Puppy safe heat pad

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New puppy will be arriving in about a month. She will be crated at night, and my adult lurcher will be crated next to her. I will use a heat pad in one section of the crate so she has an option to lie on it, and will maybe wear a coat at night (short coated dog).

The last heat pad we had was metal, with a metal cable (OH has lent it to someone but cannot remember who 🙄) so I need another. Is this still the best to get? I see there are microwave versions now but surely puppy teeth will destroy them? Any views before I shell out £60+ on Amazon?
 
Probably no good at all for a puppy, but I did see a thermal dog blanket in B and M yesterday. Don't the microwavable ones explode or something scary?
 
We've had an electric and a microwaveable pad for our chap. We'd only use the electric one during the day while someone was home, just in case.

Overnight we use one of these:

Snuggle safe

You do have to be careful regarding wattage of your microwave and heating time (and making sure you take off the cover), but we've never had a problem with it. Read the instructions and follow them and it works well, a lot of the problems people report seem to be through misuse. It does get hot (watch your fingers) so we've popped it under a couple of layers of blankets on his bed, somewhere he can cuddle up to or not. It stays warm all night, and despite the fact it's as hard as a rock, our lad has always preferred it to the electric option.

As long as puppy can move as near or far as they want to be from it, it's probably not a bad option.

Just don't drop it on your foot, it's full of wax and very heavy!
 
We have a microwavable plastic disc which came from the vets with our last litter. It's like a solid flat Frisby. We've used that, under a piece of vet bed, very successfully.
 
We used the snuggle safe heat pad too- I made a cover for it out of vet bed and Erik absolutely loved snuggling up to it as a young puppy.

Quiet and dry through the night from day one, with the fluffy cover I think it helped to simulate his littermates. It holds heat well, often still warm to touch in the morning- probably partly because he’d lie on it all night!
 
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