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What Are The Best Chew Toys For Puppies? And Benefits

What Are The Best Chew Toys For Puppies? And Benefits

Bringing home a new puppy is like bringing a newborn human baby. Human babies have gentle skin and mouths that require care. Likewise, puppies need some care when playing with teething toys. Many dog owners pass tennis balls to their puppies to play with. However, human baby toys and pet toys are different. Human toys can wreak havoc on the jaw and can cause dental problems in puppies in the long…

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Gnawing is such a great decompression activity for dogs. It helps relieve tension, it’s low impact so they can do it when they’re sick or injured, it can be good for their teeth (if you are strict about what kind you get) and a chew toy doesn’t come with the added calories of a snuffle, lick mat or other food-based enrichment toy.

Mandana is very particular about what kind of chew toys she’ll use. She isn’t a power chewer but her all-time favorite is HARD. Like straight up metal. I tried to be careful and only give her things that were composite (as opposed to solid nylon) but she did end up getting a slab fracture on her molar last year.

When that happened I threw out any toy that was too hard or oddly shaped (like something that could create a wedge between her teeth or something her teeth could easily slip on). She used to chew several times a day, usually after training sessions and outings (recommended by my service dog academy). When I took away the harder toys she just stopped chewing all together. I went on a hunt for softer chew toys and was surprised to not find very many. We tried pretty much every one we could find and most of them she completely refused to use.

I was finally able to get her to start chewing again by using these two chew toys with cheese or peanut butter spread on top:

After she started chewing again she would occasionally pick up these three:

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(^^^ the orange puppy one only)

I’m glad I was able to give her back that activity but she didn’t love any of them. Going into her surgery I knew she would need something to help her decompress, so here’s what I found:

ZEUS DUO

I haven’t seen her this excited about a chew toy since I took away her composite ones. They have all the features she enjoys. They have enticing shapes and flavors. The have a hard nylon core with durable textured rubber coating. There is another toy I’ve tried in the past that has an almost identical design (made by Nerf) however they were large & heavy and she didn’t even want to pick them up let alone chew on them. These toys have a much better shape and a variety of sizes. I’ve only had them for one day so I can’t speak on the durability. Mandana IS NOT a power chewer and a lot of reviews for this brand suggest power chewers will destroy these immediately, but if you have a picky chewer like me they might be worth the try.

And yes they are expensive. The price is comparable to Playology. The difference being that she actually likes these and will use them. One broken tooth cost us almost $2000 and would have been 5-7k had it cracked deeper. Extracting a tooth is a much cheaper option but we really didn’t want to do that for such a big tooth in a young dog. My point is that an $20 chew toy is a heck of a lot cheaper 🥲

On that note, a foreign object surgery is also thousands of dollars so keep that in mind when reading this post. All of the chew toys I’ve listed are easily broken apart by any dog that’s not a very moderate chewer so be careful and supervise your pups when they are chewing.

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