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Any suggestions for toy storage? Hey all- We had Mojito's toys in a woven basket for about a month. He would occasionally go after the basket instead of the toys but would stop gnawing when I told him to. About two weeks ago he started really chewing on the basket and wouldn't stop. The basket is now sitting on top of the fridge and I have toys scattered everywhere. Do you guys have any suggestions for good toy storage that he won't chew through? (I'm also hoping it'll be low enough so that he can get to his toys himself -- one of the first things he learned was to get a toy when I told him to and I don't want him to forget how to do it!) Thanks!! Mojito & Irmi |
I like plastic rubbermaid containers. |
We have several of the oval shaped, soft sided fleece beds that you can buy just about anywhere. They're the kind that have the rolled edge that's only a couple inches tall...I use them in the house, his crate, the car and for his toys...they work great. |
hahahahah I read the title and then looked around my apartment and I was thinking "yea my apartment is a big toybox" ;) I have 2 of the bone shaped toy boxes from wal-mart but they are sideways so they can crawl in. I also have a few rubber baskets that have toys in them. |
Cooper and Carter have been chewing on a wicker-type basket that holds my telephone books. It must be in a yorkie's nature to chew wicker. I will come unglued if they decide to start chewing on my expensive wicker set in my sunroom! Bitter apple has done nothing to disuade their chewing on that basket. I have a cover over the wicker basket that holds their toys . . . I don't think they realize something is under the cover. A shallow rubbermaid container would be my suggestion just as Chachi's mom posted above. Lisa |
They have a cute bone shpaed toy box on the dr. Fosters and smith website. |
My husband and I really want one of these for Sully: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...02072%3A202086 We're hoping that we can get one after we move...but not before, just so save ourselves the hassle and u-haul space. Isn't it cute though? |
Mine did the exact same thing with the beautiful woven basket that now has each corner chewed off it... mine is sitting on the window sill and I too have toys from one end of the house to the other!!! Sorry I can't help with this one, but wanted you to know that you are not alone! :D |
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I actually got that toybox as one of the gifts I gave for a gift exchange! Now I wish I would've gotten one for myself! It was only 9.99 when I got it at the Walmart in Asheville around the holidays! |
1 Attachment(s) 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. |
Maggie looks sooooooo cute in her mesh toy bin! That's perfect for her toys, I should have thought of that too! Neato! We use one of those for our laundry, but when it's empty my cat loooves to play in it too, lol. |
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My brother made us a toy chest out of 6 pieces of wood. It's a big giant box with a top and latch. We spray painted it black and it says FRED on it! He can't reach in so he'll just sit in front of it and bark until someone comes and opens it for him and throws him in there. lol |
5 Attachment(s) 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!!! |
1 Attachment(s) OOOPPPS!!!! clicked one of the wrong pics!! Here's the other one I wanted!! |
I love the bone shaped box from Walmart. My husbands going to kill me if I don't stop buying her stuff. LOL |
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! |
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. |
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. |
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:yelrotflm 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. :p That's just too cute, I can't even see his head in the 2nd picture! |
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. |
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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!!!! |
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. |
I am definatly going to have to get the bone toy box, its soo cute! |
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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 :p ) 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! |
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