The Puzzle Cube from Outward Hound is a fun and exciting 2-in-1 dog puzzle toy for your curious canine! Made from an outer rubber TPE cage and two removable squeaky tennis balls, this toy is designed to stimulate your pup’s hunting skills while also providing them with a fun squeaky challenge. The two squeaky tennis balls, once released, can be used in games of toss, catch, and fetch for hours of fun! The outer cage can be easily cleaned separately with soap and warm water. SAFETY & CARE: When choosing a toy, make sure to choose an appropriate size toy for your dog. No toy is indestructible. ALWAYS supervise your dog when using a toy of any kind. Inspect toys regularly for damage and remove and replace if broken, or if parts become separated, as serious injury may result. Intended for dogs only. Keep out of reach of children.
Product Dimensions : 4.25 x 4.25 x 4.25 inches; 8 ounces
Item model number : 67815
Date First Available : November 23, 2017
Manufacturer : Outward Hound
ASIN : B077Q3SVHH
Country of Origin : China
Mentally stimulating dog puzzle toy: Keep boredom at bay with this fun and squeaky puzzle toy; designed with 2 removable squeaker balls and multi-sized openings, this puzzle is sure to keep you pup mentally engaged for hours of play
2-in-1 fun: this outward hound dog toy can be used in two fun ways— to challenge your pup’s problem-solving skills to release the inner tennis balls or to play toss and fetch with the squeaky balls
Indoor and outdoor fun: our toys are durable and brightly colored for fun that has no bounds whether indoors or out
Easy to clean: simply remove the tennis balls and rinse the outer rubber cage with warm water and mild soap
Play it safe: no toy is indestructible; do not leave toys with unsupervised pets; remove and replace toy if damaged
C –
Very entertaining! Do recommend
I was very pleasantly surprised! The rubber is fairly tough for my chewer, and he has had minimal urge to even actively chew it – the balls inside make him want to get them out instead of chew it. This has given me hours of entertainment and watching him try to figure out how to get the balls out! It arrived just in time before we got snowed in tooIt took my pretty smart pup several hours before he figured out the balls actually come out of the cube, and then another day or 2 before he could consistently get them out in under 5 min.He’s a 50lb mid-size dog with a narrow face, and this toy is the perfect size. He grabs it and runs around the house to show you, it’s definitely his favorite so far! He can squeak the balls inside the cube while trying to get them out, see them, I highly recommend. He’ll even run around with just the cube after he pulls he balls out, definitely trying to start some tug of war but I doubt this rubber would stand up to very much of that – a little here and there has been fine though.Only complaint for me was that the tennis balls were not particularly durable, and the smaller one may pose a choking hazard when it gets out & chewed on. Once he was quickly pulling the balls out, the large squeaking one tore in half pretty quickly so I replaced it with a normal tennis ball (not nearly as exciting to him though so it’s mostly ignored and just in the way), and I’ve been trying to save the little squeaky one as much as I can.Grabbing the fluff on them is how he pulled the balls out (the little one can fly out the single hole side though if they shake it hard enough), and slowly the one side with parallel lines he kept pulling them out of started stretching – so I put a ribbon to tie it a little tighter and that did the trick. Now the other parallel side he’s been pulling out has also slightly stretched out, so I’ll likely be tying that together soon as well.
Reva –
Favorite Christmas toy
At Christmas I always pile several new toys in the middle of the living room floor and allow my dogs and our guest dogs choose what they want to play with. This boy ( border collie x Dalmatian ) is a frisbee fanatic so we were surprised when he chose this one even with a new frisbee in the mix! It took him about 20 minutes to figure out that you can take the squeaky balls out. His little partner, a mini dachshund, also became very involved, as well as a usually stoic Shiba Inu. My own Dalmatian, Lily, also wanted to play with it. I had to let the boy in the pic take it home and order another one for my dog.A fun and interesting toy for smart dogs, soft and stretchy
Alex –
Read The Fine Print – Not Chew Toy
Great toy in theory…poor in real use. It lasted less than an hour as our medium sized (30 lb) beagle mix chewed on it trying to get the tennis balls out (supervised while we were on the sofa watching TV).Surprised that the cage broke so easily, I looked at the removed store hanger card after the fact which states “Not meant for dogs to chew”. So how are dogs supposed to get the balls out without opposable thumbs?Buried deep in the Amazon description (but not the Amazon title it states “These toys are intended for supervised play and are not chew toys”. So we paid $12 for a standard and mini tennis ball (the only parts that survived). Not worth the $$.
TRW –
Great Interactive Toy
One of my dogs favorite toys! She’s a chewer and chewed through the first one we got her but she enjoyed the challenge of getting the balls out of the cube we got another one. She’s figured out she doesn’t need to chew on the cube but between her paws pushing down and pulling the balls with her teeth. The balls don’t last long because she pulls them through the cube so the fuzz gets pulled off and as a reward she is allowed to chew on the balls a bit. We keep extra balls on hand so as one set gets tossed into the trash we have replacement ready.
Dean –
Fun Puzzle, but not durable enough to leave pet alone
Both my dog and I LOVED this toy for the first week or so. She’s a very smart hunting dog who needs tons of mental stimulation, so I have a dozen or more puzzle toys that we rotate through. I’m always looking for puzzles with larger capacities to hold an entire meal that are durable enough to let her have alone when I leave her to go to work.This toy IS large enough to hold almost a full meal of kibble, and was mediumly challenging for the first week or so. I thought that the material was durable enough to leave her alone with it, buuuuutttt….The way the toy works is it has little interlocking pieces so the dog has to work to twist one of the outer containers until it can be unlocked. When I left my dog alone, after she unlocked the containers, she chewed off the bits of the middle compartment that stick out to create the locking mechanism. While the containers themselves are made of a mediumly durable plastic material, these little nubs that stick out were super easy to chew off and destroy. With those gone, the toy doesn’t lock effectively and she can open it in just a few seconds now, making the toy pretty worthless.If you plan to monitor your dog while they play with this one, and take the middle compartment away once they’ve gotten all the food out, then this might be a decent toy for the money. But if you want to leave your pup alone, or if one of the ways your dog tries to solve puzzles is through chewing, I’d skip this one and get something else.
Tammy –
Fun Dog Toy
Bought this toy for my 1 yr.old border collie pups.For weeks they loved it i found it durable and i had to remove the very small tennis ball inside and replaced it with a bigger one so they wouldn’t swallow it.They enjoyed it for another 2 weeks.Now into a month of play which is a good amount of time they broke through 2 of the silicon bars and i saw they were broken so i just cut them off so they cant swallow them and they can still play with the toy.So just replace the ball if you have a medium dog or large dog.And when you see one of the bars loose just cut it, Not meant for aggressive chewers.
Claudia Silva –
Muito legal, meu cachorro amou! O unico ponto negativo eh que a buzina de 4 dos lados quebrou com menos de um mes de uso.
Milene Pereira –
meu cachorro “golden” passa horas brincando….valeu muito
Jacqueline Klein –
Überraschend liebt mein Hund das Spielzeug.Kleine Ball kann rausgenommen werden.Leise und kein Krach Spielzeug.Schöne Beschäftigung
maria –
Our pup loves her puzzle cube! This is the second one we’ve got for her as she was a bit over enthusiastic with the first one and chewed really right through it. The original balls don’t seem to last long with a chewer, so replacing them can get pricey, but she loves this toy and goes back to it again and again. Now that she’s a bit older, it has held up well. Would definitely buy again if needed.
Mrs E Williams –
This is durable and safe for my dog, it appearance and colours are great. It squeaks only once the dogs chews hard on the toy. I would definitely recommend this to my family and friends.