Yikes! Did you have it delivered and set up? Maybe the scent of someone else who handled the bed rail is still lingering on the wood and that’s what prompted her to start chewing. I would try wiping it down with a cleaner safe for wood to get any lingering smells off.
Get a spray bottle and mix a tiny amount of tobasco sauce or some other type of hot sauce with water and either mist on or if worried about wood – take a paper towel and dab a little on the area where she/he is chewing. Dogs DO NOT like the smell let alone the taste and will leave it alone. Has worked on everthing I have tried it on from shoes to woven baskets.
If the bed was made in China, it may have fish oil as part of the finish. Fish oil is used in many ways in China, including in clothes dyes, pigments and leather tanning. Put your nose right on the bed and sniff. If you can smell fish, no matter how faintly, that’s probably the reason… your dog thinks the bed is food.
Carrie
My sweet foster pup that I adopted started doing this too, she has also moved on to our stair rails. Ugh, I don’t want her to get splinters!
Michelle my bell
Yikes! Did you have it delivered and set up? Maybe the scent of someone else who handled the bed rail is still lingering on the wood and that’s what prompted her to start chewing. I would try wiping it down with a cleaner safe for wood to get any lingering smells off.
Kay
Get a spray bottle and mix a tiny amount of tobasco sauce or some other type of hot sauce with water and either mist on or if worried about wood – take a paper towel and dab a little on the area where she/he is chewing. Dogs DO NOT like the smell let alone the taste and will leave it alone. Has worked on everthing I have tried it on from shoes to woven baskets.
Keb
She told me the delivery guys did it 🙂
Olivia
Adorable, innocent face!
Doodle Bean
If the bed was made in China, it may have fish oil as part of the finish. Fish oil is used in many ways in China, including in clothes dyes, pigments and leather tanning. Put your nose right on the bed and sniff. If you can smell fish, no matter how faintly, that’s probably the reason… your dog thinks the bed is food.
Kaz
She is so adorably cute she probably thought it was a big new toy just for her.
Poppy Seed
Oh, no! Not the laundry room!! Those eyes are begging for forgiveness and a nice soft mattress!!!