How to Make a Dog Bed

Dog beds are a wonderful luxury for your pet. While dogs love to sleep on them they also love to chew on and destroy them. Still, you want your dogs to be comfortable. A good solution to this issue is to make the dogs’ beds yourself.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Old pillowcase
• Discarded and unmatched socks
• Sewing needle
• Thread

1. Choose an old pillowcase that you no longer want or go to the thrift store and purchase a pillowcase. This will be the basis of your dog bed so make sure it damaged or falling apart.

2. Fill the pillowcase about half way full of the old socks. As my kids wear out and damage their socks, I put them in a bin and collect them. I also collect the match to missing socks I have given up on as well as discarded pantyhose and discarded t-shirts, which I cut into shreds. Therefore, when I say “socks” I mean any combination of these items.

3. Sew the opening of the pillowcase closed. Then fluff and flatten the dog bed. They will love it… for about a month when they tear it to shreds again.

4. Start all over again. It is just a matter of time before my dogs shred this dog bed just like they have shred all of the others. Fortunately, I made this from recycled items instead of having spent $40.00 on it. I just take the dog bed, and dump the socks in the washing machine and then the dryer. Then I re-make the dog bed with a new pillowcase if necessary.

[phalk]

on 7/20/2009 thats a great idea thanks

[pianistic]

on 5/24/2008 Great!