Please let us know if you do go ahead and buy one as I would like to tease MBBVP about sleeping in a baby's bed!

Heavenly kisses,
Angel Abby

(Seriously, that is a smart idea. The ortho dog bed we bought Abby – her Deluxe Deep Dish – cost a small fortune. Although she really loved it, and I loved thinking about pizza every time I saw the name on it.)

Valentina sleeps on a twin bed. We had to cover it with a washable material to keep the smell out and so her claws didnt make holes in it. She has been sleeping on it for about 5 years and she loves it. I get on it with her sometimes.She freaks out when I take the blankets off to wash them. But she is so excited when I put the blankets back on lol. The main reason I decided to use the twin mattress is because there weren't any beds large enough for her. She likes to sleep all stretched out. When she does stretch out the mattress is almost the perfect length from her nose to tail.She is a very long Dog. Also most of the beds we found had washable covers but the smell still permeated the insides of the bed. And the fabric was never strong enough to hold up to her weight and claws. I would buy her a $120 bed just to have her claws rip the fabric a couple of weeks later. I am somewhat obsessed with keeping the Dog beds clean so we covered the mattress with a material used to cover boat seats. It worked great! Over the that I use a fitted sheet and then a comforter. I wash them very often. They get stinky fast and it can smell like a pet store in here lol! I even have a separate washer and dryer in my garage only for the Dog's bedding. When I washed them in the family washer too much Dog hair got in there and it was hard to get out. Big clumps of it got stuck places and it grossed me out so I have one just for them. Thank goodness for that because of all that drainage Valentina had after her surgery. I had to wash towels and blankets several times a day! Anyway not sure about the toddler or crib mattress. Maybe for a medium sized Dog it would work just fine. My Doberman would probably do ok on one. They are really firm though. I probably didnt help much but I like this subject because I had such a hard time trying to find an appropriate Dog bed for Valentina.

we used my youngest sons old cot mattress for our old staffy when he had MAJOR surgury as a bed inside (our dogs are mostly outside dogs) it worked great it was big enough to stretch out on and firm enough that he didn't have any issues getting up. In the end we had to put it away because he was spending all day on it would only get off for food or toilet :-) It was also used for Kayla hile she recovery from her amp. We didn't have the money for expensive dog beds so had to make do with what we had but it worked great and if they ever stop chewing their beds they will get it back permanatly, at the moment they have a spare couch!