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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 7:53 pm Post subject: Which tennis balls? |
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Jet has an old slazenger tennis ball which he adores, but it's now almost in 2 halves. While looking for a replacement, i brought some from the Woolworths worth it range (what a waste of money) lasted 2-3 minutes each. Has anyone used the Kong air squeaker balls, do they last and are they resistant to chewing? Jet has a Kong air ring/donut (sorry can't remember what they are called), and apart from him pulling the green covering of in places it is lasting really well.
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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Yes - we have 8 lying around!! They are brilliant. Very durable - They do get canine holes in but we have never had one split - more than I can say for the cheap Tesco ones that we have used.
They also fit in a ball chucker if you use one.
Roo loves his - especially because they squeak!
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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They are the best tennis balls i have found, all are still intact, never had one split yet, they last far longer than any others ive bought.
EXCEPT...all of mine have all lost their squeak after a short time, I don't know what Millie does to them 
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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just a warning having heard of dogs getting tennis balls slobbered up - and then getting stuck in their throats - be careful about leaving tennis balls with dogs unattended.........
outside chance but i've heard of it happening
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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Noo !!!
All tennis balls are banned here ,Midas can almost swallow them whole ,god forbid if one got stuck ,they are waay too small for labradors ,if they can open their mouth wider that the ball then the ball is too small
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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I don't use tennis balls here for the same reason of the standard ones being a bit on the small size - but, are the Air Kong ones bigger? The ones they use in the QTease toys are I'm sure.
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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No, the squeaky Kong tennis balls are the same size as standard ones
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Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 5:54 am Post subject: |
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Kong do 2 sizes of tennis balls - buy the bigger ones, no risk of choking then
Stay away fron the 'tuff' balls range of tennis balls - they cost the same as Kong and last 2 minutes.
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