Please recommend me a ball for a Border Terrier

[Penny-lope]

As the thread title suggests, I am looking for a decent smallish ball for a Border Terrier that will not get chewed and burst within the first two minutes!

I have tried several different 'tennis' type dog balls, but all are destroyed within minutes (not that he minds)

Edited by Penny-lope on Tuesday 5th February 17:25

[rudecherub]

Without hesitation Good boy Tetra grip




http://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Boy-Tetra-Grip-Dog/dp...

They are great.

You can pick them up with a stick, and then throw them too!

[JDRoest]

Dunno if they are in the UK, but look for a brand called Kong. We've just bought a couple of toys for our pit bull, and it's been nearly 3 days and they are still in one piece.

(Have to admit that he got a bit irritated by a reward toy yesterday (made by Kong), and after 45 minutes, he brought the toy to me and the wife in a plaintive "help me" as he could not get the reward out.)

[Antony Moxey]

You could try actual tennis balls instead. Our collie has had the dog ones and he destroys them literally within minutes, but with real tennis balls he keeps them for ages.

[Willy Nilly]

My late JRT would play with a football for ages. Because it was too big for his jaws, it would shoot off when he bit it and would then chase off after it. He'd entertain himself for ages like that. Eventually he would get a tooth into it and it would be in bits within seconds.

[rudecherub]

Willy Nilly said:

My late JRT would play with a football for ages. Because it was too big for his jaws, it would shoot off when he bit it and would then chase off after it. He'd entertain himself for ages like that. Eventually he would get a tooth into it and it would be in bits within seconds.

Takes me back, had a couple of borders, I went through loads of mini rugby balls, they'd chase and bring back, rinse and repeat many times, eventually the balls would burst through wear and tear.

Then I discovered the Good Boy rubber toy, which are pretty much ideal, they bounce randomly like the rugby ball, and they don't burst, and stand chewing.

Right now I have a Jolly rescue dog, ( jack russell x collie ) chewing on the larger sized model



It doesn't care it's supposed to be for medium to large dogs.

fetches it just fine.

[AdiT]

Antony Moxey said:

You could try actual tennis balls instead. Our collie has had the dog ones and he destroys them literally within minutes, but with real tennis balls he keeps them for ages.

Agreed. Get proper tennis balls (Slazenger, Wilson, Head, etc) from a sports shop. Mine destroys those doggy ones in min's; It takes him ages with a proper one... Still kills it eventually.

[snowmuncher]

Rope toys seem to get the paws up




Kong's are good



All get destroyed eventually

[Steve_W]

Lovely dog Penny-lope!

Our nearly 2 year old BT loves Kong Air tennis balls:

http://www.pet-supermarket.co.uk/Products/CN47004/...

We get the extra small ones that are a bit smaller than a golf ball (pack of 3 - £1.87) - she defurs them and pulls the squeaker out, but then just uses them as jaw exercise - by then they look like a large malteser!

We were told not to give real tennis balls to dogs due to some chemical in them - not sure how true that is, or what the potential damage is, but you see plenty of dogs with them!

Gratuitous BT picture - Auntie with bone, our girl mid picture and her sister on her back:

[Superficial]

Another vote for the kong air tennis balls here, the squeak is broken within a couple of minutes but the balls themselves last a couple of months before they're 'killed'.

[robsav]

agree on the proper tennis balls. I get them out of sports direct - 5 slazengers for £3,happy days!

[RB Will]

another one to say use proper tennis balls. The dog ones are usually hard crap rubber that cracks after 5 mins a propper tennis ball is much more elastic and has the fuzz stuck on better and lasts for weeks. They are cheaper than kong balls too.

[AdiT]

robsav said:

agree on the proper tennis balls. I get them out of sports direct - 5 slazengers for £3,happy days!

You were done! Last ones I got was 3x 5ball tubes of Head balls for £10 in TK Maxx

[RB Will]

you were done! Because he could have got 15 balls for £9 (60p per ball) unlike your rip off £10 (66.6p per ball). I got 24 slazengers for £15 at Sports Direct a few weeks back(62.5p per ball)

Edited by RB Will on Friday 8th February 15:36

[Turn7]

Agree with the others, buy quality tennis balls - my Fox Terrier will strip the green off them but after that they last for ages.

Bounce better too.

[durbster]

Superficial said:

Another vote for the kong air tennis balls here, the squeak is broken within a couple of minutes but the balls themselves last a couple of months before they're 'killed'.

That surprises me because we got one of these last weekend and it lasted less than ten minutes.

The Kongs you put food in have lasted for months with our Staffy but the Kong Air tennis ball was destroyed in minutes. Bit of a surprise when their other stuff has been so durable but I'd say it lasted no longer than a standard tennis ball, but cost quite a bit more.

[RB Will]

I found the kong balls last a bit less time than a regular tennis ball. They are better than your normal sort of dog tennis ball but the fuzz on the outside comes off after a bit of chewing.

[AdiT]

RB Will said:

you were done! Because he could have got 15 balls for £9 (60p per ball) unlike your rip off £10 (66.6p per ball). I got 24 slazengers for £15 at Sports Direct a few weeks back(62.5p per ball)

Edited by RB Will on Friday 8th February 15:36

Doh! I read 3 balls for £5.. Long day I guess.

[Bonefish Blues]

We went for one that our Apso couldn't actually get in his mouth.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0051GGBH4/ref=...
Makes a bit of a racket on our hard floors but he careers around after it like an idiot. You will believe a dog can achieve lift-off oversteer when cornering

[Karyn]

We got one of those boomer balls.

Don't use it much though - the amount of slobber it generates is both amazing and revolting... Literally, puddles of it!

Tennis balls - pet or sport - last less than ten minutes.

Smaller hard solid rubber balls, whilst still eventually reduced to mis-shaped non-spherical lumps within weeks, last longer than tennis balls. We get them from Pets at Home, or, bizarrely, Wilkinson's. Noisy when they bounce on the floor, though. Neighbours must love us!