This dog toy’s a rip-off — that’s why it lasts
Deep within the soul of every domestic dog lies a savage, bloodthirsty killer, with deadly jaws engineered to crush, thrash, and destroy in mere moments any dog toy you place before it. But a new company aims to end the cycle of the ten-minute toy: Tearribles, the toys with limbs that dogs can tear off, and their humans can put back together, again and again. After a successful fundraising on Kickstarter, the toys are ready to tear into homes, in three sizes. (via Allein S.)
Yay! That was quick!! This came up as a “sponsored” post on my facebook feed last night. Normally I don’t click on such things but how could I not?
It looks like a good idea, in theory, but my dog isn’t interested in ripping limbs off. What she wants is the stuffing inside the toy, and she likely won’t stop until she succeeds in getting to it.
It’s true. My dog wants to rip out the stuffing. That’s where all the fun is. I think it’s a great toy, though. I just need to find a suitable material to put in the toy that she rip out after the limbs have come off. This could definitely work for my pup.
My friend’s dog does the same thing. I shared this with her and said she’d still do it, but maybe it’d just take her a little longer…
Although Bibi is not interested in ripping into a toy to get at the stuffing (and Ricky didn’t have enough teeth), I’ve seen plenty of dogs who could and would permanently rip the tar out of those toys in a hot second.
I must say those toys are awfully cute, though, as is the commercial.
My friend’s dog rips apart every stuffie she gets her paws on in minutes. We went to the Franklin Institute a couple months ago and when we got back to her house we spent a good half hour watching Smidgen pull the stuffing out of a stuffed pink heart. Took her a few minutes to get a good hole going and then there was white fluff all over the floor (kind of amazing how much stuffing can fit in there). She’ll often pick up toys on clearance to stash away just for that purpose.
I love the product and I love their commercial! Unfortunately, none of my (rescue) dogs was ever interested in toys of any kind. I assume that means they were not properly socialized or cared for or encouraged to play. 😢 But that aside, I think these put-back-together-able toys are great!
Pablo wasn’t much of a toy dog, either; he wouldn’t have bothered with this. Also he mostly ignored other animals as long as they left him alone (he would bark at the cats when they tried to steal his food). But we played with him plenty and while he had his preferred people he was happy to sit with anyone who had a free lap. I think it was just his personality (pupsonality?).
I taught Ricky to play with toys by getting on my hands and knees in doggy play pose, grabbing the toy in my teeth, and shaking my head like a puppy. He didn’t seem to be impressed, but by the next day that little pig had become his his puppy, his love object, and his all around bestie.
Probably wouldn’t work with every dog, but I was thrilled that it worked for him. He’d had such a rough lot in life until I adopted him.
“It has cute toofs”! sold.
I had the same reaction, and I don’t even have a dog!
Stop disappointing your dog! Genius marketing.
Cute idea but wonder how long it would last with a dog like a pitty or rottie that has ginormous jaw strength. Plus as many people noted, lots of dogs go for the stuffing so until they can make a chew proof toy nothing is indestructible. I had a shepherd/rottie/greyhound mix that could go thru toys like hot knife thru butter. One time she chewed all the rubber knobbies off a toy (supposedly for power chewers. Ha!) and w-e-ee-llll, she had rainbow poop for a few days. That dog had an iron stomach, nothing seemed to faze her.
Shepherd/rottie/greyhound? That’s quite a combination!