Interactive dog toys for extreme power chewer who's brilliant?

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Have a black lab who is an only dog :( Can't change that any time soon. He is a power chewer. Some nylabone and EXTREME Kong toys survive--nothing else does. Interested in some interactive dog toys for him and understand need to supervise, but phones ring, run to bathroom, etc. so let's just get something a bit hardy from the get go.
Looking for folks with EXPERIENCE with highly intelligent dogs who are power chewers who find interactives that work with the dog. I can google, etc. so no interest in that kind of response.
If you have links or such, great. Also these should be INDOOR toys as I can't handle lots of temp extremes, so he'll be playing indoors with this and go out for other things like a bit of fetch, etc.
Thanks.

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I have the same problem.
I can tell you what NOT to get  : )   premier has purple plastic bottles with ropes coming out of the top.  They are supposed to allow treats to come out if the dog learns to unblock the top of the bottle.  Nope.  My dog just bit the top off and we never found it.

Another one that didn't work was a huge gel disc that you put a rawhide type disc inside the thing, sort of like an old hubcap.  It took me forever to get the discs snapped into the big ring, and when we got home from a short trip away, both sides were completely empty.  Probably $8 in just the edible part gone!

I worry about some of the material used in the kong interactive toys -- was looking at them yesterday.  The only kong material that's safe is the black.  I know you probably know that for the kong shapes, but their interactive things are not as strong.

We tried the busybone from premier pet products, and you screw on rawhide rings.  That is something our dog loves, but I wouldn't say it lasts very long.  

It is a good thing if your smart dog actually cares about figuring out the puzzles.  Our dog loses interest quickly.  I figure if a 5 year old child's attention span is only 5 minutes, then any dog would probably be about the same, unless he was starving.  

For us, the black stuffed frozen kongs is the best for now.  Of course, we had to cut his food back to only 2 cups a day!

One thing that all our labs would chew for quite awhile was the nylabone dinasaur-shaped toys.  Very prickly, so don't step on one in the dark.  : )

HOpe you find something.  I have not been happy with any of them.
vet tech

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Hooves and bully sticks! I have a Husky combine who can also be a "energy chewer." there's no motive to spend $10-20 on chunk toys. Hooves are ninety nine cents each & bully sticks differ in price, but they are no more than $3.00 each and every. Established on my expertise, these are by using far the excellent & least expensive chew toys for dogs who destroy most toys.

Rosie · Answer

Black Kings are great. You can mix peanut butter and some nibbled to stuff inside, and freezing them makes for long lasting treats. 
I've also had good luck with Galileo bones, and bully sticks.

STONITONI · Answer

Kong black ,virtually indestructible toys.

leda · Answer

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Interactive dog toys for extreme power chewer who's brilliant?

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