Non-traditional toys

I buy toys in the baby department at Big Lots. Yep store bought, one is a monkey that plays if your happy and you know clap your hands.

I don't give them paper, just because they will start doing their sheltie artwork with toilet paper. Been there, and over that.

I don't give them socks, husband did that, and he wondered why when they were pups they would steal his. No shoes, for the same reason you gave.

Tennis balls, but the kind for dogs, real ones tend to shed all that fuzz and it gets in their mouth, not a good thing.

Been to garage sales for baby toys too already. I bought this long alligator for a dollar, it was brand new. The baby toys hold up better then the doggie toys.
 
*Caro said:
Silly me gave the pups a ball of wool to play with. And then they decided that all balls of wool were play things and got into my knitting bag and pulled everything apart. One of the few times I had my camera handy
http://mydogspace.com.au/file/pic/gallery/thumb/1704.jpg
Click to expand...

adorable! :biggrin2:
I keep my knitting in a closed box, so he can't get to them, my mom has that problem with the poodles though! she goes out to have a smoke. And then, yarn everywhere! :rolleyes2:
 
Romeo loves toilet brushes. So I bought him his own. I think he finds it exciting when he gets poked in the face by the bristles.

The big ball definitely for herding. Also try toys you can put food in. I'm a big fan of those. I highly recommend the pyramid toy which the dog can push and knock around. It looks like a giant egg with a small hole near the top that has a weighted base so it always rights itself (making it so much more challenging for the furry ones!).

Pups don't know that store bought toys are for playing so you gotta somehow show them that. I find they love the things we don't want them to play with because they see that it's "forbidden" or "exclusive" to you (like toilet brushes. Seriously. :rolleyes2:). What I have done before is to pick a toy (a tug toy or something that is "interactive") and then play with it myself. I'd make like it was the totally the coolest thing ever, using high squeaky WHEEE! sounds and getting all excited and like make a big deal really. Remember when you were a kid and you didn't want to share your toys. Ya, like that. Just keep turning away from your dog when it starts getting interested. When you know you've got its full attention, play with the dog using the toy. Sounds stupid but dogs do think that way too. They always want the thing they can't have!
 
A cardboard box with food hidden inside is a good one.

But Cadbury's bestest toy is a plastic activity ball from the pet shop. It has a sliding hatch so you can slip food in and then move the hatch to make it either hard or easy to get the food out. He kicks it about the floor for ages and then stuff flies out and he has to search for it using his nose. Its great for rainy days and the only toy he has never destroyed.

If you want a game to play with your pup have you tried getting a small bottle of the bubble liquid they make for kids? If you get a child safe one and check the bottle it should be OK if it accidentally gets in eyes or mouth (more often your own rather than the dogs). Then you can blow bubbles and pup will chase them about, it is great fun.
 
*Caro said:
Silly me gave the pups a ball of wool to play with. And then they decided that all balls of wool were play things and got into my knitting bag and pulled everything apart. One of the few times I had my camera handy
http://mydogspace.com.au/file/pic/gallery/thumb/1704.jpg
Click to expand...

What is it with Shelties and Yarn? Ember is worst than the cats at destroying my yarn balls! I'll be crocheting a baby blanket, look down and find yarn EVERYWHERE! And Ember just looking at me, as to ask 'What?'.
 
it sounds weird, but Moko loves it when I throw a biscuit in an egg carton (The cardboard kind) and throw it on the ground. He's chewing the box for hours until he can either get it open or tear it apart to get the biscuit inside.
 
labgirl said:
If you want a game to play with your pup have you tried getting a small bottle of the bubble liquid they make for kids? If you get a child safe one and check the bottle it should be OK if it accidentally gets in eyes or mouth (more often your own rather than the dogs). Then you can blow bubbles and pup will chase them about, it is great fun.
Click to expand...

I'm pretty sure that they make bubbles for dogs- meat flavored/odor- don't remember where I saw it though :(
 
sailor_titan said:
it sounds weird, but Moko loves it when I throw a biscuit in an egg carton (The cardboard kind) and throw it on the ground. He's chewing the box for hours until he can either get it open or tear it apart to get the biscuit inside.
Click to expand...

Thats a real good Idea! Sounds like your Moko has a blast with it . Ill see what mine do with it!:smile2:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top