To despair of dogs balls?

[Toooldtobearsed]

I would be a millionaire were it not for my dogs balls.

I have two dogs. Youngest is ball obsessed, but both love retrieving strange, being labrador retrievers and all
I buy tennis balls - they take delight in removing all the flocking.
I buy rubber balls - they pull chunks off until I am throwing a piece of 'I' shaped rubber.
I buy expensive, non chew, non flocked super balls - and promptly (and with great enthusiasm) throw them into thick brambles, or up a tree.

Todays pm excursion involved a ball on a rope stuck up a tree, two out of a pack of three cheap tennis type balls punctured and therefore, akin to throwing a frisby, and a forgotton tennis ball in the boot thoroughly deflocked on the way home.
Boot looked like a mass chick massacre.

No more balls. None. Ever again.

A car flap would be rather large..... cat flap!

This is RatDog. I frequently lose his balls in trees. The last time I did, he rolled in this puddle.

It's like they don't care, isn't it? Destroying the balls they love so dearly.... only for us lowly shit collectors to replace them. I feel your pain.

Oh God foolserrand, that could easily be my youngest ddog. She can sniff out an inch of mud from half a mile away to roll in. And dont get me started on fox, dead seagulls and rotting seals.

Jeez, just wondering why we have them........

Don't let your dogs' balls within grabbing distance of Wolfiepup. She is a thief of balls. She's too big for tennis balls. Choking hazard so if she gets one when out it's the devil's own job to get the bugger back.

Wolfiefan knowing my dog, she would have her bloody head inside your dogs mouth to retrieve her ball!
Is yours an Irish wolfhound?
She played with one a good while ago. Both had balls, both played nicely.
It was tike to leave and other dog owner could not find his dogs ball. We looked everywhere and gave up in the end.
Walked back to car, opened boot - which is the trigger for dogs to drop what they have been carrying - and out popped two balls........ never saw the irish wolfhoinf again to return it unfortunately.

These are brilliant: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B000F4AVPA/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ref=plSrch&keywords=chuckit+ultra+ball&dpPl=1&dpID=519X5Ipt4xL&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1528666254&sr=8-1

Balls on ropes are no good if you're anywhere near trees and mine will also de-fuzz normal tennis balls. These Chuckit jobs are great, they bounce, they float, they're easy to see and no fuzz to shred.

She would probably give it up perfectly nicely to another dog! it's just me taking it signals confiscation and end of fun! She also wouldn't take it from another dog. Just if she finds one on the ground (backtracking desperately trying not to paint her as a total hooligan! )
Yep. Wolfhound.

Sports direct do 3 balls for £1.20. They're proper tennis balls so a lot hardier than ones designed for dogs and the flock is difficult to get off. They last far better than others.

The other good option is kong tennis balls (although the squeak may drive you mad). For some reason most dogs I know don't lose those very quickly - they seem to take more care. They're quite soft (MipHound uses his as chewing gum!) But they stay in one piece. Cheapest I've found is at The Range.

Our local tennis club gives used balls away free.

Look for 'sportspet' balls at Pets at Home, Morrison's etc. They're like a squash ball, so hollow rubber, but tennis ball sized. Because they spring back they can't sink their teeth into them so easily. Our girl can destroy a tennis ball in under 20 seconds but these last for months.

I agree with the people recommending chuckit balls. They are amazing. The rubbery ones not the tennis balls.

I once lost my dog’s ball in a really thick hedge. It meant that every walk she had to spend about ten minutes thrashing about in it. Nothing would distract her from finding it. About a year later she did come back out with the ball though!

It was plastic bottles with my long gone lab. He was obsessed and could find one in the most inauspicious of places. In fact were he still around I think he could have solved the ocean plastic crisis given free access.

My chihuahua is ball obsessed...

You would have thought a Labrador proof heavy ball would be safe from her..nope. She's managed to chew chunks out of it

My main problem is, she loves playing fetch with the ball in the house. The minute we start walking, she has no interest and I end up carrying it

Another vote for chuck it balls - on amazon. My two are beagles and aren't even really bothered about balls (except the younger who loves a tennis ball but destroys them) but these balls turn them crazy for retrieving, they've never destroyed one and they're bright orange so good for finding yourself if needed!

She's also a bugger for taking off the flock.

Oh and those Kong tennis balls? Yeah they all had their flock removed.

She also can't have any soft toys as she will sit and chew it to bits. Same with raggy tug toys

Two pairs of Chuckits on order😁

A chihuahua Soubriquet????? Surely the ball will be bigger than her🤣 Fiesty little bugger then.
Having two labs means that no soft toy is safe, it simply gets tugged in half, so ropes and rubber rule in this house.

Tennis balls are really dangerous for dogs and shouldn't be used.

Shes a giant Chihuahua

Most of her breeds are supposed to be around 4-5lb. She's 5kg and she's lovely and skinny so defintely not overweight. Just big

You make me wistful for a dog OP.

I have had 4 dogs in my life- three retrievers. My life is too busy right now and I have dog hating rescue cats.
I look forward to the day I can have a dog.

My dog stole a ball off a toddler at the park. Massive tears (rightly so) from the toddler and my fucking cunt of a dog ran away with it and wouldn't drop it. I was mortified and it was a miracle I didn't cry. Finally got the ball back covered in slimy saliva. I offered to wash it and the lovely mum said its ok and took it from me to put it in a bag, the toddler took it and put the ball in his mouth-dog saliva and all. It was her turn to die a little. It is a good thing that I love my bloody dog.

Our Springer is absolutely lovely... except when it comes to rubber balls. At the sight of a ball, or even worse somebody with a ball launcher thingy, she becomes a disobedient monster. Many are the times we have had to apologize and chase her around, after she has hijacked some other dogs ball, or abandoned us to follow somebody with a ball. She is also capable of reducing a tennis ball to molecule size pieces in about two minutes. The last "indestructible" ball lasted about 5 minutes. However, we bought her a thick cloth duck dog toy, expecting it to be shredded in seconds. By some miracle it is still alive and well several weeks later (but permanently soaked in dog drool :-). She is happy to retrieve it, if thrown, but unlikely to actually let go of it. She also takes it to bed and the moment somebody wakes in the morning, jumps on the bed and thrusts it in their face. But ducks seem to live considerably longer than tennis balls.