Destroyer of Beds

Deb's mom (Marley's grandma) sent a large cushion with a blue cover for Marley when he was 5 months old.  She had sent similar cushions to Mark (Deb's brother) for his dogs.  They loved those cushions.  Marley liked his cushion because it was soft, but he scratched the cover a lot.  After a while, he discovered the zipper and started playing with it.  It took some time, but he opened the zipper and started going after the cushion and its stuffing.  We zipped it up each time Marley unzipped it, but sometimes he had 10 or 15 minutes to do his damage.  Then, one day, he just mangled the zipper and it was all over.  From that point on, he could remove the cover at will and freely grab the stuffing.  That cushion lasted maybe 2 months before we had to get rid of it.

The next bed we got for Marley was a thick rubber tube with a soft cover.  I ordered it online from a pet supply warehouse in Nebraska.  The advertisement said that it was indestructible.  When it arrived, I went to the bicycle shop on the next block to get it inflated.  We put the cover on and let Marley go on it.  He was good for about 20 minutes.  Then he started attacking it.  The zipper was broken in no time.  Then he nipped at the rubber.  In a half hour, it had gone flat.  So much for indestructible.

The next bed was filled with green foam and had a white soft cover and a zipper.  This one lasted about six months, mainly because it took Marley that long to pull out, and sometimes eat, the filling.

Debbie went to Pet Central early this week to get Marley another bed.  They said it was indestructible.  Marley waited 2 days before starting to attack it and the zipper is already broken.  Are these people liars or is Marley particularly skilled at destroying beds?

The next, and hopefully last, bed we get for Marley will be a flat sheet supported by a metal frame.  No cover, no zipper, no stuffing, no problem.