Ha! I even tried bird-dog training "toys" (real tough PVC)...nope..tore those up too! She just turned 2...she can take anything apart in minutes! I give up, but still will get them the 97 cent sqeaky toys to tear up occassionally. (I have 2 dogs-both rescues)
She rips the zippers out of her dog bed cover too. BUT, she doesn't tear up our stuff. I keep them chew-happy with large dog biscuits, and big raw hide chewy-sticks. I'm a work-at-home person, so they don't go chew-mental on the furniture!
Doggie pics: post 'im if ya got 'im!
I got my girls their Christmas presents last night. New Kongs, leather chews and a glow in the dark rubber ball.
There is something to this bird dog stuff. Solitare is a rescued farm Lab puppy. When they were little puppies. Solitare would stand with one foot on a plush toy and pluck the fur off and then go for the belly.
None of my previous dogs did anything like that. It hit me suddenly that is exactly how you would pluck a bird or a rabbit if you were going to eat it.
I lost a lab last year, broke my heart and she had some soft toys that instead of a squeeker had animal specific sounds, the cat mewed, the horse neighed and the dog barked. She loved them. I had to sew them up a time or two from rough play but she didn't intentionally mangle them. She took the cat to bed with her most nights.
I have a multitude of pictures but I'm very green. I do not have clue what you have to do to get a picture out of my computer to send it elsewhere. .