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    Home » Video » DIY TV

    How To Make A Homemade Dog Toy : GardenFork.TV video

    by Eric · This post may contain affiliate links, its one way we pay the bills. · 9 Comments

    Dog toys are expensive, here is a video & plan for a simple homemade dog rope toy. Our Labs love this toy, and after they destroy it, we can easily make another one. Moose and Charlie Pup are the tug of war toy dogs in our house, the others are tennis ball fixated. I came up with the idea of this homemade rope toy at the hardware store while looking at the different rope they have for sale. I bought a 100 feet hank of ⅜" nylon rope and started experimenting with different dog toy designs. The dog toy we show you how to make in this video is the most popular and its simple to make.

    Briefly, to make this rope toy:

    1. cut 3 or 4 lengths of rope about 4 feet long.

    2. bunch together one end of each rope in your hand, so the all the ropes hang down from your hand holding the rope ends.

    3. while holding all 4 ropes together, tie an overhand knot at one end of the ropes.

    4. continue tying overhand knots along the length of the ropes, making sure the space between knots is not large enough for the dogs to get their head stuck.

    5. play tug of war with your dogs.

    Do you make your dogs rope toys, or other homemade toys? let us know below, we'd like to see what GF viewers are doing.

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    Comments

    1. Margie

      June 30, 2011 at 3:28 pm

      Does it squeak? Because Kenji thinks it's so much more interesting if it squeaks.

    2. Fan

      June 30, 2011 at 8:50 pm

      Cute dogs 🙂

      And good toy as well!

    3. TRB

      July 01, 2011 at 12:04 pm

      I like the drill and propane torch handily stored in the kitchen!

    4. luke

      July 06, 2011 at 10:07 am

      i made one for my 6 year old boxer maggie and she loved it. i love this website because im only 12 and i can do lots of fun things from
      this website

    5. Kerry

      July 07, 2011 at 10:53 pm

      You should thread a couple of tennis balls to the ends of the pieces of rope, then the ball dogs would enjoy it too. Love your site. Love Moose:-)

    6. Bruce Berg

      July 09, 2011 at 6:28 pm

      Made one today! Easy to make. Hope the dog finds it entertaining. I know I did.

    Trackbacks

    1. Puppies as always, the Labradors Playing GF TV | | GardenFork.TVGardenFork.TV says:
      February 5, 2012 at 9:53 pm

      [...] loud barks when defending the yard against imaginary intruders. One of the favorite toys is their homemade dog toy we did in this video, the one homemade rope toy works well for them. Grab onto it and pull. what do your dogs do when [...]

    2. Moose and a Homemade Dog Toy - GardenFork.TV says:
      February 12, 2012 at 8:38 pm

      [...] Another home made dog toy I made out of tennis balls and rope, and the dogs love this toy, as you can see. Here is Moose playing with the dog toy. You can watch our homemade dog toy video here. [...]

    3. Labradors Moose and Charlie Pup with rope toy - GardenFork.TV says:
      March 2, 2012 at 4:43 pm

      [...] are Labradors Moose and Charlie Pup with a rope toy today in the snow. We have a how-to video on how to make dog toys here, and we are working on more dog toy projects also. Dog toys are not cheap, and the dogs tear apart [...]

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