Our 9 month old dog/puppy keeps eating anything fabric - this includes the mat in her crate. We tried putting a cot in her crate thinking it didn't have loose ends to chew and she ended up eating that too. I hate to put her in her crate on just the plastic bottom but am at a loss of what to do.
We tried leaving her in a room thinking maybe she was too confined/bored (she is high energy) in a crate and that didn't work either- she ate the cover on the futon.
She has plenty of toys (nylabones and food puzzles) and gets plenty of exercise too.
Our hound mix eats anything fabric also. Unfortunately we just had to resort to nothing in the crate. He's now 2.5 years old and he's stopped eating to dog beds. But if I gave him a blanket, he'd go to town on it!
He also used to eats the corners on the walls, but he stopped that too. This dog has an iron stomach thank goodness! I'm no help, because obviously we didn't figure it out. Hopefully you figure something out or she grows out of it!
My dog eats every dog bed or blanket I give him, so he just can't have one. I feel bad putting him in the crate without it but its too dangerous for him to eat them. I'm hoping he outgrows it but at 1 1/2 he's showing no signs. He comes to work with me a few days a week (at an animal hospital) and he has even managed to pull another dogs blanket out from under him and into his crate to eat that!
I am a sporadic lurker, but we use the crate pads from this guy: www.cushionguy.com/
The only problem we've had with them is when Murphy was still really unreliable pee-wise and peed in his crate at 3 in the morning and I had to clip all the zip ties and hose off the bed. That sucked. It only happened once.
They can't get to the corners so they really seem chew proof and water proof. Flynn has hers for 2+ years and it still looks brand new.