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sanda
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posted May 17, 2004 11:38 AM
I have a 6 week old lab mix. So far she has a puppy Kong, twist rope with knots at the ends, and tennis balls. Looking for other ideas of home-made toys or creative ways for her to entertain herself while we are away. She is outside in an enclosed area (it's warm in SoCAl)has a big doghouse.
Thank you,
Sanda
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Ken Nielsen
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posted May 17, 2004 11:45 AM
How long are you away? My pup likes soft plush toys, but I made sure she had these since she came home, so she does not chew on them but plays with them. Some have noisemakers inside of them. A duck that goes quack quack and a little cow that give a ridiculous yell and moooooo is her favorite, she runs through the house with it in her mouth going mooooo.
No toy can really entertain a dog. Dogs need human interaction more than anything else.
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DaxAriel's toy
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posted May 17, 2004 11:45 AM
A kiddy pool filled with water, Knuckle bones, pig ears, all make good toys (plus the kiddy pool cools them off). The best toy ever invented for a puppy is "an owner willing to play with them".
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lou3
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posted May 17, 2004 12:04 PM
treat balls are great, my dogs have them in their kennels and they keep them entertained for hours.
Lou
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Ken Nielsen
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posted May 18, 2004 08:46 AM
The plush toys are available at 'Dog Toys.com' and are very cute. We have:
Violin
Guitar
Cell Phone
Duck
Pig
Cow
All which make the cutest sounds. Honey loves to run through the house as fast as she can and make the sound last from one end of the house to the other. It knocks me out... all I can do is just stand there and not believe it is really happening. She has her stuffed cell phone in her crate in the car, so while we are driving along all of a sudden she makes the phone ring, 'Honey, you have a call' I tell her.
Posts: 94 | From: Portland, Oregon | Registered: Apr 2004
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DaxAriel's toy
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posted May 18, 2004 08:25 PM
Ken, my dogs love thier plush toys too but I have found they are not suitable for unsupervised play. They love the stuffing right out of them!!! They have dismembered an entire jungle of fuzzy animals at this point. They can be playing nice and suddenly ripe the head off for no apparent reason.
A lab pup might play real nice for even a month or two and then the plush toy commits some act and has to be sacrificed to the stuffing gods. These are great toys for the pet stores - cute to look at - expensive to replace.
Posts: 748 | From: Edmonton AB Canada | Registered: Mar 2004
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ellierat
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posted May 18, 2004 09:22 PM
LOL Doglover, I just love the way you put that last bit, yes you are right there with the labs, but not till a fair bit older, around the 5-6 month age when they start to get their BIG teeth, till then they are pretty much ok. I made the mistake one day with Sophie when she was only a pup, I gave her a beanbag to sleep on. Well you can imagine, I nearly had kittens, worried if she had eaten any, and trying to clean up before she could get anymore!!!! You learn heaps from practical experience. What a dumb idea. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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I love my labs.
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Ken Nielsen
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posted May 19, 2004 09:02 AM
I have never had problems with my Spaniels taking their toys apart. 'Buddy,' whom I had for almost 17 years, had hundreds of stuffed toys, from friends all over the world, and never harmed one of them. Many of them have been inherited by his new little 'Sister,' the dog that I have now, and she is just in heaven with them, and like her predecessor, she never harms them and is left alone with them every day.
(I do remove the tags and labels from them.)
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Spyder's Pal
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posted May 19, 2004 04:37 PM
I have to chime in here.
Spyder has had plush toys since he was quite young (we call them "boopies", and they each have a name ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) ). I have only purchased 2 for him. The rest are from yard sales. I either get them for free, or for next to nothing. I don't just pick up anything, either. It has to meet certain standards, such as only fiberfilled, not bean filled, at least one long body part (ears, tail) for shaking to death. If it has button eyes, nose, etc., those are removed before I give them to him.
These are his favorite toys. He is a hunter by nature, I believe, as when he was only 6 months old, he brought us several rabbits, just under his own size, that he had shaken to death. He has also brought me several smaller bunnies, and a blue jay (and why he no longer goes after jays is another story ).
I am quite content to let him do what must be done to his boopies. I feel it's his instinct kicking in, and I would not want to deny him that. He has NEVER gotten into anything he shouldn't in my home or other people's homes, and obeys commands well. I like him trained, but not to the point of removing some of his basic instincts. After all, that's what makes him who he is. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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posted May 19, 2004 06:31 PM
No question there. It's cute to watch them with the plush toys. I'm just saying that they are a "SUPERVISED" toy and don't expect them to last forever if you have a puppy like mine.
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H2-One
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posted May 27, 2004 07:50 AM
My Lab has an acylic or nylon bone you can find at the pet store....after awhile you boil it in water and there is suppose to be a beef flavour that comes through.
Perrie also has stuffed animals which he has learned to be nice to. I could not give him anything that squeaks, has anything hard like eyes/nose because all he would be interested in is ripping the hard things out or off. When he was approx. 6mths I bought him a toy hamster that would roll around in a ball. Problem with that was, he would pick up the ball and toss it across the room. Finally after many yards of duck tape took out the hamster and let it move around the floor. Perrie learned from that how to be nice to moving objects...LOL
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