Two months old Kong Large Extreme... Bye bye toy... - Page 1

In mid December I bought a toy for Becky, a Kong Large Extreme, I was super surprised because it looked prety ok, not even a bit mark, and she was always chewing the toy, she loved it... well yesterday I was cleaning the balcony and inside the dog house there was the mortal reamains of the toy...

 

Bye Bye toy 

 

LO! I have a few of those too...

Before she got her adult teeth in...

 

...and after!

 

Did you find the rest? I had to pay DM 800 for surgery a couple of years ago...

Ana, never leave your dog unsupervised with toys - to the first it´s dangerous, and to the second the favorite toy of a dog should only be used for training as reward/stimulation.

Kind regards!

Susie, Star is my champion chewer. She seems to have a cast iron gut, because I find the bits of the toy afterwards in her poop. I do supervise her with the toys, but if she tears a chunk off, and I approach her to get it out of her mouth, she swallows it. I've seen it happen SO many times, I'm almost sure it's deliberate. She will be happily chewing on the piece of rubber, then she sees me coming towards her, and before I can get there...(gulp!)...down it goes! The only really safe chew toy seems to be elk antlers and large pieces of marrow bone. Here's what happens to a Bad Cuz, one of the few toys that lasts for more than a couple of weeks. I now cut the feet and the horns off before I give it to her to keep her from swallowing them, but eventually she will start chewing on the squeaker hole (after removing the squeaker) and tearing bits off that. At that point the toy goes in the trash can...

New Bad Cuz

Same toy 2 months later:

Sun, as long as you interact with your dog, there is no time for her to chew or to tear bits off.
"Toys" are mine, and the dogs are "allowed" to play with me and "my" toy.

I really learned this the hard way...

Sunsilver LOL do we have dogs or gators?... or maybe T-rex?... Why don't we give then pure money to chew on? at least we wouldn't have the trouble of allways searching and buying toys...

Susie, we do keep her favorite toy (the discusting tug she had as a puppy) and that is the special one, but we found out that if she is buisy chewing some toy she will scratch herself less so the vet adviced to leave her with a resilient toy to keep her buisy, she also have a ball (similar material to the extreme kong, but blue and white) but Isa also likes the ball so Becky doesn't allways have a chance with the ball...
The ball is also falling a part but only small bites at a time and we see then in the floor, I found a big bit of the kong in Isa mouth and were able to take it from her the small bites were no were, problably will see then in Becky's or Isa poo... If it doesn't appear we will call the vet...
Flávio prefers the classical training, no toy or food, we uses the emotional reward, (we don't exactly agree, but is his dog) but at the end of every session he will play a lot with her with the special tug, she loves searching for it and fetching it... So the "spetial" toy is safe and is totaly our toy =)

DO NOT allow your dog to chew on the toys...Even KONGS which are good toys...They are not Doggie Proof...They will all be chewed up and will be swallowed...Please be very careful with these...

As Susie says...They are a toy to be controlled by the handler...You let the puppy or dog to play with you...with the dog...YOU control it...

Even after playing many times with a KONG the toys will become destroyed so be careful and check the toys out before playing...

~Bob~

Q Man as I said in Becky's case is more a health issue than playing, he have seen a decrease in her scracthing if she has something to chew... She does have really bad allergies, but the chewing keeps her mind ocupied and away for spending all day scratching herself... So I do think it's better to take the risk of her eating something she shouldn't than letting her "eat" herself and infecting the skin.

I know that this show a lot of stress in her, but with Flavio's job changing, my schedule at work also changed, we are moving to another house next week, so needless to say our dogs are stressed out (surprisingly the cats are much worse, sheding, a lot mor meows and wowings, poor babys)... The new house has a bigger terrace, hopefuly Mic (aka Houdini) proof, and they will be a lot better then now, also we hope to have everithing setle soon and our rotine back to normal... until then, Becky will have to keep having toys to chew up =S

Give her something to chew on that isn't going to come apart and cause a problem...A good "Shank" bone from your butcher is a good natural chew toy..."Kongs" are a great toy but as you know they'll come apart and will be swallowed and be ingested...This can cause a problem that you'll have to take her to the vet's and be operated on to have removed...
It's your dog and you know best but I don't like to see something that will hurt your dog...and from experience I know dogs can and will chew about any toy...I have had the 10" Hard Balls...which are a good toy but my dogs have destroyed a number of them...I just bought a large toy that's shaped like an "Egg" thinking it might be better...but it took less then an hour and my dogs had penetrated it and are pulling pieces off it...So please be careful and don't just leave any toys with your dogs because they are very strong chewers...

~Bob~

Kong won't be much help with her chewing if she has to get surgery or dies because of it.