Everybody Loves An Egg Baby!

 What is it with egg babies? Is it the fact that they are soft and ball like and can be tossed in the house for a safe game of fetch? Because they can be bit into and squeaked? Because they can be hidden inside one of the Egg Baby Toys (can be purchased through the New Rattitude Retail Shop) so they can be fished out in a simulated game of kill and gut? Is it that they can be tossed and roll around catawampus so they can be pounced on and then squished again and again? Or maybe because you can hide them all over the house and in blankets and teach the dogs to play "find the egg baby" games? Or maybe it is because a rattie's mouth fits nicely over them and they can cuddle them or suckle them? I think it is all these things that make egg babies something that the dogs all swoon over.

Egg babies are small soft eggs with squeakers. They can come stuffed in Egg Baby Toys or you can buy refill egg babies. The fish is one example of an egg baby toy. You can squish the eggs and fill his belly with them and the dog has to figure out a way to get them back out. A pretty fun game for a tenacious terrier!

 Moon was our first foster dog to find egg babies irresistible.




Then there was Sierra who one day decided she was an egg baby groupie when I first heard her squeak squeak squeak one in the other room and went to look for that noise and there she was with a blue egg baby in her mouth.





I decided to pull new egg babies out as the blue ones had been gutted, re-squeaked and re-sewn, then gutted again. So out came the new egg babies and Sybil and Timken were all over them!

 Tim has previously been nervous around squeaking toys. He especially didn't seem to like to squeak them himself but he will squeak egg babies!

Now that Tim seemed comfortable with the egg babies I stuffed some into Fish to see what he would do. This kept him busy for quite some time. He never did get one out but in time he will figure it out. It was just a good exercise for him to work at something and not be afraid.

Sometimes the most simple things end up being a house fave! Yay Egg Babies! I love them too!