My Corgi tears toys up

I adopted my Cardigan mix from the SPCA, and he is awesome!!! One thing though....whatever toy he has, he totally tears to pieces and puts all the pieces in a pile next to him. Is this basic Corgi behavior, or is it just my dog?

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Permalink Reply by Jane Christensen on August 18, 2009 at 11:53pm

I would say the tearing up of the toys is typical behavior...I can, so I will. I don't know about the pile (maybe he's a neat freak), as mine leave pieces scattered all over the house . But then I have Pems and maybe they're different???

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Permalink Reply by John Wolff on August 19, 2009 at 12:05am

There's a reason why some dog toys are made of Kevlar.

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Permalink Reply by Sunni A. on August 19, 2009 at 12:17am

Eddy does this with tear-able toys as well. It's useless. We switched to.... anything BUT toys that can be ripped/shredded.

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Permalink Reply by Casey and Madonna on August 19, 2009 at 5:48am

Hi Patricia:

Casey does the same thing. I have bought something in the house and it was destroyed within minutes. He will be 2 years next month. I have just learned to buy him tough toys made of hard rubber or rope for large dogs. Casey really goes to town on his toys sometimes. Gotta love him........

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Permalink Reply by Bev Levy on August 19, 2009 at 8:42am

Yep, Sparty loves to tear a toy up in minutes then Izzy plays with the empty shell. We buy as cheap as possible and give them as a special treat since neither one eats the stuffing.

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Permalink Reply by Ginny and Diggory on August 19, 2009 at 8:47am

Ginny likes to gut her plushies too... like she's looking for the squeaky inside. All the toys we have are rubber now. It got old having to pick up al the fluff in the house.

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Permalink Reply by Derek on August 19, 2009 at 9:09am

My pure bred cardigan welsh corgi only lightly chews on her toys or gives them baths. My cardi mix rips them apart... he ripped apart this tiny teddy bear, it was Miranda's first teddy. Now it has one limb and one eye. I think it just depends on the dog. I would try rope toys or perhaps denim toys. They work well with aggressive chewers.

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Permalink Reply by Maddy & Keke on August 19, 2009 at 9:20am

I hope my will put all pcs in a pile too :)

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Permalink Reply by Maryann & Henderson on August 19, 2009 at 9:24am

Henderson's a real stuffie-killer, which is kind of a problem, because my greyhound Stephanie has a congenital abnormality (short crooked snoot with hardly any top teeth). Poor Steph likes to pounce on & shake stuffies and to play tug-o-war with Henderson, but as soon as the game's over, he rips the toy apart! He has his own "hard" toys, but prefers to be Destructo Dog with the other dogs' soft ones.

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Permalink Reply by Darius on August 19, 2009 at 9:53am

I think part of this behavior is so he can say "Look what I did! Isn't it awesome!?"

Like Derek said our little boy Morgan likes to destroy plush toys. I don't think it's a corgi thing as much as it is a dog thing. I've had several different kinds of dogs like german shepherds, labs, chow chows, and they all liked to rip apart the adorable fluffy things that I bought them.

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Permalink Reply by Beauty and the Beast on August 19, 2009 at 10:00am

Well, at least he doesn't try to swallow them or throws them all over the place like mine does. I would't mind Shiro have a neat pile of toy insides or cardborad box pieces next hom instead of that.