Posted: 3/5/2017 10:59:15 PM EDT
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These 2 fuckers have just killed the 5th set of beds that i bought for them. I am done. 45 for each bed. 5 times. Thats like 500 bucks.
This only started when we got the GSD (18month old). The mix has never tore up a bed in the 6 years i have had him. Now they both tag team every bed. 
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Our GSD tore up every bed we put in his house until he got to be about 18 months old. I put a thick rubber mat that he couldn't tear up in there at about 15 months because I figured it was better than nothing at all. I finally broke down and tried another bed when he was somewhere around 18-19 months old. He hasn't torn one up since. It's like something kicked in and he finally figured out that it was a whole lot nicer and softer with the bed than it was without it. He used to just shred everything. Now, about the only thing he does is drag the bed out of his house and out into his kennel. Sometimes he'll drag it out and be laying on it out in the middle of his kennel. Goofy bastard!
Kane the Destroyer of Beds at about 18-19 months. I can't remember exactly when this was taken, but it was late last summer or early fall. He just turned 2 years old last Tuesday. 
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ours did the same thing. wife took old sheets and just sewed up new covers when needed.
Attached File mine died at 13 months with no warning. still miss him. |
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ours did the same thing. wife took old sheets and just sewed up new covers when needed. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/215155/rugerbed-159906.JPG mine died at 13 months with no warning. still miss him. Damn. That's awful. I'm sorry. 
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Mine chewed up her first bed while she was still a young pup just under a year or so, then seemed fine with her second bed for many months until one day I came home from work and found she had eviscerated her second bed, dragging it out to the living room, tearing open a hole in the corner, and meticulously strewing the clumps of stuffing in an even layer over every open square inch of carpet. It was such a bizarre sight I could not even process what I was seeing for a full minute, since there was just so much pillow stuffing covering the entire living room floor that it took a minute for me to even figure out what the stuff was, let alone where all that the stuff had even come from...my brain saw the sea of white and thought "Snow? Inside???" at first. When I then recognized the white stuff as polyfill-type stuffing I thought she had ripped the couch apart to get at that much padding. I could not believe all that polyfill stuff came out of one dogbed. I was irate (but relieved my leather couch was still intact!) and sort of impressed by how deliberately she had placed all the stuffing, since it had to have taken her quite a bit of time to cover every bit of the floor the way she did.
Of course, she did not getting anything stuffed for a very long while after that (because you are right those beds aren't cheap!), and I went to a more rigid thin pad as a crate liner after that for a year or so. She did a bit of light chewing on the corner of her pad, but there was nothing to pull out, so she let it be, mostly. She did develop a weird quirk for a short time where she would then take the five decorative couch pillows off the couch and space them evenly around open spots on the living floor, so I started having to put them up out of her reach each day before I left the house. It seemed like she really had her own ideas about what the living room floor should look like. I forgot to put them up one day, and came home to an eviscerated decorative pillow that day.  So the decorative pillows were permanently put away for a long while.
I finally got her another over-stuffed pillow bed a some time later, after she started "settling down" a bit going into her third year and she has been just fine with it all these many years later. She is a slender, bony dog so I think she has learned to appreciate the extra cushioning between her joints and the hard floor. That, and dogs just sometimes go through phases as they grow and mature, and I think she finally grew past her "terrible twos" redecorating stage. |
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I have a Dutch Shepherd, 75 pounds and she has never chewed on anything in the house other than her toys. She sleeps on our leather couch. Knows she is not allowed on it unless there is a sheet on it. Has a couple of the Walmart dog beds in several places, but has never chewed anything. Guess I'm lucky.
This is her, sound asleep and snoring. Attached File Attached File |
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My old dog Gus ate everything when he was a pup. Interiors of cars, table legs, carpet, a towel, cat and dog turds, etc. Between his ability to chew, and his appetites, he caused an amazing amount of damage. He ate a 18" hole in the carpet outside my bedroom one night. I heard some odd noise, but didn't know what it was, so I just went back to sleep. We hated the carpet and it was old anyway, so it gave us a reason to get rid of it. He crapped gold carpet fiber for several days afterwards. I got him a really nice bed made locally, and he totally destroyed it in about an hour while we slept. The stuffing he spit out, the cover he ate.
He finally stopped destroying stuff after he got some age on him, and finished growing. And when we discovered that if we gave him vitamins, the turd eating would stop almost instantly. He took those vitamins the rest of his life. If I ran out, he would start "snacking" in the catbox about a week later. Yuck! 
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| I had the same problem with mine. One of them has a pathological obsession with tags and zippers. Destroys them the second she realizes they're there. I've spent probably twice what you have on dog beds of every variety trying to find something she'll just sleep on and not rip apart. The solution? A cheap crib mattress. They've had that for a couple of years now. I'm going to build a dog bed around it now that I know that they won't shred it. |