Long lasting chews from 10 weeks

[tubblu]

Hi please can anyone recommend a long lasting chew for my 10 week puppy at the moment her favourite chew tow is my foot I bought some yak chews from Amazon but they are not suitable until she's 4 months old
Photo because she is gorgeous
Tia

Gorgeous indeed. We buy coffee wood sticks from pets at home they don't splinter and last weeks, they are suitable for puppies, Don't buy the ones from amazon they break off go slimey and are messy. Also nyla bones are flavoured.

Oh I've just checked it's from 6 months not sure why. Anyway nylabones are definitely suitable for puppies.

Please don’t give your puppy chews. Many are incredibly dangerous and do splinter, even if they say they don’t. Not only that, puppies have no control and often try and swallow them whole.

Give her dense chew toys - pets at home do teething rings. She needs that not treats.

The reasons many chews aren’t appropriate for young puppies is because it severely damages their teeth and can cause stomach upset. It’s really not worth the risk.

We gave pup goats ears, lamb braids, beef bladders and similar from 12 weeks. Always closely supervised.

These sorts of things

https://www.jrpetproducts.com/products/puppy-bundle-12-weeks

Neither of mine were in any way interested in chewing teething rings or nylabone type things.

Nylabones, as already suggested above - our pup (4.5 months and heavily teething) has a peanut butter flavoured puppy Nylabone although I have to say she hasn't take any interest in it yet. She also has a teething ring, a big solid rubber dumbbell, a Kong that we fill with kibble and loads of big knotted rope toys that she chews at. Everything regularly gets checked for damage and the only one she is ever left alone with is the Kong and the dumbell.

Our previous pup had a couple of Antler chews and they last for ages but again need supervision and regular checks. Your pup is probably still too young for anything like that.

One really great therapy toy is cardboard boxes. Keep anything like cereal packets, tea bag boxes, kitchen roll tubes etc etc and if pup is bored just chuck it one to shred up. Obviously you will need to watch they don't swallow chunks of cardboard but our pups never have; they just shred boxes into confetti and it seems to be a good boredom buster for them.

It really depends on the individual dog/breed as to whether they are content with the puppy teething toys but if we didn't give additional chews of some sort we would have no furniture left so we do give rawhide (and yes, I know they are generally disapproved of and I'll get a roasting for it). Again, we only allow them under supervision and we are always able to take toys and food away if we need to.

Thanks all she's a Labrador. And she does love a cardboard box! She also has a kong, lickimat and tug toys/cuddly toys. Nothing really seems to hold her interest for very long. She can't walk until second jab, so worry that she's getting bored!

Jr Pet products have a great range... they can advise over the phone too if suitable for pups

www.jrpetproducts.com/

Scentwork is really good for keeping them interested and tiring them out. Hide treats/kibble around the room/garden and let them sniff them out. You can then progress to trickier hiding places, e.g. under a blanket or not at floor level. My pups have always loved this.

My older lab had her first lamb braid at 1 day short of 12 weeks and it kept her occupied for a full 30 minutes. It was amazing 😂

Are you doing training with her at home? Put some of her kibble to one side for training treats.

You can do lead walking in the garden, put some obstacles around the garden to walk around, getting her to focus on you. This will set you up for when you start going out. Work on sit/stay/recall etc.

It's also useful to carry her outside if she's not too heavy, so she gets used to traffic noise etc. Have you got a car crate for the boot? You could drive to places and just open the boot and watch things going on (I've driven to supermarket car parks and kids play areas to do this)

The bucket game is a good one to work on

Frozen carrots - great for when she is teething. You can also get ballistic fabric toys to pop in the freezer.

Or get a puppy teething ring. That said, my lab broke his - they have very strong jaws and are mouthy little buggers as pups.

She is beautiful btw. Lovely head ❤️

Thanks yes we have crate in car, we've been practising lead walking in garden and on our driveway. She's very scared of passing traffic and tries to pull back towards the house. I'm at work at the moment and DD is on pup duty at home. I'll read all of these this afternoon. Thanks for all your help

Nothing will hold her interest for very long because of her attention span and teeny braincell😀 do you nap her when she becomes too much?

Warning on lamb braids, our Goldie around 14 weeks had one and once he’d got it soft through chewing, he suddenly inhaled the whole thing. Had to have his tummy pumped in case of obstruction, poor wee guy. Agree with pps that they are just a bit daft at that stage and better with toys than edible chews. Making a high pitched yelp like other pups would make can be helpful with biting.

At that age I would go for things like lick-mats and kongs so that she can't chew bits off and choke. Still supervise her with them obviously, but they're much safer than anything fully edible.

You can fill them with all kinds of different things and they come in different shapes and sizes too.

I'm a huge fan of natural chews for dogs when they're older but as puppies they can be daft and do dangerous things.

At that age I would go for things like lick-mats and kongs so that she can't chew bits off and choke

A lickimat is no match for a Labrador 😂 I'd say it's 50/50 as to whether they lick off the topping or attempt to devour the whole thing!

My labs are on the milder end of the chewing spectrum but they still managed to consume half the nubbins on the extra tuff lickimats

@DataPup at least with a lickmat you know if they've chewed a bit off you can't know if they've taken a huge chunk of chew at once or just chewed it normally iyswim.

Thanks everyone, great suggestions. I'll leave the chews until she is a bit older.

Yes we do put her in crate after she has been up for 90 mins or so, is that too long? She naps really well and is very good in her crate

A couple of posters have said wait until puppy is older for edible chews as they can inhale them which causes upset tummy etc. Can you please advise what sort of age you'd say would be safe for pup to have?

I’m raising a Lab puppy too (almost 6 months) we were recommended Nylabones, puppy kong & olive wood sticks. He didn’t like the Nylabones tbh, so that was a waste of money.

Mind you, his favourite things to chew were always my hands until his baby teeth fell out. He doesn’t chew my hands at all now, just mouths them gently sometimes. Just to reassure you, the biting stage hopefully won’t last long!

Your puppy is gorgeous btw ❤️

My puppy just used to fall asleep on the floor when tired. Would sometimes have a mad 5 minutes ( even madder than normal) then suddenly collapse 😴

Thanks all. Puppy is now 5 months! She hardly bites me at all now, if anyone else is going through the land shark stage - I can assure you it does pass!

Oh goodness @tubblu I needed to read that! We're at 16 weeks now and logically I know it will finish, but it really doesn't feel like it today!

It really is relentless I felt really down about it, because we couldn't play with her or cuddle her because we ended up in pain! Once she pulled my trousers down when I took her out in the garden for a wee! I stood there in my pants thinking what on earth have I done getting this puppy?! She is so much better now in every way, hang in there!

Thank you @tubblu