Does anyone have any ideas on this new quirk of Jake's please?
He has a plastic bed and has a round cushion/duvet thing in it. But he has taken to ripping at them with his teeth and in the last 4 days has destroyed three on these things on the trot
I can't afford to keep buying them and if I use fleece blankets (as I did originally) he just shreds these too and shakes them so that little bits go all over the place !!

At the moment he now has a plastic bed to sleep in with no bedding - should've thought of that before he started ripping up the last one!! Should I just get another cushion and ONLY give him it at night or is there anything more robust I can line his bed with.

Blimey, I feel like the mockodile is turning into Max more and more each day :D

Thanks
Beth

When I had this with "The Flower" I settled it by the simple expedant of not putting another bed in! She had just the plastic bed! With the summer coming we need to SEE them on a soft bed rather more than they NEED to be on a soft bed!

The object in all training is to not allow things to happen which you dont want. If something does happen then somehow you need to break the patten. No bed means no bed chewing! leave it during the summer when Jake would be far cooler without anyway and by next winter the patten will, with luck be broken.

Best wishes, John :)

This is a puppy thing he will hopefully outgrow. In the meantime we solved the problem by buying out all the charity shops of all their blankets:) She tore holes in them, but not easily and they only cost a quid a pop!

Wendy

I buy old towels from second hand shops that cost about a pound eacha nd use them it doesnt matter then and costs considerably less than purchasing proper ones. Also pop to fabric shops and buy their cheap off cuts.

Hi Beth, just thank your lucky stars that its only cushions! To date Teelin has eaten 2 double mattresses, 1 single mattress (because our dogs are so big, we use old human mattresses for beds), 2 easy chairs, 4 upright chairs, 1 table and sundry bits of panelling. She is the first chewer we've had, and I'm just grateful that's she's also my husband's all time favourite, because he'd have had an apoplexy if any of the others had done so much damage. As is is, he just smiles and says "Ach she's still only a baby" when we find another pile of sawdust - although she's 16 months old now :-)

Seriously though, you say he shreds fleece, but greenback VetBed has foiled even Teel the Terrible. Was it proper VetBed you were using?

And I thought it was bad when my first dog "J.S. Bark" a lab, ate my passenger car seat in less than 15 minutes of waiting for me. :D :D He only went after an air mattress, not the real thing. "Ach, she's only a babie" roflmbo :D :D
toodles

I forgot about the handbrake :D. Poor Ian doesn't know what's hit him with Teel. He's always been fond of the dogs, but it was adoration at first sight with her. When I had my 'one in a lifetime' dog, he knew that there was something special in the relationship, but didn't have a clue what it was, and certainly didn't think it would ever happen to him. Its actually very funny - usually when a dog does something naughty, I get the "look at what YOUR dog has done", but that won't wash with little madame :-).

Hi Beth

If you need to see him lying on something there carpet shops often sell their samples for between 25 and 50 p each - these line the beds quite well <g>

Christine

I'm looking for the toughest material known to man before Max gets a new duvet. I did see one in a pet magazine once but it was £60 and I ain't paying that for Max to prove it isnt the toughest material know to man LOL. He has an old piece of carpet at the moment which he has managed to chew a hole in the middle of :rolleyes:

Hudson doesn't really have his own bed as such ..he tends to sleep by the patio doors and I laid a piece of material there to protect the carpet from his puppy hair ....that tends to solve the *Its my bed and Ill do what I want with it* scenario. I wash it every week and pick it up every day to vacuum under it. Dont know if that helps?

:)

We've just bought Tally a vetbed as we are having the same problems with him chewing his bed. He's had a little nibble at the edge of that but not much more. One thing which has so far lasted him since we bought him is a bath mat, not a nibble anywhere at all.

Rachel

Thanks everyone

It just shows that with the introduction of a puppy, your brain gets scrambled as I had not even thought of any of those things. Only that he could have no bed at all !! :D

Sometimes obviously, it IS possible to think too hard about something !!

Beth
P.S Only the biting and the bottom to sort out now !!! (his bottom that is, not mine, although mine could always be smaller.....:)

NOt sure how good it is, but on one of the pet websites, (was it comfy-pet or waggers ...? Sorry, not sure...) there was a bed that looked like a duvet and was suposed to be pretty much indestructible. I was thinking of gettingit for our girl, who has pulled lots of stuffing out of her bed, but in fact think I will wait a while 'til the Winter.....

LIndsay

I found a website the other day - www.countrysupplies.com which also do an indestructible bed. I wonder if they actually tried them out on dogs which chew before labelling it indestructible??

Well yes, good point !!
For a small fee, I could test out all these companies claims by chucking one of their beds in with the mockodile for 10 minutes........ then we'd see :)

Beth

Max is now employed by British Standards and awards a chew rating to beds. Manufacturers of Indestructable beds please e-mail me for inclusion in the testing program :D

Orvis do a bed that is supposed to be indestructable.

http://www.orvis.co.uk

It's the Chew Proof Dog Bed, but it is v.expensive :(

Tinker has one of their snuggle balls which is still going three years later. She used to love it, but the TH took it over and she thinks it's GREAT :D

Cordura - thats the material - thats what the orvis beds are made of - just have to find who stocks Dupont material now :D

:d found a supplier and they sell to the public too - £10 a metre - cheaper than £90 for a made up cover :D http://www.diffusiontextiles.com/