The KONG Wubba Ballistic Friends is an interactive tug, toss, and fetch toy shaped as a character with long floppy tails. It's built for small dogs who want a toy they can shake, squeak, and drag around, and it works equally well for solo play or two-handed games with an owner. Comes in assorted colours and characters.

The outer is reinforced ballistic nylon — heavier duty than standard plush — with an internal squeaker and a ball-shaped body that gives the toy an unpredictable bounce. The long tails are the point: they're easy for a dog to grab, easy for a human to swing, and satisfy the shake-and-kill instinct that plain balls don't scratch. KONG's Wubba format has been in production for years, which is a decent proxy for how well it holds up to repeat play.

Owners reach for the Wubba when a tennis ball has stopped being interesting and a plush toy lasts about four minutes. The tug tails make it a two-player toy without needing a rope, and the nylon shell shrugs off the kind of chewing that destroys fabric toys. Not indestructible — no toy is — but a step up from squeaky plush.