What are your dogs favourite toys?

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My rottie pup has plenty of toys but i think she's getting bored with them. She'd much rather empty the washing basket and hoard socks or remove the kindling from the firewood pile than play with her things. She's got all sorts.. teddy bears, tennis balls, rope tuggys, nyler bones, raw hide chews. My next investment is a kong.
But what are your dogs favourites? To give me some idea :D
 
Yellow Dog only has 4 toys :o Mr Pheasant which is a small pheasant that he won in a competition. It did squeak but he killed it :p Mr Giraffe (not a giraffe at all tbh) is a soft 'thing' with prongs on that squeak, a football and a tennis ball tho both balls are kept in the car. If I want to give him something to do I buy him a rawhide chew :)

He gets bored of toys that you fill with food and it's no fun trying to extract slober sodden, mushy food out of them before it goes off!
 
If I were you I would not allow the pup to pick and choose what she does and doesn't want to play with out of a myriad of toys - this is a process where you should be bonding with her and making you the Centre of Her Universe. So have a small number of 'toys' which you produce and you play with her/entertain her/stimulate her rather than let her self entertain. You make the game. Of course they are boring if they don't move and nothing happens when you're that age :p

If you need to leave her with something I would leave her with a frozen Kong with her dinner in it, a bone or stagbar or a Nylabone for teething, but I wouldn't call any of those things 'toys', more 'timewasters'!

My young one will do anything for a Starmark foam ball (any ball really but particularly them) which are indestructible and float, or a tug toy. But like I say, he is never allowed to go off and chew them, I decide when they go out, we have a game, they get put away.

This makes the toy in question really high value and this filters through to things like recall and other commands later.
 
At the moment an empty Irn Bru bottle

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Little man (Lakeland X) has his "favourite" toys and seems to favour one above all others for a short period of time before moving onto the next one, where he'll enjoy the same fixation.

Current favourite is a squeeky green coloured bone-shaped thing; other fave toys are the squeeky ninja turtle, the pink hen (noisy till he killed it).

You have to watch what you put on the floor coz he'll think its all for him to play with - last week I had a pile of washing to put into the machine and he ran out to the postman with a pair of my (dirty!!!) knickers in his mouth!!! Dunno what the postman thought!!!
 
The trainer has us playing with this toy, only outside, instead of a tennis ball. Zak likes fighting us for it and retrieving it. He is very focused when hehas a toy and ignores other dogs.
 
CaveCanem said:
If I were you I would not allow the pup to pick and choose what she does and doesn't want to play with out of a myriad of toys - this is a process where you should be bonding with her and making you the Centre of Her Universe. So have a small number of 'toys' which you produce and you play with her/entertain her/stimulate her rather than let her self entertain. You make the game. Of course they are boring if they don't move and nothing happens when you're that age
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Completely agree.

My dogs favourite toy is a football. So much so that I will wrap one up for him at christmas and put it under the tree. In the morning he has unwrapped it and popped it, but he always looks so chuffed.
 
My Dobes dont have toys, but they love it if I play ball with them, I usually crush a plastic water bottle with the top and ring off and they love those. Pip the Lancashire Heeler has quite a few toys but only gets to play with them occasionly so anyone we give her is the favoured one for the period she is allowed to play with it.
 
This manky thing. It's a heavenly hybrid between a ball and a raggy. Ball/raggy time is strictly limited or we'd both have a mental breakdown. I do, however, like to get him out when amenable guests come round :D

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NO toys here either:p I don't do house toys. Any foster pups have a box with select stimulating toys in, usually a ball and a raggy toy (I then play with them) with said toys, they are never just sprawled around. If Im busy they will get a pigs ear to chew or kong to empty to occupy them.

Adult dogs have nothing (I have some stag bars) when I feel generous I give them one each to chew on, then back in box till next time, otherwise the only thing I have that resembles a toy is a ball and ball thrower for the fields.
 
Don't get me wrong, she doesn't just have all these toys to pick and choose at at her will.. just when offered she seems bored with them that's all. OH gave her a plastic milk bottle tied to a rope this evening which was top notch for all of ten minutes.. now she doesn't want to know. She's far more food orientated.
 
Just keep playing with her like a lunatic :D make it very active and tease her with it.
Try one of those squeaky orange Lob-it space hopper things - I bought one for a friend's pup the other week and it was relegated to the cupboard after about an hour as it was pure torture by all accounts :p
 
Toast said:
Don't get me wrong, she doesn't just have all these toys to pick and choose at at her will.. just when offered she seems bored with them that's all. OH gave her a plastic milk bottle tied to a rope this evening which was top notch for all of ten minutes.. now she doesn't want to know. She's far more food orientated.
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Flavoured puppy Gnaw bones? stuffed kong, things like these can actually physically tire them too, all that chewing soothes and relaxes.
 
Dylan has two favourites 1) is a four paws bottle in fire hose, in 18months he hasnt killed it he carries it about and has a gnaw on it in the evening 2) is his kong, he carries this everywhere, even to "work" with my OH. He has taken to chucking it at us for a treat.Started one night, we put a treat in when he gave it to us, BIG MISTAKE. Watching TV and boosh kong in yer face!!!


Teal loves his squeeky kong tennis balls, but he only gets those on walks, and of course he know when I get a dummy out we are training/ hunting/ retrieving but he doesnt have any toys in the house per say. He might engage with Dylan if he has the 3ft rope for tuggys.

Buster has only recently understood toys. He likes playing tuggy with Dylan sometimes but would rather run around like a loon barking!!
 
Harvey goes mental over anything that squeaks. His current favourite is a little monkey that has a knotted body called Margaret :rolleyes::D He hates balls and rope tuggy things, prefers soft toys that have a squeaker :p He's also easily entertained with toilet roll tubes with holes in which have treats in and also newspaper 'sausages'. Little things please little minds :D
 
'Grousie' - which he does know by name:rolleyes: He has just got to have something he can carry around when in the house - otherwise, he'll start dragging his bed about, or will raid the laundry, or pinch your shoes! The downside is that occasionally you get battered around the head with Grousie when you fall asleep on the sofa.... never a good awakening. But preferable to being kicked in the head with your own shoe.

He also falls asleep with Grousie under his chin. I think he has issues:D
 
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Squeakfish is the only one left out for free access. I bought him not long after Dax arrived and apart from being a bit faded now he's still in one piece - there's a sort of ballistic nylon strap inside that stops him being tugged to bits.

Dax is surprisingly interested in footballs but pops them too quickly and I CBA to carry them to the park if they're going to be burst within five minutes!

Any other soft toys are shredded instantly, MIL buys them some cheap ones for Christmas just for them to destroy. :o

Other toys generally have a purpose - I had a dummy type thing that I taught D to retrieve with, a couple of tennis balls ditto, a rabbit fur tug which I could tie to a line to make it super exciting, now throwable/tuggable food bags. Kongs get used a few times a week to have normal meals from.
 
Ronnie's current favourites are half a tennis ball (minus the furry fuzz) and an old discarded fingerless glove found in the park, which he loves to kill, and kill, and kill...

Oh, and his Stag Bar of course.

He has a few balls, but after one or two throws he loses interest (same with any "throw" things). Kongs don't interest him much. Tuggy rope toys (usually old lead ropes) are great fun, but he has limited access to them, as there simply aren't enough hours in the day to play tug for as long as he would like!
 
Mine isn't a fan of normal dog toys. If we get him something designed for dogs he won't play with them.
He loves empty bottles, milk and pop ones. He has THE MANGIEST football ever. It's bald and he left it in the garden so it's nice and ripe. It has a hole in and we throw some biscuits in it :)

He can't have tennis balls as he peels the fluff of them :confused:
 
Mine doesnt really like toys or even Kong's :(.she loves a cuddly tortoise she has but only at bed time/ in her cage time. If it was solely up to her she would much rather play with her ball with a bell in it during the day. Im prone to headaches though so that is strictly for outside time, if shes inside and im busy i usually give her these hedgehog things you can get from the market. I am not sure what they are but you get hedgehog ones and brush and crocodile ones, she adores them.
 
Brochan definitely prefers balls (especially if they are noisy). Here are his favourites:

His ball and launcher.

His babble ball.

His medium size version of this.

I'm sure two more to add will be this (well, the squeaky Christmas pudding toy, not the rest of the stocking) and this. They are currently in his stocking and he'll not be getting them until the 25th of next month. Can't wait to see his reaction to them! :D
 
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