[nagdu] toys

Fri Mar 27 11:48:04 UTC 2015

I have taught my boy to play tug without mouthing. If he got my hand while tugging, the toy went away and I yipped like i had been hurt. He very quickly learned and we now enjoy occasional games of tugging. This is how I curbed his mouthy nature in general and we only have to revisit it with people who play a little too rough with him. 

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> On Mar 27, 2015, at 7:42 AM, Pam via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> Julie
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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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