Long lasting dog chews?

Macdaddy4738

Macdaddy4738

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Trying to get away from rawhide stuff, so I bought my dog a Purina One Busy bone. Thing was about 15 ounces....figured it would last a day or two, maybe longer.

Well its gone, and all I can guess is that she ate it in probably the half hour after I gave it to her.

Are there any longer lasting chews out there that aren't rawhide?
 
im going to keep up with this thread. i have a 7 month old german sheppard and she is a chewing machine. I did get get her some kind of bone at the grocery store that looks to be very very hard plastic or real bone. she has had that for awhile but she isnt too fond of it.
 
^2 Find hard wood or pull big stick out the lake/river and let dry it works well for my lab/collie but he is only 8mth...
 
My dog -- kind of a lab mix -- likes the hard plastic bones, last couple have been from MalWart. One he likes best has a nibbed blue or green softer plastic oval section on each side.

He's been sleeping inside at night since he had surgery recently...found out the rawhides give him gas REAL BAD. No more of them, until he's an outside dog again.
 
Mailman's leg works for mine! He has working on it for several years now. No not really, go to the meat section at the grocery store and ask for a bone for your dog. Cheap, dog loves them, and when the neighbor see's it in the front yard he won't be borrowing your stuff any more!
 
Yea, those busy bones lasted less than 10 minutes with my Border Collie, Nylabones are decent for my 4 month old Australian Shepherd, his clear hard plastic one has lasted about a month now, but again the Border Collie had the blue plastic one with nubs all over it torn up and into little chunks in about 2 days. Even the red and black heavy duty Kongs don't last more than a few days. Rawhides are the only thing worth getting them, they are cheap and disposable.

The Border Collie doesn't have a chewing problem, so I don't worry about it, I just give him a rawhide every week or so as a treat, the Aussie needs something at all times.
 
get a cow leg bone...the small one not the 5' long ridiculouusness.
 
Mine are both lab mixes that chew like crazy. I think they changed the way they make even the black (heavy duty chewer) kongs, because mine tear them up, too. They really love the Nylabone Galileo Bone. It's $11 or $12 at PetsMart, but it will last a lot longer than the other chew toy "bones."

Your Hot Dog Guy! said:
go to the meat section at the grocery store and ask for a bone for your dog. Cheap, dog loves them, and when the neighbor see's it in the front yard he won't be borrowing your stuff any more!
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I've given mine "soup shanks" before... same thing, from the meat section, but the bone is cut into round slices about 1 or 2" thick. Mine are basically inside dogs and I only give them real bones out in the yard... the smaller piece means less mess to deal with.
 
Ron said:
get a cow leg bone...the small one not the 5' long ridiculouusness.
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Yep. HT sells them.

And yes the busy bones are a joke. Berkeley isnt exacltly small, but she can take one down in a bout 90 seconds...:lol:
 

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Hurley said:
http://www.kongcompany.com/worlds_best.html
best ever, IMO. I've a chow/shepherd mix and he's eaten everything but the Kong toys.
shin bone, iirc? those are good too.
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My Chow/Border Collie mix laughed at even the black heavy duty Kongs. We've bought him 3, a red Kong, a red Kong bone, and a black kong. The red bone lasted the longest at about a day and a half. We bought one of the black Kongs for the pup, and the Chow/Border bit it in two 30 seconds after stealing it from the pup.
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Kong's plush (no stuffing) animals hold up great though, and the squeakers are replaceable.
 
Our Black Lab Jake, has one toy, looks like the Kong, that he has not been able to chew up. It is hollow and you can stuff milk bones, peanut butter or what ever inside and his 3 foot tongue will get it out!
It looks kinda like a big red pear in shape, in his mouth, looks like he has a big pacifier! But beware, when he brings it to you to play, hurts like hell when it's dropped on your toe!

Bought at K-Mart
 
upnover said:
Our Black Lab Jake, has one toy, looks like the Kong, that he has not been able to chew up. It is hollow and you can stuff milk bones, peanut butter or what ever inside and his 3 foot tongue will get it out!
It looks kinda like a big red pear in shape, in his mouth, looks like he has a big pacifier! But beware, when he brings it to you to play, hurts like hell when it's dropped on your toe!
Bought at K-Mart
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I have a Kong-like thing with a shin bone jammed in it, weighs like 1#, Leeland will sling it around and play... but same thing, watch your feet when he comes near!
 
Be wary of certain bones, they splinter and that's bad news for your furry companions inside. I should know but exactly which bone escapes me right now.
 
I'm a huge endorser for Kong toys. I've got 4 dogs that go through the toys, and Kong is the only one that seems to last. I just picked up a Nylabone at Petsmart this weekend to try it out, I got the large breed because my dane/mastiff mix (15 weeks, 44 lbs) is teething and chewing everything...and it was 19.99.


All that said...the absolute best chew toy my dogs ever found was what looks like a plastic composite brace/bar that came off the front of the trash cans the city of Salisbury distributes in neighborhoods now. The original bar has lasted 3 years with up to 4 different dogs chewing on it, and the ends of it are barely rounded. I have some how acquired 2 more, and they get used as well. I have no idea what it does to their dental health, but it keeps all my dogs (chihuahua/yorkie mix, newfie/lab mix, australian shepher/blue heeler mix and dane/mastiff mix) happy and occupied.
 
Wreckingball said:
Be wary of certain bones, they splinter and that's bad news for your furry companions inside. I should know but exactly which bone escapes me right now.
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Any bird (chicken, turkey, etc) and some pork bones splinter pretty bad. I stick too beef only when I give my dogs real bones.
 
Raw bones tend to be ok... cooked ones can definitely cause trouble. Also, if your dog 'wolfs' their food, I'd definitely stay away from (even raw) smaller bones, like chicken parts. Not so much because they'll splinter (raw bones are 'soft') but because if the dog swallows big chunks of the meat and bone, it can cause other digestive problems like bloat, especially in larger breeds.
 
I actually have the kong bone shaped toy, but largely she ignores it. I froze some pumpkin in it last night, so maybe that will change.

She seems to like only real bones, not the kong.
 
Macdaddy4738 said:
I actually have the kong bone shaped toy, but largely she ignores it. I froze some pumpkin in it last night, so maybe that will change.
She seems to like only real bones, not the kong.
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I had a similar issue with my dogs, they are very hands off with their new Kong toys...I think it's because they smell entirely too much like rubber (wish they had chicken or beef flavoring...or stronger flavoring). Typically what I do is just lather on some peanut butter, or spray on some aersol stink bait...and then they usually get it smelling like dog and go to town.
 
the plastic sway bar links off the back of the tj's work pretty good for my dads english mastiff they last a couple of weeks.lol
 
72Rockcruiser said:
Yep. HT sells them.
And yes the busy bones are a joke. Berkeley isnt exacltly small, but she can take one down in a bout 90 seconds...:lol:
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Wow looks just like my lab/collie "Beam" good looking dog how old is it??
 
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