We have a duvet that fits pretty well. I can relate to the threads being broken from them scratching, but our cover is cotton and flat, and when I have Max up on it, he doesn't have his toys and he never gets things like Bully Sticks anyhow, so I don't have that problem. Also, the bed is high enough that he can't just jump up onto it. The main thing that we do though to protect it is to fold it down to the very end of the bed when we go to bed. We never sleep with the comforter pulled up and we don't sleep on top of it. Sometimes, Max will lie down on it at the end of the bed for awhile if he's waiting for me to come to bed, but he usually wants to be right next to us if we're in bed. I have extra blankets on a bench at the end of the bed if we get cold.
I've used the ribbon method before and it really helps a LOT. This particular duvet and cover seem to stay together pretty well, so I didn't need to do it with it.
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Originally Posted by margaritaville  Great idea about the ribbon. I'll have to try it. But I also have another duvet problem-before I got Bubba, I had a beuatiful WHITE duvet cover and I guess I don't even need to go there. So I got a light green one, then we got Sissy. Between the two of them with their scratching up (it was woven so they broke threads)a comfortable nest to lay in and the carp they drag in from the outside (dirt, sand, leaves and twigs)it got to be a mess. So, I just went out, purchased a dark maroon red one (plain striped cotton) figuring the problem would be finally solved. Now there are white stops on the duvet from where they lay and chew on their bully sticks, sand, leaves and slobber show up like crazy. Plus you can see every indentation from where they have walked and rested on the bed. I think the solution is to just throw a plastic sheet over the bed or just sleep on a mattress on the floor!
p.s. getting rid of them is out of the question |