Someone else's toy is always the best, Belle arrived with a teething bone and every time I looked round either Tara or Mickey had pinched it. I bought Tara her own one and it has hardly been looked at. We also use various bottles and boxes and tubes with treats in. In our house kong's with pâté in seem to be popular but can also be thrown very hard. Tug toys are the ones Zak likes (it took the poor boy a long time to get the idea of toys) and he will even play tug with Tara. He really likes you to throw it in the air so he can pounce on it. Apples make a good toy for Tara as she throws them around the house till they are bruised and battered and then eats them.

They both like boxes and postage bags. If something comes in the post I open it after work and I have a dog audience waiting for me to give them the wrapping to shred. It may be that they remember Christmas and unwrapping presents.

Stumpy brings home toys from the beach, so yes nicked toys are the best apparently. All those homemade things sound brilliant. I am going to try the coke bottle one.

Jackie
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Branston is pretty much the same , unless its furry/ fabric he loses interest really quicky (unless its a football). I tend to buy childrens soft toys in the sales as they seem to be a bit more robust than normal dog toys; they seem to get dismembered in the first 5 minutes...in saying that i got a couple of pics of him playing at being a surgeon the other night...so much for robust

this is him trying to hide the evidence.... how guilty does he look!



and the "finished article" poor poor Manny!

silverhippo wrote:

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Someone else's toy is always the best

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Mason has A.D.D. when it comes to toys, except a moose which gives out a low grunt when squeezed - he acquired by nicking it from the toy stall at last summer's Edinburgh GAL show, forcing me to buy it.
It is regularly brought out when I have visitors. Nothing else keeps his interest!


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Tigerlily likes anything that squeaks! No squeak, no interest! Indiana likes ropes and as soon as I get home from work he insists on a tug of war. Oh, and any food wrapping that he manages to grab when I'm not looking. And toilet rolls... And kitchen rolls... Basically anything paper that can be shredded!

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Just be thankful he sticks to those household amenities, my cat only played with one thing...tampons
If she found one it was hers and you could guarantee she would bring it into the livingroom when I had guests
My most embarrassing moment came when I had left her at the cat and dog home for a week unaware she had one buried in her bed, imagine my horror when I returned to find bemused staff saying '..errr we found this?!?'

Rufus only likes toys that squeak too, but here's the catch, Stumpy is petrified of anything that squeaks, shakes so much he looks like he is fitting, tried to get under the bed, which makes Rufus squeak the toy even more, throwing it in the air and the like. Stumpy is so freaked out by certain noises we had to take the bell off the cats collar, as every time she moved he would leap into the air and scrabble about for a hiding place.

Jackie
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Brook and Eugene love furry squeaky toys. Although, Brook, being the delicate soul that she is, never breaks or busts anything. After about 2 weeks of having Eugene, none of the toys squeak!! But they are still intact and both of them sill like to play with them.

Pouncing is the best part for them!!

the only toys that last with my two are made of that hard indestructable rubber that kongs are made of, they have a huge black kong, a red rubber toy, two hard rubber balls, a slightly smaller red kong and a strange lattice work rubber ball type thing.

and every now and then they get a small rope toy of some description to demolish, i think the last one lasted a minute lmao

but they only get them when i can be bothered cleaning up after them cos i end up with tiny bits of thread ALL over the carpet

One of my biggest frustrations with Mason is that since he only gets offlead muzzled toy play outside isn't possible. I'm planning to move to a house with an enclosed garden in the next few months - I admit he is a big part of this decision - did anyone find they could teach older groos to fetch or play with balls after years of no interest? I would love to be able to wear Mason out like that!
Marie

Marie, rufus was 6 1/2 ish when we got him and he had no clue how to play. Took us donks to get him to to just be silly. He did a bit when he was in the RSPCA a very specific game with his Marie, now my friend who looked after him there. He bites your arm, not a prob as it's never sore and he loves it, but I am very playful with them myelf and play bow with them both and we all rough and tumble, OH does this too. it's Rufus's only way to play when he is not outside.

OMG you bore your own dog.... How bad is that, it's these greys y'see far to cool fer skool. I am glad Mason likes the belly raspberry too and we are not the only wackos that found that out in the first place, drives Stumpy mad, if he could giggle he would.