Durable dog toy?

[Mattt]

Can anyone recommend a durable toy for a (chunky) labrador?

Anything I get usually ends up pulled to pieces within a few hours. Tennis balls last minutes!

He currently has a toy stuffed tiger, which I think he has confused as his puppy - as he's only pulled one of its' ears off.

[anonymous-user]

I make my own! Stuff old toys inside an old sock, sometimes with an empty plastic bottle inside. They arnt any more durable than the bought ones but they are free!

[Jasandjules]

Rope toys. Thick bits of rope that look like they can be used to moor a battleship.

[SmokinV8]

no toy is dog proof, once you have finished playing with the dog and toy, take it away untill next playtime
left with the toy they will destroy them, maybe try a boomer ball but make sure you go for the next size up from the normal size ball that they dog has, it is a pursuit toy.

[RB Will]

I want to know ho makes the best tennis balls.
Summer does not chew them but they just fall apart naturally after being thrown 16million times a day.

The Kong ones seem to last a couple of weeks each, the hard rubber dog ones a few minutes

We found a ball on a walk a few months back and it is still going strong! No markings on it though so don't know where to get a replacement from.

[Adenauer]

Jasandjules said:

Rope toys. Thick bits of rope that look like they can be used to moor a battleship.

My Retriever will demolish/eat a thick rope toy with two hours, you then have the added bonus of being allowed to pull string out of his bum each time he has a poo over the next few days

[Roop]

One of my wee Yorkies has teeth like a Piranha and shreds any toys big or small. The only one that has survived so far is one of those "Kong" brand balls. Despite repeated efforts to mash it, it's just got a few dints in it from her teeth.

[JamieBeeston]

My Pet Superstore (run by a PHer) sell some tough dog toys. I don't have a dog myself, but have heard good things about the Tuffy range.

[therealpigdog]

Stag bars.

[k22wes]

Yep stag bars are the only thing that lasts months with my lab, anything else is distroyed in minutes.

[200bhp]

Try anything made by Kong. You can get them online or in Pets at Home. Red coloured rubber which is very tough.

[pikeyboy]

Best thing I have is a hard plastic ball. Its so big it barely fits in their mouths and it screw together so you can fill it with treats. Kongs are goob but do wear out. Anything lasts minutes

[Karyn]

RB Will said:

We found a ball on a walk a few months back and it is still going strong! No markings on it though so don't know where to get a replacement from.

I find this! Any toy they find when out and about seems to last for ever, but obviously I have no idea where it was bought from so can't get more of them, but any toy that is bought for them, whether similar or not, lasts about 20 nano-seconds!


I've just resigned myself to the fact that no dog toy is "durable" - what they mean by durable is, "this toy will last ever so slightly longer than one made out of tissue".

There's a blue plasticy/rubber range (name escapes me) that are the best that we've found. They do a frisbee, a flat chew bone, a treat-cross thingy... Or there's kong, obviously.

[Xtriple129]

We have two dogs who delight in demolishing EVERY toy given to them... in fact, they seem to see it as their duty. One of them is obsessed with toys and the other with food so foody gets hide bones ( the last one was a metre long and took him weeks to get through) while the toyy one has a red ball that has deied her greatest efforts. We are very careful now with toys with her as the last rubber bone she had, she chewed the knuckle end off and swallowed....

Three weeks in and out of the dog hospital and a five grand bill was the result of that so now nothing that she can destroy or swallow.

[3000GT ANT]

My staffie likes the kong toys, abit pricey but well worth it. He has two since he was a puppy and they have lasted through the teething stage, whereas my dining table legs havent!

The best bit about them is you can also put treats it them so it keeps them happy for some time. The only down side i have found is, once they get their sloppy chops round them the toys become like slippery bars of soap and you end up with dog spit on your hands!

[Karyn]

^^^ Sounds familiar!

Sloppy toys FTW!

[ehasler]

Karyn said:

There's a blue plasticy/rubber range (name escapes me) that are the best that we've found. They do a frisbee, a flat chew bone, a treat-cross thingy... Or there's kong, obviously.

That sounds like the Zogoflex range? I sell these online, so i you click the link above in JamieBeeston's post, or click on the link in my profile, you'll find them there. They are tough as dog toys go, and very few get sent back so they're definitely recommended.