what are the best puppy toys.

[spanielcrazy]

Oh yeah, forgot to mention the cardboard tubes.  Start collecting the loo rolls now!!!   

hi, they sound like a good idea, do they not eat them?  bobby eats everything, his latest cuisine is chewing gum stuck to the floor so i can't stop and chat to anyone as he gets stuck into it (pardon the pun  )

Most dogs don't swallow them but even if they do it won't hurt them, thats the beauty of it! 

[Krisdt]

as long as they dont eat too much. I came home to a puppy throwing up cardboard mush eewwww 

[Cob-Web]

I have spent the last couple of days sorting out the kids stuff and throwing out all the rubbish. The house looks immaculate!! Probably not for long but I keep going on at them - anything left on the floor gets chewed!

The best decision we made (Ok, OH made) was to make upstairs a dog free-zone, even thought it means no bed time cuddles ;(

It does mean that games and toys can be played with on the floor without risk of being consumed - which is good for the toys and the pups, as there are lots of vets who have liberated the limbs of Barbie or Ken from the tummies of puppies under GA 

[Joelf]

Domino absolutely adores his kong; he has had hours of fun & pleasure from that & his tennis ball which I use with a chuckitt.

Spike is not that enamoured with his kong;he doesn't really want to chase it & gets bored trying to get food out of it. (He prefers a rabbit!! ) 

[Tasha]

afraid mine would be a kong and the loo rolls too.  Bonnie loved her toys and rarely broken any of them but Ayla loves to destroy them with a vengence she does always bring you the little pieces though to show you how well she killed it

[nohopeleft]

hi,
kong do make good toys for your puppy,but bramble would rather play with an empty platic bottle or the cardboard tube from kitchen roll 

[benji]

Benji's new favourite is a sock stuffed with newspaper...sits and chews it for ages. Nice and cheap too   

[supaspaniel]

I hide loo roll inards around the house, and they are delighted when they find their treasure

All my dogs have had a cuddly toy...Aidee has a reindeer I grabbed from a charity shop on my way to get him that was december 7th and reindeer is still intact, but does travel around the house
Another good one is to get a pair of socks, put one inside the other and knot the end. Aidee wont settle until he has the pair I've had on that day (although I gather he was fine while I was away last week )

I dont think you need to spend a lot of money to keep them occupied although Kongs are good

[sarah25]

Kong's get my Vote 

[Karenu]

Floyd's favourite toy is the Bite-Meez hand puppet which I think I got from Canine Concepts. Although it does mean that you have to play as well I pretend that it's another puppy & he loves it, it's his favourite game. It also seems to have helped any loose puppy teeth come out  .

[lucieb]

the amount of stuffed toys iv been through with our meggy as been unbelievable, if it has a squeek in then she rips it open to get that out and if it hasnt got one in then im afraid the poor teddy gets its arms and legs ripped off, she has fun carrying the teddys around the house though, so cute 
she also has a kong, must admit though, it doesnt take her long to get treats out of them, iv heard you can freeze water in some, not sure how to do his though.
meg has loads of toys, i still spoil her as much now as i did when i brought her home, she has had the lot, frisbees, balls, teddys, squeekys, a ball that talks to her when she plays with it or gos near it, that one is quite good and funny.
and she loves them flavoured bubbles you can blow!

[LizzieD]

Millies fav toy as an ickle pup was a sturdy plastic flower pot that was ever so slightly too big for her to carry around easily. She had great fun carrying it around on tippy toes, with her head held as high as it could go.  You just have to make sure to change it when they start to chew and put holes in it.

She will be coming up to her first birthday in the summer and I will have to find a much bigger and stronger pot for her to play with this summer

[julesd]

Teddy's favourite toys as a young pup were cardboard boxes and empty loo rolls. His favourite toy now is a cuddly pheasant which he carries everywhere and lies with his chin on it  Maisie's favourite toy is the hide chew sticks (the ones as thick as a cigar) Actually I think her favourite toy might be Teddy's ears  Actually I suppose their favourite toy was us and what we held in our hand wasn't that important 

[Air]

I have to disagree on the Kong Toys our little Hovis (4 months on Saturday) just ignores hers. I put the kong stuffing in it and she licks it for while then just ignores it. I buy her new toys all the time and going to charity shops is a must because PAH can be expensive. Hovis's fav toy is a little green plastic bone her dad bought for her before we even had her she carries it around like a baby and its the only one she has never put a hole in.

Just get a sellection of rubber toys, soft toys, plastic bones to chew and your one will be happy anything thats not your shoes which my little Hovis is partial too if I leave them lying around.

[lor]

I think the best toys are the ones you don't have to buy   Really strong cardboard tubes; old cuddly toys; children's old tennis balls and footballs; a knotted teatowel; old socks stuffed together; small cardboard boxes with treats inside.

I bought 2 kongs which have been lost or buried somewhere in the house or garden and last weekend I found the third one I'd bought under the settee with food still in it together with a layer of green furry mould!!!