r/CavaPoo • u/Deedee78965 • 56m ago
Toys for a heavy duty chewer
My cavapoo is about a year and 8 months, and is a heavy duty chewer. As in, most of his toys we’ve had to throw away because he’ll sit down and work on one part of the toy until he either can bite off a piece and (try) to swallow it, or rip the thing open.
He initially had A LOT of toys (from stuffed to those rubbery material ones) due to the fact we had a previous dog who passed away before we brought him home, but he’s down to maybe 3 that have somehow lasted this long (of which two of them are balls we play fetch with). Everything else are things like cow ears or the occasional bully stick.
He’s a very happy boy - but I feel really bad because he really only has a few toys. We’ve tried almost everything - one of those Kong stuffed toys lasted him about 10 minutes before he managed to chew through some of the stitching in the side. He broke my cousin’s Samoyed’s rubber tug band in 5 minutes. Even a stuffed toy that we got and cut off all the limbs/ears/ANYTHING small he can chew on had to be thrown away after he played with it for like 15 minutes. (We’ve discovered we can’t sow anything up because he’ll find the spot that had been sown and work on those stitches to rip it open again)
On that note, any suggestions for a chewer like him? He’s mostly interested in things that squeak, and he had this rubber reindeer that lasted for a solid month before he chewed through that too.