Puppy vs. Bumble.

Dear friends of ours gave our puppy Izzy a Bumble to destroy. He loved it. 

Technically the head of a Bumble.

The Bumble was part of a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer collection from dog-themed subscription service BarkBox. It's not the kind of thing we would sign up for ourselves, which made it a great gift as a one-off. 

Izzy really loved this toy. We had to get it away from him sometimes so he would eat and sleep. He got supervised play every evening. And eventually it was destroyed. "Eventually" meant three days. But our previous toy-destroyer, the late great Nipper, would have destroyed it in fifteen minutes, so this was an improvement. 

BarkBox costs $35 month, for which you get treats and toys, but we can get a lot more than what they provide for the money. I applaud the company for the quality of the toy, though, and the little touches. For example, this is printed on the inside of the inside of toy's fabric:

"Time to Throw Me Away" and "All Good Things Must Come to an End." Both true, alas.

Inside the Bumble head was a squeaky ball, which was cool, because it meant that inside the toy was another toy. Kind of like playing with the bones after you eat the squirrel, I guess. 

Behold the skull of the Bumble

We also had another BarkBox toy; this didn't have a ball inside, but did have a squeaker, and the squeaker had another message for the dog owner:

"Game Over / Your Dog Won / Discard This Squeaker"

It's the little touches that make it fun for the humans. 

Izzy doesn't go for just any toy, but he really loved these. We were really grateful for the gifts. They gave him something to destroy that was not rugs, furniture, or shoes. And it was nice to know that Yukon Cornelius was right: Bumbles bounce.