Need something for the boys to chew on

Aron's bully sticks are excellent - they last for weeks with my dogs, and there is no smell at all. It is a Canadian company, and their products can be purchased online. Unfortunately they are expensive, so I just picked up an order from "bestbullysticks.com" to try them out as an alternative - I'll let you know how they are. I also found the himalayan cheese too expensive, and my dogs didn't show interest in the antlers. Fingers are crossed that these new bully sticks do the job :-).
 
Missy likes bully sticks, but they're so expensive and she eats them so fast, I don't buy them very often. And the smell gets to me like Ashley, even though they're "odorless". She didn't care for the antler I got her almost a year ago, so I gave it to my parent's dogs, one of which laid down and chewed on it it for a good 30 minutes. That's 10x long than Missy.. lol. I did buy a pack of himilayan chews, and while she was initially interested, I think she was turned off by how hard it was. So we need something not too hard, but not so soft that it's gone in 5 minutes. She's not a big chewer at all, but she does get bored.. so I've just been doing yogurt in a kong and freezing it.

With the antler, I tried making it more enticing by soaking it in chicken broth.. but it's just not tasty enough. My aunt is going to get us a split antler. She has a good antler dealer (lol) since her boxer LOVES them. If it doesn't work, we'll just give it to my parent's dogs again.
 
Callie has never shown any interest at all in kongs. We've had some of them around as our lab used to like them, but she doesn't even sniff at them.

I'd be willing to try stuffing one and freezing it and seeing if it interests her, but don't quite understand the whole process. I assume you put whatever you're stuffing it with in the hole at the end, but doesn't it leak out after it warms up and get all over everything? Also, how do they get it out? I don't know that her mouth is capable of biting it hard enough to squeeze it all out.
 
I give it to her on a towl just in case it does melt.. but she usually licks it clean before it gets to that point. I don't know about other dogs, but mine just licks the stuffing out.
 
Olive likes her bully sticks. She also enjoys the Himalayan chews - those are good for chewing and for sending her on crazy puppy zoomies. The owner of the local frou-frou dog store recommended that I keep the little piece of the chew and grate it over her food just like parmesan cheese. Olive loves it.

Antlers... I bought a solid (not split) elk antler last fall and she would occasionally pay some attention to it, but it was nothing special. At the DKC show last weekend, I bought her a split elk antler, and man... it's like dog crack. Olive especially likes it if I hold it for her so she can concentrate on chewing and not have to deal with holding it. She is so spoiled. :lol:

Olive does try to use our cats as chew toys; I don't recommend it. A good chew toy will not fight back.:yes:
 
You all are going to persuade me to try a bully stick,aren't you? The whole idea just is so disgusting to me.

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What do you think of this? I know Blue Buffalo has been in the news lately with people saying it's making their dogs sick. So maybe not a good idea to try?

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Blue Buffalo put out a press release yesterday - their food is safe. They have not been bought out:

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Bully sticks, home made dehydrated pig's ears (if you have a dehydrator), himalayan chews and antlers (mine like moose antlers which they will actually fight over).
 
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