Here are a couple of web sites with warning about toys chews balls ect.
Just like with humans unfortuanatly there are warnings about practically everything you dog will love, chews, tugs, ect, some warnings i think are just plain annoying - I let my dog have his tug to play with all the time - just because he might swallow a couple of strands of thread - doesnt mean im going to pull the plug on his play time. ridiculous.
Anybody else have any thoughts on the so called danger of your dogs favourite toys?
This isnt a website for statistics on tennis ball deaths. It's just someone's story about a near death experience ,but it does bring up something I think makes sense.. Look at the LAST line in the article written.. http://www.caninecapers.com/Links/Warning.htm
I don't see why people NEED to use tennis balls for their dogs (yes they do market tennis balls as dog toys, cat toys, ferret toys and so on). I don't know so maybe if a dog gets hooked on a tennis ball, that's the ONLY ball it will go for??
There are very tough little balls with a nice rope attatched out there (like the ones Ed sells). You can even make them yourself, It's very easy, I did one myself! Not as nice, but it works <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
Like the article says, It takes only one time of a dog swallowing a ball to be the LAST time.. Why take the chance???
hehe, sorry Tim, I didn't mean that to be a slight against you, Honestly I didn't even notice that I had posted the same link as you had earlier..
Aren wrote: "This isnt a website for statistics on tennis ball deaths"
I was just stating that for my own posting purposes. Notice I also said: "but it does bring up something I think makes sense".
I just figured I'd provide a link to emphasize on the later part of my post. Again, I didn't realize you had it posted. Didn't mean to get ya all riled up IF I did anyway.. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
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I was using the "search thing" & found this post by Tim Leigh, where he added a link that provides instructions on dog CPR. I clicked on it, then printed it & put a copy on my fridge "just in case". Thought maybe someone else would want a copy too: http://members.aol.com/henryhbk/acpr.html
I know this is old news to many of you out there, but it could be helpful to those of us who didn't know how to do it.
This discussion board is a nightmare for me <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> ! Before joining this board (couple of months ago) I was blissful in the knowledge my dog was a dog and therefore safe from just about anything but dying of old age <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> ! Thanks to all of you who take the time to post stuff like this so people like me can be more responsible pet owners!! It just never occured to me my dog might swallow a ball <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> !
I just went out in my yard and picked up every ball we own. I'm now running to the store to buy balls with a string attached. Please, if you guys know of any other toy that could be dangerous, I would love to know about it. Thanks again all of you!
Balls with strings attached are good, but be careful, strings can and do come loose and the ball can be swallowed. Think there is another thread on this board about that - and with notes on how to give CPR to a dog in case of emergencies.
I tend to think of just about any toy as potentially dangerous because everything other than a Kong he has been able to rip apart eventually. Most average toys don't even last a day so I don't bother buying them anymore.
I did think Kongs were pretty much safe, but he did rip one of those apart also. He's not a dog that seems to swallow stuff for fun (thankfully), so he just left the pieces laying about. So, I do watch his Kongs now just to make sure.
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