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Town Hall Topic – Toys

• How many different types of toys do they have? (Kong’s, ropes, balls, stuffed ) What are their favorite ones?
• Are they destructive with their toys? How long do they last?
• Do you have a “Serial Stuffie Killer”? (Stuffed toys that are shredded beyond recognition) or do they play with them nicely?
• Do they with the toys by themselves or do they play with you or other dogs? If you play with them, What games do you play?
• Have you seen any toy aggressive behaviors with all toys or only with certain ones?

Dobedad

Abby has had toys of every shape and size. She lives to destroy her toys. If she can't destroy it, she doesn't want to play with it.

Her favourite sound is the tearing sound she gets from ripping open stuffed animals or breaking a tennis ball in two. She goes through Nylabones like they're a block of cheese. Give her a hard plastic ball thats too big to fit in her mouth, she doesn't want it. Give her a black kong with no treats stuffed inside and she wants nothing to do with it. Give her a red kong and its in pieces on the floor within ten minutes.

She can't play with rope toys because i've had to help the long pieces of string come out the other end and it is not pleasant.

Very difficult to keep her entertained with toys without keeping a very close eye on her every minute!

IloveMyDobie31

Apollo has tennis balls, stuffed animals, kongs (which he barely ever plays with), rope toys and this rubber toy that's like a cylinder with three ropes inside. His favorite toys are the stuffed animals and the rubber toy.

He is very destructive with his toys. If they can be ripped apart, he'll do it...and then he'll ingest the pieces. All of his stuffed animals are covered in duct tape until I give up and throw them out. I got him a big stuffed camel last weekend and it has already been decapitated, and all the stuffing has been removed from it's body.

He does not play nice with his toys at all. The first thing he does when presented with a new toy is to figure out the fastest way to destroy it.

For some reason, he reallllly loves to play fetch (always has since he was a puppy). He will bring a toy over to me and expect me to throw it...reminds me of the dog in Spanglish, it's not a good idea to throw it unless you plan on playing fetch for hours. The only things he really "plays with" on his own are his bones, which he'll just lay down and chew on. Occasionally, he and Big will play tug of war, which is really just Big hanging from the other end of whatever it is they're playing with, while Apollo walks around the room.

When I play with him, I'm forced to play fetch most of the time. I do play tug of war with him sometimes, but it always turns into fetch. When we play fetch I always make him sit before I throw it, and I have him wait until I say "Ok" before he can go get it.

I have only noticed really aggressive behavior with the stuffed animals, but I think that's because they can be more easily destroyed.

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2dobies

How many different types of toys do they have? (Kong’s, ropes, balls, stuffed) What are their favorite ones?
Darmok and Sasha have a toybox with lots of different toys to suit their different moods of play. They have red kongs,tennis balls,rubber ring toys, knobby-bumpy rubber toys,and a few stuffies & rope toys.
Are they destructive with their toys? How long do they last?
Do you have a “Serial Stuffie Killer”? (Stuffed toys that are shredded beyond recognition) or do they play with them nicely?
Sasha is extremely destructive w/ toys. The first thing she does is rip it apart to tear out the insides, or if it's rubber or plastic, she holds it with her front feet and chews it apart with her back & side teeth. She will spit out some pieces, and will eat some pieces. Ropes always turn into a mountain of strings, then she eats the strings! I try to keep rope toys to a minimum, and always watch for that point that they need to be tossed away.
Darmok is not a destroyer. She still has a stuffed toy doberpup we bought her when she was 10 weeks old, and she has had it for 3 years! I have had to sew it back together many, many times! She sleeps with it, and holds it in her mouth and almost goes into a "trance" just holding it there! It's really funny to watch her do that! Dar's favorite toys have to be 'put up' out of Sasha's reach. Dar also likes stuffed toys that talk. Her favorite is a Tickle Me Elmo that I picked up at a garage sale that talks and shakes when she bites on it!
Do they play with the toys by themselves or do they play with you or other dogs? If you play with them, What games do you play?
Dar and Sasha dont normally play with toys together, because it will eventually turn into an argument! They both get ahold of the same thing, and stand their ground, each one expecting the other to let go. Then come the growls, then the loud growls, then Dad steps in and growls "DROP IT", so end of game! Sasha likes to play tug with me, and will fetch and bring back a ball over and over. She also will play with the Rattie pup, and plays hard, but is still careful not to hurt her. Dar will play tug with me, but her favorite thing to play with me is "pick it up" where I drop anything from my keychain to my cell phone, and she runs to pick it up and hand it to me. It's all a game to her, so we do it a lot! Sasha and Dar LOVE to wrestle with each other, which does not involve a toy at all.
Have you seen any toy aggressive behaviors with all toys or only with certain ones?
Usually any new toy is up for grabs and my two will both want the same one at first. I never introduce just one new toy--they come in pairs or multiples so they dont have to argue over them.

CoAl-s-Mom

Cole has had a variety of toys and the only ones he likes are squeaky ones. He use to have them torn apart with stuffings everywhere so I quit buying them for a long time.
Within the last year or two he has stopped killing them. He now has 3 intact squeaky toys laying around the house.
He usually brings one to me to play. I throw it and he brings it back. Then after awhile he will just lay down with it and squeak it.
Outside he absolutely loves his frisbee. He could play catch all day if I let him.
Cole doesn't have any toy aggression. I think he knows if we have one of his toys he gets to go it and he loves that.

Lexus

How many different types of toys do they have? (Kong’s, ropes, balls, stuffed) What are their favorite ones?A few at a time at least, as she goes through them, she gets more. Her favorite toys are anything that she can squeak and play keep away from Harley.

Are they destructive with their toys? How long do they last?Depends on the toy, the stuffed squeaky balls last for quite a while, whereas toys with arms and legs go to the grave quickly!

Do they with the toys by themselves or do they play with you or other dogs? If you play with them, What games do you play?Lexus only likes to play with either her people or another dog, fetch, keep away, and tug are her favorites, no toy aggressitions here.

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crxman321

Holly has had so many different toys but I think theres only a few remaining!

TomAndKing

[*]How many different types of toys do they have? (Kong’s, ropes, balls, stuffed ) What are their favorite ones?

King has more toys than I can remember. Here are some of them. Kong, Kong Ball, Kong Frizbee, Several different large bones, a large pork hide bone, rope, Bottles after im done drinking the water, stuffed animals, football, soccer ball, a "Pup Treadz" tire, lazer pen(well thats for both of us) and my nephew...lol. I probably missed some, but thats all i could think of.

[*]Are they destructive with their toys? How long do they last?

It depends on the toy really. The Kongs(minus frizbee) and tire have lasted well over a year, but the frizbee lasts about a week. His bones last about a week, maybe two. The stuffed animals we call his "baby" because he just carries them around and lays with them.

[*]Do you have a “Serial Stuffie Killer”? (Stuffed toys that are shredded beyond recognition) or do they play with them nicely?

For the most part king just carries them around, but he someties will perform surgery and forget to put it back together...lol.


[*]Do they with the toys by themselves or do they play with you or other dogs? If you play with them, What games do you play?

King will play with humans, he loves that, but his toys are his toys when it comes to other dogs. WE play fetch with him, we do "play training" as i like to call it. We basically take his toy, and make a game out of him sitting, laying down, speaking, ect. He LOVES that. We also play tug of war with him sometimes.

[*]Have you seen any toy aggressive behaviors with all toys or only with certain ones?[/list]

He is only agressive with his toys around other dogs. He has shown no agression to humans when it comes to toys, or food for that matter.

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poodles&adobie

I have the “Serial Stuffie Killer”!!!!!!!! Cedric loves to kill his toys! More than once I have returned to the room to find stuffing strewn from one side to the other......mommy was NOT pleased with her little innocent faced boy with the stuffing stuck all over him.......but he sure looked funny!!!
He does have a few that he hasn't shredded but I'm sure they are on his list of things to do....He has a Souper Nylabone that he likes to chew on and it's to big and hard for him to swallow or destroy, he has a Paw Tracks tire that he likes to play with and a few other things but his favorites are the ones he can rip apart.
I'm sure my Toy Poodles plot against me, they will actually bring things he isn't suppose to have and put them next to Cedrics kennel so he can reach through and pull them into his kennel and destroy them! They brought him a travel pillow a few days ago and he managed to get it squeezed into the kennel and I had stuffing EVERYWHERE!!!!!
Dogs.....I can't live with them and I can't live without them!!!

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Dobe_Paws

How many different types of toys do they have? (Kong’s, ropes, balls, stuffed ) What are their favorite ones?

Ava has at least five of every toy imaginable except for those vinyl squeaky ones. She has a garbage can sized container that overflows with all the stuff we buy her. Some her her favorite toys are the ones that dispense treats and her giant stuffed snake.



Are they destructive with their toys? How long do they last?

It depends on the toy and if it has a squeaker, it depends on how long the squeaker lasts. Once the squeaker goes, it's all over for the toy.

Do you have a “Serial Stuffie Killer”? (Stuffed toys that are shredded beyond recognition) or do they play with them nicely?

It's common to find limbs of toys around here. Just the other day, I found the ears to a donkey in the kitchen

Do they with the toys by themselves or do they play with you or other dogs? If you play with them, What games do you play?

She'll play by herself or with Scoob most commonly. However, if she wants to play tug she'll bring one of her ropes over to you to start a game.

Have you seen any toy aggressive behaviors with all toys or only with certain ones?

Nope, she's not aggressive with her toys in any way.

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