[nagdu] toys

Fri Mar 27 11:42:41 UTC 2015

hi danielle. it is understandable then that u wouldn't want your dog playing with balls. i don't play tug with my dog either. she is too strong and i don't want her catching my fingers accidentally either. she does play tug with our pet dog though.

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> On 27 Mar 2015, at 00:12, Danielle Sykora via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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>>> 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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