Anyone else's dog reject dog beds?

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She hates them. There's no try at home before you buy either so it's expensive trial and error.

She gladly accepts an assortment of blankets chucked on the floor, though....

...but it feels like neglect when I'm like "oh yeah that's her bed" (points to a blanket on the floor in the corner 😭)

Princess lab never looked back after a memory foam bed experienced elsewhere.

Apart from the giant family sofa if she gets a chance

I am currently getting emails from Lords and Labradors who seem to think there's a market for £200 "wipe clean" faux leather dog beds. I'm guessing the warranty doesn't cover "rolled in fox poo aroma" not wiping off?

Shihtzu cross - age 11. Currently has indoor dog house which he goes in if he wants to avoid something (getting his teeth cleaned, tablets etc). He has 3 orvis beds - 2 memory foams and 1 air foam. Occassionally goes into the Orvis bed but again mostly to stop me doing something to him. Otherwise he loves the sheepskin rugs on the floor (in the middle of the room where I can trip over him obviously), the sofa, my bed where he sleeps at night anyway. He also has a giant footstool thing which he uses alot. I guess it's just like a raised dog bed really. So in short he likes to have his dog beds as sort of 'safe zones' where he can try and avoid things he doesn't like but otherwise he's not fussed for them.

Our dog isn't allowed on the sofa but he happily sleeps on his donut beds, he has 2. Though often he chooses to sleep on the carpet instead or even the wooden floor in the hallway. He likes to move around a lot while resting so won't settle for that long in any one place.

He's a Lab and they tend to be easy going and not fussy.

My rescue dog never slept on any dog beds when we first had him. Only ever on the floor. Dog beds he just ripped up so I stopped buying them. Sofas are a different story. He loves a sofa.

Then in the end, after a scare with a persistent limp that eventually went away, I got him a very luxurious deep memory foam bed and that one he loves. So does every dog who has ever visited too. My SIL got the exact same one after her dog visited for a weekend and wouldn't get off it!

He's a big fluffy dog and he mainly likes to sleep stretched out so doughnut beds are no use to him plus he likes to move around in the night. Even if he gets access to his holy grail of the sofa he gets up and down intermittently to lie on the rug. That's why a crate never worked he needs to lie stretched out and move around

He also does like to dig up any new place where he's going to lie. He digs holes in the garden to lie in and he scratches up rugs and carpets which is very much not ideal.

Mine have an actual dog bed under the stairs. They lay in it for periods here and there, but to actually sleep at night, one lays on the floor by my side of the bed and the other alternates between the bottom of my bed and the floor at the top of the stairs. They also have other spots in the house where they doze, some just on carpet, some concrete and one that's a couple of old bath towels laid out. Oh, and there's always the sofa, too!
OP - just stick with the blankets, if it's what your dog likes. 🥰

37kg Ted has a giant bed that he uses for part of the day (around 4ft x 2 1/2 ft), but at night it’s become the domain of our 6+kg CHONK ex feral cat we adopted last year, with Ted sleeping of the rug next to it! It’s still large enough for him to stretch out fully.

Ted spends winter as his full, long haired self, and likes to sleep either on our wooden floors downstairs or on the leather sofas (they’re old & both covered in a multitude of crocheted blankets).

I’ll probably be judged as a terrible, dog owning slattern for allowing him on the sofas (and for his bed being in our bedroom) but he sleeps where he wants to sleep.

At the moment I’m about to start work (from home) and his giant, stinky self is stretched out at my feet on our king sized bed. I have a disability, hence still being on the bed with him as I type!

Dogs sleep where they want to sleep. If they like a pile of blankets, then I’d stick with that, but maybe adding some extra padding or vet bed underneath. Our old dog was larger than Ted, but would curl up around my DH’s neck on his pillows at night, or sleep between us as a long (although the dog would eventually turn into his side and use he feet to push me out of the bed to have more room lol).

And yes, all bedding, dog or otherwise, is washed every few days, and I’ve forgone hairdressers myself for the last 14 years so I can spend an absolute fortune on regular dog grooming! They’re doods, so regular grooming is vital (along with daily brushing & interim baths), and tomorrow I’ll be paying for Ted’s at a good chunk of £100.

I do find that blankets are easier than trying to clean huge beds & covers (his is waterproof so is hosed down in summer & left to dry on the patio). I just chuck the blankets in the washer, and can easily wash, tumble & replace them within a day. Vet bedding likewise (with a couple of balls in the dryer to re-fluff them).