Home made/household item dog toys?

Mikey

Thought it would be nice to start a thread on what we've made for our dogs to use as dog toys-or a common household item we use as a dog toy.
I know there are a ton of ideas we use for our bunnies-in fact I really don't buy many store bought toys for them-the one's I make are safer and cheaper and more fun!

So please share what you've done/made for your dog!

*Wet towel frozen in the freezer-perfect puppy chew toy.

*braid and knot stips of fabric into a long rope for pulling and chewing.

*A lot of baby toys are dog appropriate-specifically baby chew toys

alfi

Hey nice thread!!!
Let me think...

I love when my dogs try to "kill" a balloon!! very funny!
I also tried once to run with a bicycle where I had roped a towel...but it was dangerous for me...as I had 13 dogs chasing the towel and when they grabbed it I went like flying off the bicycle...lol!
They also chew old tyres from our van and tractor
...and by far their favourite toy an old plastic garbage in which I made many holes and attached ropes with combs.

PitsandPugs

6ft of one inch PVC pipe
12ft of rope
1 rope toy from the 1$ bin at target

Put them together and You have a nice Flirt Pole

fawkese1

perfect, thank you P&P...heading to the hardeware store!

Criosphynx

i've done the braided fabric thing...

gatorade bottles full of kibble work also.

taire

We have this contraption set up outside for my dog. It has changed a bit over the yeas as the dog destroys it, but I think we finally have it set up in a way that he can't tear it apart.

It started with a Jolly Ball I bought for my horse, but the horse ignored it. I tied it to a tree in the yard so the dog could play tug of war with himself. Well, he quickly destroyed the Jolly Ball, so my dad replaced it with the tubing from a tire. Once again, the dog tore the tube apart. What we finally ended up doing was tying to tubing to the tree and then a rope from the tubing. The dog will go running up to it, grab the rope and the swing on it.

Mikey

Neat!! Do you have a picture of it?

taire

yeah, lets see if this works

taire

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure my parents cut this tree down when they put the garage up last year

PitsandPugs

Looks very similar to a Spring Pole...or at least the same idea : )