Cassidy

This is more of a curious question than a help-needed question, as we've become the masters of catching him in the act. Do you give your basset stuffed toys and if they destroy them, do they eat the innards? Fergus hasn't met a toy yet that he couldn't take down to its bits and pieces, only problem is he eats the bits and pieces. This leads to lots of fun for mom and dad when it's time to go number two (let's just say we have lots of disposable gloves handy).

We've put a ban on all stuffed toys now to keep this from happening any more.

But I was curious if your basset actually eats the toys or just destroys them?

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mhvonalmen8908

We used to give Doppler ropes to play with. He was a master at getting them untied and he'd eat pieces. He'd poop just fine so we weren't too worried about it. One day though, he started retching and eventually threw up. Guess what comprised about 2/3s of his vomit! That's right! His rope toy. The rest of it was food so we picked the rope up from the mess and let him get to work cleaning it up (we cleaned up with soap and water after he was done of course!). That was the day we decided to ban rope toys. And stuffed toys have never been allowed. We know what would happen with them and to them. We also try to not get squeaky toys because it would drive us nuts but we've got a couple and they aren't too obnoxious. So they pretty much have just a ton of balls, Kongs, and Nylabones with a few Milkbone rubber squeaky toys as well. Nothing fabric if we can help it.

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LY909

Porter rarely care for toys and we have plenty of them. He would chew on them once in a blue moon but most of the time he just leaves them alone. He likes to sleep in his bed or sit in the kitchen waiting to be fed.

MollyMcFrecklesMom

Molly loves her stuffed toys. She destroys some, but not all. Luckily, she doesn't eat the stuffing, just leaves it all over the living room floor. I only intervene to retrieve the squeaker. She's left with an unstuffed toy that she still finds fun. Whatever makes her happy

bubbad

My Vinny cannot wait to rip out the insides of a new stuffed toy. Fortunately ,he does not eat the innerds.He does not get stuffed toys now since he will rip them up.What you need to becareful of is if the inside stuffing is being eated it could cause a bowel obstruction in which case surgery would be warrented.I would not allow anymore stuffed toys.

klm42005

My basset steals stuffed toys from my daughters room...but he hides them in his bed and crate space...he plays with them but has yet to chew them up....his big thing to shred is paper towels and toilet paper that he has recently figured out how to take of the roll.....

bklantz

Ella loves to tear up stuffed animals but she doesn't eat it, well not that I've seen. Once she gets all the stuffing out I just pick it up and sometimes I sew the stuffing back into the animal if there is only one hole otherwise I just toss it

Mikey T

If this is the dogs preferred chewing substrate this could do more harm than good you may want to look at the dog toys that are still cloth but not stuffed or some of the really strongly built stuffed toys.

Stuffing Free Dog Toys


Go Dog Baby Dragons with Chew Guard

Jute Bite Stick with Handle

Wonder Bar Tug Sticks

bubbad

I'm not sure how removing the stuffed toys would do more harm than good especially if the stuffing ,eyes,and any other decorations on the toy are being consumed.They could turn to being destructive but usually if there are other things they can play with or chew they will turn their attention to those things.

Boomer's Mom

Boomer destroys stuffed toys so he can pull out the squeaker. He then just holds it between his teeth and sits and squeaks it. It's a funny sight, but I don't let him do it for long as I don't want him to swallow it and become a giant squeaky toy himself.

There are some good heavy duty dog toys out there; I found some at PetSmart over the weekend.