Non-humpable dog bed

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My poodle has a thing for jumping his dog bed. I wouldn't mind especially but he gets a little too 'involved' and it's also not pleasant!

He likes to sleep with something around him - so not a flat mattress. Either a curved edge or the calming type beds. But it also needs to be heavy or awkward enough to stop him from humping it.

We had a George Barclay sofa bed which was too heavy to hump. But it was way too big once we got another dog. We couldn't fit two in the living room.

Does anyone have a dog bed that looks like it might not be humpable?

Photo of the bed-lover.

Oops

neutered?!

It’s unlikely that he wouldn’t just transfer the behaviour to something else. You need to work on the root cause, rather than focus on the bed

The humping is behavioural rather than because of the bed.

Thanks.
Yes he is neutered.

He does it when he's excited.

We can and do redirect him or stop him when we are there. And it's easily done.
But he also does it after a walk in the evening when I have to take the kids up to bed. It's the leftover excitement from the walk, I'm pretty sure. His younger sister has a little zoom and then plays with a toy. But he humps because he only plays with toys when a human is involved.

And we will keep on working on it.

Part of me working on it is getting a bed that is not as easy to hump. I also think it's habit. He is a dog of habit and routine. And so if it's not as easy, I think he won't be that bothered.

Just take the access to the bed away during ‘humping hour’ - and give him a Kong or similar to occupy himself instead

Then reassess

If you take away the bed and he still has the urge to hump, he'll just redirect his energies elsewhere - and it could be onto something even less desirable than his bed,

I can try taking the bed away at that time thanks but there are other times he will do it.

I am aware I need to work on it and he may well just find another thing to hump (though I have zero soft furnishings so unless he's going to have a go with the table leg, there isn't much else in there for him). He has access to a whole basket of toys and we rotate and make them interesting. He just doesn't play with toys unless we are playing with him.

I would like to buy a bed that isn't as easy to hump and still wonder if anyone has a nice dog bed that might be heavy enough to make it awkward.

I am fed up of buying beds that are then spoiled by him humping them because his claws make holes and then my other dog pulls out the stuffing.

I am and will continue to work on it.

For the sake of not treating dog beds as disposable after a few months, I just wondered if there was an alternative.

I don't think there is such a thing as a bed that's going to be too heavy to hump and that's going to fit your other criteria of having a curved edge etc.

Unless you just get a plastic basket type bed and put blankets in there.

That may be true.
I wish I'd not got rid of the George Barclay as that was def too heavy to move. Too expensive to replace for two dogs now though.

Good call on the plastic bed and blankets. That could work. And easier to wash.

I can't say that this is something that's ever really bothered me. Perhaps it's because we've always had bigger fish to fry, but I just let ddog get on with the bed humping. It's not excessive though. I prefer that method of stress relief to barking or chewing something he shouldn't.

We had this issue - humping and chewing the bed, the fluffier the dog bed the more DDog did it. It stopped once we got him this bed with a fleece blanket: https://www.buntypetproducts.co.uk/collections/dog-beds/products/bunty-raised-dog-bed-with-sides

This tbh.

My dog does it in the garden in front of the neighbours (and was called a pervert for it).

I just let them get on with it tbh. Better they do it on something soft where they wont hurt themselves than do it on something hard or another dog…

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The issue is that he does it to such an extent that there is more than a 'lipstick' out, and sometimes it takes quite a while for it all the go back to where it should be!
He looks uncomfortable after too!

Also the bed is getting ruined and I hate sending them to landfill and replacing every few months.

He's otherwise a very good boy!

@WehIstMir yes we've found that too! The fluffier the better! Thanks for the suggestion - that might work.

He doesn't and has never humped anything else. And he hasn't always had a bed available for the purpose. I just think he really really likes a comfy fluffy bed!