Ramush likes his Kong with peanut butter but he has come to realize that when he gets it, it usually means I’m leaving. So out of protest, he won’t eat it until I return. And he never plays with it sans food.
Bobby and Gideon have them. “They” call them Kong a long a ding dongs and like them with peanut butter, cheese, peanut butter and cheese or just a biscuit.
I just have to say that Onan is the best name for a bird I have ever heard!!!
When my dog was a pup - nearly 11 years ago - I was hesitant to shell out $10-15 for a kong. That is a lot of money for a toy that you are not sure if your dog will or will not play with.
Turns out that it was one of the best toys that should couldn’t destroy. (The stuffed toys with the squeaker, though vastly entertaining watching a near 100# dog carry it continously and squeaking it, always turned to shredded parts all over the yard and house.)
I use to stuff it with cheese, nuke it then freeze it. (As doing the Just Cheese thing was not hard enough to get it out for her. My dog, I’m pretty sure would have been a very popular cheerleader with her sucking skills.)
When that kong was lost, I bought another without hesitation. Then, naturally, the lost one came home and my dog got two frozen cheese stuffed Kongs every morning as I left for work.
I haven’t seen her kongs in some time ( years) which means they are probably buried behind her crate in the corner and that’s filled iwth spiders. ( yeeech. and where the stinkin’ mice hide their food.
I recommend them to every new dog owner.
To put it mildly, Kongs Rock!
The only thing about Kongs is that if you throw them, you never know which way they will bounce.
Kongs really are quite sturdy, we have mastiffs.
Two other dog toys we have found to be worthy of our dogs’ jaws are
“Invincible Rings” and “Galileo bones.” Both can be found at Petsmart.
Bean never liked Galileos or Nylabones but my younger dogs love them. The Nylabones are made of a high-density plastic which is scented. (There are two styles of them-- the softer “puppy” style and the harder adult ones. If your dog is a hard chewer, always get the adult ones.) My dogs are capable of destroying the softer ones, and unfortunately, if they eat the little chunks of the plastic, it always makes them vomit. The harder ones are nearly impossible to consume-- all they can get off of it is tiny shavings.
Galileos are only sold in one style that I’ve seen (no softer versions). I bought both the big size and the one for miniature dogs, though I was a bit worried about Polaris getting the small one. I needn’t have worried-- even the tiny Galileo is too tough for her to chomp up and consume, though she loves to gnaw on it.
Phyllis, the dog who thinks she’s a cat, loves stuffed frozen Kongs. She likes regular peanut butter, but goes nuts for that Kong liver paste. We used to put treats in it for her, but she doesn’t seem to care what’s in it, so now we just put her kibble and a little liver paste in there. The paste keeps everything together for freezing.
You do need to adjust your feeding if you’re giving your dog a Kong a day, I’ve found. Especially if you have a scavenger/overeater like mine.
When her Kong is empty, she couldn’t care less about it. She doesn’t really go for fetching or chasing, though, so I guess the crazy bouncing doesn’t do it for her. My sister’s oversized Yorkie, however, doesn’t so much care about the food, but will chase and bark and chase and chew his Kong forever. When I bought one for my sister she told me that it would never last, her dog was a grade-A chewer. But she’s had that one at least a year now, not even a dent in it.
Our dog has a couple. He doesn’t like peanut butter that much, but he goes crazy for bacon-flavored Cheez Whiz, so we put some of that in there, along with some biscuits.
He’s gotten pretty good at cleaning them out within minutes, though, so we’ve upped the ante. He now gets a Dental Kong with the big end of a Large Greenies bone cut off with a hack saw and shoved in. It’s big enough that I can just barely squeeze it in. It then rattles around in there and simply won’t come back out. And there’s enough space that he can’t get a good enough bite on it to break it up, so he just chews on the thing endlessly. (After a few days the bone erodes from all the saliva, but it lasts ridiculously long.) He likes those bones enough that having a piece in there he can’t get to just drives him crazy. And his teeth stay nice and clean.
“Indestructible?” I think not.
My brother had a golden lab who was perhaps the dumbest canine I ever knew in my life. Big, burly, destructive (he wielded the Thrashing Tail of Death), dumb as a stump, and astoundingly omnivorous. Our local vet pronounced him a prodigy, as he routinely ate things that would have killed a smarter creature. Among his achievements was the utter distruction of a king-sized Kong in less than a week. All told, he probably went through about ten of them during his lifetime.
Heh. I don’t think they look like snowmen, or Michelin men. At all. I’m just sayin’.
My dog is a little Westie, and he loves it. (I mean, only with food in.) He absolutely adores that stuff they sell for it that’s like Easy Cheese, only it’s liver paste.
All of my dogs have had Kongs. In fact, all of my dogs have had the same Kong. It’s lasted years and years and years, as it came with my first dog when she was just a pup.