1/2 ton of a Yanker in 5 minutes...

[BooBoo & Riley]

Since I had heard about the new Yanker toy here on the board and saw it at Target today...I thought what the heck, $7.99 isn't so bad if this thing puts up with even half of the weight it promises...1/2 tons..

Well 5 minutes in the pocession of my BooBoo and Courage and the Trout Yanker was sprewing stuffing before Thanksgiving..

Oh well.. I told my husband to stop me next time I even think about buying another toy for my two... I'll have to wait until Teflon toys are cheap enough to be made for them...:rolleyes:

 

[Boxer Drool]

With all the technology nowadays, you would think they would make dog toys that can withstand the chewing and pulling. Last year, I purchased those 'egg' toys made for 'squeaker destroyers.' It was a stuffed animal with 4-5 'eggs' with squeakers in them. My dogs had that figured out in minutes, with squeakers pulled out of the eggs and all over the place. I had bought several at over $8 a piece. Just today, I caught Bo chewing out the eyeballs of a grunting elephant toy after having spent hours cleaning up the place.

 

[jray]

i know it's a pain in the butt but they are guarenteed. If you send it back they will send you your money back.

 

[blurble33]

our babies grandparents got them that toy from target for christmas, i can't wait to see how long it lasts

 

[Karen J.]

Truthfully, the only indestructable toy we have found is made out of kevlar (the stuff for bulletproof vests). We have a round ball, a football kind of shape and a 3-piece thing that's great for tug of wars. The toys don't have tags on them so I can't tell you where they are from, but they are all made out of the same yellow fabric. Keep your eyes open for them - they are the best!

 

[Monica156]

Ours love those hedgehogs that grunt. They usually last a while because Milo "loveys" them for a while before gutting them... :rolleyes:

Usually once the gutting begins I toss it. This time I watched. Didn't eat the 'guts', just liked to pull it out. So after several days of cleaning up stuffing I finally pulled out the amazingly still intact "grunter", and returned the shell back to Jingo and Milo.

They love it! Too funny, they are still playing with it weeks later! And let me tell you that thing is nasty! All this time it was the grunter I thought they liked...

 

[AZ Boxer Boys]

Truthfully, the only indestructable toy we have found is made out of kevlar (the stuff for bulletproof vests).

If you ever find out who the manufacturer is please let us know. Justin, our oldest, can destroy a toy in a matter of minutes - he get sooooo focused on the task at hand, i.e. gutting the thing or getting the squeaker, he will work and work at it until the task is completed.

Marley, on the other hand, will play and doesn't set out to destroy the toy like Justin does.
Cindy

 

[Bald Jim]

I think Boxers are just very clever and like to find out how things work....so they dismantle them.

 

[Thomas Liggin]

Our daughter has Labs. She and her husband operate a kennel in GA and they board and train dogs for hunting and field trials. She also does some obedience work.

When we were visiting them, Diva one of their Black Lags destroyed one of Indy's Kongs in about thirty minutes. Their toy box contained many stuffed toys which were still intact until Indy got ahold of them. It's strange how things like that happen.

He returned Diva's toys by opening them up and removing the sturffing. We put one of Diva's small squeakies inside a Hol-ee-roller. She made a valient effort to extricate it, but couldn't so much as nick the Hol-ee-roller.

The "roller" is a much softer rubber than a Kong and has withstood some serious chewing and tug-o-wars. It does show some marks on the surface, but none of the rubber is missing.

We've talked about them here before and I've yet to hear of one being destroyed or even damaged. Perhaps this time.


Tom