I thought we'd made progress <sigh>

[MiseryBusiness]

I dont know if anyone remembers me starting a thread recently about our youngest dog chewing her bed?

I had some good advice, options seemed to be a vet bed or a non chewable tuffie.

We decided to go for a vetbed with a view to saving up to get her a tuffie.

A month passed, not chewing of the vetbed at all - just her toys until this morning. We did some training in the garden (not going on walks due to being in season) then I came in and needed to do washing/cleaning etc and she doesnt like the hoover so I put her in the kitchen with a kong full of cheese. Yum yum? No. I came back in no more than 10 minutes later to find she's ripped through the corner of her bed and started to destory it.

The kong still sits on the floor full of cheese.

What can I do? She sleeps in the kitchen at night and its a tiled floor so she has to have something so I'll have to take a trip to the pet shop but have no idea what to buy now.

I'd give her a cardboard box and old blankets.

She's going to destroy stuff; and until the Tuffie is saved up for, she can destroy free things to her hearts content.

It'll make a mess I expect, but at least it won't bankrupt you.

Thanks daisy, I was thinking of giving her some blankets, we've got loads of boxes in the cellar too.

She's eaten the cheese now

Have you tried having some sacrificial chewy things left around? They've got to satisfy a chew instinct, but sometimes it's tricky finding the right thing.

If she's small, chewing on a kong might be a bit tough. Might be worth investigating some of the softer chewable toys.
If she won't chew plastic, there's also the option of rope based toys. Our dog loved chewing apart one of our rugs, so got her a toy that was similar. She quite happily chewed that instead.

my dog sooner or later seems to chew her beds - I am now using a couple of old foam cushions from garden furniture and have wrapped on old floor rug around them.

Its soft enough for her and can be hoovered regularly - she seems to go crazy once she starts on kapok filling.

Oh, and ours quite happily chewed this:

www.kongcompany.com/products/dogs/kong-rubber-toys/puppy/puppy-teething-stick

I have a chewer. I've bought him a nylabone and a stag bar, and he does favour them for munching on. But he still occassionally eats his bed

She's 7 months and pretty much fully grown. She can chew through just about anything.

She's happy with a kong most of the time. She always has rope toys around and nylabones etc.

Its like she decides, this morning I will ignore all my nice yummy treats and toys and my mission will be to destroy my bed.

Our older dog just looks at her like

I thought we'd done the last month with the same bed because she was getting over it, obviously not!

Our springer (10 months) hasn't chewed (or even looked at) anything 'illegal' since he discovered real bones.