May 14, 2009

hedgie

For some reason, my big dogs are really the only one's who play with toys. Their favorite it hedgie - doesn't matter the make or model as long as it's a hedgie. Lucy particularly loves the smaller hedgies as her favorite game with any toy is to put the entire thing in her mouth, leaving just a small body part out of her mouth and teasing Beau. While we were in Canada, we bought her a new hedgie. It's really rather neat. It's rather like the line of toys that that had velcro in the back so you could replace the sqeakers. (Hey Fudge are those sqeakers on their way yet?) Anyway, this hedgied has elsastic on his belly and these little eggs fit inside him. The concept of the egg is that the sqeaker is really protected. This hedgie which is much bigger than she usually likes holds 3 eggs at the same time. Lucy really doesn't care as long as it makes noise. She wouldn't let go of the good hedgie this morning, so Beau went and found his own. When I first saw this toy in February I was afraid Lucy would figure out how to get the eggs out and would just carry them around in her mouth. But so far she hasn't figured that part out. The hedgie came with 5 of the egg babies and so far she has killed 2. Eventually I will be operating on eggs, but that should make the toy last much longer.

9 comments :

  1. I saw a toy in a catalog that had 15 squeakers in it. Tsar and Sky would love it, but it might finally push me over the edge.

    Fudge says the squeakers will soon be on their way, as soon as his lazy mom gets her act together.

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  2. Reminds me of Fred... We had several of those toys with the velcro and replacable squeakers. Mugsy didn't pull them apart, so I doubt your crew will either!

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  3. Thor doesn't seem to recognize Larry now that the squeaker is gone. He just got Darryl the Duck to squeak yesterday, and was delighted! What is it with big dogs and squeakers?

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  4. What a great toy! I don't know if it would work for us. My pup (a Lucy too) just rips out squeakers as soon as a new toy comes into the house. We have a basket of raggedy looking things, making her look very deprived of shiny new toys.

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  5. We have one of those toys that came with the egg babies and they figured it out straight away and wanted to EAT all the babies... Sigh.

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  6. Simon has a hedgehog toy too! Although I think the toys are more for my benefit than his - I like to buy them but he's not super keen on actually playing with them. For the most part when I try to play fetch or tug-of-war with him, he gives me the "those silly games are beneath me" look. So, it's nice to see your hounds are quite so snobby!

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  7. That last line should read "are NOT quite so snobby." Oops!

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  8. ooohhhh..........Mr. Bettis read this post and is begging for a hedgie.........LOL
    Nice pics.

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