What do you let your dog chew on?

[rustyshakelford]

During deer season I'll give out outside dog the lower legs of any deer I shoot. They love them. Our inside pit is still a puppy so all he gets are over priced dog toys from the store. He loves the tennis ball on a rope but wrecks it pretty quick

Brett

 

[Avondale]

I give my dogs the hard rubber Kongs but try to make sure they do not take them outside. The large yellow poly-type rope attached to one really locked up my snow blower when it got tangled in the auger bearing area. It stretched and heated, shrunk wrapped to the spindle and took many hours of work to free up.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Lucy Lu, our Boston Terrier, loves "Milo's Kitchen Chicken Jerky Recipe" with at passion. They are more of a treat than a chew, but she absolutely loves them...more than a cookie, and we call her the Cookie Monster. She likes to chew on a big old beef rib bone, and she always has a couple in her toy box. She doesn't chew them to splinters, so we don't worry about her chewing on them. She mostly chews them slick and leaves them in the yard for the varmints.

 

[jimmyj]

My Black Mouth Cur loves Jolly balls ( horse toy ). It's the only toy he plays with anymore. They are almost indestructable and last from 3 to 6 months. He'll even carry it with him when we go for walks.

We have a new Belgian Malinois (don't get one by the way they are nuts LOL), she LOVES Jolly Balls and Jolly Eggs. They do last a long time too.

 

[bigtiller]

Our Maltese dogs are content with chewing their fingernails.

 

[gsganzer]

My Black Mouth Cur loves Jolly balls ( horse toy ). It's the only toy he plays with anymore. They are almost indestructable and last from 3 to 6 months. He'll even carry it with him when we go for walks.

Our 8 month old Black Mouth Cur also plays with a jolly ball. That is, when he's not chewing the patio cushions or our shoes.

He's an interesting dog. We have to be careful in disciplining him, because he'll take it real hard and sulk for hours. I hear this is a trait for many BMC's. They're so eager to please their owner, that they get really bummed out if they think they failed or did something wrong. He's incredibly loyal to our oldest daughter and wants to follow her everywhere she goes.

 

[k0ua]

beef pizzles (don't ask)

Now how are people supposed to know what a thing is if they don't ask?

* hint, cows don't have them...

 

[check]

We recommend hard rubber toys, cow tails, beef pizzles (don't ask) and beef tendon for chewing dogs at the store. Anything too hard can damage their teeth. The veterinary college has a test, whack it against your knee. If it's so hard it hurts, don't let your dog chew it. The biggest tooth damaging items are bones and antlers, although for gentle chewing dogs you can sometimes use them. If any of you invent and indestructible safe dog chew you will be very rich!!

Hey, Jimmy, what is your authority for these statements that you should not allow dogs to have hard chewing toys? They sell all kinds of them at the pet stores.

 

[hosspuller]

We have had 30 years of serial Dobermans. They are prodigious chewers as pups. The choice is give them something to chew or they will find something themselves. Antlers and bones are dangerous to teeth. Rawhide is gone within an hour. Other dog toys are destroyed. The "tough" fire hose toy didn't last 10 minutes. WE only give and recommend the Nylabone ... wolf size. Do not get anything that has soft pads or even small knuckles. Nor the Nylabone dental products. The pup will chew them off and swallow it. Leads to impactions or worse. As long as the pup can only scrape off small pieces (like shavings), it should pass when swallowed.

 

[4570Man]

My dogs favorite chew toy is wood and he seems pretty self sufficient at finding it.