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| Puppy playgroup going in at Petco, which I was heeling Leon around. |
I also train at least once a week at a Portsmouth Petco. Sundays are particularly busy for instance last weekend they had a vaccination clinic. Lots and lots of cute puppies and dogs were waiting in line. I believe everyday at about 2 pm on Sundays there is a puppy play group too. This can be challenging to dogs to train around. The staff at Petco is very friendly as well. So I keep some cash on hand to pick something up. Since I can buy my training or daycare toys in bulk, I will try out a new toy first at Petco. I consider buying something there each time as a kind of rent. We buy most of our petfood items and such at Ann-imals to support our local pet supply store.
So I saw Kong's Tugger Knot toy, and it looked like a good idea. The rope goes all the way through. Leon and Boris both like to play tug together. Even though I like to keep the tugging mostly to training right now, I don't like to eliminate games entirely that my dogs like to do together. I figured the first part of this toy that would go would probably be the rope, but if I managed the play (by being interactive with them and making sure Boris didn't stop and chew it) that it would last at least a week. This cost me about 13.00 of my pin money. Plus Kong makes great rubber toys, and I hoped the same care would be shown in this toy.
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| Kong's Tugger Knot Toy
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The first thing to go however (in the first day BTW) was a seam in the animal portion of the toy. I think the knots are so big inside that it was easy to burst out. While my dogs can still use this toy, this was a dissapointment. It would have been one thing if my dogs had intentionally ripped open the toy, but I was sure that we were all constantly in motion playing with it as it should be played with.
While this toy looked sturdy, it was a fail for my dogs.
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