Harley is a chewing machine. He’s already chewed through four knotted string toys, two knotted balls, four tennis balls…..and well you get the idea. Last week I picked up a new think rubber toy for $10 – he chewed through it in less than a week later. I’ve been picking up small bits of green toy all week. Thankfully he’s not actually eating it! Just shredding it into tiny pieces for me to pick up!
Today I went to the store and picked up yet another rubber toy which is hopefully completely solid. Perhaps this one will last longer. I marvel sometimes at Coco over at Dooce.com. (I also marvel at Chuck but mostly at the training Wow. Awesome.) But back to the toys – Coco’s squirrel toy, which was picture a long time back, is apparently still intact since it appeared recently in one of the photos. I find this very interesting. Harley would have disemboweled it on the second day. Kind of like he did to the couch when he had a people free moment.
My dear hubby jokingly suggested the tire off the van. I suggested we could give him the chew bone (as in real bone hard and heavy) back but honestly my toes are still stinging from when he dropped it down the stairs onto my foot. He’s a bit of a menace hauling it around and dropping it on people’s feet. I’ll probably give it back after he’s finished chewing the crap out of the green one he’s got at the moment. It will buy us a few days (till he drops it on me again) to find something alternative.
So we’re looking for practically indistructible dog toys. Any ideas?
KONG. It’s a type of red rubber thing that is for the dog to chew on, fetch, get stuffed with treats, ect.
But maybe you are thinking about it the wrong way? How about getting something for him to chew on that’s intended to be? Like a bone. We get Hobbit one of these cow bones things at the feed store, it lasts about a month. He chews and chews, its good for his teeth, if he swallows it- no big deal (unless you get the soft ones with marrow and then there’s a lot LOT of poop), and everyone is happy. When it gets too small throw away the nub (we do at 4 inches, it starts at about 13). You can get them cleaned white or still covered in meaty stuff (we get cleaned white in the summer and meaty in the winter because of the type of ants we have here in the summer). They sell pork ones at the grocer but those are actually hard on the dog’s pancreas as are ALL pork products.
It’s his nature, don’t fight it- direct it!
Anything by Kong. We have the Kongs that you stuff with treats, but ou dogs’ favorites are Kong Wubbas. They haven’t destroyed one of those yet. (And yes, our dogs destoy other stuff, too.)
Look for soup bones in the grocery store. Feed them raw, because when they’re cooked, they splinter easily. Good for Harley’s teeth, and he’ll love it. We give each dog a new bone once a week.
Thanks guys. We’ll have to look for a bigger bone. The one we have is only about 8 inches long. He loves to chew on it but he’s menace with throwing around! LOL