hi all.
Was wondering- what type of bed do you recomend for dogs? plastic, foam, wicker, vet bedding etc... heard plastic is good, but what do you put inside it? what would you recomend? many thanks...
ps- dont know if it matters but it is a medium sized dog... thankyou.!!

Hi,
My dalmatians each have an oval plastic bed (emphatically not with the ventilation holes in the base). Into these I put a sample carpet square, with a piece of vetbed on top. Easy to clean (the bed itself is wiped with dettol every so often, the carpet squares are vacuumed, and the vetbed goes in the washing machine.

Mind you, I don't know why I bother with one each - they're always sharing!
:)

You can buy little padded inserts too from petshops that you can also throw in the wash :)

Hi JG

Why not with vent holes???

Brinny

Hi Brinny,
Vent holes at the back seem to be okay, but the holes in the base are a bad idea if your dog likes to 'rearrange' its bedding. A friend's bitch always dug up her blankets before she settled down, and one day caught a toenail in one of the holes. She immediately panicked and ended up ripping her toenail off in her efforts to get free. :(

Thanks JG i have seen about vent holes before but never thought to ask why!! I must check mine as i am sure it has holes in it. I will check tonight and may re invest in a new beds for my lot for xmas

Brinny

We have a sofa, duvets, blankets and cushions as my lot are a fussy crew !!

The sofa is leather so easy to wipe down, and the duvets and blankets get shoved in the washing machine when they get rinky and stinky.

We used to have the plastic beds but they always dragged the bedding out of them so donated them to the Blue Cross where the dogs would appreciate them not like my lot ! :)

Lucy

OUrs have the plastic oval beds too (hadn't thought about the ventilation holes before, but as I replace I won't get them again - haven't had a problem so far - but..) Thor, Loki [$ Gypsy have vet bed in theirs] Vinnie & Beau still share a bed (ahhh - but know I have to get separate beds pretty soon) - and they too have vet bed.

Granny Purdey has pride of place in the sitting room, in front of the telly, against the radiator with her bed - but SHE has a kingsize duvet, folded up to sleep on (now that she is getting on we feel she needs the extra softness). All beds are also occupied by a cat or two at times - it's funny to see Thor squeezing up on one side of his bed because one of the cats is stretched out!! Cats have their own beds too, of course!

Margot

during the day my three sleep in the kitchen with a piece of vet bed on the floor in front of the washing machine, and a blanket in the corner, jack also tends to pull a towel of the rack and lays under the rack in the bathroom. of an evening when watching telly a blanket is but on the settee and the three lay on that, then bedtime jack and toby sleep in a crate upstairs with vet bed and tess sleep on my bed, my mums bed and a sleeping bag on the floor, she moves about quite a bit and she having problems getting comfy at the mo she 6 weeks pregnant and the size of a small whale so she trows herself all round the room so that she isnt the only one not getting any sleep :)