rectangle one, for the boys toys. easy for them to climb into or reach into to get their toys, although when Benni does not want to share, he simply sleeps on top of all the toys so Garett cannot get any. If you want your dogs to stay away from your good wicker, rub clear antiperspirant on the wicker, it works and your dogs will not go near it. Buy it cheap at the 99 cent store or discount store. Did it to my wood furniture and no chewing. Also one application lasts like forever. It seems that once they get that taste, they never go near it again.

06-12-2005, 11:32 PM	#24
ldenise YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Rancho Viejo, Tx Posts: 2,698	I gave up trying to put toys away. Although I like the mesh hamper idea. I got one like that also but I keep shoes in it. I will try it your way. when i try to do laundry Ahia will steal socks when i am not looking and take one under the coffee table and come back for another one. she steals them and has more in her pile than i do in mine. she is such a thief. __________________ Buckeye, Ahia, Tressie, Archie & LDenise Dogs are really people with short legs in fur coats

06-12-2005, 02:43 PM	#17
suzysmitt Currently Suspended! Join Date: May 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 2,150	I love the bone shaped box from Walmart. My husbands going to kill me if I don't stop buying her stuff. LOL

06-12-2005, 02:53 PM	#18
irmi623 Yorkie Yakker Join Date: May 2005 Location: NYC Posts: 60	Thank you all so much for the great suggestions. I love the bone-shaped toy box, especially because you can personalize it and it's low enough that he can jump in, get a toy and jump out!

06-12-2005, 03:08 PM	#19
diva pup BANNED! Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,139	I don't know if you have a Tuesday Morning where you live but they have the cutest canvas boxes, one was large and low. I am going to keep checking back to see if they have my color come in, when i went they only had it in a South Beach type pattern. Mignon chews her toy basket too so I was looking for an alternative.

06-12-2005, 09:50 PM	#22
Connie Loved by Maddie & Libby Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: North Dakota Posts: 10,732	I bought one of those collapseable mesh laundry baskets and got it at the dollar store! When Maddie was smaller, she would get in it and run, just like a hamster in a ball. It was so funny! Now she is too big to do it well, so we just keep toys in it and I lay it on it's side and she'll crawl in there and just play inside it sometimes. I cut off the handles so that I didn't have to worry about her hanging herself.

06-13-2005, 12:09 AM	#25
MyYorkieRox BANNED! Join Date: May 2005 Location: Austin,Texas Posts: 194	I am definatly going to have to get the bone toy box, its soo cute!