I wondered if anyone can recommend some pants for when pup is in season ?
She sleeps on our bed so I want to keep my duvet clean.

I use the Mikki ones with a pantiliner

Mikki do some and they sell the little changeable pads for inside too. Pets at Home and other pet shops/sites sell them

St Domingo

Not used for the same reason, but I bought some for a young bitch that ran off down the garden.  This was some years ago now, but I always remember the sight when I went to follow her.  She was letting one of my boys pull her drawers off!  Little slut!

She doesn't get it off me!

Jeansw that's so funny

Same here, I use the Mikki ones. LOL at Jean!!

> She sleeps on our bed so I want to keep my duvet clean.

I don't think I would like to put pants on a bitch in season for that length of time as I would worry about the infection risk.  If I was using them at all, I would be changing them at least every couple of hours so I can't see them being appropriate for overnight and would stick to using some sort of cover over the bed, changed daily, or get her used to sleeping downstairs :). 

My breeder has a picture on her facebook of her lastest pup in season and she is wearing a lycra long leg pant (hole for tail) as she's in show coat and probably breeder is protecting her coat it looked like a good idea.  I've no idea where she got them from though, but I could ask her :) They looked like little cycling shorts!

I have used them on 4 different bitches over the past 7yrs with no problems, the pantiliners[look out for special offers/discontinued lines] draw any fluid away from the vulva therefore reducing the risk of infection from the area being moist and a prime spot for bugs to grow, the girls can still access the area to clean if they wish via the inside back leg.

I have seen and tried panties which are big and bulky like a disposable nappy and the girls can't move, they fall off easier without any help from the boys and there is no access for cleaning.

I think I'd find it more of a faff taking them on and off so they could go out to toilet (also how would I know if they wanted to pee when they have free access to outdoors when the door is open), than mopping any blood or washing loose covers.

Mine would probably shred them, as they did when I treid puppy pee pads.

> the pantiliners[look out for special offers/discontinued lines] draw any fluid away from the vulva therefore reducing the risk of infection from the area being moist and a prime spot for bugs to grow

The fluid is being held hardly a million miles away and still in a lovely warm area :). 
I would still feel this is risky given that dogs are, generally speaking :), not as clean as humans to start with. 

I used the mikki ones with panti liners with my girl, I couldn't believe the price of the mikki inserts for them. only used it for short periods when we visited people with her so she didn't make a mess in there place. I didn't think she would keep them on but she did and they stayed up as I thought they would fall down as she is tailess.

The only problem we had was after her season as went off her food and then threw up a pantie liner she must have stolen off a table! next season there staying in a cupboard safely out of her reach.

T@mpax and ST's are hardly hygienic either - both could equally cause problems, but it's better than nothing.

Thanks to you for your replies, I will be trying the Mikki pants.

I would love to get pup sleeping downstairs but circumstances aren't right at the moment. Hubby has been unwell and it's not worth the upset it would cause. That's another post for another day !

If I were to get another pup it would be downstairs from day 1 with me sleeping next to it.

>She doesn't get it off me!

ROFL! :-D

> T@mpax and ST's are hardly hygienic either

Indeed. I would use the former with care and preferably not overnight.  ST's, as you say are better than nothing (:-D, the very thought!)  but, by and large, human bodies are generally cleaner and rather less furry (even in that area :-D) than dog's.

>I would love to get pup sleeping downstairs but circumstances aren't right at the moment.

I'm all for doing what suits you :) but is there no scope for getting her to sleep in a crate in your bedroom for instance.  You would only have her bedding to wash then.

No idea how you lot get your dogs to keep their pants on, whenever I've tried the Mikki pants they've been on about 5 seconds before the dog has pulled them off and is busy shredding them...!

Re: the crate.
When I first got her she settled in her crate with the door shut and eventually started sleeping through. Then she started waking and I thought she was hot, as it was now summer, so I opened the cage and used the door to keep her next to my bed so that she couldn't escape and wake the children. She would sleep in the crate or stretch out on the floor, but she wasn't big enough to get on the bed so it was fine.
Then pup became big enough to get on the bed and I had to put her back down on the floor many times a night for many weeks, she wouldn't stay down.
Then hubby became ill and got easily agitated so he said to let her sleep on the bed. It was good to get some proper sleep but I knew I was making a problem.
Now she won't go in her cage - she screams to get out. Also, eventhough the cage is the right size for her it doesn't allow her to stretch out nose to tail, which is how she sleeps. She has got used to sleeping on a folded duvet so now I can't put her back in the cage !
I could buy a bigger cage but finances won't allow it and to be truthful, I want her in the kitchen but because of hubby's illness it isn't worth the upset at the moment.
I will try the pants but she is likely to pull them off !!
I will probably use fleeces on top of the bed, then buy a new duvet !

> I will probably use fleeces on top of the bed, then buy a new duvet !

I think that may be the best solution for you :)
I don't think your experience is such an unusual one, in my experience dogs will generally push for a little more of what they want everytime you allow them an inch :)

Cover any soft furnishings with a cheap shower curtain ASDA's were under £1 the last time I stocked up on them, then a cheap piece of fleece or vet bed for the dog to actually lie on that can be easily washed or thrown away if too badly stained.