Why do dogs like some toys and hate other toys?

Does anyone else have a toy their sheepie just hates? We've been buying different types of toys to see what Blue likes best. He LOVES his stuffed babies, especially his lambs (he now has a herd of four), and he loves to play tug-of-war with his rope, but he hates this red "jack" squeaky toy. Everytime you pick it up he starts barking and lunging at it. He almost never barks, so it's really odd. Maybe he doesn't like the high-pitched squeak it makes, but you don't even have to squeak it for him to freak out. All you have to do is touch it. His lambs all make various noises, too, and he loves those -- although their noises aren't quite as high-pitched. He also never liked his kong, no matter what we put in it, but that was more indifference.

Josh
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KMart sells a furry hedgehog that grunts instead of squeeks and it is a big favorite. Good question!
Aurelie
Winston just hates the kong toy. I bought it a last year when he was a puppy and tried putting different things inside of it and he just does not like it. As a matter of fact he took it outside in the patio and it is just laying out there and he never goes to it or it interested in it.
That is a funny question.
My younger brother spent his junior year of college in France. When my parents went to visit him they bought a French rope toy for Maggie. She's always hated it. She's never been much for toys, but she just really never liked this. I thought maybe it smelled funny or she was just being patriotic 8) ...so when we got Barney my parents mailed us the rope toy and Barney likes it. Not his favorite, but he definitely plays with it...So that's an example of exact same toy being liked and hated by different dogs.

Barney has favorites and not favorites here. We got this round, hard, nubby ball thing that is supposed to be good for his teeth and that's the one he never plays with...
Annie doesn't like anything made of rubber. I'm sure the rubber smells bad to her. She loves stuffed toys, squeaker or no squeaker.
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