Toys for a destructive Puppy

[Pigleychez]

Our Black Lab is 6mths old and going through toys like crazy.

Teddies dont last 5 minutes. Bites his way through most rubber toys and rope toys get shredded!
Thankfully he seems to do most of his chewing on his toys rather than anything else!

Can anyone recommend some stronger toys?

His Kongs have held up reasonably well but then he doesnt properly chew on them as hes much too busy getting the treats out the middle.
Are the Kong extreme toys any good? Strong?

Coming late to this thread, but with important info I think.

Raw chicken is absolutely fine. I fed both my labs from 11 weeks old on raw - chicken wings are among their favourites. SconeDog died of old age in March, his sister is still going.

We have never had any issues at all with raw meaty bone feeding. I would give uncooked marrow bones as a very occasional treat - for half an hour a day for a week.

SconeSpaniel is 16 weeks old and greatl enjoys his bones too.

I've a five month old puppy he's got plenty of toys, but oh no he's chewed my table and chairs so far.jumped at the kitchen blind (a bamboo one ) and pulled the bamboo out one by one,oh and had a good chew at his dog basket he's just too hyper as wen my grandkids come up he jumps up at them.

You can get an 'everlasting' chew on Amazon but they are a horrific price and I dont know anyone thats tried them.

www.amazon.co.uk/TRIPLE-Everlasting-Delicious-Edible-Dental/dp/B00X1AER8C/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1450692839&sr=8-2&keywords=everlasting+dog+chew

We have a 19 month old lab so I know what you mean about the teddies! Have just found that Wilkinsons do toys without the stuffing in so they're a bit like a comfort blanket type thing. Mine loves them and they've survived really well so far!! Also loves a good rope pulley.

catz I really disagree with you on the bone issue. Cooked bones are unsafe, raw bones are not. Mine have turkey necks, lambs heads, lambs necks etc BUT they are raw fed dogs and so I believe their stomach acid is stronger than a kibble fed dog and they break down and digest the bone much more easily.
Marrow bones are perfect for kibble fed dogs too though as they don't eat the bone, just lick out the middle. They keep my dogs busy for hours. I buy the Natures Menu ones and they aren't too big.

Oh the toy issue though, the only ones my lab hasn't destroyed are two tuffys toys. The ultimate bone and a yellow squid looking one.

I would be very wary of that American advice about bones, raw bones are absolutely fine for dogs, as advised by my vet. In fact I am always wary about any American statistics. America is a huge country( about the same population at Europe) so 35 incidents is a very small number.

the only things that have stood the test of time through many puppyhoods are Kong Extremes, and the kong wobbler. (XL for labradors)

I wouldn't leave puppies to chew plastic bottles alone!
I wouldn't give frozen chicken wings to any dog (frozen food in gut is not a good idea).

There's nothing wrong with a big dog swalling a whole chicken wing! The meat wraps the bones entirely! When dog's eat raw meaty bones all they do is make swallowable size crunches in them so they go down, anything too big comes back up!

I'd recommend antlers too, and i wouldn't feed faw marrow bone which is pure overly rich fat and certainly for many breeds with a propensity to problems breaking down fats (can't remembe what its called) it would be absolutely dire! At the very least it will cause some disruption! you may as well feed them a pack of butter, which you wouldn't! and any that doesn't get eaten first goes rancid very quickly.

Antlers don't bbreak off into shards like bone fragments of knuckle bones can (raw I mean, never cooked as they fragment). they have marrow but its very slow releasing, and requires much gnawing.

With ropes i wouldn't leave alone for long as any loose string bits that get swallowed can cause serious gut problems requiring surgery.

A lot really depends on whether your ddog spits or swallows?!

I give my cocker pine cones - he destroys them and makes a mess but it takes him a while and they are free

i know there's a lot of scare around feeding chicken bones, but its the cooking that makes them dangerous, sharp and splinter into shards. if you see bones that have been regurgitated the thin bits disintegrate in no time in the gut, and all thats left are middle bits that look like stones do with years of being rounded by the sea. reminiscent of the 'bone' that you have to pick out in the game of 'operation' - chicken bones are nothing for the gut to deal with, same with other soft bones, like lamb necks and so on.

the stuff in pine cones is toxic, even for chewing

I did wonder shriek - re the pine cones.