Chuckit! Ultra Ball
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2016', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "If you can't find any toys that your dog won't destroy. This is the ball for you! I've working in this industry for over a decade and was in charge of merchandising a new local shop in my town. These were a must have and were always flying off the shelves. I recently left this managing position and I needed more Ultra Balls (I like to have 2 in the house and 2 for playing outside) and I found this particular price to be about what I was ordering wholesale! What a steal!\n\nI occasionally have to replace these not because they get destroyed, but because my dogs somehow lose them in our fairly forested backyard (or an overzealous husband chucks them over the fence.) If you've got a destructive dog like my pitbull, then I'm sure you know it's not IF your dog will destroy a toy, it's how long it takes them that influences your purchasing decisions. So how long have these lasted in my house? I don't know, I'll let you know when she actually destroys it!\n\nFor those who are curious if this will fit in your chuckit launcher, the medium ball size fits perfectly in the classic. These can be used for a game of fetch, but I have found the dogs seem to like simply chewing on them indoors like a piece of bubblegum or like a mouth stress ball. Works for my heavy chewer, but soft enough for my senior shiba. One of my cats is also super into playing soccer with them too. It's a riot to watch.\n\nIf you're looking for an awesome new toy for your dog, get this ball; and if you don't have the ChuckIt! yet, I totally recommend those too."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2016', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-4 review-rating', 'review_body': "My dogs love these balls, definitely a main staple and repurchase in our house. They last a lot of chewing and are some of the only balls that my dogs have not destroyed quickly. They have good bounce and are easy to find because of the nice color.\n\nThough I'd call them 5 star , I had to take away one star due to a part of the design that has the potential to make them dangerous. They are sealed with one 'plug' that after about 3 months of munching came out. It has happened to every one of these balls we have owned. 3 months is a pretty good life span, but toys with single holes have the danger of the suction effect (some dogs can get their tongues stuck in the hole due to suction) , and so I constantly have to check these to make sure the dogs haven't knocked the plug out accidentally. I wish chuck it had a very small hole on the other side, you could drill one yourself !, to prevent a suction problem. Just make sure you check them after heavy use :)"}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "My gal is 80 pounds of german shep/black lab. She's 2 and still acts like a puppy. If we don't play hardcore chuck-it throws 2-3 times a day, she is too much to handle. Literally she will play and run as far as we can throw these for 45 minutes straight. These balls are amazing. They bounce well and they hold up to her chewing them 24/7 like gum. Even sleeps with them. She has yet to chew them up. Mainly we loose them over a fence or in bushes, so every few months I buy 8 or so. They are half the price on Amazon compared to local stores. My girl will go out of her way to only chew the solid orange ones. They must taste better. Then the orange and blue, then the solid blue and glow in the dark are last. I don't see what the difference is, but she knows."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': "I'm sorry to say that a once untouchable product has changed for the worst. While the customer service department seems to still be in active and responsive as they were prompt in sending me a replacement set for the initial returned set.\n\nI took the replacement, in the off chance that it was only fluke that both balls in the 2 piece set were broken in less than 3-4 hours of ball play and chewing --- but just as I thought and as other reviews have mentioned- these balls are completely different from their old assembly line shipped out not more than 6 months ago.\n\nTo give an idea of the disparaging change in the quality of this product, I still have all but maybe 3 individuals of the balls sets that I have purchased (2 times a year for the past 4 years). The 3 now absent, have merely been adopted into my friends ansfamikies dogs' homes, but they too are still in tact. years and years of adequate quality, durable enough for the regular demand of four large and active dog.\nThese new sets of balls, on the other hand, seem to all pop the same routine circular holes in the bottom of the ball, time after time, after only a couple hours of obsessed chewing out of my 55 lb Shepherd mix. He is the smallest and also the least aggressive chewer in my dog family.\n\nSad to say the one toy I was counting on buying in perpetuity, has changed for the worse.\nI will not be tryinG these again unless some signal has been clear from either multiple customers with revised reviews, and/or a real explanation of the disparity, from the seller/manufacturer"}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2015', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Well, this is the ONLY toy that our dog LOVES. The ChuckIt Ultra is her obsession. She has them strategically hidden around the house for quick/easy access, she follows us around with one, she sometimes even brings one to bed with her. Squeaky toys are ... well ... FINE in a pinch, but really, nothing in her world compares with this ball. She is a 50lb Springer Spaniel and has only managed to "crack" one of these balls in 2+ years, and she chews on them almost like a pacifier (she\'ll just sit there and chomp chomp chomp on it). She prefers the medium size, but we have a large size Ultra and she enjoys that too.\n\nThey are easy to throw (with or without the ChuckIt stick), they bounce great, they FLOAT, they are super easy to wash off (that alone is worth the 5 stars for anyone out there who has tried to wash off a tennis ball) and they are really durable.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2017', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "My dog loves these, and as a bonus she can't eat them! She pretty much destroys tennis balls and any other soft ball within seconds.\n\nShe often throws it in the lake where they always float and likes to carry it around and squeeze it when we aren't throwing it for her. This is the cheapest place I have found to purchase this type of ball and by far the best product.\n\nWe get the 3inch size for our German Shepherd, Koda, who is about 45lbs and 5 months old in the attached photos. My parents dog is a fully grown German Shepherd and she uses the 3inch size as well and loves them.\n\nUPDATE (03/07/18): We still love these! We still get the 3inch size but have purchased the size up which as worked wonderfully as well though she can't squish/chew on them as much as she likes since they are so big. We lost one ball in the lake which we found floating a few months later! It was a little sun discolored but other than that it still held up fine! We have multiple balls and she hasn't been able to destroy one yet. She is now a little over a year old and approx. 75lbs."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2016', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I didn’t know how much my Maltese girls would like a ball without a squeaker but these Chuckit Ultra Balls became an instant favorite with them.\n\nI got the 2.5 inch two pack and they both immediately began games of fetch with me. The design and size of the balls make it easy for them to pick up and carry back. The bounce is something that entices them to try to jump and capture it in the air. It’s a worthwhile addition to their toy box.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2016', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'This is hands down the best dog toy I have ever purchased. It is well worth the price, hell, I would pay double! I have two Labrador Retrievers both under 2 years of age. I\'ve tried so many different toys for them and they always go right through them - they don\'t last worth anything. These guys could chew through a jumbo jet. I even tried a toy made from a TIRE that the woman at the pet store guaranteed they couldn\'t chew up -- 15 minutes and I had to take it away because there were chunks of tire all over my living room. This ball... This chuck it ball... I bought one for each of them for Christmas on a lightning deal because I thought "Heck, it\'s a good deal I\'ll try it" and I am proud to say they are still standing. They look like the day we took them out of the package. These two dogs play with these balls EVERY. SINGLE. DAY -- for hours and hours. My male likes to just sit and chew it in his mouth like a wad of gum. You can hear it squish in his teeth, I still can\'t believe it\'s retaining it\'s shape. The only disappointment I had with these was they don\'t fit in the chuck it that I have, but that was only because I didn\'t know what size to get. Large is a perfect size for my labs though. I\'d like to say I\'d buy these over and over again, but at the rate these are lasting us I don\'t think I will need to.\n\nEDIT 4/14/16: I\'m sad to report that one of the original Chuckit! balls finally met it\'s fate, and the other... well, we don\'t know where it bounced off to... But, I\'m happy to report these balls had an AMAZING run with my dogs, even surviving being dropped out the car window at 55mph by one slobbery lab. Don\'t worry, mommy turned around and drove back and forth until she finally found it and returned it to the slobbery mouth... Dad bought new balls at the store one day, but he got the medium size this time so they would fit in our Chuckit! thrower... I don\'t think they liked the medium size as much as the large, and the medium lasted no where near as long as the large before there was a hole in it. And the second one was dropped out the car window again and this time mom didn\'t see it... So, once again -- one destroyed, one lost. But again, I will purchase these over and over because my dogs absolutely love them. I will probably continue with the large size from now on, as it\'s best for my dogs.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2016', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'My fetch-obsessed canine loves these. XL is the perfect size for my 90-lb German Shepherd (smaller sizes seemed like potential choking hazards). They\'re resilient, but not impervious. My guy likes to chew them like bubble gum and he does eventually puncture them. Given the constant use they get, I think they last an acceptable time and a smaller or less ambitious chewer might never bust one. I should add that when they do start to crack, I\'ve never had one break into small pieces so, again, no choking hazard. My parents have a toy-eating German Shorthair Pointer and he\'s never managed to gnaw off or ingest pieces of this ball (but he did figure out how to get two in his mouth...quite a feat and proof of his love for them).\n\nThe launcher seals the deal. My hands are clean. My boy gets a better workout. Launcher is also great for kids if you have a dog that sometimes reconsiders his "drop it" and will pounce to reclaim his ball. The launcher ensures that little hands are never at risk.\n\nIf you have a heavy chewy, try to get your hands on the elusive light blue version with a hole on each side. They look like to glow in the dark version. While the glow in the dark ones will crack around the holes, the light blue ones seem impervious. I\'ve been lucky enough to run across them in TJ Maxx/Marshall\'s and would love to see them sold on Amazon! All 3 versions fit the same launcher, which is a huge plus.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "If your dog is tough on balls, THIS IS THE ONE you've been looking for! One of my Dachshunds is obsessed with playing fetch. Even at nearly 12 years old, she still plays for 1-2 hours per day, and she was going through balls like crazy. I had tried all kinds of balls, and even with supervised play, she was destroying one or two balls EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. I was skeptical at first that these would be any different from the other balls I have tried throughout her life. I've tried so many, and they were either destroyed within a day, or she didn't like them. But she LOVES these Chuckit! balls, and she hasn't managed to put a single mark on one yet!\n\nI just can't believe how perfect these balls are. They bounce, they're easily washed off if they get covered in slime/dirt/sand/whatever, and they're not porous, so they don't absorb anything gross. They're nice and firm, but not hard, and they have some give, so I don't have to worry about her teeth. Most importantly, they're SO tough! I have been using the same ball for two months, and it still looks exactly like it did when I took it out of the package, even though it's been played with for well over 100 hours since then. Two months might not seem like a long time, but I used to consider myself lucky if a ball lasted just ONE DAY, so two months seems like forever to me. I also love that they come in all different sizes. Finding a truly sturdy ball for a small dog is not easy! They tend to be really flimsy. The makers of those flimsy balls haven't met my dog and her jaws of steel. But these Chuckit! balls fit perfectly in her mouth, and are every bit as tough and sturdy as the balls for bigger dogs.\n\nI just wish I had found these years ago. They would have saved me a lot of money and frustration! I know, I sound like a crazy person, getting so excited about dog balls, but I have been looking for the perfect ball for more than 10 years, and I've FINALLY FOUND IT!"}]