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Does any1 know how to make homemade toys and treats for your pets. (mainly dogs and cats)
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google "home made cat (or dog) treats" and you'll get a ton of sites with recipes... as for making your own toys- be careful. Things like plastic bottles, socks, bags, clothes, rope, etc seem to be the most common and pose a serious choking and/or impaction hazard if your dog chews them up. also consider what behaviors you will be encouraging... if you offer newspaper as a toy, your dog will think it's okay to chew paper it finds about... I've even heard of people giving their dogs old shoes and then of course, they get mad when fido chews up their Manolo Blahniks. as if the dog really knows the difference. You should never give a toy that resembles in any way anything that is normally off limits... and you need to always make sure that any toy you make is safe... dogs are creative and destructive LOL

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I personally do not but I do know there is a couple of books at the library about it even doggie cook books .if you do have fun and share you experiences with it.

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For cats yarn and for dogs a ball or stick.

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Here are a couple that I have found have worked for my dogs:
- Fill a water bottle (cool drink bottle) with treats (smelly treats like liver), screw the lid on.
- In the summer a cool drink bottle filled with frozen water
- Newspaper, they love tearing it up
- A box filled with treats (again smelly ones), an idea from my vet was to fill a box with a treat, put that box in a bigger box with a treat and so on.
- You can get kongs from a pet store and then use a mixture of treats (various biscuits, small amounts of cheese - again recommended by my vet)
- Basically anything that can be fill with treats
Do not use sticks like someone else suggested, these can impale the roof of their mouth let alone the splinters.
I also have heaps of guinea pig homemade treats, let me know if you want them too.

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i know how to make a toy, all you have to do is get like 3 old shirts or some kinds of rag and just tie them in a braid and u tie the ends really tight and you have a toy! :]

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You have lots of great answers here so I'm not here to give you more. I just want to give you a tip you might not have thought of. Some of the answers you received suggest giving them things that started out as old clothes, newspapers, etc. Bad idea. Pets won't be able to tell the difference between the old ones that are OK to chew on or play with, and your best shirt or pair of shoes or today's paper. I'm sure you can see how this would be teaching him to destroy your stuff. This wouldn't be his fault but could be a difficult habit to break.