Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Think twice before you purchase this for your dog! I own a 38 pound 16 month old herding dog who loves to fetch, play ball and run with the ball. Previous reviews touted this toy as durable, but my small/medium size dog had the squeaker out in less than 5 minutes and damn near swallowed it. When I took the ball away and inspected it I was very surprised to see cracking all the way through the ball and a gaping hole where the squeaker had been. The squeaker is actually glued into the hollow ball by means of a rubber plug, sort of the way soles are attached to running shoes. Just like on your sneakers if a corner lifts up from the shoe you can easily pull the rest of the rubber off which my dog did in a matter of minutes. Problem is with the squeaker out you have one hole that's just perfect to create a vacuum where your dogs tongue can get trapped inside the hole and can lead to tissue death/necrosis and possibly be fatal. Seriously after more research I find out Im not the first to have this happen and yet nothing has changed with this design. I'm surprised Amazon still carries this product. Others have reported this much earlier - wish I'd seen those reviews before. Come on people lets either fix the design or stop selling this product!