Beaver Habits?

[Il Duce]

There is always a little bit of hope LOL

[Guest Jamie]

... But he plays with fuzzy toys a little different than earlier dogs. He will repeatedly set the toy down in the middle of the floor, back up a few feet, then bark, pounce, and shake hell out of it. Over and over. Or set it down in one room, go into the other room, then come barreling back in to pounce on it. The doggie equivalent of target practice!

Got a hound/pitbull mix that does the same thing with a tennis ball... Only at some point in there, she picks the ball up, then pops it.

We've gone through a lot of tennis balls since she learned that trick.

I've wanted to buy a couple of those stuffed dog toys they keep advertising on the TV as "indestructible" just to see how long they last. And then return the remnants back to the company when my 7 have destroyed 'em, to see what they think.

[Guest mustangdave]

LOL...again...late to the party...minds in the gutter after the Selma Hayak thread....oh momma

[Guest mahahn]

Got a hound/pitbull mix that does the same thing with a tennis ball... Only at some point in there, she picks the ball up, then pops it.

We've gone through a lot of tennis balls since she learned that trick.

I've wanted to buy a couple of those stuffed dog toys they keep advertising on the TV as "indestructible" just to see how long they last. And then return the remnants back to the company when my 7 have destroyed 'em, to see what they think.

It's called a "KONG". Put some peanut butter inside, keeps 'em busy for quite a while. A friend of mine's pit couldn't bite through it.

[Guest Jamie]

It's called a "KONG". Put some peanut butter inside, keeps 'em busy for quite a while. A friend of mine's pit couldn't bite through it.

Got one of those too... It's chewed to pieces. They get ahold of the edges, then tear off little bits.

Besides, Lucy doesn't seem to like the Kong as well as the tennis balls or stuffed toys. I guess it just doesn't bounce right when she throws it, or tear/pop in a satisfactory manner when she decides to "kill" it.

The one toy that they all seem to like the most, and that lasted the longest, was the ones we found that were basically made from fire hose. They stayed intact ( mostly ) for months, and seemed to remain entertaining for a couple of years, even in their abused final state. The problem though is that I haven't seen them where we got the original ones in a long time now, so there haven't been any replacements bought.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

Yes tennis balls are fantastic inexpensive toys for the dogs that like em. That's some jaws on your dog to routinely pop tennis balls.

Have had two mutts with serious tennis ball fetishes. Wear all the fuzz off a tennis ball til it is a pitiful bald specimen. The tennis balls sold specifically as pet toys on the pet aisle of stores, are of lower quality than ordinary walmart bulk-pack real tennis balls. My dogs have popped pet-aisle tennis balls, but I don't recall em popping ordinary tennis balls. Of course, I've never had a bull dog.

My old lab would habitually dribble a tennis ball. Repeatedly throw it down on floor or concrete then catch it on the way up. The two coonhounds don't do fetch. Fetch is beneath their dignity. They will occasionally steal a tennis ball and run playing keep-away just to annoy our tennis-ball-addict pound pup.

My dogs will immediately tear up anything made of rubber or plastic, as you describe. Work on a weak edge until it is torn to little bits. I threatened to make an indestructible stuffed toy for the lab-- A brick with all-weather carpet glued on. Anything less would not have been indestructible.

They like em most until the squeaker wears out or is removed, but paradoxically the favorite surgical operation is the squeaker-ectomy-- Work on the toy until the squeaker is removed. The squeaker is like the prize in a cracker jack box.

Dogs sometimes have good memory. The old lab got a real nice stuffed bear for her first birthday party, whose squeaker made an unusual low-pitched quack sound. She toted that thing around for at least a year, until all that was left was about a 2 inch scrap of fabric, but it was still her favorite toy. Never saw another stuffed toy just like it as a replacement. I video taped her first playing with the toy, then years later when she had got real old, I couldn't play the tape with the sound up, because she would hear that low-pitched quack on the TV and start whining, searching around all day over the house for her toy.

[Guest mosinon]

Got one of those too... It's chewed to pieces. They get ahold of the edges, then tear off little bits.

Besides, Lucy doesn't seem to like the Kong as well as the tennis balls or stuffed toys. I guess it just doesn't bounce right when she throws it, or tear/pop in a satisfactory manner when she decides to "kill" it.

The one toy that they all seem to like the most, and that lasted the longest, was the ones we found that were basically made from fire hose. They stayed intact ( mostly ) for months, and seemed to remain entertaining for a couple of years, even in their abused final state. The problem though is that I haven't seen them where we got the original ones in a long time now, so there haven't been any replacements bought.

Like this?

[Guest Jamie]

Like this?

That's it, except the ones we found had a rope "handle" on one end.

... and weren't but about $5.