[nagdu] toys

Fri Mar 27 00:12:56 UTC 2015

My school discourages playing tug and playing with balls and frisbies.
I am very strict with the no balls or frisbies thing. I compete in
throwing events on my high school trak team and it is essential for my
dog to ignore tennis and lacrosse balls, shot-puts, and the frisby
like discus. He still seems interested in balls though. I also don't
play tug because my dog tends to get mouthy when he is excited and he
is probably stronger than I am *lol*. He has destroyed a furry kong
toy, rubber chicken, furry toy with a water bottle inside, several
stuffed squeaky toys he stole from the pet dog, and a rope bone. The
five dollar Walmart pig has ironically survived longer than any other
(though the squeaker stopped working after two days) and is my dogs
favorite toy. Nylabones are one of the two toys I leave out for my dog
all the time. I have several in different places throughout the house
so it takes several months before they start to get to sharp. The kong
is great to keep my dog occupied on his own; all the other toys he
likes me to play with him. My new favorite chew is the Himalayan Dog
Chew which takes my dog over two hours to completely consume, a half
an hour longer than an antler and he can eat the entire thing without
it becoming a choking hazard.

Danielle and Thai
On 3/26/15, Louise Johnson via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi well Kiara likes Nyla bones of all shapes and they have to be bigger as
> she chews hard.
>
> She also likes goughnut and goughnut stick. We use these toys to play toss
> and this is a wonderful game for a raining day. With the goughnut stick we
> also in play time play tug with it and it is a toy that we find two dogs
> playing tug with also.
>
> Hope this is any help I am enjoying what other dogs play with as I am
> always
> looking for something harder as Kiara chews through things easier then my
> last two dogs.
>
> Louise and Princess Kiara
>
>
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> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of minh ha via
> nagdu
> Sent: March 26, 2015 1:00 AM
> To: Steven Johnson; NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide
> Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] toys
>
> My guide's puppy raiser bought her a bumi tug last year for our one year
> anniversary together. She's absolutely obsessed with it. It's a tug toy
> that's made out of a really thicker rubber material and it sort of looks
> like the letter S. Viva plays with it all the time and it's still in pretty
> good condition except for the teeth marks. I was told that GDB gives out
> bumi toys now for the tug toy because it's a lot safer than the rope toys
> they were giving to graduates before; I'm not sure how accurate this
> information is though.
>
> Minh
>
> On 3/25/15, Steven Johnson via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Has anyone heard of, or has the BUMI toy?
>>
>> Just curious,
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Julie J.
>> via nagdu
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 3:02 PM
>> To: Aleeha Dudley; NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of
>> Guide Dog Users
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] toys
>>
>> I have one of those Wal-Mart pigs too!  It's the only Wal-Mart toy
>> they didn't destroy.  I bought one of the Kong squeak toys a couple of
>> weeks ago.
>>
>> I thought it was going to work out, but nope.  Jetta ended up
>> destroying it in three days, I think.  At $11, three days is not long
> enough.
>>
>> I still like the JW Pet Cuz and Ruffians.  The original Kongs have
>> done well here.  The Monster Mouth is still holding up extremely well.
>> We also have the Invincible Chain toy.  The middle ring gets chewed up
>> promptly, but the outer two rings stay together for years.  They are
>> probably 6 inches across, so plenty big enough to be played with even
>> though they aren't chained together anymore.
>>
>> Monty has calmed down a lot on his chewing.  He can have tennis balls
>> and stuffed toys, but rarely gets them because Jetta chews too hard to
>> have those things.  since they usually play with toys together the
>> toys have to work for all of them.
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Aleeha Dudley via nagdu
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 2:49 PM
>> To: Sherry Gomes ; NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of
>> Guide Dog Users
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] toys
>>
>> Hi,
>> My boy is rather spoiled, and gets bored rather easil, so he has a ton
>> of toys. The Seeing Eye gave us a Kong and a nyla bone. Since then, I
>> have collected a bunch of Kong speak toys, which have squeakers that
>> cannot be ingested. Certainly, if your dog is a strong enough chwer,
>> he will pull the toy apart, but I've found that Dallas cannot do this.
>> I have several of the KOng squeeze toys: a ring, a bone, a bowling
>> pin, and a stick. He also has a tug toy, a Kong Wubba, two Nerf
>> footballs, and an off brand pig that I bought at walmart for five
>> bucks. I'm interested in what others have found.
>>
>> On 3/25/15, Sherry Gomes via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> My school gives us a tug toy and a nyla bone, and they recommend
>>> kongs and things like that. They don't actually recommend squeaky
>>> toys, but I've given them to my last three or four dogs and all the
>>> dogs have loved them.
>>> They're
>>> plush, like a kid's stuff animals, but they have the squeaker in them.
>>> You just have to monitor how the dog plays with them because the
>>> stuffing and squeaker should not be ingested.
>>>
>>> Sherry
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Pam via
>>> nagdu
>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 1:34 PM
>>> To: nagdu at nfbnet.org
>>> Subject: [nagdu] toys
>>>
>>> hi all. so just wondering what toys u all have for your dogs and if
>>> there r any specific toys your schools use or any they don't allow.
>>> the school here uses nila bones and kongs which i have for callie. i
>>> also have a couple of other tug toys too as we also have a rescue dog.
>>> i did get a squeaky toy for callie but it drove me mad lol
>>>
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