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DDoglover
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02-04-2011, 02:46 PM

Favourite Toy for GSP

The best toy you could give my German Shorthaired Pointer is a.....wait for it...............

A Tennis Ball! (The Real Ones not the ones made for Dogs)

They are durable, last for ages, all the green fabric is now missing from hers but that just makes it more fun because when she plays with it in her mouth, because its so slippery it pops out of her mouth (makes a loud noise) and she finds it so fun going to retrieve it.
Even my Kangal/Husky Mix carried it off to have some fun with it and all you could hear was him popping it out too.

The dog ones are no good for her, 10 minutes later and it was a squashed ball with a hole. It had collapsed. Stick to the real ones especially for GSP's.
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Wozzy
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02-04-2011, 02:50 PM
A tennis ball is a favourite of my HPR's too, even though they have a box full of toys!
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02-04-2011, 02:56 PM
My GSP is a ball fanatic too, but tennis balls are really abrasive and have started to wear his canines down. I now use soft rubber balls now which are far more tooth friendly.
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02-04-2011, 02:59 PM
Shamus has a mad ten minutes after his dinner. His favourite toys are ones that mean someone comes and `plays` with him. So they range from the toy box to my shoes. If we ignore him he sits and sucks his blanket.
He likes tuggy toys if Daisy is holding the other end.
So basically he`s a big kid who loves attention.

My last GSP loved a ball on a rope.
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02-04-2011, 06:01 PM
A tennis ball will last my dogs less than 5 minutes, not that I use them any more, they are very dangerous. I know of many dogs who have died from tennis balls, (in particular a very very promising WT dog) either directly eg because they choked on them (no rope to pull it out) or after they ingested them and the rubber inside rotted in their gut and thus got septicaemia.

The very expensive ones now do not have the abrasive cover which wears teeth down.

Would not touch them with a barge pole.
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