Best Plush & Squeaky Dog Toys

ZippyPaws cracked the code on plush toys: remove the stuffing so there's nothing to scatter across your living room. Each flat animal packs three squeakers, which is frankly excessive but dogs go absolutely feral for them. At $3.33 per toy, the value is absurd — buy two packs and rotate them out.

The Hide-A-Squirrel is one of those rare toys that makes dogs actually think before they shred. Stuff the squeaky squirrels into the log, hand it over, and watch your dog methodically extract each one like it's the most important task of their life. Replacement squirrels are cheap, which is good because you'll be re-stuffing this thing ten times a day.

Shari Lewis's Lamb Chop as a 10-inch squeaky plush, and one of the best-known dog toys there is. It is extra soft and sized for small and medium dogs, which suits gentle players and dogs that carry a toy around. It is not built for destroyers: a determined chewer will open the seams, so pick a no-stuffing toy for that dog.

A long, flat plush gator packed with 16 squeakers. Outward Hound builds the Squeaker Matz line with minimal stuffing, so a dog that opens a seam makes less mess than with a fully stuffed toy, and the 27-inch body is long enough for tug. The maker rates it for mild to medium chewers and says no toy is indestructible, so treat it as a supervised play toy rather than a chew.