![]() ![]() In another close call, Kristen tells a story of how her puppy Maverick had to spend four nights in the hospital to recover from an operation to remove a squeaker from his belly. This mistake led to sleepless nights for Laura, who worryingly stayed up with Harley administering pain medication until she was able to vomit up one squeaker and then poo out another. ![]() Laura understood that Harley could tear things up but didn’t realize that she would actually ingest a whole squeaker. In her post, Laura Yurchak tells the story of how she gave in to her dog Harley’s love of squeakers one weekend and it nearly cost Harley her life. It's All Fun and Games Until You Have to Poop Out A SqueakerĪ quick read about Harley (an adorable squeaker eater) is enough to give pause to anyone succumbing to their dog’s desire for instant squeaking gratification. Rewarding this killer instinct reinforces hyperactive destructive behavior that can then be triggered by a small child or another animal making a similar type of noise. Lesnack goes on to say that squeaking toys should only be used for specific training or attention-getting situations with dogs. In an Antigravity article, Arvella Lesnack (VP at Pet Adoption Services) discusses how squeaking toys trigger hyperactivity in dogs. They attack the squeaker until it either stops squeaking or worse they extract it from the toy and eat it. The squeaking noise triggers instincts in your pup that results in them identifying the squeaker toy as prey that they need to kill (think rabbit, mouse, bird, etc.). Dogs are hardwired from their days as wolves to attack prey. It turns out that dogs can’t control their love affair with squeakers, literally. They Can’t Help It, Like For Real, They Can’t Why do dogs go crazy for squeakers and is it a good thing? What is the point of buying a toy that your dog will destroy as soon as you give it to them? We stopped engineering and started researching. “My doggo loves squeakers, but she destroys the toy within an hour until she gets the squeaker out.” Recognizing that we have had the same experience, we began to question the purpose of squeakers to begin with. As we talked to people about ideas, all dog owners were telling us the same story. We are a plastic free company, how are we going to make a squeaker without plastic? We spent some time in the early days attempting to engineer a solution. Oh Snap, There Are No Plastic-Free SqueakersĪs we began to research materials for dog toys, we always dreaded “the squeaker problem”. ![]()
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