pup chewing all her bedding

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My 8m lab is still at the really chewy stage, she can demolish a hide chew in a matter of minutes. She has rubber toys and has eaten all of her soft toys. She is particularly fond of DD's soft toys, we have a few with no face left - I obviously try and keep them separate but sometimes fail. All of this I can cope with but she won't stop chewing her bedding. She sleeps in a crate when I go out and at night (I'm SAHM so only out for a couple of hours at a time not 9-5 or anything). It is not every single time she goes in the cage and she willingly goes in the cage. It is probably boredom, more than separation anxiety but I do leave her a few toys to chew on when I go out/to bed. The bed eating is getting expensive she has destroyed 3 soft beds now - one that came free with the crate, one soft fleece one and lastly a suede effect one that I thought might be a bit tougher than fleece but still washable.
Short of leaving her to sleep on the crate base with no bedding what else can I do?

I'd suggest a Kudos bed in the commercial grade fabric they do (a fellow MNetter recommended them) and plenty of heavy duty chews (e.g. Nylabones, raw knuckle bones from your butcher).

I have a lab pup too and he obviously needs to gnaw on things.

Can I also add (non-judgementally) that since I upped his exercise (it's a fine balance between safeguarding their joints and working them enough at this age) he does chew less.

HTH

don't give her a bed till shes older, give her a bit of cardboard to lay on or a cardboard box, much less stressful and not expensive and she will grow out of it (maybe).

You can actually get kevlar bed cushions now which are supposed to be indestructable. IME they are not quite that good but they come with repair or refund cover.

Also my mother has a very chewy dog, he actually got through two of the kevlar ones (previously unheard of!) but has never managed to do any damage to this one. However, that may have been because he was coming to the end of his chewy stage rather than because the bed had magical properties

Thanks ladies I will explore these suggestions. Bella I know more excercise would help but it's a question of fitting everything into the day. She is pretty good and I let her off the lead for walks and we go to a pretty popular dog walking spot so often she gets a good run around with some other mad dogs to tire her out but this terrible weather isn't helping as we usually go out and play in the garden as well as walks and that has been curtailed the last few days.
She has a marrow bone from the butcher and a 'Dinobone' from the local pet shop - not quite sure what animal it came from but it did look slightly odd sticking out the buggy basket as we walked home from town.
Might be cardboard tonight . . . . I am a softy though

have you tried just a blanket in the cage? my 6mo lab pup only has ablanket at night, she has her comfy bed in the living room during the day.

I've just looked in the garage and we only had tiny bits of cardboard so yes she's getting an old fleece blanket tonight. She has already chewed the tassles off a travelling rug so I'm not holding out much hope but at least there won't be fluff to pick up in the morning

Pleased to report that the old cheap fleece blanket is still intact after 3 nights and a couple of day time excursions!