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Comment by Natalie, Lance &Tucker on April 13, 2009 at 11:19pm

Hope Nutmeg is feeling better soon. : )

Comment by Natalie, Lance &Tucker on April 13, 2009 at 11:18pm

Lance also is a very destructive chewer when it comes to toys, so we havent been able to give him stuffed toys, squeaky toys or any of the fun toys cause I am just too afraid he will eat them all. Just a couple of months ago I thought I would try giving him a giraffe toy made out of a tennis ball with ropes for arm and legs and then had string on it, he ate the strings, a big chunck within like 5 minutes! grrrr, I was hoping that he had grown out of that mode since he is now 3 but no! The only toys lance really has are not chew toys, they are kongs, busy buddy or fetch toys which means a rubber ball or two or ten......lol from www.planetdog.co
m. Thank goodness he likes to play fetch. Other toys that are meant for fetching he likes to chew on too!!!

I soooooo want to try to get him some bully sticks but are so afraid to because my vet advised us to stay away from bones, since he is a destructive chewer. The other reason I am afraid to try them is because since we stopped giving him bones of any type when he was a pup we never really were able to teach him how to appropriately act with them, meaning not gettting aggressive over them. : ( We wouldnt have had this problem if he was allowed to have them at a younger age and teach him how to act with them. *big sigh* I feel for you, it definately is a challenge to find things. Ive also had good luck with the waggle from busy buddy, its purple and you put treats at each end of it. Again, most of the toys lance has is treat related that he doesnt destroy cause hes to busy trying to get the good treats out of it. I have had great success with toys from www.planetdog.com I only get the toys that are rated 5 out of 5 chompers! Good Luck. : )

Comment by Amy on April 13, 2009 at 10:33pm

I had a horrible experience with nylabones just this past weekend. I gave my Maggie the same exact nylabone and it caused her to throw up. In the course of 2 hours she threw up 8 times. In all the piles I had to clean I saw the same thing......parts of nylabone. I had given her the nylabone earlier in the day and after 5 minutes she had devoured more than half of it . I have thrown out everything but kong toys. I have decided to go with nothing but rubber type toys like the kongs. I feel for you and I am sorry your baby had that experience.

Comment by Sarah C. on April 13, 2009 at 10:25pm

Dude. Bully sticks.

Comment by Sky and Lyla on April 13, 2009 at 10:21pm

Here is a link to the dino that Sky has: http://www.petco.com/product/2531/Nylabone-Dental-Dinosaur-Durable.aspx

Comment by Sky and Lyla on April 13, 2009 at 10:13pm

Your poor baby! I am so sorry that happened to her!

I have the same chewing problem with my mini Aussie. He kills toys in a matter of minutes. And he doesn't just rip them up, he eats them. We have had great success with two things. The first is rawhide bones. I was nervous to do this at first as I'd heard bad things about giving dogs rawhides, but I talked about it with my vet and decided it was either that or say goodbye to every piece of furniture I owned. I just buy him the very large rawhides, like the size that you would give to a shepherd or a lab, and monitor how much he ingests each day. After he's had so much, I take it away for the day.

The second thing that has been great for us is the Nylabone Dental Dino. There is a white one and a blue one. We haven't tried the blue one, but the white one (seemed the harder of the two) has been great. He does still seem to eat it, but because it is so hard, it just come off in little, litttle pieces. We've had it since December and it is only half gone. He chew on it for hours a night, and you can not tell a noticable size difference from night to night so I know he is not eating enough at one time to hurt him.

Those are the only, two things that have worked for us. He does love ice, but eat it in a matter of seconds. Kongs worked until a couple of months ago, but he has now learned how to shred those and eat them as well. Who ever would have guessed a 25 lb dog could be such a strong chewer? Good luck and I'll be interested to see if anyone else has some good suggestions!

Comment by Nicola Porter on April 13, 2009 at 10:06pm

Jackie, love my florida gal, but I LMAO when I read she was "screaming, trying to poop" I hope her bum bum is better now though.

Comment by Sam Tsang on April 13, 2009 at 10:04pm

poor thing, I'm glad she is feeling better. How about ice, kong and frozen peanut butter?

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