Hey Woofa’s,

You may think I’ve gone bonkers regarding the title of this post!

But I haven’t!

So many people come to me regarding an indestructible dogs bed.

No matter what the size of the puppies/adolescent dogs, some of them will chew their beds.

I’m not sure why dogs do this, it could be boredom or just something to rip up?

I remember Dean’s cousin and her husband mentioning to us once that they were off to the shops to get an indestructible dogs bed.

Purely because their Beagles were chewing their beds all the time.

Upon asking when this behaviour generally occurred, they said every time they go out, they come home and the dog’s beds are chewed!

I asked if the bed was guaranteed indestructible because most of the time they aren’t.

It’s genuinely not the bed that needs replacing it’s the behaviour that needs changing.

However, while you’re working on the behaviour of the chewing of the bed this is something I found helped me.

BILLY AND ISABEL!

Isabel (my female Staffordshire Bull Terrier) was 12 when Billy came along.

As a small puppy he was allowed inside with Isabel.

But when he got a bit older and entered that puppy/adolescent stage, say 1-2 years, he became a little destructive.

I had a kennel for each of them outside under the pergola, and in winter Isabel would have a jumper on and her heated mattress in her kennel and Billy in his.

Billy would always find a way to chew each one.

When it was warmer I would find the steel framed beds with the canvas over it and always buy them a big one to share.

However, every time I got one, Billy would scratch through the canvas material.

He wasn’t doing it to be destructive at this stage, he would do it to move the blankets around.

However, every time he did this, he would scratch right through the material : (

Then one day I found this canvas material that said it was indestructible.  So I thought I’d give it a go.

It lasted from the time I put it over the steel frame, to putting the blankets on, to Billy getting on it, me walking away to put the rubbish in the bin to come back and also find a rip in it!!!!   SERIOUSLY!

It was becoming a joke.

I always wonder when things say indestructible if they even try them on actual dogs?

I was at my wits end.

WHY THE EXERCISE TRAMPOLINE?

During this time I was a Mobile Dog Groomer so I would go to my customer’s houses and groom their dogs in my trailer.

One day, still at my wits end about an indestructible dogs bed, one of my customers had stuff out for their Council pickup.

I had a quick look and saw an old round exercise trampoline.

I groomed their dog and kept thinking about the exercise trampoline.

I remembered as a kid jumping on the trampoline at my friends house.

How at least 3-4 of us would jump at a time and how we would put the sprinkler underneath it and washing detergent on top and jump around and slip off etc.

What I remembered was how tough that trampoline material was and still is today.

I had an idea.

I asked my customer if I could take her old exercise trampoline to which she said yes.

I took it home, put it out the back under the pergola, put a folded double bed Harry Potter blanket on it and I never looked back.

Billy could scratch it and move the blankets around all he wanted but that material didn’t even have a mark on it.

Both Isabel and Billy would lay on it together, even after he got bigger than her.

We never looked back.

In actual fact Billy is now 11 and has been sleeping on our bed and lounges for quite some years.

I had the trampoline bed outside but he never went on it anymore so I’ve passed it onto one of my customers, who has a Staffy x Rottweiler and he’s going to sleep on it.

WHERE CAN I GET AN EXERCISE TRAMPOLINE TO USE AS MY DOG’S BED?

I typed ‘ exercise trampoline‘ into google and heaps came up:-

• Kmart
• Big W
• Fitness places
• on-line etc

What I would make sure is that your dog will fit on one.

AND make sure you put something over it like a blanket.

If your dog is a bit shorter you could make sure they have some small stairs or a ramp to get up onto the bed.

WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN?

An exercise trampoline does make a good indestructible dogs bed.

I know because I used one for at least 10 years and it was never destroyed.

In fact I’ve recently passed it on to someone else for their dog to use.

IN THE COMMENTS BELOW – BILLY WOULD LIKE TO KNOW – IF YOUR DOG NEEDS AN INDESTRUCTIBLE BED?