Comments on: Smart dog games for dogs and their people

By: Candy Blakeslee

Candy Blakeslee — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:21:50 +0000

These are great dog toys! We carry all of Nina Ottosson’s dog puzzles. We have trouble keeping them in stock. Norman loves them. However, Betsy is not food motivated and has little interest in them.
http://www.bestfriendsgenerals.....IQ+Puzzles
We are always on the look out for new innovative dog toys.

By: Liz Palika

Liz Palika — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:18:57 +0000

Thursday evening Kindred Spirits graduated an intermediate obedience class and for their last class, we gave all the dogs and their owners a chance to play with these games. It was great fun! Dogs and owners alike had a super time.

By: Gina Spadafori

Gina Spadafori — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:03:29 +0000

I am so getting some of these. Between the preventive care/annuals for the kittehs next month, puppy, agility and field classes/lessons for the dogs, and now THESE, I will never get the iPhone I covet. Maybe next year.

The pets’ care and training always comes before cool toys for me.

By the way, those toys advertised in our banner? The Play N’ Squeaks? The “mice” have real mice recordings that go off every time the toy moves or is touched.

The only think Ilario likes as much is the laser pointer. Serious great cat toys. Check ‘em out.

Liz, thanks for writing about these!

By: Kim

Kim — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:58:53 +0000

Liz, I am sooooo happy someone here finally reviewed these toys! We’ve had a Dog Fighter for several months now, and I covet MANY others (The Box is quite remarkable).

Little Fable, our ACD mix, just about loses her mind waiting for me to fill all the little pegs with treats…

Personally, I prefer the wood ones. The heavier wood is more durable than the plastic, although if you have wee little dogs, the plastic is way easy to clean.

A word about the Tornado - our store cat LOVES it. When we leave for the night we fill the little indents with freeze dried chicken breast and cat treats, and when we arrive the next morning, the toy is magically empty!

There isn’t a toy in the bunch that I don’t adore, and I haven’t found a dog who is incapable of completing at least one model. The Tornado and the Spinny are great ones to start with because of their simplicity.

I seriously luvluvluv these toys - when I can’t get the cattle dogs to the park until late afternoon, they are more than happy to burn their mental energy with some puzzles. :O) Thereby saving my sanity…

By: Janet Boss

Janet Boss — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:14:49 +0000

I sent one of the [cheaper plastic version] one to someone as a gift recently. I hope the dogs like it!

By: Gina Spadafori

Gina Spadafori — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:13:25 +0000

Yeah, I laughed at that, too.

I’ve MET Gina the Rottie. An exceptional dog, of course.

By: The OTHER Pat

The OTHER Pat — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:52:03 +0000

Gina would try something, look to Kate for reassurance, then try something else.

Gee, that doesn’t sound at ALL like Gina to me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

heh. heh. heh.