my poor pug is bored with her chews. she just holds her peanut butter rawhide under her paw and looks at me like, “this dumb thing…again?”
so, tell me about your dog’s favorite chews and toys.
(i have ideas for a dog toy design; but dang there is only so much time in the day. i will possibly follow through on this after the IM; in fact i have about 100 things to follow through on after the IM!)
thanks for any ideas. 
My wife’s flip flops.
pig ears
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Aside from my Asics Kayano’s when they are mad at me for not running with them…My dogs love ice cubes. It took me a while to convince them it was a treat, but now when ever I open my freezer they get soooo excited now. I trick them into hydrating before a long run this way.
They also chew on coconuts that fall in the back yard.
And of course each other and the neighbors cat.
They love pigs ears too…but they get the worst gas from those…so they don’t get them anymore.
If your looking for a training treat your little one will mow the yard and wash the car for one. If just for fun a thick rope knotted on both ends is always a winner.
Soup bones. They’re a round bone, about 4 inches long, hollow center is filled with marrow. They will work on these bones for days. When they get everything out, sometimes we put peanut butter inside. I used to be able to get them for free at the grocery store. Now I think they cost about .99 pound.
ask this guy,
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live squirrel
i watched my younger aussie tree a squirrel in the backyard the other day, then get the thing so scared that it fell out of the tree. she played with it (chomped on it) and tore up some hastas. had the time of her life until it stopped squeeking, squirming and trying to get away - and died. i’ve seen carcasses laying around, but that was the first time i witnessed her in action - pretty entertaining.
The Kong! Holly hell that thing is awsome! I loved to load those suckers up and watch my Ratters attack them for hours until every bit of goodies where gone.
Cow hooves. Okay, it’s disgusting, but they sell 'em at the pet store. Sometimes they smell like manure though.
My lab Wilbur loves anything that squeaks, but prefers tennis balls with a squeak in them. Even though he usually breaks the squeak in the tennis ball in 24 hours. My other two dogs Maloney and Seymour just want the toy that Wilbur has. As for Treats these boys will eat ANY treat we will give them. I just yell treat and they go crazy till I give them one.
cat poop
It’s disgusting for sure. But, they woudl raid the litter box for it.
Shortly after I decided my dogs wouldn’t lick me anymore.
My guy prefers to maul/chew on salty triathletes in the transition area after a race. He has this uncanny ability to single out people uncomfortable with big dogs (gotta love how dogs and babies can sense PHEAR).
Seriously, we sometimes give him rawhide chews but he ends up swallowing them and then frequently throwing them up (at that partially digested stage I’m actually not sure if was the chew or the ear of the triathlete he just tore up). He likes lots of different toys but the only ones that last more than 10 seconds are those made of solid rubber or rope or something. It is actually pretty funny when he picks up one of my kids’ stuffed animals and just looks at my kids while playfully tossing the stuffed animal into the air and catching it and my kids start screaming that “logan is going to eat sarah (or whatever the name of the toy is)!!!” and daddy needs to save her ;). You can almost see him laughing.
sounds like you have a high maintenance dog.
My pup is happy as long as he can lick his own balls and runs accross an occasional ass to sniff. Hell, he doesn’t even care if the puckered poo hole belongs to his own species.
Yep, what you need is an easy to please mutt – the only kind of dog worth having, IMO.
Greenies seem to go over well with my dog.
no…i love my dogs, they’re high maintenance, but i don’t care! they’re awesome!
My wife’s parents choc. labs love to chew on anything they can get ahold of. But their special gift is buckets full of deer scraps from the local butcher during hunting season. They do smell after that though.
Pig ears, but they don’t last long. My 2 year old GSP will play with it for a few minutes by tossing it in the air, pouncing on it, barking at it, etc before devouring it. The 14 year old just devours it.
Cow hooves are much longer lasting, but they can develop an unpleasant odor.
scott