bedding for the beagle?

[boardinbob78]

Gizmo is now 7 months old and still happy to sleep in his crate, even tho I have taken door off it for him but he destroys all his beds. I have bought him several nice beds from pet shops but he just rips them open and eats the stuffing. I can't afford to keep wasting money on these so need some alternative ideas.

At the moment he just has an old pillow and some old towels,any ideas welcome!!

[Dawna]

Dillon here. I always did the same thing with my beds and any kind of covers that were placed in my crate. There is a REASON for this! I now get to sleep in the human bed with my mother every night!

[charlies mom]

lol. my charlie sleeps on old pillows and towels too. had bought him nice beds too but he tore them to shreads, only so many times you can try and sew them back together. my attitude now is old pillow, towels and blankets will do him untill he grows outta it and then i will get him a new bed. he doesnt seem to care anyway once its clean and warm.

[BUDDYTHEBEAGLE]

I sympathise with the bed munching thing. I see you are in england too. If you live near an Aldi store they are doing a special on fleece throws. They are huge and are about £7. I have bought 3 of these because I worry when Buddy chews on his towels in his bed because last time he destroyed a towel he was pooping long strands of blue bath towel at least the fleece throw doesnt do that.
Good luck.

[Robyn&Rosie]

God I feel your pain I've bought so many expensive blankets for my girl. But I refuse to any more I buy several from pound land which she may or may not eat and she has old blankets & towels too (clean obviously) she can stay with those till she grows up as such lol good luck

[Kath]

I buy fleece blankets for Lily there always seems to be a sale on them around the holiday where I can get them cheap so I always stock up on them.

[Myfave1]

As for bedding in the crate, we had the same problem as Chloe was crate training, what she didn't tear apart and eat, she dragged out of her crate to another room, therefore, my only conclusion was that she didnt care for bedding and didn't want me to waste anymore money on it. So I didnt and she seemed happy as ever to just sleep on the bottom of her crate....now that she's not using the crate anymore, she does have a nice dog bed that I bought her and I put it in front of our picture window where she spends alot of time....if she eats the bed, she knows she won't have that nice comfy spot!

[Beagler]

Buttons was about 4yrs before he stopped eating beds - well, I say eating but it was more a case of slitting them down the middle then thoroughly de-stuffing them. Until he outgrew this phase and finally worked out that the bed is far more comfortable with the stuffing in, I just used fleece blankets too - we have loads of them and they're so cheap. I'd just fold them up and layer them in his crate.

[Puddlypoo]

I wish I had known of this forum when I first got Puddles over 6 yrs ago, I would've had a place to vent my frustrations to people who understood the puppy craziness! Puddles did the exact same thing, tore up so many beds, I stopped buying them. He does have one now but he's almost 7, doesn't chew stuff he's not supposed to anymore, well, for the most part, ha!

[BeagleBob]

Peggy made Bel a little fleece blanket about 18" square. Bel carried it around with her for years! Would drag in inside and out; see her laying on it all over the place.