How to stop a puppy from chewing crate bedding
Puppies repeatedly chew and shred crate pads, blankets, and towels, destroying even expensive so-called chew-proof options within a week. This constant destruction leaves owners unable to keep soft bedding in the crate and forces them to continuously replace shredded materials.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Removing the crate bed entirely and letting the dog sleep on the bare plastic tray
- 2Using zip-ties to secure the bedding to the crate
- 3Trying different expensive 'chew proof' bedding products
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“The thing she chews the most is the bed/pad in her crate.”source ↗
“We’ve tried blankets and towels and 3 different (expensive) “chew proof” ones.”source ↗
“The best one (which was zip-tied to the crate) made it about a week before it had a big hole.”source ↗
“honestly nothing worked for mine either, same thing, only the crate bed got shredded”source ↗
Where this came up
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