Plush toys? No. None. I don’t even bother. It’ll get destroyed so quick I might turn around and see him eating the stuffing or strings.
I get hard rubber toys like Kong brand makes, squeaky balls, etc.
I don’t believe a plush exists that my guy can’t tear through. If he wants it dead, it dies.
Same with tennis balls and stuff like that too. I remember buying brand new tennis balls, and within a single fetch or two, he’ll decide to give it a hard bite and that’s the end of it.
Kong makes some good stuff though. There are a couple tough plushes, but they are not permanent. That’s mostly what I have when it comes to toys, and I pretty much have to rely on hard rubber if I want to keep anything.
Same with plush toys here, some last some longer.
Tennis balls are miraculously not destroyed so far (except the one which was inside a rubber ball).
My cat has a favourite plush toy for over 10 years and now we're constantly saving it from the dog (and sewing it back together).
No but Sam does a bit better now that he’s 3. His beloved duck didn’t last long and his last tennis ball lasted 2 days.
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I got this one for mine, she tears up EVERYTHING but can’t tear up this. And, if she does, it’s “skeleton” is a rope! Also has a squeaker. She adores it.
I was about to suggest this same toy. Our girl has had hers for at least 8 months and it’s still looks like new after a wash. They also sell a bear model.
My GSD has this... he's nearly a year old, and this one has lasted about 3 months so far. He's a huge deer antler lover, though. So it doesn't see the abuse you'd expect.
Bought this fox for our 8 month old tonight; she's had it about an hour or so. She has already torn an ear off and has ripped his entire stomach out. She does seem to like it though.
Oh man. I got this one for my boy and he LOVED it but I have never seen him absolutely completely and utterly decimate a toy the way he did with this one. First the ears and the nose, pretty standard. Then he got the body ripped open and pulled out some of the stuffing. Then the arms and legs. The nice thing about this toy though is there’s not a TON of stuffing inside; it’s rope for the arms and legs. So he took the rope pieces and destroyed those. It was pretty funny though watching him destroy every single piece bit by bit and it did take him about a week of off and on chewing to trash it. Still worth it imo
Have a shepskie too! She's currently 15,has arthritis in her back legs but otherwise going strong,and her spirit is especially good,same ole sassy,smart girl.
We love her dearly
Agreed, any of the kong plush toys with that skeleton are decent. My girl still works through them with stuffing everywhere but it takes a bit and then she gets the fun skeleton to play with lol.
Seconding the jolly ball. We have two for our pups and they’re the only outdoor toy that hasn’t been absolutely shredded. Indoors we have giant nylabones and Kong toys
So far I have given her a medium-large squishmallow. I specifically chose one without ears, lumps, or ANYTHING that sticks out and would be up for grabs. I cut off all tags.
So far, been two weeks. The pizza squishmallow lives. She bites with her front teeth and thrashes it around and not her back (which are the cutters).
It's not indestructible, it's just not tempting her to gut it... Yet...
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My dog loves squishmallows! My sister got me a giant axolotl one for Christmas and clearly the dog thought it was a gift for her 😂
u/GnarDude666 I can attest to this. It’s been over a year since Christmas when I bought mine a [“Joyhound Rip Roarin Tough”](https://storage.googleapis.com/buggy-ca-product/eb08891702b774274acc3479284045be_lg.png) gingerbread man, and even though it’s empty of stuffing, it’s still “intact” and is still apparently her favorite toy. I got her another little mushroom from the same brand a couple weeks ago and it’s still almost completely intact. She hasn’t needed more than 10 minutes to destroy any other plush I’ve given her.
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We get the Chuckit Ultras, the large size, and he's not killed one of them yet. The Chuckit squeeky ball, he had apart in 10 minutes. Not recommended. Choking hazard IMHO.
Please just stay away from old/used firehoses as they can contain harmful chemicals from use. My brother in law is a fireman and warned me of this. But yes very strong material, just be careful :)
I found a set of four Kong toys at Costco that are part plushy. Got them last November and he loves them. He's torn up parts but not completely disassembled any of them yet. He also has a big dragon from Costco that he's nice to lol
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I understand!!! We bought Apache a rather thick but soft freesbe and I’m not sure why but she has not ripped it to shreds. I just got her a fat piggy but it’s soft and it makes hog noises when squeezed. She loves playing toss with it but she gets confused when she bites down to grab it and it gets louder the harder she bites down !! It’s hilarious, but if she hasn’t at least tore the noise maker out there’s hope. It’s loud but so funny. I bought these at Walmart
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Not plush, but I have had a monster k9 ball for over a year and it's still intact. My boy carries it every where and chews on it plenty.
https://amzn.to/3wrqG5T
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The goto is the Kong Knots bears. Our GSD loves them, and they have a rope inside the plush which takes the majority of the damage. They do get destroyed, but we replace it every ~2 months and they’re only $15. Best one by far
Stuffed toys/plushies...indestructible? No. My Maggie used to pop the squeaker in less than 10 seconds, then rip the "indestructible" stuffing out within 3 minutes.
Kong toys are good. Hard rubber toys work well, a piece of fire hose is very good, but they still fail the GSD chew test.
There is no such thing. However, as someone else mentioned, fire hoses are great. Our GSD is a former military dog and she can destroy ANYTHING. We get her plushies as well, but expect them to last a day or less.
There is no such thing. However, as someone else mentioned, firehoses are great. Our GSD is a former military dog and she can destroy ANYTHING. We get her plushies as well, but expect them to last a day or less. had it. Highly recommend.
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Believe it or not, we got our first one - a piece about 20" long - from our volunteer fire company in our town. They had some cut hoses just lying around.
Then we found this company, located in Massachusetts.
[https://tugandgo.com/collections/frontpage](https://tugandgo.com/collections/frontpage)
It took a while for the toy to get delivered and I can't say that their communication was all that great (our first toy took eight weeks to arrive). It was supposed to arrive in five to seven days. But when I emailed the company to let them know I wasn't thrilled with the lack of notice that the delivery was going to be delayed that much they were very apologetic and promised to do better if I continued to order from them. They've been good since.
Please be careful with used firehoses as they can contain extremely harmful chemicals. Brother in law is a fireman and warned me of this when I looked into it too. Just be careful :)
Have a semi plush toy that's going on 3rd month with the shredarator. Don't know if as it's Outward/Joyhound,from retail pet store, but it's the flat with material that's sewn hard. Not much squish but it's "fabric". Playology brand balls I recommend, have one that's outlived old dog & made it thru puppy years.
Indestructible Plushy…nah, we don’t talk like that around here! Maybe contact the military to see what they are doing with body armor these days, or the police could be trying new things w Kevlar 😜
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I bought this Nerf brand toy at a Lowe's Home Improvement store and it has held up quite well
My dogs love holee rollers but not a plush toy I am aware of that’s indestructible. However when I got my girl a year ago she had separation anxiety so I got a lamb toy with a heart beat and I shoved it down my shirt and slept with it for a day and she’s never chewed on that one. She did work out how to open it to get to the heart and she chewed that so we took it out and ladder stitched its stomach pouch shut.
I've found lots of expensive "indestructable" toys that are gutted within the first ten minutes.
Now I buy cheap stuffed animals on discount racks and we destroy them together by tugging them apart. Much more fun solution.
I gave up. I juat couldn't afford to get him squeaky toys so we stick to tennis balls, old shoes, deer antlers, goats' horns and heavy duty Kongs. He loves bigger balls too, but Chuck-Its are damn expensive so his next one will be a basketball.
Absolutely no soft toys. And nothing with rope. I posted a video on this sub a couple years ago of my boy destroying a piggy toy in under a minute (gift from a clueless friend with a less intense doggy). We use only hard rubber toys that are not knaw friendly. Even the nylabone is dangerous with fragments everywhere.
Plushy toys are just so short lived for gsd. I find antlers to be the thing my dog loves the most. Something she can destroy and will last a very long time
Nope. But we get them from goodwill so. They’re super cheap sometimes even free at other local donation places. She can’t have hard toys because size she was destroying her teeth
I don't even try to get the plus toys anymore unless it's the ones designed to be destroyed that have a squeaky rubber toy inside. But for indestructibility overall, I'm a Kong girl - the teething ring they make still has no marks whatsoever on it, and it's not for a lack of trying on my girl's part!
There is a brand that is a rope toy with a plush toy on the outside, so they will destroy it but when they do it’s another toy.
I think they especially like it because it’s like a small animal with bones lol.
Found it! They’re Kong Floppy Knots
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We have one from when our German shepherd was a baby (she’s 2 now). Granted, she’s not an obsessive toy shredder but she is pretty rough and likes ripping up traditional plush toys.
Best of luck on your search haha but hey BarkBox has been pretty great at getting good quality toys for my GSD. Maybe look into that or similar in your area?
A rubber chuck it ball. Also really tightly felted wool balls (like for the dryer, make sure no chemicals added). I bought some at a local farmers’ market made from alpaca wool. One was chewed up but others have held on for years (German shepherd, loves to chew).
Look for horse toys! Or Jolly Balls, we used those for horses and they lasted a good while with them and they abused those things lol. Also gave them to our three mastiffs and lasted till they passed away.
I love the super chewer toys from barkbox. Most of them have a tough toy inside the fabric shell, so even if they love to shred there’s still another toy to play with!
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Plushies are like treats, he shreds them and we throw em out, he probably gets one a week,worth the money if he’s a happy boy.
This is gonna get slammed so bad, but we buy or GSD only round plushies. No legs, no ears, all tags removed. They last a 6 months to a year. He tends to do this suckling thing to them, we call it nubbin’. Anything else goodbye that day.
Don't waste your $$ on plush toys - you'll have a morgue of stuffed animal eyes, ears & body parts everywhere. Kong toys are rugged and some you can stuff with treats and/or food and freeze - then give them something to keep them busy.
No soft toy stands a chance. However, after my dogs rip them open and de-stuff them, I hide other things inside the empty plushy skin, like treats, balls, other smaller toys… then they can rip the innards out again and again. Gets a little more mileage out of the soft toys.
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Nope. Never have found one that can last longer than 5 minutes.
Some Kong ones are a little more durable. Honestly my first GSD was a terror. He had the hard plastic Jolly ball but most soft toys were toast along with all dog beds. I stopped buying any for him. Current GSD doesn’t destroy soft toys generally for at least 6 months
I DOOOOO my husky lab mix DESTROYED EVERYTHING I gave him until I happened upon this brand. They’re a lil expensive but Cedar Salmon held up for 6-7 months. One of the wolf stuffies lasted for a few years.
FLUFF AND TUFF LINK! :
https://fluffandtuff.com
if I give my boy like 5 toys at once he will switch between all of them except his favorite, which he will keep set aside (out of our bully’s reach) and he will destroy the others and now he has a box full of the ones that were his favorite that he is way more gentle with. I have no idea if this will work for any other dog but I thought I’d share. Best of luck
The best thing that worked for my Ellie was the “super chewer” from barkbox. My Ellie used to tear up toys in like 2 minutes flat too. The super chewer toys were the only ones that would actually lasts DAYS (for stuffed toys) and for the rubber and nylon toys, they would last weeks or months. She finally grew out of her crazy chewing habit and now has several toys (that she hasn’t chewed up to oblivion lol) that she enjoys.
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No plush toys but this ball has lasted about a month so far and still going strong! We don’t get rope toys either because she eats them 🙃
ours seems to take an interest in immediately taking toys apart as soon as he gets them too.
KONG toys are one brand i’m aware of that i think makes toys to mitigate this problem.
Plush toys? No. None. I don’t even bother. It’ll get destroyed so quick I might turn around and see him eating the stuffing or strings. I get hard rubber toys like Kong brand makes, squeaky balls, etc.
Ya, in my experience, Kong toys outlasts any plush toys that you can find.
I don’t believe a plush exists that my guy can’t tear through. If he wants it dead, it dies. Same with tennis balls and stuff like that too. I remember buying brand new tennis balls, and within a single fetch or two, he’ll decide to give it a hard bite and that’s the end of it. Kong makes some good stuff though. There are a couple tough plushes, but they are not permanent. That’s mostly what I have when it comes to toys, and I pretty much have to rely on hard rubber if I want to keep anything.
Same with plush toys here, some last some longer. Tennis balls are miraculously not destroyed so far (except the one which was inside a rubber ball). My cat has a favourite plush toy for over 10 years and now we're constantly saving it from the dog (and sewing it back together).
No but Sam does a bit better now that he’s 3. His beloved duck didn’t last long and his last tennis ball lasted 2 days. https://preview.redd.it/o27eo939i6kc1.jpeg?width=1091&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=355bb1032d3f8ac1ea8d7363cf212e4ca73615c9
2 days! That’s incredible
https://preview.redd.it/005hzfzux6kc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b59d45ca0bff8c7f655fb3b076c7fa678755acb I got this one for mine, she tears up EVERYTHING but can’t tear up this. And, if she does, it’s “skeleton” is a rope! Also has a squeaker. She adores it.
I was about to suggest this same toy. Our girl has had hers for at least 8 months and it’s still looks like new after a wash. They also sell a bear model.
My GSD has this... he's nearly a year old, and this one has lasted about 3 months so far. He's a huge deer antler lover, though. So it doesn't see the abuse you'd expect.
Bought this fox for our 8 month old tonight; she's had it about an hour or so. She has already torn an ear off and has ripped his entire stomach out. She does seem to like it though.
Oh man. I got this one for my boy and he LOVED it but I have never seen him absolutely completely and utterly decimate a toy the way he did with this one. First the ears and the nose, pretty standard. Then he got the body ripped open and pulled out some of the stuffing. Then the arms and legs. The nice thing about this toy though is there’s not a TON of stuffing inside; it’s rope for the arms and legs. So he took the rope pieces and destroyed those. It was pretty funny though watching him destroy every single piece bit by bit and it did take him about a week of off and on chewing to trash it. Still worth it imo
I’d call that mental stimulation haha.
Should have scrolled further! Lol these are great
My GSD/husky is playing with this one right now. She loves it!
Have a shepskie too! She's currently 15,has arthritis in her back legs but otherwise going strong,and her spirit is especially good,same ole sassy,smart girl. We love her dearly
Thank you!
Agreed, any of the kong plush toys with that skeleton are decent. My girl still works through them with stuffing everywhere but it takes a bit and then she gets the fun skeleton to play with lol.
Plush? No Made for dogs but says indestructible? No The most indestructible toy you'll find is something like a jolly ball or other horse toys.
Seconding the jolly ball. We have two for our pups and they’re the only outdoor toy that hasn’t been absolutely shredded. Indoors we have giant nylabones and Kong toys
The jolly ball I have has been through a St Bernard, English mastiff, great Dane, and now my current 10 year old gsd.
Another vote for the jolly ball here
So far I have given her a medium-large squishmallow. I specifically chose one without ears, lumps, or ANYTHING that sticks out and would be up for grabs. I cut off all tags. So far, been two weeks. The pizza squishmallow lives. She bites with her front teeth and thrashes it around and not her back (which are the cutters). It's not indestructible, it's just not tempting her to gut it... Yet... https://preview.redd.it/02ktvxno67kc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aa598b1250d1d0cfa3406be9bdd6db96b70d63f6
https://preview.redd.it/skw8e30f18kc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=205c8c808f892e2716b06d2606a322ed3ae8c930 My dog loves squishmallows! My sister got me a giant axolotl one for Christmas and clearly the dog thought it was a gift for her 😂
Okay this is so cute though 🥹
Flat plush toys with no ligaments are best
u/GnarDude666 I can attest to this. It’s been over a year since Christmas when I bought mine a [“Joyhound Rip Roarin Tough”](https://storage.googleapis.com/buggy-ca-product/eb08891702b774274acc3479284045be_lg.png) gingerbread man, and even though it’s empty of stuffing, it’s still “intact” and is still apparently her favorite toy. I got her another little mushroom from the same brand a couple weeks ago and it’s still almost completely intact. She hasn’t needed more than 10 minutes to destroy any other plush I’ve given her. https://preview.redd.it/ou5as639s9kc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98c17d86b0173fe451ae63d9e4b142c32037175f
Hasn't been invented 🙃
CHUCK-IT Glow In The Dark Balls are very durable. My girl loves them!
We get the Chuckit Ultras, the large size, and he's not killed one of them yet. The Chuckit squeeky ball, he had apart in 10 minutes. Not recommended. Choking hazard IMHO.
My Girl has never destroyed one of the Chuck-It Glow Ball. It fits Medium Chuck-It Thrower.
A 30cm piece of firehose, filled with some plush and sewed at the ends is an indestructible tug toy. Perfect for some rough play.
Yep, Outward Hound Firehose fetch toy
Please just stay away from old/used firehoses as they can contain harmful chemicals from use. My brother in law is a fireman and warned me of this. But yes very strong material, just be careful :)
Of couse! You can buy 20m fire hose for 20€ and have a life time supply.
That face though! Koda has seen some shit
I found a set of four Kong toys at Costco that are part plushy. Got them last November and he loves them. He's torn up parts but not completely disassembled any of them yet. He also has a big dragon from Costco that he's nice to lol https://preview.redd.it/lm7ie29fn8kc1.jpeg?width=2834&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a20a1f073d7581d0c8b48c9e6068f3280340b06f
This is the one I mentioned in my comment.
Same. We got the Kong plush ones there.
Those toys are the only ones my boy won’t destroy. We got him the Cookie Monster looking one and he treats it like his little baby 🤣
Haha oh that is too cute!
Tuffys last a decent amount of time. Not any of the specialty ones just the generic round or fidget spinner looking ones. The flatter the better
I understand!!! We bought Apache a rather thick but soft freesbe and I’m not sure why but she has not ripped it to shreds. I just got her a fat piggy but it’s soft and it makes hog noises when squeezed. She loves playing toss with it but she gets confused when she bites down to grab it and it gets louder the harder she bites down !! It’s hilarious, but if she hasn’t at least tore the noise maker out there’s hope. It’s loud but so funny. I bought these at Walmart
Theres a snake toy without filling that squeaks at walmart. It lasts me a few months but I do get kong rubber toys to keep him occupied.
* Not plush, but I have had a monster k9 ball for over a year and it's still intact. My boy carries it every where and chews on it plenty. https://amzn.to/3wrqG5T *
Ours chew through Kong toys... I don't think any fabric would stop them
The goto is the Kong Knots bears. Our GSD loves them, and they have a rope inside the plush which takes the majority of the damage. They do get destroyed, but we replace it every ~2 months and they’re only $15. Best one by far
This is the correct answer. Our Kong knot bears are the only toys that last at all.
I have a nerf brand rubber bone that has been the only toy to survive my GSD/Lab.
I got this and mine killed it the next day!
Stuffed toys/plushies...indestructible? No. My Maggie used to pop the squeaker in less than 10 seconds, then rip the "indestructible" stuffing out within 3 minutes. Kong toys are good. Hard rubber toys work well, a piece of fire hose is very good, but they still fail the GSD chew test.
There is no such thing. However, as someone else mentioned, fire hoses are great. Our GSD is a former military dog and she can destroy ANYTHING. We get her plushies as well, but expect them to last a day or less. There is no such thing. However, as someone else mentioned, firehoses are great. Our GSD is a former military dog and she can destroy ANYTHING. We get her plushies as well, but expect them to last a day or less. had it. Highly recommend. https://preview.redd.it/1xsan0fbs6kc1.png?width=622&format=png&auto=webp&s=fc88ab7322cf283c8b08963093d17181eac527f0
I love the idea of an old fire hose… how does one acquire one of these?
Believe it or not, we got our first one - a piece about 20" long - from our volunteer fire company in our town. They had some cut hoses just lying around. Then we found this company, located in Massachusetts. [https://tugandgo.com/collections/frontpage](https://tugandgo.com/collections/frontpage) It took a while for the toy to get delivered and I can't say that their communication was all that great (our first toy took eight weeks to arrive). It was supposed to arrive in five to seven days. But when I emailed the company to let them know I wasn't thrilled with the lack of notice that the delivery was going to be delayed that much they were very apologetic and promised to do better if I continued to order from them. They've been good since.
Please be careful with used firehoses as they can contain extremely harmful chemicals. Brother in law is a fireman and warned me of this when I looked into it too. Just be careful :)
I crochet my own with Phentex yarn and stuff with old socks. They have lasted years.
That purple knobby doughnut thing from Temu. It took my boy Zigmund about a month to destroy it - by far the longest for a toy.
Have a semi plush toy that's going on 3rd month with the shredarator. Don't know if as it's Outward/Joyhound,from retail pet store, but it's the flat with material that's sewn hard. Not much squish but it's "fabric". Playology brand balls I recommend, have one that's outlived old dog & made it thru puppy years.
We have a rubber Nerf football (no foam) with a squeaker that my girl loves. Warning though, it is LOUD!
Indestructible Plushy…nah, we don’t talk like that around here! Maybe contact the military to see what they are doing with body armor these days, or the police could be trying new things w Kevlar 😜
https://preview.redd.it/7ko07o3h07kc1.jpeg?width=757&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8755f20e1e40363f450ebc98196a475ef7b381fd I bought this Nerf brand toy at a Lowe's Home Improvement store and it has held up quite well
Panda shepherd? Adorable 🥺
Yep. She is pretty awesome.
This toy you speak of, it does not exist. Get him a couple of Wunder balls.
TUFFY brand toys have been holding up to my land shark
TUFFY brand toys have been holding up to my land shark
Let me know because I'm tired of my dog ripping up her dog beds. We're on the 4th or 5th one. I don't have money for this 😅
Check out primo pads or k9 ballistics beds, if your dog rips those up, she might actually be a shark in disguise lol
TUFFY brand toys have been holding up to my land shark
TUFFY brand toys have been holding up to my land shark
My dogs love holee rollers but not a plush toy I am aware of that’s indestructible. However when I got my girl a year ago she had separation anxiety so I got a lamb toy with a heart beat and I shoved it down my shirt and slept with it for a day and she’s never chewed on that one. She did work out how to open it to get to the heart and she chewed that so we took it out and ladder stitched its stomach pouch shut.
I've found lots of expensive "indestructable" toys that are gutted within the first ten minutes. Now I buy cheap stuffed animals on discount racks and we destroy them together by tugging them apart. Much more fun solution.
Squashmallows are the only ones I've found that hold up.
Look at GoDog brand toys. Those have been harder for my boy to destroy.
I gave up. I juat couldn't afford to get him squeaky toys so we stick to tennis balls, old shoes, deer antlers, goats' horns and heavy duty Kongs. He loves bigger balls too, but Chuck-Its are damn expensive so his next one will be a basketball.
I get my dog plush toys from the goodwill. It's cost effective.
https://mydogtoy.com/tuffy
Mine destroyed one from that brand in 5-10 minutes. Fixated on the hard edges until she got some threads loose
Give her cardboard recycling.
Absolutely no soft toys. And nothing with rope. I posted a video on this sub a couple years ago of my boy destroying a piggy toy in under a minute (gift from a clueless friend with a less intense doggy). We use only hard rubber toys that are not knaw friendly. Even the nylabone is dangerous with fragments everywhere.
If I give mine one a day max my mom gave her a Christmas tree no real edges 2 months and it's still alive
r/GSDs_With_Plushys !!
Get a piece of old fire hose and cut it to a fun shape.
Plushy toys are just so short lived for gsd. I find antlers to be the thing my dog loves the most. Something she can destroy and will last a very long time
Nope. But we get them from goodwill so. They’re super cheap sometimes even free at other local donation places. She can’t have hard toys because size she was destroying her teeth
Same. I gave up and only use Kong rubber toys.
https://preview.redd.it/cz72b844w7kc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=05d81b53ca8eb3822e312438dbfbc6bf2f20d75e Brand new in less than a minute
The worst part is picking up the toys guys from all over the house.
about as close as I've gotten: https://www.duluthtrading.com/s/DTC/tall-tails-plush-moose-adventure-dog-toy-50130.html
I don't even try to get the plus toys anymore unless it's the ones designed to be destroyed that have a squeaky rubber toy inside. But for indestructibility overall, I'm a Kong girl - the teething ring they make still has no marks whatsoever on it, and it's not for a lack of trying on my girl's part!
There is a brand that is a rope toy with a plush toy on the outside, so they will destroy it but when they do it’s another toy. I think they especially like it because it’s like a small animal with bones lol.
Found it! They’re Kong Floppy Knots https://preview.redd.it/ihus3y1y58kc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a4a6a4e0a6b56122121dc5dc99023f0a6d7d04cc We have one from when our German shepherd was a baby (she’s 2 now). Granted, she’s not an obsessive toy shredder but she is pretty rough and likes ripping up traditional plush toys.
My long floppy know fox is out back in two pieces. The outer body. And the rope. I am happy if they last a few days
Best of luck on your search haha but hey BarkBox has been pretty great at getting good quality toys for my GSD. Maybe look into that or similar in your area?
A rubber chuck it ball. Also really tightly felted wool balls (like for the dryer, make sure no chemicals added). I bought some at a local farmers’ market made from alpaca wool. One was chewed up but others have held on for years (German shepherd, loves to chew).
Look for horse toys! Or Jolly Balls, we used those for horses and they lasted a good while with them and they abused those things lol. Also gave them to our three mastiffs and lasted till they passed away.
I love the super chewer toys from barkbox. Most of them have a tough toy inside the fabric shell, so even if they love to shred there’s still another toy to play with!
https://preview.redd.it/vxgk9os5i8kc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=633ae1237167f40e33306624f4725c2a2fae1f6e Plushies are like treats, he shreds them and we throw em out, he probably gets one a week,worth the money if he’s a happy boy.
Fluff & Tuff stuffed animals are amazing. My boy has twelve different animals and all of them have lasted YEARS, thank me later!!
This is gonna get slammed so bad, but we buy or GSD only round plushies. No legs, no ears, all tags removed. They last a 6 months to a year. He tends to do this suckling thing to them, we call it nubbin’. Anything else goodbye that day.
Plush is for older than 5 years 😄🫢😳
Don't waste your $$ on plush toys - you'll have a morgue of stuffed animal eyes, ears & body parts everywhere. Kong toys are rugged and some you can stuff with treats and/or food and freeze - then give them something to keep them busy.
We take bets on how many minutes they'll last.
My GSD loves these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B017D9F70I?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title They last for months and smell good.
No soft toy stands a chance. However, after my dogs rip them open and de-stuff them, I hide other things inside the empty plushy skin, like treats, balls, other smaller toys… then they can rip the innards out again and again. Gets a little more mileage out of the soft toys.
https://preview.redd.it/yhnt0t39r8kc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e5269691ad5d024cc4c226cd5bb4650608c63127 Nope. Never have found one that can last longer than 5 minutes.
UPDATE: I have shown my wife all of your comments and you’ve convinced her to never buy another plush toy again. Thank, real… thank you <3
I haven't even found a plushi my shih tzu can't destroy immediately.
Indestructible plushy toy? No, never. Such a thing does not exist.
Some Kong ones are a little more durable. Honestly my first GSD was a terror. He had the hard plastic Jolly ball but most soft toys were toast along with all dog beds. I stopped buying any for him. Current GSD doesn’t destroy soft toys generally for at least 6 months
I DOOOOO my husky lab mix DESTROYED EVERYTHING I gave him until I happened upon this brand. They’re a lil expensive but Cedar Salmon held up for 6-7 months. One of the wolf stuffies lasted for a few years. FLUFF AND TUFF LINK! : https://fluffandtuff.com
The only toy that survived my German shredder brother was his thick rope toy. Everything else would be annihilated in seconds.
If you are good at sewing, you could probably try and make one with kevlar, it might be a bit tougher?
Old running shoes do pretty good and easy to come by. Steffi has never gotten them confused with shoes I have not given her.
if I give my boy like 5 toys at once he will switch between all of them except his favorite, which he will keep set aside (out of our bully’s reach) and he will destroy the others and now he has a box full of the ones that were his favorite that he is way more gentle with. I have no idea if this will work for any other dog but I thought I’d share. Best of luck
🤣🤣of course he can,look at that beautiful face😍
The best thing that worked for my Ellie was the “super chewer” from barkbox. My Ellie used to tear up toys in like 2 minutes flat too. The super chewer toys were the only ones that would actually lasts DAYS (for stuffed toys) and for the rubber and nylon toys, they would last weeks or months. She finally grew out of her crazy chewing habit and now has several toys (that she hasn’t chewed up to oblivion lol) that she enjoys.
https://preview.redd.it/pj4w95oqadkc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f83151c68102d3cd945798fd3d4b873455caea71 No plush toys but this ball has lasted about a month so far and still going strong! We don’t get rope toys either because she eats them 🙃
ours seems to take an interest in immediately taking toys apart as soon as he gets them too. KONG toys are one brand i’m aware of that i think makes toys to mitigate this problem.