Hi Everyone! I have a dilema with our little 9 month old rattie! Just about every toy we have bought her, she destroys it within hours! I've learned no more stuffed toys as they are destuffed and desqueaked within an hour. All squeaky balls, she totally rips them up (after she plays chase for a while with it) into tiny little pieces. We bought her a kong ball when she first came home with us and it disappeared, then a few months later it reappeared. Within a few hours, after getting the peanut butter out, she had it tore in half! Really! Does anyone else have this problem?!?!? We always throw them out as soon as she starts shredding her rubber toys, because she sometime eats the pieces! We got her a nylabone and she hardly plays with it, not interesting enough to her, I guess.

So today I went to the pet store and was there forever searching and reading all of the toy packages. I bought her a toy that said virtually indestructable and she managed to tear many pieces off already. I bought it at 3pm today and its going on 10:30pm and about 1/4 of it is already gone. My hubby wants to take it from her, but she's enjoying it so much!!! So I feel bad to take it. On top of it, these toys are so expensive! I don't even buy our 2 kitties toys anymore, because little Abby thinks they are hers!

Any suggestions?

Thanks so much Lorraine

Isn't she a sweetie?................................

I'll have to try the bully sticks. She tore apart her kong. Right in half! I like going to the dollar stores and just getting several stuffed toys and letting her have at it! She goes nuts! I let her keep the outer shells too! We have a ton of unstuffed toys around the house.

I just wasn't sure if there were any toys that last longer than a day! When I go to the pet stores and tell them, their reaction is 'what kind of dog do you have?' and they always sound terriefied! She's a great little girl, just ruff with her toys!

Thanks! Rain

Welcome to the site!  You'll love it here.  WOW, you definitely have an aggressive chewer on your hands there.  Button was a pretty bad chewer.  Only nylabones, solid rubber toys and the teeny tiny rawhide sticks placated her chewing needs.  I know Kong makes an "extra tough" black rubber toy for "tough chewers".  Try one of those.  I go to the Dollar Store and buy only solid rubber toys for my girls.  They also like to toss around and play tug of war with a strip of fleece I tied up with knots every 10 ".  If they shred that, I just cut off another strip and make a new one!

Fuji is an agressive chewer also. The only toys that last any length of time are nylabones(there are a couple of styles he likes), real bones(from the store) and recently we found this little red turtle that has lasted several weeks. He destroyed the Kong disc, but the other one is still around. He has the red one.

tee hee I put tiny rocks in mine(tight cap) and they GOO crazy!!! I m not sure the neighbors care for it though...its really funny! Also the tug toys ones w/tennis balls attached work really well,mine tug on the between each pup and they have lasted!

Aren't Cuz balls suppposed to be durable? I don't have big chewers but I have a lots of destuffed carcasses around the house!!

oh yea! the Big bully stick for sure! get them from Bullystick.com though or you'll pay a fortune!at the store..they really last and I HAVE 4 TUFF CHEWERS!!! these last ALL week! and they throw really nice too for fetching!

my experience is that WallyWorld's toys are NOT for terriers>>>> they are cheep but, not if you MUST always replace them..Pet Smart even through more $$$ are tested,KONGS are good but mine get board w/them, there fuzzy toys and they atleast give you extra squeekies with there toys w/them,I have made better toys myself that have lasted better like just POLAR-FLEECE tied in nots they love this for tug a war! emply soda bottles works great! just throw it away when its too ugly! the small tennis balls are good too! they can get the fuzz off but there cheep! WIFFEL! BALLS! 4 for a dollar DOLLAR TREE! great fun!!! and really tuff too!try that!

I go to garage sales andbuy stuffed animals by the bag and then replace as needed.  I made a mistake one time and did not notice one ofthe stuffed animals had those little white platic beads in them until Sydney and Sonic played tug-of-war and ripped it in half.  Those little white pieces sure can fly and they do not clean up with the vac. very well.

yea! good Idea!! isn't it funny that the KIDDY toys are better constructed than doggy ones? except for the eyes!!! I just pull um out and stitch 'um up and let them have them they have lasted a long time too...beenybabies last if you do this..(most of the time)my kids are pretty good with the plush toys really...till I figured out to remove eyes than they last!!!

Welcome to my world.  No toy is safe in this house from the destruction of Tinkerbelle the Terminator.  Under my bed is filled with empty stuffed animal carcasses, just out of my reach of course!  She has one tire toy that is still sturdy, but that's because she has no interest in it whatsoever.  Good Luck!