The Best Dog Toys of 2019

We've compiled a list of the best dog toys of 2019. There's a top toy for every dog here, so be sure to check them all out!

Best Toy for Mental Stimulation – Beginners: Gambling Tower

Key Features:

• Three pull-out platforms
• Three hidden compartments in the base covered by cones that cannot be knocked over: they must be lifted straight up
• Non-slip rubber feet

Overview:

Teach your dog a new trick! With this Gambling Tower, dogs earn tasty rewards by pulling on ropes to slide platforms out which then drop a treat out of the bottom. A great puzzle toy for beginners!

Price: $20.95

Best Toy for Mental Stimulation – Intermediate: Puzzle Brick Toy

Key Features:

• Three different ways of opening the 20 compartments
• Four removeable bones and eight openable/ slideable pieces
• Non-slip base

Overview: 

It’s fun. It feeds. It’s a challenge your dog needs! Dogs have to move, slide, and pop open compartments to find their treats. Mental stimulation is an important part of health and wellness and can prevent behavioural problems, which makes this a must-have toy!

Price: $19.99

Best Toy for Aggressive Chewers: Chew Bone

Key Features:

• Made of food grade nylon instead of rubber
• Bacon flavoured
• Promotes oral health

Overview:

While the company claims this toy isn’t indestructible, many of the reviews state it is. Built for aggressive chewers, this bacon-flavoured toy helps keep teeth healthy while your dog plays.

Price: From $12.99

Best Toy for Small Dogs: No Stuffing Squeaky Toy

Key Features:

• No stuffing to ensure a long life with no mess
• Three squeakers in each toy
• Made with hand-selected materials and tested for quality

Overview:

These soft toys are excellent for small-medium sized dogs. Without stuffing, there’s no chance your pet will make a mess all over the house. Each toy contains three squeakers for maximum fun! Not recommended for aggressive chewers.

Price: $15.99

Best Mulit-Functional Toy: Rope and Rubber Chew Toy

Key Features:

• Made from non-toxic, bite resistant material
• Maintains oral health and has a minty aroma
• Can add treats into the grooves for a special treat

Overview:

This multi-functional chew toy will keep your dog entertained for hours! It helps clean your dog’s teeth and can be filled with treats or kibbles for added fun! It can also be used for fetch or tug-or-war to increase your bond.

Price: From $13.99

Best Toy for Active Dogs: Paraflight Disc

Key Features:

• Aerodynamic shape allows for longer flight
• Durable, multilayer nylon interior
• Soft rubber edge that won't harm your dog's mouth

Overview:

Designed for flight, these toys are a great choice for dogs who like to run. Made with a soft rubber edge that is gentle on your dog’s mouth. Floats on water and made with bright colours for easy visibility.

Price: From $ 7.95

Best Feeding Toy: Snuffle Mat

Key Features:

• Non-slip backing to prevent messes
• Has ties for rolling up for storage
• Made from polar fleece to be soft and comfortable on your dog's nose

Overview:

If you haven’t heard of a snuffle mat, that’s okay, now’s your chance to read up! This ingenious mat relieves stress, encourages slow feeding, and engages your dog’s sense of smell. You fill the mat with treats or kibbles and let your dog find them all. It’s machine washable for easy cleanup.

Price: From $25.99

Best Plush Toy: Panda Hide and Seek

Key Features:

• Three removable pandas
• Squeakers in each of the pandas
• Interactive for mental stimulation

Overview:

It’s “Hide and Squeak” for dogs! Place the squeaky pandas in their bamboo home and watch your dog sniff them out. Also available as a Meerkat Den or Monkeys in a banana.

Price: From $12.99

Dogline’s Tropical Fish Toys

Have a dog that loves to swim? Does he love squeaker toys? Then he will love Dogline’s collection of Tropical Fish Toys!

This line of toys comes in an exciting collection of 12 different species of tropical fish. Each toy comes with a squeaker inside for all the puppies that love their toys to make some noise. These toys also have the ability to float so your dog can play with his new toy in the water!

Do you need to upgrade your dog’s leash for those trips to the lake? Then check out Dogline’s lines of personalized leashes, harnesses, and collars. They are made of lightweight fabrics and in a variety of colours! -KD

ZippyPaws Celebrates One Million Donutz!

ZippyPaws ended 2017 on a sweet note, selling their one millionth donut on December 14th. This past year has been a very successful one for the company. Not only were they awarded one of America’s fastest-growing private companiesby Inc. 5000, but ZippyPaws also had a new warehouse and office facility built, which is over three times larger than their currentheadquarters. In addition, sales more than doubled over 2016.

“It feels surreal,” says Jennifer Cao, Vice President of ZippyPaws. “What a great year 2017 has been for us! I still remember starting ZippyPaws with my father, in our garage. Now we’re moving into a new building, celebrating one million Donutz sold and being named one of the lead plush toy manufacturers in the industry.”                                  

“It’s been amazing seeing how the company has grown over these six years. We have new launches happening in 2018 – I’m very excited to share these new collections with everyone! With this new year, I have full confidence in the ZippyPaws team that we will continue paving the way for the dog toy industry.”

The Donutz toy line has been a best seller ever since Cao and her father launched them in 2014. With a stuffing-free, calorie-free,delicious dessert, dogs cannot get enough of these fuzzy, frosted sensations! Because of the popularity of these Donutz, ZippyPaws created Jumbo sizes to appeal to not only dogs, but their owners as well! Equal opportunity for all Donut lovers!

Let’s face it, one million Donut-lovin’ hounds can’t be wrong. This toy is a true testament to all things sweet and fun. And when you consider the love and quality that are embodied in each of these round delights, you just can’t stop at one. Let’s be real,why would you even want to do that? Regular-sized Donutz retail for $7.99 MSRP, mini-sized Donutz retail for $5.99 MRSP, and jumbo-sized Donutz retail for $10.99. Visit www.zippypaws.com to learn more about the Donutz collection!

About ZippyPaws

ZippyPaws was created in 2011 with the mission of bringing fun, exciting, and high-quality toys to dogs and their owners. Providing toys for dogs is a great way to encourage active lifestyles and to foster a strong relationship between owner and dog. Visit the full line of ZippyPaws products at www.zippypaws.com or email sales@zippypaws.com to request a catalog.

Create Change

When Josh Allen spent time in rural Ethiopia as part of a mission trip with his church, he didn't expect it would inspire him to launch a new personal initiative—but that's exactly what happened.

While on that trip, Josh spent a day with an organization called Bring Love In. B.L.I. pairs up "unadoptable" orphans from Ethiopian government orphanages with local widows that have lost their kids and families, yet still desire to be moms. B.L.I. legally adopts the kids and pairs them up with the "moms" to create family units locally in Addis Abbaba, Ethiopia's capital city. Josh came away "really impressed" with the organization and the way they were "helping locally, in their culture, setting the orphans up for future success from 'the inside out' rather than asserting more foreign 'aid' and culture from places like the USA."

Upon returning from the trip, Josh felt called to do more. He happens to be the owner of an all-natural pet supply boutique in Montana called Dee-O-Gee, so he decided to use his knowledge of the pet industry to develop a line of toys that would help. Through a partnership with Bring Love In, Josh donates a percentage of his sales to offer nutritional aid for the widows and orphans. This initial line of toys has grown into WO Design, through which he offers awesome toys and collars, as well as tees for people, all which support Bring Love In.

"The W is for widows and the O is for orphans," Josh explains. "Each product WO sells has a tangible 'give back' associated with it. We've started with providing meals—home cooked food for the orphaned kids—and to date we've funded over 15,000 meals for orphaned children and widows."

The goodness doesn't stop there. WO Design also encourages customers to participate in their toy-recycling program. While the products are designed to give years of fun (throw it, float it, recycle it, love it!), when your dog is done with them you can send them back to WO to be recycled into new toys instead of adding to landfills.

Start to finish, WO Design is all good.

Bionic Urban Stick by Outward Hound

The Bionic Urban Stick by Outward Hound is a "supernaturally" strong chew toy for dogs. Available in easy-to-spot neon colours, this interactive treat-holding chew toy will pose a challenge to even the toughest chewers! Free of unhealthy substances such as lead BPA and phthalates, the Bionic Urban Stick is machine washable, floats in water, and is available in three sizes and colours. Tried and tested on Modern Dog staff dog Maverick, who loves it so much he won't share with his best dog friend from next door! – ERM

Major Dog Octopus Retrieval Ball

Nobody loves balls as much as Bella loves balls, but this new Major Dog Octopus Retrieval Ball has really stolen her heart! An easy to throw ball that is perfect for retrieving, this ball brings her so much joy! Even better is the fact that the ball is incredibly sturdy, so even tough chewers like Bella have long lasting fun.

Check out Bella having all kinds of fun on Instagram.

Zippy Burrow Bunny ‘n Carrot Plush Toy

My dog loves this entertaining  interactive hide-and-seek toy, perfect for smaller-sized dogs! He loves burying his nose in the carrot for the bunnies inside and I love watching him. Comes with 3 squeaky bunnies just in time for Easter!–KG

Wag More Bark Less Fetch Bone

Who doesn’t love to play fetch with their pooch? I make it a priority to play fetch with my dog every day and when I do I always choose the Wag More Bark Less Fetch Bone. The bone is made of durable solid rubber so it withstands my dog’s strong jaws. It’s also non toxic so there’s nothing in it that can harm my dog! -KG