dog bedding for kennel

[steve0146]

After following a thread about kennels, I'm curious to what people use for bedding in the kennel. Mine gets old blankets, old duvet, or at moment a piece of vet bedding but it all ends up in the run in the morning.

[Dirty Harry]

I use pro fleece.

[kent]

nothing, it holds damp, fleas, ticks and mites and harbours nasty smells. makes us feel better but the dogs dont care mine will go to sleep anywere thats dry and draft free

[WGD]

nothing, it holds damp, fleas, ticks and mites and harbours nasty smells. makes us feel better but the dogs dont care mine will go to sleep anywere thats dry and draft free

 

Same here, although I am tempted to try this stuff

 

http://www.millbryhill.co.uk/equestrian-530/horse-bedding-592/megazorb-wood-pulp-horse-6565.htm?utm_source=froogle&utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=6565&utm_campaign=froogle

[kent]

Same here, although I am tempted to try this stuff

 

http://www.millbryhi...ampaign=froogle

 

I think it was Bill Meldrums comments on the matter that convinced me, though i do tend to rub the dogs down when wet

[steve0146]

What was Bill Meldrums comment?

[Asa Bear]

What was Bill Meldrums comment?

 

 

I have just started using wood pellets and I'd be interested in what Bill had to say.

[Alfieri]

5mm rubber matting on wooden floor perfectly warm and really east to keep clean.

[Albert 888]

rubber belt for base shreded paper,kent is right it does make the dogs stink.

[malantone]

I bought a piece of stable mat http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-FANTASTIC-WATERPROOF-THICK-KENNEL-MAT-DOG-BED-/170894458989?pt=UK_Pet_Supplies_Dogs&hash=item27ca1a806d

30mm thick and £18 a bargain

[Actionpigeons]

nothing, it holds damp, fleas, ticks and mites and harbours nasty smells. makes us feel better but the dogs dont care mine will go to sleep anywere thats dry and draft free

 

I agree, but I fit a piece of thick horse rubber matting on the bottom of the kennel.

same as the post above.

Edited September 4, 2012 by Actionpigeons

[washerboy]

barley straw, can be tossed around and then burnt or put in our green bin

[malantone]

makes us feel better but the dogs dont care mine will go to sleep anywere thats dry and draft free

so would you if you were knackered and had no choice, mine when given a choice will always choose a vetbed over wooden floor, now ive fitted 30mm horse mat they still go on the vetbeds

[ditchman]

dust extrcted shavings at £5.00 a compressed bale.....the resin in the shavings is like an antiseptic, never have any flea problems and its nice and warm and soft, no probs with callouses on the dogs elbows.....

[lister1]

Nothing in the summer but i do give them a bit of straw in the winter, I put some in the plastic bed and some in the rest of the bedroom compartment.

[ferguson_tom]

I had a problem with my collie deciding it was fun to randomly destroy his bed every couple of months so I bought one of these for my two. I bought the medium one as it goes in my kitchen and my collie and springer are comfortable on it (my springer is quite small) I have found its great in the house as gets rid of a lot of the dog smell of a bed, all there dirt just falls off through the bed and onto the floor underneath so just have to hoover it up and to clean the actual bed i just wash it down with a hose. Would be ideal in a kennel as can wash it all down etc.

 

http://www.doggiesolutions.co.uk/coolaroo-dog-beds-15413-0.html

[JMart]

Shredded cardboard horse bedding. Warm, helps dry them off after a getting wet, not dust, not little visitors, and easily recycled either in the muck heap or on the bonfire.

[AlistairB]

Vet bed, old fleeces, old towels etc, but it all gets changed regularly and the whole lot (indoor and outdoor) is jet washed and disinfected to get rid of any potential visitors!

[bodach]

_{I used tuffies but was not tuff enough at £45 a pop. For this winter I am going to use rubber play mats cut to size of bedding area and old blanket bought from charity shops £2 each and dump when stinky.}

 

_Bod