Quincy the Toy Destroyer

[Donna K & Quincy]

I posted this a few days ago but accidently deleted it so I am posting again. My darling Quincy doodle has yet to meet a toy he can't destroy in seconds flat. Stuffed toys are his favorite things to dissect. Unfortunately he also tends to eat them which could lead to a big problem. To try and teach him not to do this I came up with a great idea or so I thought. Enter Froggy. Froggy is a cute little pink and green small stuffed toy. My thinking was that if I could teach Quincy to carry him without being able to chew on him he might be less inclinced to tear him apart at other times. We took Froggy with us on a couple of walks and he would carry him quite nicely for the first 20 mins or so, then he would start tossing him around and playing with him. This was good, this is how I wanted him to play. After a few minutes of this he would just leave him on the side to the road and walk away. I became very good at carrying Froggy. So now comes test time. I gave Quincy the frog to play with while I was typing this and I am sad to report the Froggy is now suffering from amputation of his two front legs. Oh well, back to the drawing board. The one good outcome of this experiment is that there was much less sniffing and Quincy walked so perfectly that I had to peek every now and then to make sure he was still on the leash. I think maybe we will keep trying this experiment as I would love Quincy to actually enjoy playing with his toys and not destroy them. It is getting a little expensive. I have added a photo of Quincy with Froggy before his amputation.

[Christine & Shelby]

Quincy... you are a funny dood! I don't understand destroying your toys - then they go away! I am very gentle with my toys - I want to keep them ALL! Do you think you have to destroy them to get more? If so - I have found that isn't true... my mom gets me new toys all the time. She says she would rather spend money on toys than new furniture. She says I am very good because I don't try to chew on the furniture... this makes her happy. I am sure detroying the toys is fine... but my system is working for now, so I am going to go with it!