Your pet's favorite toy

[Mutley]

My dog is IN LOVE WITH THIS THING! She carries it around with her EVERYWHERE and even sleeps with it!



How 'bout the rest of you?

[ET Awful]

1. My pets favorite toy is my other pet and vice versa :). n/t

[Mutley]

2. awww

I don't have any other pets that live with me :cry: my kitty is with my parents because my landlord suddenly decided he's deathly allergic to cats :shrug:

[ET Awful]

3. The only problem it presents is when they both decide they want to

play with their favorite toy at 3:00 in the morning :)

[Mutley]

4. heh

I know about that. The toy in the pic above has a squeeker!

[miss_kitty]

5. Lamie Doodle and Squeaky turtle

She self-amuses with these two toys. She carries them around (like a briefcase or important papers) and throws them for herself.

[Mutley]

6. hehe

cute!

[NoSheep]

61. My Maltese also throws his toys and treats for himself!

He's a spunky, playfull little 4 lb critter :D

[ScreamingMeemie]

81. Jessie has a squeaky baby that she just loves.... she will fling it on

to your lap in hopes you'll play fetch. :hi:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

7. One of my cats love the plastic rings from milk containers

he carries it around in his mouth, and then brings it on my bed, pretends to kill it, and leaves it as a present.

My other cat chases reflections, and I have a laser pointer that drives him insane. He ASKS me to play with the pointer by pawing it and looking at me forlornly.

And of course, as ET Awful mentioned, their favorite toy is the other cat, often at 3 AM.

[Mutley]

10. lol.

my cat couldn't care less about the laser pointer. she just looked at me with that 'YOU think i'm going to chase THAT?' look.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

22. My black cat Reno won't chase the laser either

he looks at me like "You think I'm stupid?"

[Mutley]

28. thats one reason i love cats

don't get me wrong, i love my dog to death. but cats are just so funny with that little attitude they get. heehee

[tridim]

31. My dogs love those milk cap rings too

You know how they're "ratcheted" on the inside. They love it when I pull it out of their mouths and it goes "zzzzziiiip!"

They know them as "milk thingies" :)

[Mutley]

37. my dog will eat those rings

and she likes to pull the wrapper off of soda bottles.

[hippiechick]

8. His stufffed Elmo from Goodwill ...

followed closely by his stuffed Barney ....

[Mutley]

12. my dog can't have stuffed toys

she just eats all the stuffing.

[hippiechick]

34. That's the joy of getting them from Goodwill ...

... take off the eyes/noses/etc and reinforce the seams with a quick sew job ... and they're good to go.

The ones from PetSmart etc seem to fall apart faster than the Goodwill ones ... and cost 10x as much.

Hank doesn't like the hard rubber chewy guys - he likes his stuffies.
He's wierd like that.

:hi:

[Mutley]

35. i did that a few times

but my dog doesn't just shred stuffies, she EATS them. I've pulled large wads of cotton out of her throat before. no stuffies for my little hoover!

[Jessica]

9. My hair bands ...

When my kitty sees one ... everything else in the world disappears.

[Mutley]

uh oh

he doesn't try to eat em?

[Jessica]

16. No ..

She just bats them around, carries them in her mouth & puts them in my shoes. :bounce:

[Mutley]

18. heehee

too funny. i miss my kitty :sad:

[Jessica]

23. Aw ... I'm sorry.

:-(

You should get another. Would your dog approve?

[Mutley]

25. oh yeah

my cat is with my parents. my landlord suddenly decided he is deathly allergic to cats.

[Jessica]

Oh ... ok.

I'm actually not supposed to have mine, either. We were allowed to have the dog, but not the cat. Weird.

[meegbear]

11. No favorites - I have a cigar box full of cat toys ...

My two cats just dig thru and find what they want.

[Mutley]

13. my dad

keeps a basket with all of his cat's toys in it and they just dig this one red thing with a feather on it out. They don't even play with it, they just demand that it sit in the middle of the living room floor at all times and they get really pissed when he moves it.

[giant_robot]

14. Furry mice

He plays with them, puts them in his food dish, my bed, and my shoes. My housemate found one in a plastic bag full of other things that he put on the ground. I honestly wonder what's going on in that animals head, sometimes.

[Mutley]

15. it's the catnip

makes him a little wacky!

[giant_robot]

24. Yep. He's a niphead alright! n/t

[In_The_Wind]

17. me

Her second favorite is a plastic peanut hanging on her play-gym, it's kept filled with fresh raw peanuts still in the shell :hi:

[Mutley]

19. nice

does she eat the peanuts or just likes the smell?

[In_The_Wind]

26. both

She loves to drag peanuts from the toy and then shred them ! As with most parrots in captivity ~ they're more interested in something to tear-up for nesting material :silly: or just for the heck of it.

She is a never ending bundle of energy always looking for anything new that catches her interest.

[Mutley]

33. ooo

i love parrots. they're so much fun! i don't think i could have one though. you think dogs are needy! i've heard parrots and other large exotic birds will pluck their own feathers if they get too lonely. i'd feel awful!

[In_The_Wind]

52. She is 4 and in perfect plumage

When I take her out in public, she wears a :silly: harness with a leash. I always try to discourage the casual pet owner from having a bird as a companion. In my opinion they are the most high maintenance of all the legally owned wild pets. They throw seeds everywhere however their poo doesn't smell. She owns my heart and she can outlive me so it isn't likely that I will ever have to say *see you on the other side of the rainbow bridge* to her as I have to the other special creatures in my life.

:loveya: Miss Frodo :toast:

[TheProphetess]

20. My dog LOVES the kong dog toy

He can't get enough of it:

Thankfully it is indesctructible.

He destroys all other toys with the exception of a green stuffed froggie (with squeeker inside) that he carries around like a baby for about 3 months before ripping it apart. The good news is that the frogs are fairly inexpensive (at Petsmart) so I just replace it when he's ready for a new one.

[Mutley]

21. do you put peanut butter in it?

you can freeze the peanut butter too and it's like a little doggie freezie pop!

[TheProphetess]

66. I haven't done that yet

because I thought it would be too messy. But I have heard of people doing that.

[tridim]

43. Is that frog you refer to the one with the digital "ribbit" sound?

I got that for my dog and she destroyed it in about 15 minutes. Only the unstuffed head remains, the new pup still plays with it.

[TheProphetess]

69. Nope - it just squeeks

And he loves it like his own baby (for about 3 months). Then he rips the head and tears out the stuffing. I think he does this when he feels ignored, like if company comes over and he's not getting the attention he deserves. I say to him "you ripped your baby's brains out" and he just wags his tail at me. :)

[TheProphetess]

70. Just found a picture of him with the kong

His name is Thunder (and his bark is as loud as thunder!):

[Mutley]

72. awwww

he's a cutie!

[TheProphetess]

75. Thanks! He's a good boy.

He's a very funny dog. He's got lots of personality and is very smart (and sneaky).
I love him dearly! :loveya:

[prole_for_peace]

27. Abbie's favorites are my (expensive) makeup brushes.

I don't let him play with them but sometimes he finds where I have hidden them. Then I have to chase him down.

Molly loves the fuzzy mice that have a little rattle in them. She goes nuts when I shake one.

[Mutley]

32. hey!

that's my name (Abbie)! and i even spell it that way!

[prole_for_peace]

46. Well he was Abbey when we (vet included) thought he

was a she. then i changed it to Abbie, using Abbie Hoffman as a reference.

[Shell Beau]

29. no way to pick just one, they have probably 100 toys, I kid you not.

I buy them toys every week. (I have 3 dogs)

[Mutley]

30. try working in a pet store

i do, and i have to leave all my money at home just so i won't buy stuff every time i go to work.

[Shell Beau]

54. oooh, I could not work in a pet store. I have never once walked into

PetsMart and spent less that $100. Seriously it's that bad. :banghead:

[Mutley]

58. oh i know!

you should have seen what i spent on her for christmas! i think it was more than i spent on my nieces and nephew.

[tridim]

36. Both of my dogs love plastic grocery bags

but I have to keep an eye on them, lest they become plastic bag poop. Otherwise my Boston's favorite is her rubber frisbee and her squeaky balls. My Rattie prefers rawhide chews and a thin strip of canvas that was meant to tie up the drapes. She's a pup, so anything with "bite" is fun.

[Mutley]

40. careful with the rawhide

some puppies can't digest it and they'll get the poopies. but some dogs can handle it, so if yours seems cool with it then its all good!

[tridim]

47. She doesn't swallow them as much any more

She tends to savor them. Regardless, her poop is almost always rock hard so I'm not too worried.

[Mutley]

50. well thats good

i know my dog would get HORRIBLE poopies when i gave her rawhide.

[bertha katzenengel]

38. Cable Ties and Milk Rings

The ring off the plastic lid of the milk carton. Last night I wondered aloud if "milk ring" could be taken to mean a bovine sex toy....

[Mutley]

41. lol

:rofl:

[Bzzzz]

39. My youngest Min Pin...

loves her 'little pink sock' as we call it. An Isotoner pink slipper that she's had since we brought her home at 6 weeks. Our other Pin loves her blanket and our Rottie is partial to his stuffed puppy.

[Mutley]

44. i love how some big dogs

will be so gentle with a fragile little stuffed toy. this guy in my neighborhood has this HUGE 160lb rottie who carries around this tiny little stuffed bear he's had since he was a puppy. he gets mad when the other dogs try to take it from him (like mine, she's a little shoplifter).

[Shell Beau]

57. I have a min pin along with 2 mixed breeds. Min pins have the most

personality of any other dog I've ever had (and I've had lots):)

[Bzzzz]

78. That's a Pin...

Personality +++++...I don't think we'll probably own anything other than a Pin now. They've got our hearts! :)

[The Great Escape]

42. My Cats Love an Old Shoe String...

anything that I have ever spent money on, they turn their noses up at.

[Mutley]

45. of course

they do that on purpose

[noonwitch]

48. My dog has no toys, she chews them all to pieces. My cat -

she likes the toy fishing pole with the fluffy thing on the end of the string.

[Mutley]

51. oh yeah

that one's a big hit at my store

[TlalocW]

49. When my ferret was alive

Her favorite toys were the Dr. Schoal's insoles I put in my running shoes. I first discovered this when I got up in the morning to go to the gym, and my shoes felt loose. So I had to hunt them down.

In the picture below, they're the blue and red thing sticking a little bit out of my shoe. I started putting them on top of this bookcase I made out of something called "Creative Cubes" (a metal version of Yaffa Blocks). They're modular, snap together shelves. However, as seen in the second picture, she quickly learned to climb them like a ladder to get to the top to reach her goals of my stinky shoes.





I've since taken apart those shelves and have made them into a three story ferret cage as I'm planning on getting three ferrets from an animal shelter - possibly as soon as today.

TlalocW

[Mutley]

53. excellent!

I love ferrets.

[LibertyLover]

55. Pets' favorite toys

My two greyhounds' favorite toy is our 2 year old whippet. The 6 year old whippet's too, come to think of it. The Siberian Husky's favorite toy is the 6 year old whippet. Otherwise it's whatever cover is on our bed.

[Mutley]

56. wow

you have a lot of dogs!

[LibertyLover]

64. Yup

Yeah, we have 5 - technically one over the county limit, but they pretty much stay indoors and we try not to annoy the neighbors. We have 2 former racing greyhounds, 2 whippets, one an adoption and one whom we bought from a local pet store "puppy wall" because, well, he was there and my husband saw him and my birthday was in 3 months. The last is a mutant Siberian Husky. He is also an adoption. He is huge. Not overly heavy, just huge. 100 pounds plus. He was thrown out his former home when he got past the "cute puppy" phase and does not like going to the vet's. He has one of the "beware" dog stickers on his file there. But our last visit we solved the problem of how to give him shots - our 2 year old daughter feeds him dog treats while the vet gives him the injections. The vet couldn't get over how the 2 year old could manage him and she and her minions couldn't. We were told by the rescue people that he had been raised with children and since we were hoping to adopt a child we were pleased to hear that. As soon as our daughter came into the house, they were best buddies. He will tolerate things from her that he won't, even from us. We have a great photo of her putting a Mickey Mouse ears hat on him and the look of resignation on his face is pricelss.

[ernstbass]

59. The sale these stuffed toys at Target

that are virtually impossible for a dog to shred (well at least they last 8 months) - they include One Bad Cat, Postal Plaything, and Cat Burglar - really cute - they have stuff on the inside that makes a crinkly noise and they have a "floppability" factor so dogs can shake them hard. My dogs love them

[Mutley]

60. i had something like that called 'big mean kitty'

it was shaped like a cat. but my dog tore it open and ate the stuffing. :eyes:

[livetohike]

62. Cindy and Murphy (both cattle dogs)

Love this:

[Mutley]

63. that looks like fun!

[livetohike]

65. It used to squeak

until they ripped out the squeaky thing and tore it apart. The ropes formed loops, until they were running around the yard tugging on either end and broke it. I think I bought it at a Big Lots for $2.00.

[rockedthevoteinMA]

67. superscratcher for the cat .. he loves it, and it's such a smart toy

The SuperScratcher® a rectangular box no thicker than an average telephone book, is an inexpensive, unobtrusive and deceptively simple pet product whose sole purpose appears to be sheer feline pleasure. The SuperScratcher®'s ability, however, to turn otherwise indifferent cats into obsessed love slaves often overshadows its main purpose: to provide an alternate "scratching" outlet for cats who often choose sofas, chairs, curtains and other inappropriate household surfaces to indulge their natural need to scratch.

Cats are initially drawn atop the SuperScratcher® by the integrated catnip, a potent blend of organically grown blossoms and leaves. There they discover the paw-pleasing texture of recycled corrugated cardboard, which is similar to tree bark -- nature's scratching post.
http://www.worldwise.com/catscratcher.html

He sniffed the thing out of the bag, and started to attack on Christmas eve before I was even able to get in the door. (so much for a surprise)

[Mutley]

68. those are great!

my parent's cats have on thats on an angle and there's a little hole in it with a catnip mouse hanging by a string. the cats go NUTS over it.

[bridgit]

71. tim's low tech; likes the paper strip off a netflix mailer...

chews'em to pieces. also a feather w/bell on a stick. the rest of his stuff is in a two story condo boyfriend made from a dell box. he's got stuff in there somewhere cause we hear him playing with it. that's when we think he's somehow kith & kin to 'the grudge cat'
:scared:

[Mutley]

73. lol

the grudge cat... :rofl:

[CornField]

74. Belle has a green Care Bear that she adores

Good Luck Bear.

[DaJoiseyAlleyCat]

76. He likes the blow up doll in da closet!

[Bonhomme Richard]

77. My dogs favorite toy is the cat.

My cats favorite toy is the dog.

[legally blonde]

79. my cats' favorite toys are each other

They love playing together. Manilla likes to play with my hair bands (he'll carry them around, throw them up in the air, hide them). Morty likes to play with small mice (especially if they have cat nip).

[Pithlet]

80. My cat loves my kids' toys

Anything small enough to flip in the air and attack. He also has a long, fuzzy strip of cloth in a leapord print that used to be part of an actual cat toy(it was on the end of a stick),with feathers on the end.

[sakabatou]

82. Rubber tennis ball.

[yellowdogintexas]

83. Rabbit foot, like you get as a "good luck" keychain. The ones that

come in bright ugly colors. My Siamese stole one from my daughter and had so much fun with it we started buying them in the 50 cent vending machines at KMart; then when we couldn't find those, my husband tracked down a gross of them at a novelty wholesaler. That cat was in a frenzy when we opened the box. We had to hide the bulk of them and only allow him to have a few at a time.

He would hockey puck them under the washer, dryer, refrigerator,etc., then pace back and forth in front of the offending appliance moaning in that Siamese way until we raked them out with the yardstick. He was obsessed with them.


One of our young cats had a thing for Mardi Gras Beads. Used to carry them around in her mouth, eyes all huge and whiskers out front. Too funny. Her brother Lewis has a fetish for the cardboard tubes inside th toilet paper or paper towels and both Lewis and Clark have been caught stealing brand new toilet paper rolls from the cabinet and destroying them quite effectively.

They have furry mice too. And Lewis loves the little strips that tear off the bags of grated cheese or the baby carrots.

[borlis]

84. My cat loves little fuzzy balls and used q-tips.

My dog only likes one of her stuffed animals which she tries very hard to kill and her rope toy for tug-of-war. When I was a kid I would play ball with my grandma's dog until his tongue was dragging on the grass. Lucky me, I finally get my own dog and she won't fetch a ball if her life depended on it.

[solinvictus]

85. Mr. Square..

It's a little puppy toy that has a squeaker in the square body. It's the only toy her little jaws can squeak, so she loves it.