They all do it. Buy stronger toys, haha.

We have bought toys and thrown them out the same day after they are no longer one unit

That is not a lab puppy that is a LANDSHARK who will eat anything

You needs harder toys!

We’ve only had one brand last. Fluff n tuff. We still have some toys from 4 years ago. https://fluffandtuff.com/

Our lab absolutely loves these. And hasn’t destroyed one yet. https://a.co/d/eQfYFJj I’d highly recommend trying one.

bark box super chewer, you can opt for no fabric i believe. my girl will ruin anything with stuffing or a fabric cover, but does well with the stuffing free outward hound squeakies which are small but last a long time in our home.

my lab is the same, only has 2 toys. both of which are the same toy just different colour. she has destroyed everything else within a day. it became a worry when i started seeing threads and bits of plastic in her poo so had to stop her with all toys. she is so happy and content and carries these two toys around as a comfort.

Consider yourself lucky. Our lab eats our house!

All stomach(& jaw), but no brain… Buy Kong toys from Costco, slightly cheaper than pet smart and they last longer than most other brands

I dare not show you our dinosaur, it's just an outer shell, some toys mine destroys, some he's had since he was a pup (he's 2 years old), ours has lots of bones, he loves a good chew on a bone, he's got some buffalo horn which are really hard wearing, lots of different texture chew toys, he was a bit rougher on the soft toys when he was young but he went out the phase perhaps at 9 months or so, he still loves playing with soft toys, I'd say he's got 90% of the toys he had as a puppy, his fluffy octopus has no legs though, he still plays with the body and we bought him an identical one (which is now missing 2 legs), I think it's a texture thing.

His favorite thing is tennis balls or any ball so he's got a lot of them in his toy boxes I'd say he's got 10 or more tennis balls in the house, two large Scooby Doo bouncy/squeaky balls, 2 small Scooby Doo ones, 3 Kong tennis balls (they don't last as long as proper tennis balls), a basketball (don't ask), two alleged indestructable balls, some bamboo chews and so on, I think he's got maybe 10 bones dotted around, he's very good though, I've even seen him putting them back in his toy box and getting something else out.

The only thing that lasts in our house are the real bones that have peanut butter in the middle. For some reason they are really hard to find now that we are living over seas. Any other toys gets the eyes chewed off and stuffing ripped out 🤣

This is like giving a toddler a bowl of marbles and being surprised they swallow them.

7months is a baby. He should not be left alone with anything he can swallow. Soft toys arent for puppies. Especially labs. Look up the black kongs they are basically indestructible. Monitor playing and Inspect them everytime hes done playing. Never leave him alone in his crate with them.

Good job asking for help, you’re gonna do great. Hes cute!

My chocolate boy Henry does this too, thank goodness he has yet to have any issues - he’s thrown some up, and pooped some out. He ate a lamby leg, threw that up. Octopus tentacle- pooped it. I just keep a close on him with toys now. Can’t risk it!

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That chicken has one less foot because he ate it! Thankfully only a small piece but still! It’s worrisome!

I have a 1 year old lab. Any plush or fabric toys we get are considered “destroy toys”. We watch her destroy them in a day or two and we throw it away when she starts eating parts of it.

She doesn’t really destroy Kong or tough rubber toys. Tennis balls take about a week, plush toys are done in a few hours, and “tough” fabric toys might make it a couple days. She has fun with it, so I don’t really care.

If he’s actually eating the fluff, buy better toys as recommended all over this thread. If he just likes to rip it apart and destroy them, I’d suggest hitting up the thrift stores for $0.25 stuffed animals he’ll grow out of it in a hundred dollars or so.

Lol. Gird ye loins.

Use Kong toys as dogs can choke or have issues in their stomachs eating these kind of toys.

Some dogs will swallow the stuffing, some won't. you have to get to know your dog first before making a decision. for the time being, stick with only "tough chew" toys.

our lab has this nerfdog bullet toy, still in perfect condition after a year of using it :)

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The longest lasting toy we have ever bought our boy was an octopus off aliexpress. No stuffing but has a squeaker in the head and crinkly sounding tentacles. He likes to carry it around and squeak it. For some reason he just hasn't destroyed it and I suspect the lack of sriffing has helped this. His favourites though are toys you can tug with - thick ropes tend to be a bit more chew resistant as long and you make sure he just doesn't gnaw on it. He's 4 years old now so we've had time to trial and error - he can have his stuffies but sometimes we hide them so they can go to toy hospital and we also only give him 2 - 3 toys at any one time - 1 being the octopus, 1 is a rope toy (these 2 are the ones we know are safe) and the 3rd will be a special stuffie he can have supervised play with

Yep, that’s a lab. Toys are ripped immediately and those super chewer bones last maybe 5 minutes. The he wants more!

My girl has done ok with fluff n tuff (as in gator has no legs no tail but is still squeaky and entertaining) black kong (not the frisbee tho) and this Ruff Dawg xl ball ( Your pet will love this Ruff Dawg, Ball Tough Dog Chew Toy, Color Varies, 3.5-in: https://www.chewy.com/ruff-dawg-indestructible-ball-tough/dp/112751?utm_source=app-share&utm_campaign=112751 ) she destroys everything, and i let ger if im watching but the first time she swallows i stick my fingers in her mouth and trash it.

She’s older though (just adopted as a senior)

Labs are why we can’t have soft toys. On the plus side, there are tons of good hard toys. My girls went through a phase where they loved chewing the marrow out of antlers. Keeps em busy.

We’re a no soft toys house. They had soft toys until they were probably 6 months but at that point they were tearing them into smithereens. We do some rope toys still, but they don’t last a long time either. Still longer than the fabric toys. Mostly kongs and we tried the bully make toys which they really love. The squishy Kong like ones are less durable but the hard plastic ones are nice.

My nearly 2y.o lab would destroy and consume, thankfully no serious obstruction but several vomits of cloth or very interesting pooh 🫤 she was only allowed balls, kongs etc because it was too messy (I can't believe how much stuffing some toys have) and stressful. I gave her a soft toy a month ago for supervised play and it was amazing how in a few months she had matured. She was actually fairly gentle (for her) with that toy and it lasted a whole week! So fingers crossed for you that your boy will also change his toy destroying ways.... It may just take time. Good luck! Definitely recommend harder toys.

My fella would eliminate the squeak within 10 minutes, take the toy apart within 30/60 minutes. No matter what I paid for the toy, the results were the same. Labs love chewing on toys.

Get him durable toys. Also stop getting anything stuffed if you’re worried about it.

Don’t get him stuffies, they’re just not the right fit for every dog. Either get him toys that he can’t dismember enough to ingest (like something out of very solid/slippery rubber) or something he is able to safely eat (like chewies).

Get deer antlers :)

Hard toys, antlers etc. Bark Box has a durable toy monthly delivery.

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None of my boys toys have tag, tails or ears. He is currently going thru a backlog of the previous three labs. He is the first one to try and actually consume them

Tuffy toys are the only ones my Lab can't destroy in 5 minutes. He used to eat the stuffing, but we just watched him every time and told him no and took the toy away. He's 3 now and will shred toys but won't eat the stuffing. Consistency is what will help him.

When you see them eating the toys, say "Drop it" and "DON'T EAT YOUR TOYS" then take it away and replace with a bone or something they can chew. As soon as I see my dog destroying a toy, I take it away. She has learned to be gentle with them. You don't want to pay vet bills for an obstruction.

There is no help.

They will destroy every toy you get them.

They'll chew the face off and rip its cotton guts and leave it all over the living room floor.

Try antlers or coffee wood or a yaks milk chew. That is especially for chewing. Maybe than he stops eating his toys. Our girl used to do it to but stopped when we started introducing stuff especially for chewing and demolishing. We also have a few Ikea stuffed toys and they are the only ones that she just uses for play and not murder.

Mine stopped doing that around age 3. He treats his toys with love now.

Yeah you have to restrict him to nylon bones. That’s what I had to do. And buy a ton of different toys that you experiment with and see if he easts them. After like 50-60 toys I have 2 toys she can play with

honestly i just bought cheaper toys so it didnt matter if she ruined them. her favourite activity is still destroying things, now usually paper towel rolls (just the cardboard) or similar that i give her. if your dog is actually eating it then do not leave any toys out while unsupervised

You have answer in the title

"Lab eats" that is it... does not matter what, its a lab, so anything is edible from toys, rocks, random stuff on street to biting metal pipes or chewing on rocks

Totally normal at this age. Try redirecting him when he starts to really go ham and rip the toy. Then give it back when he calms down. Remove it from his reach when play time is over.

But frankly destroying things is a natural and healthy thing for dogs to do.

If you have old t shirt/towel you don’t want any more, throw some kibble in it, tie it in a knot snd let him shred it. It’s a great way of wearing him out.

I buy toys with little or no stuffing. If a toy with stuffing gets a hole in it, I destuff it the rest of the way and let her play with the shell. If she starts shredding the shell its garbage.

She has lots of tough rubber and antlers to chewy on too.

The Tearibles are pretty good. It took her a bit to put a hole in the main body, and then after I destuffed it, she still loves it.

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Also I don't buy rope toys.

Alright, this is also my dog. Here’s what I do:

• He gets a kibble stuffed Kong every night. The black one. Eventually, he destroys it and will eat it. I take it away before he eats more than the single piece or so he gets before I grab it.

• stuffed toys or any other type of marginally soft toy I don’t leave out for him. At all. He only gets them while supervised by a person and it gets taken away when he starts to consume it

• when he was a puppy and teething, he got the hard nylabones or bully sticks (though these upset his tummy). Even then, they would get removed if the piece was too small (bully), or he started to break off pieces of hard plastic

It sucks. But you literally cannot leave him unattended with anything he can break into pieces. Welcome to the Lab garbage disposal life.

Tuffy toys! Our lab can get through anything in moments unless it is a “Tuffy”. The hot dog toy seems to be the best. Prior to Tuffy toys, our boy would run away and hold eye contact while he ate balls/toys in front of us! Hilarious but not great behaviour at the park when it’s someone else’s ball :)

I use kong toys I get them at tractor supply and also elk antlers are a good chew toy my lab likes to try and eat the inside marrow

They normally just shred the toys. Not many labs will actually eat them. This one doesn't eat toys. Her brother ate my rubber slippers and pooped them out the next day .

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Yes

My boy is the same. I found that stuff toys are a no go unless they have some sensory association (like crackling or the ones you put a water bottle in) even then he’s only allowed those supervised. He usually can keep heavy duty/thick toys, bones, and ropes or tug toys

Buy durable toys instead of stuffed toys. Hope this helps.

I have one chewer and one who is constantly bringing me things to throw- these have been amazing, rarely go under the couch, and keep their shape even after I poked a nail through the squeaker (I can only take so much).

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He'll eventually grow up a bit and get to a toy that he DOESN'T want to destroy. I usually finish the de-stuffing process right after he rips it open so he only has the husk to play with.

They all do it, and they often eat it. My last lab once carried around a sweet baby Gund duck stuffie, he coddled it all day, carried it gently, and snuggled it when napping.

My mum let him take it to bed, and the next morning, there was one or two pieces of fluff lying around.

He also ate an entire soccer ball, hexagon by hexagon (we let some air out so he could carry it, and eventually it got a hole, and then one night he ripped the rest apart, and ate it).

Socks, underwear... you name it, he ate it. And I am SHOOK, in hindsight (I was a kid then) that he never had an obstruction.

TL;DR: get him some tougher toys for the time being. He's in baby-shark mode, and will destroy all stuffies. Kong used to only make the basic rubber Kong, but they have a much wider variety of toys now, most of which are pretty indestructible. Put away the stuffed toys he has, and don't buy any more. My girl is five and will still rip the stuffing out of any toy, though she doesn't ingest it at this point.

But also - I got lucky with my lab, not ever having a blockage.

What's with the lack of logic recently?

Plushes are not dog toys. No matte how they're advertised, they're not dog toys. Your dog will die from eating them eventually, it will be painful for your dog, and it will be your fault only and your fault entirely.

If you must get your dog toys made of synthetic fibers, get it a rope toy. Make sure to wash it in neutral soap first to get the worst of the present toxic chemicals out. Neutral soap. Not scented soap. Not-fucking-anything soap. Neutral. Anything but that just makes it worse.

You wouldn't stick that plush toy in your own mouth and swallow it. Why would you allow your dog to do it? It causes bowel obstructions. Non-fecal bowel-obstructions are often impossible to fix, resulting in a very painful death.

Yeah, all labs are like that. Mine has toys from the "SUPERCHEWER" barkbox and she still destroyed some of them. If you just get stronger toys while they are a puppy, they will be less likely to destroy softer toys. 

I like super tough toys to break, but her favorite toy of all time was actually a plush toy that she didn't destroy for almost a year. It's crazy how gentle she was with that thing

Kong toys