Comments on: Labrador puppy beds and bedding – tips and advice for keeping your puppy cosy

By: Sally Brumfitt

Sally Brumfitt — Sat, 08 Aug 2015 16:25:00 +0000

Molly had so many accidents that I was washing her bedding every day and I ran out of old towels, and just put newspaper down in the end till her bed had dried. She had a go at chewing her beds as well. When she was at the breeders she was sleeping on a plain floor in her kennel with her other litter mates at the bottom of the garden and she was a credited breeder by the Kennel Club too. Didn’t do her any harm.

By: leanne regan

leanne regan — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 03:44:21 +0000

my lab ‘Shep’ has been one of the best dogs i have had he never destroyed anything by himself had a nice expensive bed cost us over $70.00 on line it was waterproof and chew proof this ended up in the bin not because of shep but my mums pup who we were watching for the night
we got him a new one a cheaper one this one was destroyed by both dogs playing tug of war we then got another cheap one which is now under the house where the cats sleep (we live on a farm) he has not had one bed since and he is now 3 years old he never really used any of his beds he has really slept with us in the bed since we got him at 10 weeks and still climbs under the blankets every night.

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 02:53:01 +0000

Our black lab mix just turned 1 year old this month (Feb.) and to this day cannot have any sort of bedding in his crate with him without pulling all the stuffing out within minutes. We’ve tried putting him in there with all his toys and once he demolishes the toys (our vet says that hard plastic is bad for his teeth and the soft rubber toys just don’t last) he starts on his bed. He does okay with his bed outside of his crate though. I’m hoping he’ll eventually grow out of this because I know it can’t be comfy but to ensure that he doesn’t end up with an obstruction I don’t want to take the risk. Is there anything more I can do other than just be patient?

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:25:06 +0000

We finally bought our Lab a beautiful fabric padded bed shaped like a regular rectangular dog bed with four sides and a “doorway” on one side where the side is lower (although he climbs in from any side, but he does like to sleep with his head sometimes hanging out of the “doorway”). Up till now he’s had a soft mat for sleeping on downstairs during the day and a big cushion (that he never really used, I think it was too stiff and he couldn’t stay on it comfortably) for upstairs night-time sleeping. And various blankets that he could dig into a ball for his head (yes, he loves a soft cushion for his head! Admittedly I put one of my down pillows on the floor every night so that he could bury his head in it when he went to sleep — he loved that!).

And now he loves his new bed! Seeing him choose his bed over anywhere else to sleep makes me feel cruel that we hadn’t bought him such a bed sooner! (He is now 2.5 years old.)

What I think he likes about his new bed are: the sides where he can curl up close to the sides and get nice and cosy; it’s big enough so that he can completely stretch out on his side with room to spare but have the sides there to keep it cosy; and he can also rest his head on one of the sides if he so wishes, or when he lies on his back he can hang his legs over the side!

It was an expensive purchase and I’m glad he isn’t a chewer.

By: Ruth Robson

Ruth Robson — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 08:55:17 +0000

Our lab retriever a Ruby has slept in a banana box with two lovely soft polar fleece blankets and a slim nylon cornered foam mattress since she came home to us at 7 weeks. She has slept all night since day one. (Newspapers beside her for night time releif). We have recently had to join two banana boxes together because she had chewed the first one and had need more space as she has grown ( now 15 weeks). We will purchase a proper bed once she is grown and no longer chewing but it shows that you don’t need to spend lots of money for your puppy to be comfortable.

By: Dennis Owens

Dennis Owens — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:30:08 +0000

Our EL Winston has destroyed all beds we have given him except two. The one in his daytime crate is a K9Ballistic crate mat and he has had it for over a month so far. The one he sleeps on in oue bedroom at night is a LLBean bed and he has had that for a long time and has not destroyed it either.