Need Advice on 'Indestructible' Dog Toys [View all]

[Silver Gaia]

Anyone here have any experience with this?

I have two Border Collies (one has some Brittany in him, too, I think), a male and a female, who will turn two years old next month. They LOVE to play with toys, but I have yet to find anything they don't just destroy and start to eat (yes, not just chew it up... they will EAT it) within 30 minutes. I've even tried those supposedly indestructible Kong toys (the really hard black ones) with the same result. Half an hour and it's toast.

The only thing they seem to do OK with are hard rubber balls with no holes anywhere (if there's a hole anywhere in the toy, they'll hook a tooth into that hole and rip it apart), but they get bored with the balls.

What they want is something they can play with together, like tug ' war stuff, and the balls are pretty much solitary toys. Rope pulls are out. They quickly unravel them and eat the strings. I don't need a vet bill to remove wound-up strings from their guts. I've tried big, hard rubber rings and they eat those, too.

I've spent a ton of money trying to find something, anything they can play with safely and not had much luck. I'd be into a homemade toy, too, but haven't come up with anything workable.

So, I thought it might not hurt to ask here. Maybe someone has had a similar problem and found a solution. Any ideas?