How to stop a dog from destroying and eating bedding
Dogs often treat blankets and padding inside their crates or houses as chew toys, tearing them apart or even swallowing pieces. This creates a dangerous safety hazard that forces owners to remove soft bedding entirely, leaving their pets with nothing comfortable to lie on.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Accept it and remove all soft padding that she eats
- 2Switch to a chew resistant cot with no loose fabric
- 3Using plastic kennel bottoms
- 4Using standard blankets or fabric bedding
- 5Leaving bare kennel floors
- 6Switching to heavy rubber stall mats cut to size
- 7Using elevated cot-type beds
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Anyway she won't leave the blankets or padding in her house. She thinks they are there for her to tear apart.”source ↗
“I am looking for suggestions on how to get her to leave her bedding alone so she has something soft to lay on.”source ↗
“We’ve had plastic bottoms for the kennels but my beaucie seems to love to push them out of the kennel”source ↗
“We’ve tried blankets with our german shepherd, he has no problem eating them. Not chewing them, that would be too harmless. He would EAT them.”source ↗
“I feel incredibly guilty. My dogs are basically my kids and I’d do anything for them, but I do not want to risk their safety for a few hours of comfort while I’m away.”source ↗
“I’m no longer willing to try blankets, I need something extremely durable that won’t break— or would at least show signs of wear and tear before breaking that way I could replace it.”source ↗