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Squeaky toy with mute button? Yes please!

Image via Kong

Does your dog love to go nuts with a squeaky toy? You know the drill: squeak, squeak, squeak, squeeeeeaaaak, squeak…repeat endlessly. While it’s adorable to see how much enjoyment the squeaky toy brings your dog, about 2 minutes in (depending on your patience level), you are hoping the squeaker busts and silence is restored.

Now, well-respected animal toy manufacturer Kong has developed a line of squeaker toys with a mute button! Seriously, an on and off button. So simple, why wasn’t this thought of sooner?

The new product line includes five different shapes of toys (bone, bear, whale, dog, and baton), multiple colors, and come in a range of sizes, so you can pick the perfect size for your pup. The pricing on a few common dog supply sites list these toys ranging from $9.99 to $14.99.

I know I’d give my dogs a squeaky toy more often if I could turn off the squeaky part when I’d had enough. How about you?

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Squirrel Plastic Surgeon?

If I wanted to update my resume, I could add Squirrel Plastic Surgeon, thanks to my overly rambunctious duo of dogs.

You see, for the past few days, my girls have been having a daily round of what I dub “squirrel party.”

Squirrel party starts innocently enough with four squirrel squeaky toys jammed into a little plush tree trunk, as seen in this picture.

The toy tree trunk then gets dropped on the floor in front of the two eager pups.

Maddie, the dog that is more adept at figuring things out, proceeds to make sure each of the four squirrels is removed from the trunk.

Izzie, meanwhile, takes the first squirrel she sees, goes to her dog bed, and begins to squeak away, while figuring out the best way to disembowel the squirrel.

Flash forward a few minutes, and I’m having to remove squirrels from the “party” due to gaping head wounds and squirrel stuffing spilling out like a scene from a bad horror movie. For some reason the squirrels no longer have most of their ears, as they seem to be as enticing to the dogs as Evander Holyfield’s ear was to Mike Tyson.

However, thanks to Super Puppy Mom (that would be moi!), with a quick needle and thread, squirrels will be ready to party on…another day.