KONG Classic KONG Dog Toy, Red Reviews

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The invention of the "Kong" is maybe one of my favorites (second to air conditioning) and I know my dog agrees. I have a greyhound who suffered a slight bout of separation anxiety after I adopted him from the track. I needed something to keep him busy and get him excited about my departure to work. The Kong is the answer. I'm sure this sounds weird, but I bought 5 of them one for each day of the week I have to work. Every Sunday I make a combination of oatmeal, non-fat plain yogurt (good for their tummies) and peanut butter. I heat up the oatmeal and add the yogurt and peanut butter while the oatmeal is hot it creates a really nice combination of delicious things to fill the Kong with easily. I take the Kong, put some kibbles of his dog food in first, then I pour the mixture of items into a large, durable ziplock baggy and cut a hole in the corner. I squeeze a good amount of the oatmeal, yogurt, and PB into each kong, leaving a bit of space for a milk bone to stick out of the bigger hole on the end of the Kong. I put all 5 in the freezer and give my greyhound one each day. He gets SO excited when he sees a kong come out of the freezer, that he runs full speed into his kennel and waits for me. The Kong keeps him occupied for HOURS and because it's frozen, it lasts even longer and he spends forever licking and biting at the Kong to get the goodies out. Dogs need something to do with their mouths. They use their muzzles like we use our hands. A stuffed Kong can prevent so many behavioral issues like destructive chewing or excessive vocalization from boredom or anxiety. Also, Kongs are without a doubt the most durable toy on the market. They last ages and ages. I recommend them to everybody with a dog.

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My German shepherd loves this toy. As both my husband and I work we have to leave her alone for 8 hours a day. I give her a kong filled with treats each morning and often when I get home that she is still working on getting the stuff out. Any toy that keeps this chewing machine occupied for that long is worth its weight in gold!

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I LOVE Kong. I have the medium blue and white puppy kong and I have the large red ones (because they came with the Kongtime I bought). I have a 6 month old border collie puppy and he can play with the large ones just fine. The medium ones fit in his mouth just ight though. I like both but I like the large ones because I will stuff them with a mixture of dry and wet food and freeze it overnight. I put it in his crate with him the next morning before I leave for work and it lasts him a long time. In fact This morning he found his King from yesterday and kept finding small amounts of dry food that was stuck inside. He figured out to pick it up and "throw" drop it on the ground to knock them loose. This a great toy for normal chewers who get bored. IF your dog is chewing these apart then you need the black kong for strong chewers.

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I have used medium sized Kongs as a

breakfast/lunch/dinner bucket for our

Bichon for over five years. I stuff it with

a dried liver treat, a combination of

Eukanuba and Max and a Medium Dog Bone.

His five to eight trips a day for Kong

refills provides a break from my sedentary

home office activities. Recently I had

collapsed lung surgery and now use

the filling of Kongs for a six minute

treadmill break. He now joins me on the

treadmill for about the first three minutes

before jumping off to work on his latest

Kong. Kongs are a lasting feature in our lives.

The Amazon Provider of a two years supply

of Kongs (6) was excellent and very competitively

priced. I recommend both the Kong and Supplier

at a 5 star level.

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When you first look at a kong dog toy there is no tug handle, nothing to chew on (which is a plus if you are a human) and not alot of excitement for the dog but stuff the thing full of peanut butter, put it in the freezer over night and the next day, your dog has a whole days' chewing and licking and fun in store.

There are many dog toys that promote stuffing stuff inside them, but most of the time the stuff inside comes outside pretty quick and you are left with whatever attention span your dog has leftover. I was told about freezing peanut butter (buy the great big store brand jars because you will go through it quick) from my breeder, my trainer, and the cashier at the petco store, so I figured someone had to be right and it was true. When I left for the day out went the dogfood dish and the kong. Naturally that great smelling dogfood was eaten first, but afterwards it was a peanut butter flavored kongsickle for hours. This size was well suited for a german shepherd dog, they make smaller and xtre-large sizes for yorkies and the "small horse" breads, but size wise this worked out great to give her a chew treat that squeezed out a little peanut butter each time, then served as a tongue exerciser. By then I was back home and the kong was predictably empty of all the good stuff.

I'm ordering two more here on amazon $2 cheaper than the petstore so that I can have a set of 3 in the freezer simply because it takes a while with a knife (I like to use a plasticware knife just to avoid putting silverware down the kong) to stuff these things. With 3 kongs, I only have to load em up every 3 days. A big jar of peanut butter has lasted over a month.

One trick with the knife is to slice off a piece of peanut butter from the giant size jar and then poke it through the hole and against the side of the inside of the kong in one motion repeat all the way around and you've made the tongue exercizer finish this off by stuffing peanut butter down the middle and even with the edge of the kong and it's now a chew toy that gives out that yummy tongue coating peanut butter for hours. Your dog will like it and have something other than shoes to chew on when a puppy.

I'm very happy with the design now knowing how to use it properly. I bought it again so that must say something!