These are questions that many new owners of a big dog breed ask.  How about the latex toys with those squeakers?  Sounds good for a young puppy.  How about the fleece toys.   Mine have had those and you can wash them which is just fine.   However, any toy needs to be examined periodically for safety.  If you notice a rip or think the squeaker is about to be eaten, remove the toy immediately.  However many of these toys you can expect your bullmastiff to outgrow.  At a certain time, the smaller and more vulnerable toys do get removed here at Bullmoose and those are put away for the next little one. 

I have never given my dogs real bones because I worry about splinters.  Bullmastiffs have powerful jaws!  I also do not give anything rawhide to my dogs.  Why?  The last thing I want to deal with is a bullmastiff choking on a piece of rawhide.  So what do I give the older dogs?  Yuppie Puppy Marrowchews! These plastic bones can be chewed on in reasonable safety.  You will eventually have to replace those too because a bullmastiff will gnaw them down to nothing.  

Do bullmastiffs chew up things during puppy hood.  You betcha!  I've got teeth marks on my kitchen table legs that say so.  You have to keep your eyes open.  The worst story I can tell you involved a man who went out to dinner and left his bullmastiff home alone.  The animal heard a noise in the wall.  When the fellow came home there was plaster all over including on the dog's head because the dog opened the wall and was checking out where the noise was coming from.  One of mine, in less than 10 minutes of not being unwatched, managed to take a sofa cushion off the sofa and chew a hole right smack in the center.  I was not happy to see that.  Use "Bitter Lemon" to spray on anything that your puppy has decided is his and you may be able to stop him temporarily. However you have to keep doing it because they don't seem to forget it.

Actually laying on a beanbag pillow or a foam pillow is a great idea.  Some dogs seem to need the extra cushion to help those elbows.  Now the bad news.  Some bullmastiffs will tear them to pieces the first chance they get when you aren't there to watch them. You will have foam and pellets all over the place.  I've had some young dogs that took one look and fell in love with their pillow on sight and treated the pillow well.  Then there were the other ones.  Sigh!  Everything that I gave them they tore up.  I even would spray the pillows lightly with "bitter lemon as a deterrent.  One day I'd forget and the pillow was a goner. The puppies particularly like to tear out the zippers. Going for a pillow without one may be your best bet if you have a puppy who can't leave the zipper alone. 

Start your puppy young at laying on a pillow.  Hopefully he will appreciate the honor of having something soft to lay on.  I have two now that the only thing that is safe that they won't tear up is a wool under carpet I get at the carpet store.  They have to cut that stuff with knives which means the jaws will get tired of chewing.  Why bother?  Well dogs this size at times could use the cushioning so laying on something padded helps. 

We use soft collars with buckles at first to get our puppies use to a collar.  Please don't yank the puppy around. Let him lead a bit and then keep clucking to move him your way. Keep watching your collars.  Your pup will outSome of our dogs have 30+ necks and finding collars gets more difficult.  I use a chain choke collar on my adults.  Checking collars and leashes can save you from a breakage when you need it most.