These will be a  few of Rocky high value toys I keep out in the cabinet in the garage as he gets soo EXCITED turns circles, takes him 15 to 20 minutes to calm down after a play session with these toys

Rocky's goose dummy. Great in the lake for water retrieves. But heavy on the arm for tossing. He absolutely goes nuts and will jump off any dock with this toy

Lastly, The tirer Btter!! He goes nuts over this newest addition of our high value GSP toys. Sprung for the large tire biter This will be great  in Wisconsin Winter this year if we get deep snow

PS :the top toy is a light pheasant made for GSP puppies, It goes far with little effort. Easy on the arms and shoulder mucsles to toss Great for older GSPs too. All will go nuts over these Toys

I still have to order Tessa one of those fowl dummies, but it would be strictly to add variety to training, not as a toy. I think they are heavier because they are supposed to simulate dead bird weight, and heavier objects can also be launched further than lightweight ones.

One dummy Tessa goes absolutely nuts over - got to keep her on a check cord or she runs off with it - is the one with streamers - oh my! She loves it when the streamers make that flapping noise and hit her face when she runs. It's one I need to keep in the car or I won't have my peace in the house.

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If you're not training the dog to hunt, I don't see any harm though in using these as toys...

Here Tessa is in a whoa before I sent her to retrieve the streamer dummy. Before I knew that she won't bring THAT one back, so no check cord

Lucky Leena Not overly excited over certain toys but loves them all. Tessa sounds like Rocky. Got to hide the high value toys or goes nuts. If Rocky sees me carry one of these toys out to the gargage to put back in cupboard, Rocky will lay by the door I went out and do a  spoil GSP squeak I think when ourGSPs get one of their high value toys in mouth, they want to run off so we donot take them away from them. They love them sooo much!!!

Okay, Tessa will hate me for revealing this, but her secret favorite toy at home is this one:
 

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Definitely high value...

Tugger use to have the dove version of those duck toys until we lost it in the weeds.  Below is his current obsession.  I really like it.  It bounces really high and has been durable for us.

Wow Tessa's BUTTERFLY TURTLE and Tuggers BIG KONG! Just AWESOME!!  Great to have New GSP Xmas or Birthday toy ideas!!!!  How many tooth marks are in Tugger's Kong now?? Has it held up for durablity??

So here are the toys that my kids love and Ringo can't destroy.  The first is a ball that came from Clean Run (can't copy the image so here is a link).

www.cleanrun.com/index.cfm

This is a hard ball that they can bat around the yard.

The second is the Jolly Ball, but not the one with a handle.  The one with a handle is gone in minutes.  This is the one with a rope.  Of course the rope is removed pronto, but we have two sizes of balls and they have withheld the test of Ringo's jaws.

And last, and frankly this one surprised me, is the Mammoth Colossal Chew rope.  The dogs love this one and so far it has not been pulled apart.  The only warning is stand away from the rope when the dogs start flinging it around.  It is big and heavy.

We tried the tires that Marie posted and they were gone in a day.  The Kong Rings are not bad, but the dogs for whatever reason do not play with them much.  So, always in search of new and durable toys.

Jolly Ball sounds the best so far if it passes the Ringo chew test!! Tire, Rocky loves, If he had it out for long would be chewed to pieces. Here is Rocky this morning, just after returning from the field where he lost his orange dummy toy earlier this spring Hubby asked where this dummy was last night. So took Rocky out on extension leash in area where we lost it and he found it!! Horray

Good save, Rocky

Bev that rope sounds good.

We have done very well with the Rope toy Rocky got his from Santa and it is still intact. He has een played tug of war his friend dogs who cme over. We are lucky with this one.Here is Rocky this afternoon with it. Still loves it.

I don't know...Tessa seems tender with the tender toys and destroys the durable ones

This ball still exists, after 10 months, intact, although it doesn't look this clean anymore...

So does this one:

The bones are always a hit, unfortunately she loves to drop them on the wood floor - loud - on purpose I am sure.

Maps don't last very long: