£9 down the drain!

Mum went to pets at home today to get food for her lizards and she always comes back with a toy for Boss today she got a ruff&tuff tug toy thing.. she said its ruff and tuff so it should be alright, give boss it for a bit, go into the kitchen, pour a drink and come back... has all this stuffing pulled out and the rope on the end hanging off!! in 30 seconds! surly this toy can go back to the shop as thats terrible, how can they even call that tuff? maybe they tested on kittens! Rant OVER!! for now

I WOULD take it back tbh lol

Oh dear yes I would take it back aswell, false advertising! 

sorry yes definitely take it back

So much for tuff toy, yes return it for a refund.

yea bloody joke so it is. its getting returned tomorrow if they refuse il take him to the shop and let him eat every toy they have haha! so hard finding him a good toy, so far the extreme kong is a lone survior the stag bar was good too but only lasted 2-3 days. Im glad yous agree with the take it back thing

Defo take it back, tell them he is partial to a leg or two! 

Gwen destroys those kind of toys in seconds! We have now started timing her! The last one took her 33 seconds to rip it open, get all the stuffing out, and find the squeaker! Its ridiculous! She gets so excited and is on a mission to destroy is as quick as possible!  

.... tested on kittens  Definitely take it back!

(Compulsory staffy toy testing would ensure we had plenty of tough toys on the market, though I doubt much would make it that far!)

  nothing is staffy proof!

yous are right, im finding it so hard to find a good toy that 1. he has an interest in. 2. he cant destroy it in a minute haha! my top 3 for durability so far are extreme kong, stag bar and nylabone although he never had much interest in it until recently and its half chewed. getting him a rubber tire on a rope i seen at pets at home a while back next, anyone got/tried it?

Have you thought about some toys yourself ? When we first got Rocky my hubby used an old bed sheet and tied lots of knots in it to use as a tug toy, it lasted for ages and we still have some it here still 2 years later.

An old pair of jeans would work just as well for this.

yea thats a good idea, when he was a pup i done it with socks but hes not a puller, he likes to rip and chew.. everything is ripped up. i suppose for the sake of an old pair of jeans its worth a go Thanks!!

Nothing lasts around these tough dogs haha, definitely take it back! Agree with Kathy, old clothing and sheets are fantastic, ive got heaps around the house as Rockys toys sometimes get really muddy outside, they have lasted forever!

Went to PAH today and got a refund with a slight difficulty, tried there best not to refund me but as i read the back of the label 'best for chewing and pulling for hours of fun on your dogs wildest adventures' i said 30 seconds in my living room is not a wild adventure. Got my refund and bought an extra large stag bar instead. Oh and a coconut for him

Brill, well done  

Sazzle wrote:Brill, well done  

Thanks, had to be done  

Too right!

BIG SBT wrote:Went to PAH today and got a refund with a slight difficulty, tried there best not to refund me but as i read the back of the label 'best for chewing and pulling for hours of fun on your dogs wildest adventures' i said 30 seconds in my living room is not a wild adventure. Got my refund and bought an extra large stag bar instead. Oh and a coconut for him

That's great  

I bought Dempsey (huge power chewer) a toy last Christmas for a really good price; it's a really strong, thick rubber material with a sturdy squeaker. He managed to kill the squeaker after a couple of months, but the toy's still more or less undamaged. Several little bite marks on there and a little ragged on one end, but other than that it's good! I'll try to find it online in a moment!

Here it be:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/JW-Squeak-Bone-Large-120g/dp/B000MCZVOG

Dempsey has the red one

JW do really good sturdy toys - you should check out their website.

Eleanor wrote:I bought Dempsey (huge power chewer) a toy last Christmas for a really good price; it's a really strong, thick rubber material with a sturdy squeaker. He managed to kill the squeaker after a couple of months, but the toy's still more or less undamaged. Several little bite marks on there and a little ragged on one end, but other than that it's good! I'll try to find it online in a moment!

Sounds great Eleanor look forward to it. It's darcy's birthday soon so I'm looking for things to get her

Eleanor wrote:Here it be:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/JW-Squeak-Bone-Large-120g/dp/B000MCZVOG

Dempsey has the red one

JW do really good sturdy toys - you should check out their website.

Off to have a look

Their stuff is really great! Decent sizes as well - the large bone is about 8-10 inches long!

I've just ordered one

Looks great and a good price
is the rubber solid of hollow? if its hollow i think boss will tear a little whole then just chew until he rips it haha! Although if its solid (like a kong) it would be great, id defo buy one!

The only thing i would recommend for staffs is goughnuts toys:

http://www.tufftoys4dogs.co.uk/page3.htm

they come with a guarantee

ella wrote:The only thing i would recommend for staffs is goughnuts toys:

http://www.tufftoys4dogs.co.uk/page3.htm

they come with a guarantee

If it has a guarantee then its going to be a good buy thats why i liked the kong what size do you get though? the biggest seems a bit OTT? haha! but then again you have an ambull!

For me with any bully i go for the biggest size you can!

yeah, suppose itll be worth it in the long run!! i got him a coconut earlier, drilled a little whole in the top just to drain the milk and gave him it, would hardly let it go to go on a walk and im just back and the first thing he does it goes and gets it haha! 60p in ASDA, CANT beat it

BIG SBT wrote:Looks great and a good price
is the rubber solid of hollow? if its hollow i think boss will tear a little whole then just chew until he rips it haha! Although if its solid (like a kong) it would be great, id defo buy one!

The ends are hollow, but the rubber itself is probably about an inch thick, so it might as well be solid  

It's the only toy Dempsey has ever had for longer than a month since his adult teeth came in.

Darcy-may wrote:I've just ordered one

Hope she likes it!

I had the same prob with the ruff and tuff toys, I got my refund no bother. A boomer ball is great for them either the 8" or 10" my girls love their boomers. Quite a few of us on the forum swear by them  It's not a chew toy and is very robust.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Company-Animals-Boomer-Ball-10-inch/dp/B004W7802C/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1375991981&sr=8-2&keywords=boomer+ball

Boomer balls are great!

yea i seen them mentioned a fair bit in the tried and tested

Lol they never wanna refund.
I find in my work its so funny we will sell a tough toy for a really strong lab at 9 months that destroys everything and its great they say lasted ages but sell the same toy to a persistant cocker n its gone.
We have a lady with a staffy who orders the mint flavoured nylon bones (not nylabone tho il check) but she orders 2 rings and 2 bones and we dont see her for months she said there great u just take them off them when theyv worn it down. Also there is a new nylabone competitor coming out tht iseant to be better as nylabone is coated with flavour then baked whereas this companies have the flavour in the nylon so its through the whole bone

I dont work for pets@home, i work in my friends shop

rico24 wrote:Lol they never wanna refund.
I find in my work its so funny we will sell a tough toy for a really strong lab at 9 months that destroys everything and its great they say lasted ages but sell the same toy to a persistant cocker n its gone.
We have a lady with a staffy who orders the mint flavoured nylon bones (not nylabone tho il check) but she orders 2 rings and 2 bones and we dont see her for months she said there great u just take them off them when theyv worn it down. Also there is a new nylabone competitor coming out tht iseant to be better as nylabone is coated with flavour then baked whereas this companies have the flavour in the nylon so its through the whole bone

Sounds good keep us posted if you hear anything more about them

I'd personally never use Nylabones, but I love fallow deer antlers - and so does Dempsey!

Tested on kittens has me laughing..glad you took it back.pets at home sold me treats for my pup telling me they were perfect only for me to notice once home and I unpacked my shopping that it said for over 3 months my pup was then 8wks grrr

Eleanor wrote:I'd personally never use Nylabones, but I love fallow deer antlers - and so does Dempsey!

Boss never really took to his nylabone until recently for some reason. he is very fond of his stag bar though

Hey. So the chews i was saying about are hemmo and co mint dentalchew (thts the one the lady whos had staffys all her life gets) and the new bones that are made better than nylabone are rosewood tasty bones, they have ones like nylabone and edible ones and other toys made from same material....worth a go lol

How rubbish, I had this problem with a Kong toy which I spent about £15 on. Needless to say I wrote a complaint letter and they sent me out 3 new toys! Great customer service

Nosipho wrote:How rubbish, I had this problem with a Kong toy which I spent about £15 on. Needless to say I wrote a complaint letter and they sent me out 3 new toys! Great customer service

How good is that a new one plus two free!! good on you