New Dog Bed- How do I keep it in one piece?
 but Sunny has a different take on it  She's slipping and sliding, this way and that, and the worst thing for her is that she can't chew on her bones very effectively anymore. I didn't realize how bad it was going to be until she was happily chewing on her bone this evening, and all of sudden the bone shot out from under her paw and hit me in the foot, from across the room. I don't know who was more surprised, her or me. I sort of think it was her. She just started at the bone, now against my foot, and underneath all that fur, I could tell she was thinking "what the heck just happened there???" 
So I took pity on her and bought another dog bed for her. It's the pillow type, no hard sides. I got it pretty cheap at Costco, but I still don't want to have to replace it anytime soon. When we first got Sunny, we bought her a pillow type dog bed, but as a puppy, she basically eviscerated it with her sharp puppy teeth. So how do we introduce "Bed part II" and get her to LAY on it, instead of trying to shake it to death? She enjoys laying on a towel or rug and does this whenever she has the chance. And she doesn't destructively chew on anything else. But the original pillow (we found the remnants and brought it out during the reno for her) is still more of play thing for her. I guess if all fails, I can just get a rug for her, but in my own desire to spoil my pup, I'd like to see her have this fluffy, cedar chip filled, thick enough for the Princess and the Pea, bed to lie on. Any advice? |
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 I loved that bone story.
No advice here, but if we had two of something (toys for instance) Bally used to feel the need to destroy one and leave the other untouched, so when I decided to give him two squishy mats for his bed he ate half of one I took it away and he's never even looked sideways at his bed again. My dog is very strange....
I'd love to here how to stop destuffing too though |
| Does telling your dog to not chew on it help when you guys are at least around? That's at least what I would do and take it up when I left. My dogs always took to pillows whenever they saw another dog come in and use it, so maybe you need a second one? That's my remedy to get them to play with toys too. |
Most of these guys just prefer a hard surface I've found. I finally gave up & just put non-slip, rubber backed rugs in their kennels. I found some fleece ones with a rubber backing that are plenty big enough for them to curl up on. They can be thrown in the washer & dryer or air dried. Very inexpensive. In my older boy's kennel I have a nice big rubber backed mat that looks like low pile carpet (but soft). It is like what you walk on when you walk into a business. It covers more space for him since he has a bit more touble navigating on laminate in his old age. Their reaction time changes as they get older especially due to arthritis in the lower spine.....just like ours. And we got 3 big matching runners to cover the path they take into & thru the kennel to go outside. Everytime I go into the kennel I straigthen up their rugs & as soon as they get into their kennels they paw around at them & ball them up! Mariah will snuggle on hers under her tummy  . José wants his "all the way out of the way"  . And Isaac (the older one) lets the commercial big rug alone but usually balls up the one that matches the others'.  He still has something plenty big enough to get his footing on tho'. In the family room we bought nice room sized rugs to place over the flooring. Works well for both humans & dogs. The dogs get around just fine. I have noticed tho' that they do not have the same problem on the flooring we installed in the family room & kitchen (same thing just different color) as compared to the kennel. And we put the flooring for the kennel on the floor in the store & walked on it in shoes, socks & bare feet & never slipped ourselves but the dogs sure do. |
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Sorry, I don't have any sage advice for you, but I feel your pain..We have hardwood floors and... We have a tuffet the dogs rest on alot, but Heart uses it as a surfboard. She'll run, full speed toward it and when she lands on it, she surf's across the room....  I am constantly, sliding it back in front of the fireplace. And when the dogs chew on bones, they almost NEVER chew on the tuffet. They always chew on the hardwood and boy it is loud!!! |
| lol, I guess we're not the only ones then hey! I think I'm going to try putting the bed into our bedroom and letting Sunny sit on it there (supervised), because that's a sleeping/resting place for her, not a play place. Then after a while we'll bring it down into the living room.
Joahaeyo wrote: Does telling your dog to not chew on it help when you guys are at least around?
Yeah, well, sort of. We tell her "no" every time she picks up the old bed to play with it, and she drops it. Then after an appropriate amount of time, she starts in on it again. It's like she has an obedience time limit with some things! I can just hear the timer going off in her head "ding!"- and she thinks to herself "what was I doing again? Oh yeah, I needed to destroy this pillow thing" and she goes to it. Only to be told no again. I sometimes think it would be incredibly frustrating to be a sheepie. Constantly battling between their will and obeying us. |
Sunny'sMom wrote: Joahaeyo wrote: Does telling your dog to not chew on it help when you guys are at least around? Yeah, well, sort of. We tell her "no" every time she picks up the old bed to play with it, and she drops it. Then after an appropriate amount of time, she starts in on it again. It's like she has an obedience time limit with some things! I can just hear the timer going off in her head "ding!"- and she thinks to herself "what was I doing again? Oh yeah, I needed to destroy this pillow thing" and she goes to it. Only to be told no again. I sometimes think it would be incredibly frustrating to be a sheepie. Constantly battling between their will and obeying us. Well I totally understand that!! I think when we get our next sheepie, it just may have to be an adult. Preferably one that has lived with Cesar Milan  |
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