Veehoo Chew Proof Elevated Bed: An Honest Review From a Pit Bull Grandma

Fourteen months ago I dragged the second shredded foam bed out to the curb, stood in my driveway in Albuquerque with stuffing stuck to my shoe, and told myself I was done buying dog beds for a while. Biscuit is a 6-year-old blue-nose pit bull, 58 pounds, and she does not nibble. She works a corner of fabric between her front teeth, back and forth, until there is a pile of fill on the floor and a hole big enough to put my hand through. Two beds went that way, both of them inside a month. So when I say I bought the Veehoo Chew Proof Elevated Dog Bed with my guard all the way up, I mean I fully expected to be carrying this one to the curb too.

It is still standing in my living room as I write this, which is the short version and the reason I am writing at all. The longer version has a rough first week in it, a couple of things I would change, and one claim on the listing that I think promises more than a cot can deliver. I have lived with this bed for 14 months, on a covered patio through the warm months and in the corner of my living room through the cold ones. I have hauled it back and forth more times than I can count. Here is the honest accounting.

How I've Used It: Two Rooms and Fourteen Months

This bed lives two lives. From spring through the warm months it sits on my covered back patio, where the grandkids tear through the yard and Biscuit supervises from up off the concrete. From late fall through winter it comes inside to the corner of the living room, near the hallway where she can keep an eye on the front door. Moving it is a one person job. It measures 42 inches long, 30 inches wide and 7 inches tall and weighs 7.76 pounds, so I pick it up by the frame with one hand and set it down without thinking about it.

The 7 inches off the ground is the part I did not expect to care about. On the patio it keeps her off warm concrete, and there is air moving underneath her, which seems to matter in July. In the house it keeps her off the tile, and that tile gets cold in January. I do not have a measurement for any of that and I am not going to pretend I do. I just know that on most afternoons she picks the cot over the rug, and before this bed she did not pick anything over the rug.

The surface is taut and it is not soft. I want to be plain about that, because I think people order a cot picturing a hammock. It is closer to a trampoline than to a cushion. Biscuit sprawls out on it, all 58 pounds of her, with room left at both ends, and she sleeps there for hours. On cold mornings she takes it for twenty minutes and then moves to the carpet by the fireplace. That is a cot doing what a cot does, not a flaw. It is just not the bed you buy for warmth, and the non skid bottom is the reason it stays where I put it when she launches herself onto it.

Assembly, and the Week Biscuit Would Not Touch It

The frame arrived in a box with the screws and a hex tool in it, and I put it together myself at the kitchen table on a Saturday morning. It took about 20 minutes. I am 56 years old, I wear reading glasses, and I have no patience left for flat pack anything, so 20 minutes is a fair number. The hex tool that comes in the box is small and slow to turn. If you have a hex set in the garage, use yours and it will go faster. That is the whole assembly section. There is nothing in that box that will beat you.

Then I set it down on the patio and Biscuit walked a wide circle around it. She sniffed one leg, looked at me like I had personally insulted her, and lay down on the concrete two feet away. That went on for about a week. On day two she put one paw up and took it back off. On day four she stood on it, looked around, and got down. Around day seven she climbed up, turned around twice, and lay down, and that was the end of the argument. She has used it every day since.

The thing that moved it along was a worn t-shirt of mine, one I had slept in, laid over the fabric so the bed did not smell like a factory. I left it there about two weeks and then took it off. She never looked back. If you get this bed and your dog acts like it is poison, give it a week and put something of yours on it before you decide the whole thing was a mistake. Dogs are funny about new surfaces and they are not wrong to be.

Fourteen months, most of it outdoors, and I cannot find a chew mark on it. Two foam beds did not last a month.

What 14 Months With a Heavy Chewer Actually Did to It

This is the part I would want to read if I were in your shoes. Biscuit destroyed two foam beds inside a month each. She has had this cot for 14 months and there is no damage. Not a frayed corner, not a pulled seam, not a tooth mark on the frame. The listing calls the cover chew resistant and stain resistant, and I can only tell you what I have seen in my own house, but what I have seen is a bed that has been jumped on, dug at, sat on and used as a launch pad, and it looks the way it did the week I assembled it.

She still chews. That did not stop and I never expected it to. She chews her KONG in the afternoon, and she does put her mouth on the rail of this bed. The rail wins every single time. That is the whole difference between this and foam. A foam bed gives her a corner to grip and tear. A metal rail gives her nothing to hold onto, so she gets bored in about ten seconds and goes looking for the rubber toy. The bed did not train her out of chewing. It just stopped being a target.

The one thing I do check is the fabric where it wraps the frame. About once a month I run my hand along the edges, the same way I check her KONG for wear, and I have found nothing. I am not going to tell you that means it cannot be destroyed. I have one dog, not a testing lab, and I have read enough reviews to know that somebody's dog out there has wrecked one of these. What I can tell you is that a dog who killed two beds in a month has not put a hole in this one in over a year.

There is a stain side to this too. Biscuit has itchy paws from the dry air here, and she licks, and she gets up on the bed with damp feet. I have wiped this cover down with a damp cloth more times than I can count and it comes clean every time. I have not had to take the cover off to wash it and I would just as soon keep it that way. With the foam beds I was hauling a hairy, damp slab through the house. This one I wipe and forget about.

The Parts of the Listing I Would Push Back On

The listing calls it a cooling bed and I want to be careful with that word. It is a raised cot with air moving under it, and on a hot day that is a real difference from a foam bed that holds heat against a dog's belly. But it is not refrigerated and it is not a fix for a dog who overheats. Biscuit still comes inside and flattens out on the tile in July, because the tile is cooler than anything else in the house. The cot helps. It does not solve summer, and no bed does.

The other word I would handle with care is chew proof. Nothing is chew proof. What this bed is, near as I can tell, is a bed with nothing on it worth tearing. There is no stuffing to pull out, no squeaker, no soft corner to get a grip on. A determined dog with a full set of teeth and an empty afternoon can damage most things. I would not put a power chewer in a room with this bed and nothing else to do and promise you it survives forever. I would promise it lasts a great deal longer than foam, because that is exactly what happened here.

And the last one, which is the one I most want to say out loud. This is a bed for resting. It is not a fix for anything medical. Biscuit is 6 and she moves well, so for her it is simply somewhere comfortable to land. If you have an older pit bull with hip trouble, a cot gives you a firm raised surface and that is the whole of it. It is not going to do what your vet does. Ask your vet whether a firm surface or a padded one is right for your dog, because a product page cannot tell you that and neither can I.

How It Compared to the Foam Beds It Replaced

The two beds before this one were ordinary foam, the kind you can pick up anywhere, and they lasted about a month between them. The first one Biscuit opened along a seam. The second one she went at from the corner and pulled the fill out in handfuls. Both of them were soft and warm and she liked sleeping on them, right up until she liked tearing them open more. I am not naming them because there was nothing remarkable about them. Any soft bed in this house was going to end the same way.

The difference is not that the Veehoo is tougher in some vague, marketing sense. It is that there is nothing on it to get hold of. That took me two beds to understand. If your dog is a shredder, the answer is not a stronger fabric. It is a surface with no fabric edge to work at, and that is what this is. It is also why the bed is firm, and firm is the tradeoff you are making. You get a bed that survives. You do not get a bed that feels like a sofa.

Who This Is For

If you have a strong dog who has already opened up one bed or two, this is the first thing I would try. That is the exact hole it filled for me. It also suits a dog who runs hot, and a house where the bed needs to move from the patio to the living room without buying a second one. The 42 by 30 inch size is right for Biscuit at 58 pounds, with room to spare when she sprawls out. A much larger dog would be hanging over the ends of it, so measure yours before you order.

It is also a good fit if you are tired of hauling a soft bed around. I am 56 and picking up something that weighs 7.76 pounds and wiping it down beats dragging a damp foam slab through the kitchen. That sounds like a small thing. It is not a small thing when you are doing it twice a week for a year.

Who Should Skip It

Skip it if your dog needs cushioning. A senior dog with thin skin and sore elbows on taut fabric is going to want a blanket or a pad on top, and the moment you add one, you have handed a chewer something to grip again. That is worth thinking all the way through before you order. If your dog's comfort depends on padding, this is not the bed that fixes it, and I would rather tell you that now than have you find out in a month.

Skip it too if you want something that arrives ready to use. You are going to spend 20 minutes with a hex tool, and if that sentence made you tired, this is not the purchase for you. And skip it if you expect a bed to change your dog's behavior. It did not change Biscuit's chewing. It just gave her nothing to chew. The chewing is still there, and it still goes into the KONG every afternoon the way it always has.