We just adopted our pit from a rescue in Dec 2012 and bought him a couple of toys. One of them was a supposed tiger tough toy from Kong. That lasted him about a day and he had it ripped up and was in the process of shredding it so we took it away from him. The couple of other toys he had only lasted a few days and then I found this toy on a pit approved toys website. I stopped at one of my local pet stores and found one of the balls. Well our pit has now had this ball almost 3 months and plays with it almost daily and it has held up extremely well. It only has surface scratches and nothing else. Could not have asked for a better toy..