Yes, I bought the dogs Christmas presents. I purchased two IQ Treat Balls by Smarter Toys (5-inch). I figured it'd be fine if I got the same toy for the both of them, because Lilah would be jealous of whatever Ritter had, and Ritter would steal whatever toy Lilah had.
My brother got a nice Nylabone for Ritter, which he loves, and a rope ball toy for Lilah, which she immediately started to tug on.
And my mom gave them a couple round and ridgy chew toys and two ridiculously funny looking fabric toys with lots of appendages that are great for whipping around or playing tug of war.
Most of their toys were pretty straightforward, except for the treat balls. It's weighted on the bottom and has a divider in the middle of it with an adjustable hole opening that allows the treats placed in the bottom half of the toy to pass to the top half of the toy. It's the dogs job to bat the ball around until it can knock the treats out of the ball's opening in the top half of the dome.
Lilah immediately figured out how to get the treats out and began smacking the ball all over the room. She even advanced to the level where she was putting heavy backspin on it so it would rotate the ball, but essentially keep it in place.
Ritter was not so ingenious. His approach, as with most toys, is to chew on it until it breaks. I thought the ball was big enough to not fit in his jaw. But apparently it has these ridges that allow him to grip it. He started to gnaw on those ridges after he would try, unsuccessful, to lick the treats out of the ball.
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