dog chewing

[maggie01]

My shih-tzu is 6yr old today (Happy Birthday). I bought her a new toy today and withing 5 min the stuffing was hanging out. If she has a sqeeky toy, you never hear it squeek because she chews that immediately. These then have to be taken away because they are not safe and she ends up with nothing. She never chews anything that is not hers. Does anyone elses dog do this?

[hugnie21]

Yes! My Bichon Frise does it all the time. You buy him a new toy and he goes straight for the seam, which he picks at with his teeth to get to the stuffing.

We once bought him a toy that he pulled apart so much it had to go straight in the bin. Half an hour later we heard him in the kitchen, and he'd somehow pulled the bin over to get his toy!

[maggie01]

Yes this is what she does. She frantically get all the stuffing out of it. Being a small dog, and she is one of the tiny Shih-tzu's her jaw is only tiny so hard rubber toys could probably do her some harm and she probably wouldn't be interested in them anyway.

[drgnrdr]

HEY CHECK THIS OUT http://www.ddfl.org/behavior/dog-toys.pdf

For my GSD,The ropes for chewing she had one of those until her jaw got to strong and she was chewing it in 2, she had one for house fun and the other soaked in water and frozen for her teething faze for in the kitchen on the linoleum.

My GSD destroys any stuffed toy within 1 minute, so none of those go to her, she gets a Balls for play, frisbees also, nylabone, Edible Nylabones,bully sticks, Ice, and kongs filled with different things and I freeze it to make her work harder to get the stuff out, I don't give her human type peanut butter, I use the stuffing made by Kong.

Any thing new you give your dog to chew on please supervise the first time to see how they deal with it.