i had a clutch of spaniels .....and know what you are talking about....
i used to works on big earthworks...and years ago we were stabilising an embankment with a thick mesh...it was about 2" thick...spongy...it looked as if it had been made with squirting jets of plastic.....this was pinned to the embankment and hydro-seeded.....
i knabbed a few squre metres of it...and cut it to fit the dog bed...the wet dogs loved it...they would lay under the infa red lamps and the air would circulate around them and underneath....every couple of weeks i would take it out and spray it down with t