New Again! Washing Purrfectplay's Organic Wool  Balls
Channel: Purrfectplay
Date: 25/04/2011

We have a customer who lives in our town who has 2 big dogs. One of his dogs Frieda loves to chew on her wool ball.  I thought after taking a look at this ball that I think we can repair it. Although he's very happy with this ball. He said it's lasted way longer than any other ball that Frieda has had.  I think we can return it to its ball shape. You can see that she's had some difficulty getting into the layers of the wool and we are going to wash in our next batch of wool balls. And you can, actually, anyone actually can rewash and re-felt their wool ball at home just by simply putting it in the washing machine and if it doesn't re-felt adequately to your mind after going through the first wash, just keep throwing it back into the wash.  So here's also the second ball. You can see that there's a little bit of chew through here although it's still very firm. It can still bounce and it's still a great toy. But I think we're going to give it a try.
So what you do is take yourself a sock or if you still have the bag that's leftover from when you bought and you op it in here, throw it in the wash and we'll see you on the other side.  And here the wool balls are, ready for the wash. There's just two. Just a sock with a twist tie in between and a big knot on the end and it can go in any wash we're doing. In this case we're doing another load of wool balls today. So we're going to toss it in and we'll see how they turn out.
So here we have the wool balls after they've gone through the wash a couple of time and you can see that the edges are smooth. It's still a bit lopsided. Still bouncy. Oh and where did it go?  There it is and much better shape. Here's the second ball, the second ball came out very nicely. You don't see any rough edges anymore and it's good to go.  Now if these balls had actually.  If I had a heavy chewer, we always recommend is that if you have a heavy chewer, we always recommend is that if you have a heavy chewer find the ball once a week and throw it in the wash. That will prevent some of the damage that these balls and I guess I'm not sure exactly why people don't do that. I think it sounds to them like it's a hassle. But it's very easy, you just get the little bag that it comes with, you put it in the bag, with the twist tie, and throw it in the wash just like you would a washcloth or a towel  that's going in the load. And when it comes out you roll it between your hands. It takes seconds if that. So if you happen to have one of these wool balls make sure that you wash it each time. Each time that you do the laundry, each week if you have a heavy chewer. So there you go.