Avoid giving your dog cat toys. For one thing, they are disgusting because they have kitty spit all over them. For another thing, we dogs (especially us wiener dogs) like to chew things up and cat toys can have little bells and other stupid things inside that we could choke on.
And whatever you do, DO NOT GIVE DOG TOYS TO A CAT!! They are mine! Besides, cats don’t know how to play with plastic water bottles properly.
When we got our little Rambo (red smooth tweenie, 1988-2002 R.I.P) we got him every single dog toy we could find that we thought we’d enjoying playing with, if we were dachshunds instead of humans. He never touched any of them : The only “toy” he wanted was the plastic door stop that came free with the apartment!
My Piebald Doxie, Yogi, will pretty much play with anything that you give him, but it better have a SQUEAKIE in it!! The part about chewing something apart? Yep, Wally, Yogi likes to do that too. That’s why he can’t have any plush toys anymore.
Oh my gosh, this is so true! One of our dogs loves water bottles and the other one must destroy every toy just to get to the inside.
We’ve found that “Skinnies” (toys with squeekers but no stuffing” are best for our dogs. Ellie (AKA Weapon of Mass Destruction) rips every toy apart. She’s even ripped up their bed! But we love her.
Every toy in our house must be killed, undergo dis-disembowelment, squeaker removed and brought to toy purchaser! Therefore, all toys are the “skinnies”.
Luckily I don’t have an issue with cats in my house, but I do occassionally have to default to louder and more obnoxious toys to maintain Mum and Dad’s attention. When I get to the biggest & loudest of them all, I call it ‘bringing out the big guns’.