The Toys Our Dogs Ignore

[Gretel]

<We just renovated our bathroom and paid $60 for a new toilet roll holder and our toilet paper now sits on our window sill out of harms way...>

Sorry but

Mine love toilet rolls too. And the middle of the foil roll is great cause they can share those. I seem to have more toys that they aren't interested in than ones that they love. Just looking out the window I can see the Kong Goodie ship that no one has shown much interest in. They even gave up when there was still a treat in it. For a while anything with a rope was popular but now they are not fussed with them. If Ingrid can't rip the guts out of things she isn't interested.

[Bisart Dobes]

My young boy (nearly 3 yrs) loves toilet rolls (paper on preferred ) and he has had a 80 cm Pooh Bear since he was a puppy which he adores and takes everywhere with him. Pooh even goes to shows with us - funny to see a 40+ kg adult male dobermann carrying a Pooh Bear around.

Ours love the toilet rolls in general and also the plastic bottles but again any soft toy with a squeaky or a noise maker inside is asking to be disected and one has his blanky from babyhood as well which he sucks on and carries around the house all the time.

They certainly have their preferences.

[Zug Zug]

Several neglected Kongs at my place too. Just not interested at all. And squeaky toys - just not interested.

My bichon does sees no point in toys. The poodle x is only interested in toys if there is a human in the game as well (i.e. throwing things for her or tugging at things)

[mackenzie11]

mollie will play with anything she can get in her mouth,

door stops - loves to run around the house with them

draught stoppers - as above

cats tunnel - drags it out to other rooms

floor rugs- same as tunnel

any doggy toy - will chew and play for hours (she has a basket of her toys and she just goes and helps herself as to which toy she would like to play with)

cats toys - as with dog toys

daughters shoes - loves to chew on them

Doctor's bill - ate it all up (some truth in the excuse "dog ate my homework" if you have a puppy like mine it may be true)

elder dog - hangs off his ears, tail, ANY dangley bits actually (he does not care)

she loves to play with anything

[Little Gifts]

I have a kong hater here. Even with food inside it she still doesn't know what the hell she is expected to do with it. But leave a used tissue somewhere and hours of fun can be had shredding it into teensy tiny little pieces of confetti!

[helen]

my dogs ignore anything that doesn't sqeek or dispense food

ETA - except for the occasional good tug toy/scrap of cloth

Edited November 22, 2010 by helen

[Mrs Rusty Bucket]

I've got a squirrel dude that gets extended attention if there is any kibble in it. Unlike a Kong, it has some little prongs at the bottom to hold the dog food in. So if somebody gets the munchies in the middle of the night, I get treated to some nocturnal rubber banging on the floor as she tosses it.

Other toys, only good if I'm working them which is ok by me.

Fave toys are ones she can destroy. Biggest waste of money for me - is buying a toy that doesn't last 5 minutes, even when I'm supervising. So most toys I don't leave where she can help herself and that helps increase the novelty value.