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Comment by Kaleena on February 25, 2008 at 9:29pm

have you tried a regular kong?..without legs... i bought my boyfriend's dog a big kong to keep him busy so he wouldnt bother me to play while I was doing homework, and that thing is a lifesaver. He chews and chews and chews, and the thing looks brand new still. oh yea...he's a 60 lb pit bull... =) and the kong is very much alive!

Comment by Linda W. on February 25, 2008 at 1:25am

Hi, it's true that Goodwill has stuffed animals really cheap. (When your dog's past the puppy stage, this might be useful.)

Every time I go to Goodwill, I buy 3 or 4 new stuffed animals for 50 cents apiece. I let my dogs play with them until they start pulling the stuffing out (this takes a few days or few weeks, or never, depending on the toy). Then, I grab the injured toy and throw it on the pile of other injured toys. Every so often, I sew up the holes and put those toys back into circulation.

Brianna, my chihuahua-corgi, likes to chew the eyes off if they're hard. We have a lot of blind stuffed animals.

I've started buying some dental rawhide chews -- C.E.T. HEXtra by Virbac. Both dogs will keep busy working on these for a while. Both dogs' breath improved noticeably.

My dogs also ((LOVE)) these rawhide roll-ups that are wrapped in dried chicken. They're about $8 for a package of 8, but it keeps them busy for a while.

There are also some compressed rawhide bones (they're formed into a stereotypical 'bone' shape). These are almost too hard for my dogs, and consequently, they seem to abandon them after a while.

Comment by winnie_the_dog on February 24, 2008 at 11:06pm

haha, yes we are on the second key ring (which she broke in a few hours yesterday) and she does love a good bully stick. We have saved the keys from the rings but winnie has quite the destructive talent.

Plush doesn't stand a chance, but we have been getting some of the balistic nylon toys (wubba, bamboo man) but those don't last very long either.

Thanks for the suggestions. in the last weeks she has gotten 4 adult teeth on top and 2 on the bottom break through.

Comment by Ginny and Diggory on February 24, 2008 at 10:32pm

Have you tried bully sticks? Unlike rawhide, they're more digestible. They take Ginny quite a while to chew through and she really seems to like them. She loves "flossies" too, but she chews through them really quickly. If Winnie likes plush toys, I have a friend who sometimes goes to the goodwill and gets plush toys there really cheap for her dog, you just have to make sure they don't have any buttons or anything on them that Winnie could chew off and swallow.

Comment by Tracie & Emmy on February 24, 2008 at 9:16pm

Poor Winnie - teething is no fun. I know what you mean about the $$. If she still loves to chew when she gets older (mine does!) you can get her the things that last longer, like the hard nylabones, but as a puppy we are stuck getting the slightly softer versions, which they destroy so quickly. We had somewhat good luck with the nylabone key ring.. made to look like the popular infants chew toy. She did destroy it, but as I recall it lasted longer than all of the others. Good luck. P.S. Winnie is a cutie! Tracie