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Our pup is now 7 months old. She is crated when we are not there. She currently only has a bit of vet bed in her crate as she still chews! It looks so uncomfortable. I would love to get her a cosy mat or something but worried about her chewing it. I suppose I could buy more vet bed and layer it? Any other ideas please?
 
Clodagh said:
Second tuffies. My destructodogs haven’t made a dent.
How is your pup getting on?
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Thank for for bed suggestion.

She is coming on beautifully. There are times we could strangle her as she is very in your face, confident, just a menance, but on the other hand is very affectionate. Training wise everything is falling onto place. She is the superstar at dog training Weekley, though that took a while too!! OH can stop her on the whistle out walking, she heals on and off lead, recall is 85% at the moment. She always comes back, just not straight away sometimes! Hoping it's all heading in the right direction! Thank you for asking.
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I’ve got a land pirhana (Weimaraner) and nothing stands in the way of his teeth but only when we are in the house with him. When he s left he sleeps and waits nicely but when we are in…he chomps blankets, vet beds, fleeces..boys attention seeking behaviour ….
 
Flowerofthefen said:
Thank for for bed suggestion.

She is coming on beautifully. There are times we could strangle her as she is very in your face, confident, just a menance, but on the other hand is very affectionate. Training wise everything is falling onto place. She is the superstar at dog training Weekley, though that took a while too!! OH can stop her on the whistle out walking, she heals on and off lead, recall is 85% at the moment. She always comes back, just not straight away sometimes! Hoping it's all heading in the right direction! Thank you for asking.
How's your pup?
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She’s great thank you. Insane but great.
Only downside is she’s a spaniel in a Labrador body. I’m getting a fat slow one next time 😃
 
Our daughter's Irish terrier has a UK made but Danish designed dog bed. One at home and one with us.
https://www.danishdesign.co.uk/

I bought one of their rugs to go over our white sofa, but that didnt really work and we used a plain flanellette bed sheet instead.
Being a terrier, she dug under the sofa cushions removing the sheet and she digs into her bed too. She didnt chew it but we had provided chew toys and imitation bones.
We provided her with a Good Boy Pawsley Chewy braid from Sainsburys and she would remove it from the bed and take it under the dining table to chew it.

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Some dogs will chew anything deep/filled unfortunately, I balance being comfortable with them choking on something. I've seen dogs of mine drag beds out of a kennel then go back inside and lie on the bare floor 🙄
Current dog has a raised metal bed with cow matting outside and gets fleeces/towels/vetbed inside/in the car crate. Her father would lie on a rug for a while and then transfer to the hard floor, I guess he was just a hot dog. Neither have sores or callouses or anything like that.
 
CorvusCorax said:
Some dogs will chew anything deep/filled unfortunately, I balance being comfortable with them choking on something. I've seen dogs of mine drag beds out of a kennel then go back inside and lie on the bare floor 🙄
Current dog has a raised metal bed with cow matting outside and gets fleeces/towels/vetbed inside/in the car crate. Her father would lie on a rug for a while and then transfer to the hard floor, I guess he was just a hot dog. Neither have sores or callouses or anything like that.
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This is my dilemma, it looks so uncomfortable in her crate!
 
I bought my old collie many beds. At night I'd tell him to go to bed, and he'd reluctantly go and lie down on his bed. As soon as my back was turned, he'd slip back out of bed and onto the hard floor. He was just a good, puritanical boy who believed in horse hair shirts and a bit of righteous suffering.
 
HiK9 worked for our Dane, vet bed topper was enough when he was little, then we found a Danish Designs mattress which sat just inside the bars and he loved it as he could drape himself off it artfully (😄 if you've seen what spanners Danes are when sleeping) and comfortably.
 
CorvusCorax said:
Some dogs will chew anything deep/filled unfortunately, I balance being comfortable with them choking on something. I've seen dogs of mine drag beds out of a kennel then go back inside and lie on the bare floor 🙄
Current dog has a raised metal bed with cow matting outside and gets fleeces/towels/vetbed inside/in the car crate. Her father would lie on a rug for a while and then transfer to the hard floor, I guess he was just a hot dog. Neither have sores or callouses or anything like that.
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Indeed. I have to admit that I am fairly relieved that the young one has now grown out of the impulse to gather all soft furnishings together in a modern art installation before returning to lie on tiles or or plastic crate base. I would frequently find poor ginger terrier perched in a bed atop a pile of other beds and blankets, some partially destuffed (there are many beds in the house to gather due to multiple terriers who have far greater appreciation of comfort).
 
Flowerofthefen said:
This is my dilemma, it looks so uncomfortable in her crate!
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For the crate I bought cheap fleeces from Poundland or similar and stretched them taught and tied them at each corner and any excess at the sides, sometimes doubling up. She grew out of it eventually, but I wouldn't trust her with anything stuffed or filled. She was fine with one of those doughnut beds for months and looked so comfy and then one day she caught me taking her da out without her and she pulled it to pieces in a rage 🙄
 
When we had a major chewer, and he never stopped all his life! we used to get old fashioned wool blankets. I was given a few recently and they wash suprisingly well, I've probably shrunk them but tbh for dog beds I'm not too worried! They seem to dry fairly fast and were the one thing the chewer or any of the others as puppies never really bothered with.
I now use them over padded beds as the dogs we have now are all fine but used to have them in plastic hard beds for the other one.
 
gallopingby said:
Tuffies dog beds are fairly robust and have survived several puppies, not cheap but they stand up to a lot of use. HiK9 are also good, they are metal framed with various covers that fit on top. Some of the lighter weight covers are chewable but the basic sheepskin type seem to be fine.
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I agree, although 2 of mine managed to chew off a corner/make a hole in the middle. At one point, my first two had a piece of wood with carpet nailed on it. 🤣

We had a Kuranda which was pretty much chew proof, the polyresin one. Just seen the spare corners that my OH found in the loft. https://www.kurandadogbeds.co.uk/
 
I agree Tuffy dog toys definitely aren’t very tough. I bought one yesterday - it was in bits when l came back after about 5 minutes. Tuffies dog beds are a different brand and so far they have survived, easy to hose down if you buy the waterproof covers and then just wipe dry.
 
Coy mattresses, you can get free or very cheap. They are waterproof so if your floor is damp, like ours, they don’t absorb it. Hik9 or cheap alternatives are better but old dogs do like a mattress.
 
I got a baby memory foam mattress free from Facebook, stripped off the covers and wrapped it in an old long curtain I had. Then I picked up a bag of fleece blankets for about £20 from Facebook and those are the softie beds. They get chewed and my terrier likes to drag them around to create nests around the house, but I don't think they "eat" them or risk choking. I chucked out the baby mattress after about a year as puppy did wee on it lol. I then bought a second hand mattress topper memory foam off Facebook and cut it to size for all crates and the car crates as well and that's been great. All toilet trained now and crates are always open but they like to sleep in there. Every dog bed I have ever purchased ended up chewed up and defluffed lol.
 
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