Ethical Assorted Flavor Tennis Balls, 4-Pack

If you're the kind of dog lover who buys Christmas stocking stuffer gifts for your "Rover," "Fifi," "Basil" or whomever, this will fill it. They're colorful though not garish (and that is so important for the class-conscious canine), and purportedly have the tastes dogs crave. I didn't taste it myself (I have my limits), but I did try to smell it (but not that many), and whatever smell it might have had pretty much dissipated). But one doesn;t really buy these for one's dogs, do they? It's for the family , or the guests, or for your own guilt at not walking the dog enough. Face it, a tennis ball by any other color would smell as sweet (but then, maybe dogs--with their superior sense of smell--really CAN tell the diffence). One little trick to engage your dog (if you need one; golden retrievers like i have rarely need coaxing) is pretending that the "yummy ball" really is a GREAT TREAT. Another tact (this may work better with cats), is to present it as a FORBIDDEN OBJECT. NOthing great here, but it is fun to include your canine family member in the gift-giving, and besides whatever sensory qualities these inexpensive balls have, they throw, bounce, and can be retrieved just like any other, more ordinary ball. Dog tested and approved at our home.

I am furious this product even exists, while at a puppy play date my dog got a hold of another owner's set of these. I, in all my years have rarely seen something as stupid as flavoring a potential obstruction. I am now currently waiting to see if my dog passes the bit of possibly toxic tennis ball or needs surgery.

Buyers be ware that this toy is easily chewed up and was ripped in half in a matter of seconds by my 35 pounds dog. I am concerned over the potential safety issues with both pets and children by flavoring something so easily chewed up and swallowed.

I will be notifying the company directly, but believe me my puppy is in service/therapy training and stays at my feet or just to the side of me at almost all times. This happened at my feet one minute I looked down he had been chewing on an approved difficult to destroy toy and the next he had this half eaten. There were multiple people around him, so it wasn't like he was left unattended.

SHAME!

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These are cheap enough that if your dogs don't care for them as "something sprecial" it's not going to cause you much anguish if they're ignored. If your dogs ordinarily play with this size balls they'll probably do the same with these.

That being said, "flavored" is most likely an overstatment.

Our dogs LOVE peanut butter, but they don't go out of their way to play with or do much mouthing with the "peanut butter" ball, which we gave them first. They've been known to push a sofa away from the wall to get to a peanut butter jar. With this ball they don't express as much interest as they do for even an already licked clean EMPTY peanut butter container. That tells me that they aren't making a specifically "peanut butter asociation" with the first one. To them basically these are balls.

Bearing in mind that dogs have a sense of smell which is orders of magnitude better than that of most humans, I suppose that these MAY be of interest to canines simply because they have a "non-standard ball" odor. However, if I can detect the different aromas (the printing on each ball helps to identify the scent-they're not overpowering)-as well as the considerable scent of rubber, I'm sure the scents must be plenty strong to a dog's nose. But with the addition of that strong rubber odor component, I wonder what olfactory impact these may actually have on a typical dog.

And fro whatever it's worth, there are 4 COMPETING odors tightly packed inside the same heavy plastic bag for who knows how long before they arrive at your house, so whatever original individual scents that the 4 balls may have had are being mingled with each other. I'd suggest that as soon as you get these (if you don't immediately distribute all of them, that you take all 4 out of the original bag and, after airing them out for a time, repack them inside SEPARATE plastic bags to help them recover and retain their "individuality".

Bottom line is that in my opinion, unless you USUALLY feed your dogs (peanut butter for example) by placing their food on tires, rubber mats, rubber bowls, or something else with a strong rubber odor, so that they've developed a "rubber smell filter" they may not associate ANY of these with any of the labelled "flavors", even if one or more of the 4 scents are approximations of something that your dog specifically likes.

Also, if it's a factor for you, my wife tells me that the rubber compound thry're made from can cause latex allergic or sensitive sensitive people a problem-she's one.

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My dog loved the balls, but within a couple of minutes, she had the covers off. Then, she was able to split the ball inside in half just as quickly. The rubber in these balls is crumbly, and I was afraid of her ingesting pieces after she got them apart. I also didn't realize these are made in China. Overall, very poor quality.

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These are ok, I'm not sure if there is actually a flavor to them. They are nice and the fuzzy doesn't come off as easily as normal tennis balls.