Ok, yesterday I got MAD!!! I was doing something & happened to walk into our dinning room. In that room we HAD our largest dog bed (we have 3 or 4 scattered around the house). Someone (Badger, Violet, Penny or Myshia) had unzipped it & systematically pulled the stuffing out. Yes I knew who but at that time I wasn't going to place blame without proof. So I got down on my hands & knees & filled half of a kitchen garbage bag with stuffing. I was calm & voiced my displeasure to those present (Violet & Myshia). Violet (the older of the 2) seemed to understand that someone was in trouble, Myshia, not so much. Anyway threw the stuffing in the garbage & zipped the dog bed closed. Fifteen minutes later & went back into the dinning room & AGAIN the bed was unzipped & AGAIN there was stuffing EVERYWHERE. That's when I lost my temper & started yelling. Scatter went the little ones, even Myshia who has never been punished for anything get the impression that all was not right in her world. I also tossed the bed outside & stomped around the house for a while. Now here's the kicker. I told my wife the story & she tossed out the info that Myshia knows & likes to unzip pillows because she has watcher her do it. (That's why we have less couch pillows that we used to have). I'll add here that we have gone through the same thing about 4 times in the last 6 months (beds unstuffed that ended up in the garbage).
Solution Maybe??? Outside the box thinking: I was doing my husband type job today with a shopping list in Sam's. I walked by a display & stopped, nope better think about this. So I gathered everything & went back to the display of a KIDS PLAY COUCH. It was 5ft long, 33 inches wide & high inches wide & it was only $100. And the zipper on it WAS IN THE BACK!! My wife wasn't negative on it but wanted to see what they would do. We set it up & had to move our dinning room table but it seemed to be a hit with the crowd. Two of the four (sadly Violet & Myshia the possible guilty parties, no that's bull, Myshia did it I'd bet my total retirement fund on it) were already on it when I brought in the second part of it. Now $100 is high for a dog bed but If I can stop replacing them in the long run, it will save us money.