Toys for Staffies?

Pumpkinseeds

I'm asking here because I'm afraid of what I might see if I were to Google it.:( I want to get something for my father in laws dog and it needs to be something durable, I think. Any ideas?

honerbright

Poppy got a nylabone for christmas last year from her secret santa and it's lasting really well. She's a champion chewer and has broken loads of her toys but the nylabone has lasted for nearly a year through both her and Roisin both being crazy for it.

As for toys for playing with both mine go mental for rope toys. Some last better than others. I've gotten some that after a day are in little strings around the house and others are still going strong after months.

Whispered

Big thick rope toys always go down well with my boys. Anything that they can pull out of without ripping. And very cutely, Phoe loves anything that "wiggles" so think of toys with loads of legs etc

Kong toys are good and also something like a boomer ball is a great idea if they like chasing things.

A flirt pole is another thing my two enjoy, but it gets them very excited so if the dogs owner isn't great at teaching/ encouraging self control it might not be the best idea. It does tire them out though and a really fun way to spend a few mins.

Pumpkinseeds

Whispered wrote: »

Big thick rope toys always go down well with my boys. Anything that they can pull out of without ripping. And very cutely, Phoe loves anything that "wiggles" so think of toys with loads of legs etc

Kong toys are good and also something like a boomer ball is a great idea if they like chasing things.

A flirt pole is another thing my two enjoy, but it gets them very excited so if the dogs owner isn't great at teaching/ encouraging self control it might not be the best idea. It does tire them out though and a really fun way to spend a few mins.

Yeah, I probably wouldn't get the flirt pole as I know she was badly abused by a junkie owner who used to stub his cigarettes out on her and I don't want to over stimulate her. I don't think she has any behaviour problems though, as far as I've been told she's a big sweetheart. My father in law has had her for a few years and they're great company for each other.

Tranceypoo

Whispered wrote: »

Big thick rope toys always go down well with my boys. Anything that they can pull out of without ripping. And very cutely, Phoe loves anything that "wiggles" so think of toys with loads of legs etc

Kong toys are good and also something like a boomer ball is a great idea if they like chasing things.

A flirt pole is another thing my two enjoy, but it gets them very excited so if the dogs owner isn't great at teaching/ encouraging self control it might not be the best idea. It does tire them out though and a really fun way to spend a few mins.

What's a flirt pole? I would google but I'm slightly worried I'll get taken to some kind of porno site!!

Whispered

pumpkinseeds, if you're gonna be there for the giving/opening of the gift you might get a bit of fun out of a dog box. With a cardboard box stick some ripped up newspapers, bikkies, a few cheap toys etc, sellotape it shut and stab a few holes in it and let her go mad ripping it up finding her little prizes. My two love it! Really makes a mess but it's easy enough to clean a bit of paper and the fun they get out of it is worth it.

Tranceypoo It's an awful name isn't it!



You can buy them but with a dog who might wreck it easily it's probably cheaper to make your own. I just use an old sock with a ball in it tied to a stick. They wreck it every time we play with it (I've since gotten a better stick!!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ_m_MIk3v4

Ashbx

My two dogs destroy everything! I got some heavy duty rubber rings which were all linked together. They have lasted me 4 years now and they are the only toys (for me) that has lasted longer than 5 mins.

I got them in Petstop at the time. Over the years, Chip (my terrier who has teeth like a bloody T-Rex and chews through everything) did manage to chew through the middle ring so I had to throw that one out but the other two are still going strong and Chip still tries to eat her way through it daily!

peasant

Stagbar deer antlers ...a chew toy that lasts for months.

Carpenter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliotar

That is what I had to get for my fellow and it lasted months

ferretone

peasant wrote: »

Stagbar deer antlers ...a chew toy that lasts for months.

I wouldn't recommend those, tbh. Too many dogs have broken teeth on them for comfort, so I never give them

DBB

ferretone wrote: »

I wouldn't recommend those, tbh. Too many dogs have broken teeth on them for comfort, so I never give them

+1
My beautiful young GSD destroyed her teeth on Stagbars, and she's certainly not a hard chewer

Ashbx

Carpenter wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliotar

That is what I had to get for my fellow and it lasted months

Do you know if cricket balls are ok for dogs? My dogs found one on a walk and I let them play with it and bring it home. But one of them was chewing away into it and the smell of the inside ball was awful. It smelled toxic so I just threw it out to be safe.

I would be scared the sliotar would have the same filling as a cricket ball.

peasant

ferretone wrote: »

I wouldn't recommend those, tbh. Too many dogs have broken teeth on them for comfort, so I never give them

DBB wrote: »

+1
My beautiful young GSD destroyed her teeth on Stagbars, and she's certainly not a hard chewer

Good to know, I'll certainly keep an eye on it

Benno has had one of these ever since he got his proper teeth and enjoys it very much.

He's very selective in his chewing though. Some hard rubber bone that had lasted the other dogs for years he had in tiny little crumbs (and half eaten!) within a day. A cheap and nasty squeaky yoke which we thought would last all of 30 seconds on the other hand is still as new (and annoyingly still as squeaky) after months.

ferretone

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I'm asking here because I'm afraid of what I might see if I were to Google it.:( I want to get something for my father in laws dog and it needs to be something durable, I think. Any ideas?

Here's an idea of a toy that lasted all the way to the end of Lola's life. I've now passed this same one on to my neighbour's new Saluki/greyhound cross, as he had destroyed all the toys his former owner passed on, and he is loving this one still, without having managed to do any great damage: the Air Kong Squeaker Donut Ring.

He's only had that a week now, but that's a record for him, and he does really adore it. My Dobie Lola was pretty fond of that one too, and had it for the last 3 years of her life, so I would give that one a try

ferretone

peasant wrote: »

Good to know, I'll certainly keep an eye on it

Benno has had one of these ever since he got his proper teeth and enjoys it very much.

He's very selective in his chewing though. Some hard rubber bone that had lasted the other dogs for years he had in tiny little crumbs (and half eaten!) within a day. A cheap and nasty squeaky yoke which we thought would last all of 30 seconds on the other hand is still as new (and annoyingly still as squeaky) after months.

Your call, obviously. Not sure "keeping an eye on it" would do me. It's all great, saying everything he does with chewing is "selective" or "atypical". It's all great til the moment it's not!

My mother's last dog has recently been rehomed to my neighbour, through the proper channels pertaining to the rescue, obviously, and Mum had him having a stag-bar as one of his precious things. Neighbour and I immediately agreed, however much he liked that, it was not worth the risk.

I donated her one of Nyssa's bull-pizzles for Frankie: obviously that only lasted him half an hour (he's fifteen months old, to Nyssa's five!): about the same time the stag-bar lasted her range, though that gave a good boost of heat to her house!

There is just no way I'd take that risk, even if the dog has been using it without mishap for a while already, or have a friend's dog run that risk either. I'd have been saying the same to my mum, if I'd known she was using that, although her reaction when I said it was, sure he's young, they won't break young teeth! Luckily he'd been through the process of re-rehoming through the rescue already, so we could chuck the thing in the range!

I had no idea what you'd been through with these, DBB, and awfully sorry to hear it. :eek: I'll certainly inform my mum how wrong she is about these things and young teeth for future reference anyway :rolleyes: