Advice on puppy chewing her bed.

[Lottiedonnegan]

I have a 4 month old puppy. She has a crate that she sleeps in and I used to give her blankets and cover the crate with blankets. Had to take the blankets away because she used to chew them and swallow the pieces and I was worries that they would harm her.

I then bought her a soft bed which she liked, but she started chewing that, and when I came down this morning she was eating the stuffing.

So off I went to the pet shop. On their advice spent £18 on a tough bed and £5 on something to spray it with to make to make it taste unpleasant and within 1/2 an hour she is through to the stuffing which she is eating! She has every chew toy available, and we spend a lot of time with her, walking, training, playing etc.

So what do I do? I feel really mean not putting any bedding in he crate and making her lie on the plastic floor, but I'm worried if I give her bedding which she will eat it will harm her as it will get stuck in her intestines!

She chews everything she can get to, it's not just bedding.

Can anyone offer advice please?

Thanks for your comment- she eats loads of it though, all of the blankets / towels she's had have great big holes in them which she has swallowed. Will this not harm her?

Try using vet bed. It isn't impossible to chew, but it doesn't encourage chewing either. It will be warm enough too.

I wouldn't leave a dog with no bedding - they need it.

You could try a basic hard plastic bed with vet bed in the bottom - like this which if it is about the same size as the crate will be v, v hard to chew.

Thanks very much for advice and link. She has old towels for tonight (which she is eating at the moment), and will go shopping again tomorrow!

My dog used to do this, in fact one night she ripped a single mattress to utter shreds. We found that vet bed wasn't as attractive to chew and gradually shr grew out of it... almost. She's now 12 and she did rip open her duvet and pull out all the stuffing last month and she's presently disembowling a soft toy someone gave the puppy but she doesn't swallow it any more and it's pretty rare. :)

Nice to know she will grow out of it! It's a bit difficult at the moment! Hope she doesn't do herself any damage before she does. She ate a whole rubber the other day!

Oooppps I meant rubber glove!

My 6 month old lab needed a bigger bed and had managed to chew through the zip on the older one. We got a new one and she chewed through it in the very first hour she had it! SHe is now sleeping on an old quilt which for some reason she has no urge to destroy!