Love, Lilly Bug
Lilly is what you could call "an aggressive chewer". My husband and I joke that her head is just a giant hinge for her mouth. To date she has destroyed 8 pairs of shoes. All of which were mine, except for one pair. Yayyy. She chewed the Otterbox off my phone while I was asleep. She chewed up my portable phone charger. Saying she likes to chew on things is a bit of an understatement. Trying to find toys that will last through more than a single play session is a challenge. Yesterday I went to PetCo to buy Lilly some new things to chew on. I was going to buy her a PetStages Dogwood Stick but I ended up buying her a Nylabone Flavor Frenzy bone. Wrong choice. I brought it home and was so excited to give it to her. I could just picture her face when she realized it was bacon, egg, and cheese flavored! What dog wouldn't go nuts for that?? It turns out Lilly wouldn't. I opened it up and let her smell it. She grabbed the packaging instead of the bone. After pawing it at for a few minutes she came back and seemed less than mildly interested in the bone. She gave it a few chomps, walked off without, and never gave it another thought. I was SO frustrated, and honestly a little offended. I had looked at so many things at PetCo that I thought she would enjoy! I thought I had picked out the holy grail of toys. It's bacon, egg, and cheese flavored for crying out loud! But she ended up absolutely hating it. After a night of frustrating attempts to get her to play with it we gave up. I went back to PetCo today and bought her the largest size available of the PetStages Dogwood Stick and a Leaps & Bounds Playtime Pal Squeaky ball. I gave them to her about an hour and a half ago and she is still going nuts over them both, especially the squeaky ball. Lilly has had a PetStages Dogwood stick before. If you look at the picture on the right you can see the nub that is left of the first one that I bought her. She loves these! The Flavor Frenzy Nylabone I bought was priced at $19.99. She chewed on it for a total of less than 2 minutes. The PetStages Dogwood stick I bought was also priced at $19.99. Total chew time today adds up to about 10 minutes. She's been too excited about the squeaky ball to give it too much attention right now. She would chew on the first Dogwood stick I bought her for hours at a time, which was really great, especially if I needed to finish a paper for school or catch up on some work around the apartment. I'm not trying to discourage anyone from buying a Nylabone. Some dogs love them! Lilly just isn't one of those dogs. If you're fur baby seems dissatisfied with their current chew toy I would highly recommend giving the PetStages Dogwood stick a try. It comes in three different sizes, and Lilly has done well with the medium and large sizes. It is made with real wood so it sheds like a real stick would during a chewing session, but the pieces that come off are really soft and small. Yes, it leaves a mess behind after a chewing session, but in my opinion it's worth it. This in no way means that you shouldn't monitor your fur baby during a chewing session. You should ALWAYS monitor your fur baby and their toys during any kind of play/chew time. Lilly is currently going crazy over the squeaky ball that I bought her today. Squeaky balls are kind of her thing. She is very picky about the kinds of squeaky balls she wants to play with, and I've found over time that she doesn't like the expensive ones. She has squeaky balls from Dollar Tree, Kroger, Walmart, and PetCo. Her favorite one cost a whopping 97 cents at Walmart and her least favorite cost around $6 from PetCo. She refuses to even chase after the one from PetCo when I throw it. She likes softer ones so that she can squish them in her mouth and run around with them comfortably. The ball that I bought her today is made of flexible rubber and it was $3.99. I'm sure it won't last long, but I think it was a good buy. Somehow Lilly always ends up breaking the squeakers. She even broke the one on her Mighty Ball, and ripped all the fabric off, as usual. It was ranked at a 10, which is the highest the Mighty durability scale goes up to. Lilly needs a toy ranked at about a billion on a durability scale. She still likes to play with it though, even though all that is left is the plain rubber ball, which is why I bought the ball in the first place. Mighty doesn't use stuffing in their toys and they are still fully usable even after the fabric has been ripped off, which is a big marketing point of theirs. I hope this post helps those of you out there looking for some new toys for your fur babies! Have a wonderful weekend!
Love, Lilly Bug
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