Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I've bought this product for years, essentially from the beginning, and it has always been the best toy on the market for strong-jawed chew-loving dogs. Back in May of 2019 there was some kind of shortage on the market, such that Amazon and other common sources and authorized vendors of the products suddenly didn't have any and then the quality took a nosedive, the likes of which I have never seen, from any manufacturer of dog toys. At the point of mass sell-out, for the first time in all these years, I purchased my dogs' favorite toy from a seller, with excellent feedback, and then another seller, with excellent feedback, and so on and so forth. This repeated purchasing was necessary because all the Kong Extreme toys we have been purchasing since May of 2019 are getting chewed through within a couple of days, as opposed to our dogs' normal three to four weeks. The price doubled, overnight, quite literally, when Amazon official, the store we all know and trust with good reason, as they have more than earned it, ran out. That price has stayed high, ever since, with a much lower quality product being sold in place of the tough, durable Kong products we are all used to. I am contacting the manufacturing company about this but, to be clear, I don't recommend buying this product unless you find it in a store and can inspect it first. There is something wrong with the new batches of Kong Extreme. We've had over a dozen now and their new rubber is comparatively soft and falling apart, very easily, when chewed. It smells different. It looks exactly the same. It's buyer beware on this one until they start making them the way they used to, as these new Kongs are terrible.