Ask Rakker: Dog Toy Testing

Hey there. Rakker here, forgive me for being late, I’ve been busy testing toys for the Holiday season and boy am I tired!

My dad, Jeff, has been running around like crazy the past couple weeks and we haven’t had too much time to play. This made him just as sad as me, so we decided to make work more fun. He said that we needed to find out which toys would be the best gift for dogs this Holiday season. So we’ve been “testing” the toys for how much fun they are to play with!

Here are some of our favorites:

Plush Toys – The first thing my dad gave me a box of soft chew toys. These are so much fun! Usually when I get toys like this, I rip them apart in 2 days, but these are though and easy on my teeth. I don’t like to pick favorites, but I really loved the Squirrel and Teddy Bear!

Fetch! – I love playing fetch with my dad! I love to run as fast as I can after the ball. My dad can throw far but he gets tired and we have to take breaks so he could rest his arm, but yesterday he was using this stick he called a Chuckit to throw a ball really, really far. He played for awhile and I got tired before he did!

Tug-O -War – At night, me and my dad like to hang-out and just play. Our favorite end of the day activity is to play tug-o-war with a toy. A long time favorite of ours was a Rope Bone, but the other day we played with this long rope he called a Wonder Tug. He was able to get a good grip on it and I had a hard time trying to get it off him! It was so much fun!

Now I gotta get back to work. The Holidays are almost here and I still have a lot of testing ahead of me. You know, working in quality control is a “ruff” job, but somebody has to do it!