It has been rainy and cold here for the last several days and the dogs have been going a little stir crazy, missing their walks and being cooped up inside for most of the day. In an effort to find some indoor entertainment I made a trip to the pet store for some new toys. They loved this one for about 15 minutes. (I am not exaggerating.) The squeaker part of it lasted for about 5 minutes and in another 10 minutes it looked like this.
That was $5.00 not so well spent.
After the new toy debaclel I thought I would check out what some other folks have done to entertain their furry friends.
I was delighted to find many of the ideas used unwanted scrap materials that most people have around their homes. I was doubly happy to find the ideas for this blog but also because my poor pups really need some entertainment.
One of my favorite ideas was just to let your dogs clean out your old peanut butter jars. I actually dug a jar out of my trash can.
I figured it would last at least a long as the "new" toy did. :-)
I have been knee deep in T-shirts again of and I hope to have some project to show soon. My main project is a sun dress made from multiple T-shirts so I have been spending a lot of time cutting out the screen printed parts of the shirts to use for the dress. This of course has lead to a lot of leftover scraps. I thought I would try to make some dog toys from the smaller pieces like the one in this video.
Will have to keep you posted on how that goes. I did ordered some squeakers from Ebay to put inside my designer dog toys but right now all I have is the idea and a big pile of scraps.
On the short term I think I am going to try the treats in a toilet paper roll trick.




