Boredom is often the cause of a lot of bad behavior with dogs, such as chewing furniture, digging holes, or constant barking. Dog toys, by alleviating the boredom, may help alleviate the problem.

Dog Toys Can Make Your Mad Dog Sane

One thing you have to know about dogs is that they like to work. They like also like to play. Most of all, they like to be involved. They also need exercise every single day.

They are pack animals and therefore need structure and interactions. For a pet dog, that means you are the pack. You need to care for your dog's mental health and that involves more than locking the dog out in the yard with chew toys.

Choose dog toys that can stimulate your dog's mind, or he will take his boredom out on your furniture, among other things. Here are some choices for toys that will improve your dog's playtime while indoors, and give him a change of pace from the usual fetch, tug of war, and chew toys.

Hide and Seek Dog Toys

Dog toys that consist of a cute yet hunt-able animal and a place for it to hide will amuse both you and your dog, and satisfy your dog's hunting instincts. You stuff the toy in its toy hiding place, and your dog must root it out.

Does your dog destroy his dog toys? This may be the perfect toy for him. He can destroy it over and over without actually destroying it. These dog toys have built in squeakers, so you can get your dog excited before setting him on his mission.

These dog toys will also appeal to your dog's digging urge and also will stimulate his mind making him less bored and thus less destructive.

Hidden Egg Dog Toys

Consider toys with squeaky eggs in their stomach. If your dog loves to chew the stuffing out of pillows, he's just practicing gutting his prey. Let him do it on dog toys designed to be gutted, over and over.

Dog Toys With Rewards Inside Give Your Dog A Sense of Accomplishment

Dogs do love chew toys, and are quite content to sit and chew their chew toys to death sometimes. These toys won't give your dog a sense of accomplishment, however. For that, consider dog toys with built in reward systems.

Toys with treats in them give your dog a challenging puzzle to solve, that presses their instinctual buttons and rewards them at the end with a dog treat. An example is a plastic cube with treats inside which the dog must find a way to get out of the cube. The cube is also adjustable, so as your dog figures out how to get the treats out, you can make it harder so he won't get bored.

Another example of this type of dog toys is a rubber ball that helps clean your dog's teeth when he plays with it. Your dog bites the slits in the ball. His teeth sink into the grooves. The grooves stimulate the gums and clean the teeth, and dispense treats or kibble for your dog. These chew toys come in various sizes for different sizes of dog, but also come in different degrees of toughness so you can adjust for the destructiveness of your dog's chewing ability.

Don't Just Stimulate Your Dog's Jaws, Stimulate His Mind With Dog Toys

Dog toys have the special ability to stimulate your dog's mind as well as can your dog as the task is completed. This provides mentally stimulating play for your dog, which can help keep them from being bored, and a contented, tired dog is less likely to destroy everything you own by chewing it.