Saftey Standards

[Black Beauty & Silverfox]

 Hi

Fairly new to puppy raising and just wondered if [as with children] there are any safety standards in place to protect are furry babies?
We buy toys from a high street store at an over priced fee only to find pieces of rope, plastic and rubber either consumed or strewn all over the floor. Some of these toys retail around £8 a pop and I'm sure my pup gets more pleasure chasing/attacking a plastic milk carton across the floor.
My real worry has been that she may choke


Mel.

[Jane57]

Hi

Fairly new to puppy raising and just wondered if [as with children] there are any safety standards in place to protect are furry babies?
We buy toys from a high street store at an over priced fee only to find pieces of rope, plastic and rubber either consumed or strewn all over the floor. Some of these toys retail around £8 a pop and I'm sure my pup gets more pleasure chasing/attacking a plastic milk carton across the floor.
My real worry has been that she may choke


Mel.

Hi Mel,
This is what we have found, but most of them say stuff like to check for damage periodically .
Cant count the amount of toys we have had to chuck out with Riley , we have established he is a big chewer of toys, funnily enough he hasnt done a single bit of damage to anything in the house except a tiny bit of the skirting board.
I thought since he has all his big teeth now he might be better, he is in the aspect that a toy stuffed pluto has only a tiny bit of a hole after 4 days , whereas pre big teeth Pluto would have been beheaded within an hour  
We find the Pet  stages toys from tk maxx have lasted him the longest, along with the obvious stag bar and kong type stuff.
Also a fleece rope from equafleece has NO damage at all.

At the very beginning our vet said to not have any toys with rubber or stuffing, I can see why.

[Bluebell]

I buy soft toys from charity shops and remove all obvious hazzards/loose bits. At a few pence per item they are disposable  Also alot of recyclable household waste items make great destructable puppy toys. Rinsed out and squashed milk containers, cardboard tubes & small cardboard boxes are great for puppys to destroy

[JohnK]

Last night we counted 17 expensive toys in the garden and I reckon there were probably as many again, yet they seem to get as much fun from newspapers, leaves, branches etc, so I wonder is it really worth it. It does make me feel good though giving them their new treats

[Clare B]

My Flo gets free range of all my daughters stuffed toys, of which she has too many from being handed down to her from friends.  I do always keep in mind though that my vet said rubber cannot be easily picked up in an X-ray , so if doggie swallows rubber then it cannot be detected and prognosis is difficult, so be aware of chewed up balls.  I also find that the stuffed toys are filled with fluff which is full of chemical matter, so once ripped apart I throw in the bin.

[Black Beauty & Silverfox]

My Flo gets free range of all my daughters stuffed toys, of which she has too many from being handed down to her from friends.  I do always keep in mind though that my vet said rubber cannot be easily picked up in an X-ray , so if doggie swallows rubber then it cannot be detected and prognosis is difficult, so be aware of chewed up balls.  I also find that the stuffed toys are filled with fluff which is full of chemical matter, so once ripped apart I throw in the bin.

Hi Clare

Thanks for your comments.
That's another two rubber toys in the bin
Now their filling the toys with chemical weapons, it's a bloody minefield outthere


Mel.

[cangrejo]

Another one who buys stuffies from charity shops, checks and removes obvious decorations that could be chewed off and swallowed.  I have found that the various stuffy teds bought this way for a few pence have stood up to the punishment from my two a lot longer than the dog toys bought from pet shops 

They are also big fans of the Ikea rats and footballs and I buy new ones when I go usually one or twice a year.

[cangrejo]

ps the occasional toilet roll/kitchen roll tube and empty cereal boxes are also big hits too