Old T-Shirts = Cheap Dog Toys
So my baby girl loves to shred. She lives to get the squeaker out of squeaky toys and make it so the squeaker doesn't work any more. She also loves to defluff her toys. Thankfully - unless they're her toys, she doesn't defluff or shred anything else. Amazingly she's very good at this - she sets her mind to her destruction and usually has her job done within 30 minutes or less. I haven't found a toy that stood a chance against her persistence. Naturally this gets pretty pricey when toys are automatically destroyed. It brings her lots of joy though so I like to get her toys. When it comes to the fluffy ones - I have started going to garage sales and picking up some of the cleaner stuffed animals for a quarter or two. I wash them at home and then her eyes light up and she bounces around in anticipation of getting the new toy. We had a few extra squeakers from a toy that had replaceable ones (not that it lasted long enough to replace them). And I grabbed a ...