Tips on Rubber Toys for Dogs

Video Transcript

" Hi, this is Elise McMahon for Expert Village.com and in this video series we are talking about dog toys. If you would like to find out more about my services, you can visit my website at www.canineheadstart.com. So we have been talking about different kinds of toys and we are going to go into rubber toys. They make toys out of rubber and they come in all different shapes and sizes. This is a ball made out of rubber. When it bounces it goes all in different directions. Quite fun for the dogs to pick up and throw because they can actually grab onto parts of it. It is also comfortable for a person to pick up and throw. You can play fetch with the dog or the dog goes off and plays with themselves with this. Here is another example of a rubber toy. This toy can be stretched out long for a game of tug of war. It can also be tossed for a game of fetch. Another example of rubber toy and this rubber toy actually has a bell in it. This toy is rather small and it is really only appropriate for a puppy or a small breed dog but again you could play fetch with this or this is something that the dog can get out some of its chewing pleasure. Rubber toys are actually great for young puppies when they are teething because they really need to get that jaw action going on and this is a nice soft rubber toy. So when you are looking for a rubber toy you might want to feel how comfortable it is going to be for chewing. For dogs that are really serious chewers, they would take this and destroy it in 5 seconds. You really can’t give them this kind of toy. You don’t want your dog ingesting rubber. They actually make very hard toys. This one is made by a company called Nylabone and it is a very hard bone and I don’t know if you can see this but you can see there are some teeth marks in here at the top and you can see that if the dog is going to be able to chew on it they are going to make some dents, they are getting some chewing satisfaction but they are not actually capable of chewing off bits of it. So for a really serious chewer this is the kind of toy that you would want to give them. "