Make Your Own "Skinneeez" Stuffingless Dog Toy

I love my dogs, they always have personality. My old yellow beast used to carry a plastic Bart Simpson doll head around and drop it on your foot until you threw it for him, over and over until your arm went numb. It started as a joke, I gave him a Bars Simpson doll to chew up, and he did, everywhere. Eventually he loved it so much it that it became just the head and then only the top of his plastic hair. He loved and shredded many stuffy toys in his long hooligan life. I can't count the number of stuffies we went through or the amount of stuffing I picked up.

We have 2 new to us yellow labs which of course means MORE TOYS. Which means MORE THRIFTING for used stuffies, YEAH! But I saw at the pet store these new fangled stuffingless stuffies, the "Skinneeez". Hunh good idea, a toy without stuffing, nothing to clean up and maybe without stuffing the urge to gut it and destroy it would be less. But whew, $14.00 is a lot of money for a dog toy. I KNEW I could make something similar.

How to make your own "Skinneeez" style dog toy

1) choose your victim stuffy

2) do not let the dog have it before trying to make the toy, it will be slimy, you will be sorry, don't whine I warned you

3) ignore the heavily breathing dogs and their beady eyes

4) lay it out flat and cut it open

5) pull out and dispose of all the stuffing you can get to, beware of stuffies with plastic beads if you puncture the bag those little plastic beads will scatter

6)  ignore the heavily breathing dogs

7) once the stuffing is cleaned out, thread your needle and suture that thing up

8) the dogs sensing the end is near will begin pacing and smiling at you, you will need to be strong to resist them, finish it up, knot it and lob that baby into action

 9) relax knowing that the urge to shred and gut is somewhat lessened, which means less cleany uppy time

brand new dog toy $14.00

thrifted repurposed stuffed animal .25¢ plus 20 minutes of being heavily breathed upon by a dog or two

teaching my kids to think outside the box store feels good

Peace and Love--