I'll post photos and a video as I can, if not successful including in the blog, I'll post a link to an album.
November 2015 found us adopting a Boykin/Springer mix, Flynn, from Operation Little Brown Dog after losing our first Boykin, Simon, to cancer in July 2015. Simon was the best dog ever, never destroyed anything in the roughly ten years he was with us. Enter Flynn. OMG this boy can destroy anything in minutes. Needless to say he was a handful for us.
Cannot say how much we had spent trying to find the one thing he would not destroy. Nyla-bones and antlers were no match for his jaws of steel. So why we ever thought an Extreme Kong toy would work is now beyond me. As they say hind sight is twenty/twenty. This is like January 2016.
In a matter of a few minutes he had torn the Kong apart. We scrambled to get it away from him and gather up all the pieces. Feeling good that we got every little piece we were at peace of mind. Not! About a year later, maybe short of a year by a month, Flynn started vomiting. Same time every day, 7 o'clock in the morning. Best alarm clock ever is the sound a dog puking. Visit to the vet didn't reveal any problem. Doc resigned it to a "sensitive tummy." Special food was prescribed, you know that expensive stuff. This went on for about a month and then one morning while we were out doing our morning do, Flynn vomited, same green foamy bile looking stuff. On closer inspection he vomited up a chunk of black stuff, the top of the damn Kong toy. There are photos of an Extreme Kong Bone, he destroyed that in like less than ten minutes.
After the incident of the destroyed Kong, I went on a search to find the best durable chew toy out there. I happened upon a company, Goughnuts.com. They claimed their rings were indestructible and they backed that claim with a lifetime guarantee. Not cheap, but after what we've spent another few bucks was of no big concern, if they actually held true to claim.
Bought one, then another and another. Basically we wanted to be sure that wherever Flynn was in the house, a goughnut ring would be there. The yellow ring in the photos was about two years old. You can see the gnarl marks. I think one video shows him gnarling, more impressive is the sound of the gnarling. The boy is serious about chewing. By the way, Goughnuts stood behind their guarantee and recently replaced the yellow ring. Flynn also has a black and orange one. The black one is for extreme chewers, however we've found the original ring works just fine.
I'm writing this to save you some dollars. We are by no means affiliated with the Gougnuts company. Wanted to share what we found to be the chew toy answer. The other company we found is bulletproofpetproducts.com, they have what they call the "indestructibone." There are photos of these in the album. Another quality chew toy that has lasted our guy for a long long time. We haven't replaced any of his indestrucibones yet.
There are few other toy photos that I've not addressed, just gives credence to what our boy can do to a toy.
Side note the piece of green toy was in his tummy for a few months, obviously our house sitter didn't see him chew up one of Penny's outside toys. That little piece of green set us back about 2k.
Hope this little ditty raises awareness of just how destructible our precious little brown dogs can be.
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