Dog training toys

[bjrogg]

My wife’s dog just loves this toy bird. She sits and whines till I get home to play with it with me.

It has a rubber cord neck. I put my thumb in a hole in its head and point it like it was my bow arm. Then I grab its tail and draw it like it was my string hand. It shoots like a bow and the bird flies pretty fast and up to 70’.

Bjrogg

[bjrogg]

Problem is it doesn’t last long before the outside is chewed up and the inside starts coming out. Worst yet she starts trying to eat the inside and that’s not a good thing.

I was hemming up a pair of overalls and I did some work on the bird. The head was almost ripped off. I’m sure it would have come off the next shoot.

I should have done more but I got it flyable again.

Bjrogg

[bjrogg]

She was so happy. But I know it wouldn’t last long. I’ve been trying to get her to retrieve it and starting to have some success. Anyone know of a toy like this that would be more durable and she would still like?

Bjrogg

[chamookman]

Check out Kong Brand Dog toys. Dogs can't hurt 'Em. Bob

[bjrogg]

Thanks Bob. I looked on my phone.

I see they have indestructible toys but I didn’t see anything that was like this one.

She has some of those other toys, but she just goes crazy over this one. It’s a nerf dog toy and she loves how it flies and the feel of it too.

I’m trying to teach her not to tear it up. She doesn’t exactly have a soft mouth, but if she does just chew most of the time it doesn’t hurt it to much. Once it starts getting loose material then she wants to tear it up. Then it takes a beating.

Really starting to have fun with this pup. She is almost a year old now. She is a bit of a knucklehead, but so am I and we get along pretty good.

I swear she must be part goat. She isn’t afraid to climb on anything and is very agile. She loves outdoors and other dogs and people. She goes crazy over squirrels.

She was my daughters first, but she made too much noise at her apartment with all the squirrels around there. My daughter really wanted a chihuahua and she found one for herself. My wife and I were already attached to Roxy so we got her.

She’s a very smart, energetic, agile pup. She seems to have a good nose and eyes. She is a little stubborn and praise definitely works better on her than discipline.

I would like to see if I can train her to hunt. I never really had a hunting dog before and don’t really know how to train one. I think this little girl has potential though

Bjrogg

[paulsemp]

Do yourself a favor and take the toys away from her. Only use it as a reward for whatever training you're doing. None of my dogs ever had free rein to chew on things without our presence. If she loves that toy that much use it as a reward for training only and your training sessions will go really well and she'll learn that much faster

[bjrogg]

Do yourself a favor and take the toys away from her. Only use it as a reward for whatever training you're doing. None of my dogs ever had free rein to chew on things without our presence. If she loves that toy that much use it as a reward for training only and your training sessions will go really well and she'll learn that much faster

That’s what I’ve been doing Paul. She doesn’t get it unless she retrieves it and brings it to me. I let her have it right alongside me. If she brings it to me before I count to three she gets to keep it for awhile. Then I have her retrieve it again.

If she doesn’t return it to me by the time I count to three I take it away. Put it on the table where she can see it but can’t have it. Drives her crazy.

She knows what I want her to do. But she’s just enough of a knucklehead to make things difficult

Bjrogg

[paulsemp]

Good deal. Kong toys are pretty good if you can get her to get into one of them

[bjrogg]

My daughter found this one. Spunky Puppy. It flies like the other one, but it had a 30 day warranty. That’s about 25 days longer than the other one lasted.

She doesn’t like it quite as much as the other one, but she still loves it. Has been playing with it for about a week and it still looks good. I think my training is starting to work too. I think she is developing a softer mouth with these toys.

Probably as close to getting her to retrieve a duck as I’m going to get.lol We’re having fun though so it’s all good

Bjrogg

[bjrogg]

Spunky Puppy

[chamookman]

Kewl ! Bob

[Pappy]

That's cool BJ, but with my dogs if it don't smell like meat or bone they ant going run after it and when they do they ant bringing it back to me.
 Pappy

[Pat B]

Sounds like my dogs, Pappy. We have tons of dog toys but with these dogs we have now only one(Rosie) that plays with them but she keeps them in the house. It's funny, every once in a while I'll find one from the past that has been uncovered in the woods where one of our past dogs hauled it out and buried it.

[bjrogg]

We’re still working at it Pappy. She’s getting pretty good about retrieving the bird and bringing it to me, but once in awhile she just can’t help herself from being a knucklehead.

Maybe I should get her an instructional video. She absolutely goes crazy over animal planet.

She was right in there with the wolves chasing down the buffalo.

Then she watched the Arctic fox jump high into the air and pounce on the lemming under the snow. Nose first

Bjrogg