Benefits of Different Types of Dog Toys

From rope toys to chew toys and treat-dispensing toys to fetch toys, there are a variety of toys – in different shapes and forms– you can get for your pooch. These toys can meet different needs, and we advise you to expose your dog to the different types of dog toys for an all-round

Want to know what advantages these toys can offer to your dogs?

Keep reading for the benefits of the following:

1. Plush toys

• Provides comfort

Soft plush toys are ideal for comforting your pooch and providing companionship. While you may be there to keep your canine friend company, such company may not be all day, all the time. And so when you are not there, your dog is more likely to not totally feel your absence with a plush toy around.

• Calms anxiety

Besides providing comfort, plush toys also promote calm and peace from anxiety. This is especially ideal when adopting strays and shelter dogs as well as getting pups recently separated from their mothers and siblings. These categories of mutts are highly prone to fear and anxiety, and a plush toy or two will come in handy to ease their anxieties. 

1. Chew toys

• Strengthened dentals

Looking to work your dog’s dental – teeth and gum? Then help your dogs get familiar with chew toys from when they are pups. Chew toys help with teething pains and also strengthen the teeth and gums of Canines. 

• Reduces destructive behaviours 

Certain breeds, especially when young, want to chew a lot and might go on to chew on furniture and other household items, which may lead to destructive behaviours. However, when you train your pooches with chew toys, they focus their energy on things meant to be chewed on. 

1. Rope Toys

• Promotes oral health

The threads of rope toys are good dental flosses for dogs as they chew on them, which aids in keeping their teeth and gum free from plaque.

• Promotes socialisation

With rope toys, your mutts can engage in social activities like tug of war and other activities with other dogs and humans. And what’s more? They can socialise by playing with such toys without the need for a restraint like a personalised dog harness.

1. Fetch Toys

• Promotes exercising

Fetch toys are ideal for building your dog’s core as they involve lots of running, jumping and other activities. These toys also sharpen your dog’s ability to listen to and obey commands. They are great to incorporate when training your dogs.

In conclusion

Getting your dog the right kind of toy for the specific need might just be the solution to a problem your pooch might be experiencing. And while these toys have their ways of regulating a dog’s mannerisms and thus shaping your mutt, always resort to your local breeder or the Vet when you notice off behaviours and characteristics. Now you tell us, what category of these toys does your pooch love the most?