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Another toy ruthlessly dispatched. Any recommendations for something that might survive a small dog for more than a day or two?
Farewell foxy.
Kong stuff is pretty good.
Kong stuff is pretty good.
Not sure foxy-kong agrees.
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Tuffy Toys (see Mr Octopus) are the only Kelpie resistant (not Kelpie proof) thing we've found, and do resist sustained attack for longer than almost anything else...
The Chuckit (orange tube thing) is the longest surviving (2 years) toy they've had.
Friends had a staffy - used to wreck everything til they got hold of a boat fender. This sort of thing
https://www.piratescave.co.uk/seago-majoni-cylindrical-fender-size-1.html
Pretty tough 🙂
What you want is a stick. You can get them pretty much anywhere
I've got my dog a coffee wood stick.. It's holding up really well.
Kong have changed the thickness of FlexBall, a toy that would last a month of walks now barely goes 2 weeks. We are not impressed as they're £12 or more each.
The guaranteed indestructible toy lasted 10 minutes!
Have you considered a brick?
Ultra balls used to be great - our previous Labrador had one that lasted 12 years. We’ve had Esther the black lab for coming up 4 years and checking my Amazon account, have purchased a further 24 in that time, so an average of 6 per year, or one every 2 months- most have been chewed/split and some are simply lost at sea or in a remote island bog. Tennis balls don’t last a day.
We do have a few of the Tuffy Toys about, as they withstand the chewing - we have an octopus, shark and a lobster.
What you want is a stick. You can get them pretty much anywhere
And you can also have a dog suffer various injuries by getting the end of a stick down its throat. Possible fatal ones.
Kudos to Foxy for literally rolling his eyes.
Give the chap a Viking burial at least. It was an honourable death.
I eventually gave up hope of finding a toy that wasn’t destroyed in a matter of hours, or minutes if it had a squeaker, my dog had the finesse of a neurosurgeon in removing squeakers, best toy I found was a few old dish towels tied up in knots as he’d sit for hours patiently shredding them till he removed the knots, good for cleaning his teeth as well.
Golf balls used to last a week or so with my dog when I was a kid. She’d eventually chew through them, but nothing else came close.
As desperatebicycle says. Boat fenders. But rope ones.
it had a squeaker, my dog had the finesse of a neurosurgeon in removing squeakers
Ha, ours does this then scrapes out all the fluff until only the flaccid skin remains. Stuffing everywhere if he's left to his own devices.
I've just ordered a Tuffy toy for Bonniethedog who can shred anything in stopwatch rather than calendar measured time.
We'll see.
So far Mikey has managed not to surgically remove the squeaker from his Nerf rubber dumbell he got at Christmas (it's a floating setup inside the bell) or the paracord woven crab my daughter inadvertently got him.
He loves those Kong rugby ball things as well, they make very satisfying sad squeaks.
My best mate loves a toy with a squeaker, but he normally kills them in a short space of time. My wife saw an advert for an "indestructible" toy where they give you a free replacement if it doesn't last....
We gave it to him at 8:30 last night. The stuffing was removed within 20 minutes and the squeaker was out before 9pm!
Never found a toy that can’t be destroyed by a border terriers, usually within a minute.
Scooby balls available from B&M seem to do ok though.
They'll destroy anything with a squeak inside, and I won't give my dog anything string/rope based after a friend's dog nearly died due to swallowing a string and it wrapping itself all through his digestive system requiring extensive surgery.
Very hard rubber toys seem the only solution.
My parents last dog also destroyed toys in minutes. I found and bought something in tk maxx for Christmas one year that looked sufficiently indestructible and had a squeaker in it.
He managed twenty minutes without achieving much beyond getting it very slavery, during which he went from ecstatic to not at all happy and abondoned it for easier quarry. then every time he found it or heard it squeak in the toy box he'd just snarl at you until you put it away.
There are only two toys that lasted our two, a Jack Russell and a Fell Terrier, more than a few days, and they each lasted a few years; Squikky Pig and Rubber Chicken. Squikky pig lost his squik after a couple of years but carried on without complaint...
Each were made of the same stuff; very tough rubbery stuff.
I bought a big knotted rope ball from somewhere....about the size of a melon. Randal loved it and lasted about 6 months getting gradually smaller and smaller....he even carried the last few threads around for a bit 😂
Anything else he either doesn't care about (e.g. Hard plastic chews) or destroys in minutes.
Oh, and one of the people who run the charity rescue place he came from recently threw a stick for her dog....£7,000 vet bill to put his throat back together 😥
@Sandwich have you tried the scoobydoo squeaky balls that BnM sell? All our kong balls eventually die but that one is still going pretty strong, he doesnt have unlimited access to it but still. They do a bigger size too which is still going strong and is free access. Only £2 too!
The squeak would lead to axe murdering by Mrs Sandwich 🙂 (she's squeaker averse).