Has anyone got a dog with Artificial Grass

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As the title says, as i have a bitch dog her wee has destroyed the grass. Its become just a massive mud pile now. Its also not fair on her as she enjoys lying on the grass.

She doesn't do any digging so the change should be ok. What worries me tho is the dog mess... Has anyone done this and care to expand on their thoughts?
 
Yes, 3 in fact. Our three Huskies enjoy the artificial grass and run around on it.. However they are trained to relieve themselves on a portion of the garden which is slabbed.

However now and again they give it a test. A quick hose (if not rain) usually sorts it out quite easily.

Not sure how great it would be if it was their main area to go on tho.
 
Wood chips in a wooden boarded area? then you can swap the chips out now and again. She should get used to weeing there eventually if you start her off.
 
Sounds like you have a very small garden. Or she is peeing on the same spot all the time?

If possible take her out more and limit the amount of times she has to go in the garden.

That's what we do with our dog. Seems to work out just fine.
 
This, make sure its in the kids play area.


Seems to be the "done thing" by all the dog owners round here at least :rolleyes:

pffft the kids have it too easy these days , what with all these dog poo bins and pooper scoopers


i spent half my childhood slide tackling through dog **** or picking it from bottom of my trainers with a lollystick
 
Take your dog for daily walks even just "round the block" then you won't have crap and **** in your garden.

I can't think of anything worse than artificial grass covered in **** & ****. :p
 
I've been to customers houses with artificial grass and dogs, the stench takes your breathe away. I trained my dog to go for a pee when he went for one of his 3 daily walks.
 
If it is turning to mud that quickly you can improve the drainage by spreading in a lot of horticultural sand.

Also, plastic mat + dog, that's going to really stink in Summer
 
Has anyone got a dog with Artificial Grass

as it happens, yes

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Yes, 3 in fact. Our three Huskies enjoy the artificial grass and run around on it.. However they are trained to relieve themselves on a portion of the garden which is slabbed.

However now and again they give it a test. A quick hose (if not rain) usually sorts it out quite easily.

Not sure how great it would be if it was their main area to go on tho.

Yeah she seems drawn to go on the grass. Our older house had a smaller garden which she went to the toilet on... So trying to retrain her to go on slab would be a hard task

Have you thought about re-planting the grass and going with an artificial dog?

Hmmmmm..... A very good shout!

Sounds like you have a very small garden. Or she is peeing on the same spot all the time?

If possible take her out more and limit the amount of times she has to go in the garden.

That's what we do with our dog. Seems to work out just fine.

Na we have quite a large garden, but only a small part is grassed. I'm about to spend a quid on completely re-doing it which is why i'm posting this up.

We leave her out in the days (unless its hammering down). Walked every night and a few mornings, depending on when i have to take the kids to school. So even with morning and night walks she still goes on there.

Take her for daily walks to the park.

Damn... didn't think of this at all. Thanks for the imput.

If it is turning to mud that quickly you can improve the drainage by spreading in a lot of horticultural sand.

Also, plastic mat + dog, that's going to really stink in Summer

Hmmmm indeed this is true!

Listening to all the feed back, think i'm going to have improve the drainage and re turf it, and patch up every so often.

Thanks all.
 
Get some Dog Rocks.. They actually seem to work! I wasn't convinced when I was told about them but the grass definitely improved and we had no new yellow patches after I started using them. Luckily Burt has taken to weeing down the drain in our new house, just need to stop him digging the lawn up now as it's perfect at the moment.
 
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