Has anyone got a dog with Artificial Grass

[TFU] Thegoon84 · 9 Jan 2016 at 14:13

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?

jsmoke · 9 Jan 2016 at 14:24

Take her for daily walks to the park.

ChocolateStarfishRammer · 9 Jan 2016 at 14:26

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.

NexusK · 9 Jan 2016 at 14:42

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

chief barker · 9 Jan 2016 at 15:02

Sell the dog to the local Chinese takeaway.

darael · 9 Jan 2016 at 15:19

I'd imagine daily rinse downs and weekly scrubs with Jeyes fluid should keep it clean.

tnx · 9 Jan 2016 at 15:33

chief barker said:
Sell the dog to the local Chinese takeaway.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

would that be "Chowuahua mein"

AtreuS · 9 Jan 2016 at 15:40

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.

Cosimo · 9 Jan 2016 at 15:41

chief barker said:
Sell the dog to the local Chinese takeaway.

Szechuan sweet & hot dog...

robin66 · 9 Jan 2016 at 16:09

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.

Haggisman · 9 Jan 2016 at 17:07

jsmoke said:
Take her for daily walks to the park.

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:

"andy" · 9 Jan 2016 at 17:14

Haggisman said:
This, make sure its in the kids play area.

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

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

LeeUK · 9 Jan 2016 at 18:09

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 **** & ****.

ristac · 9 Jan 2016 at 18:13

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.

bitslice · 9 Jan 2016 at 18:21

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

cainer · 9 Jan 2016 at 18:27

Has anyone got a dog with Artificial Grass

as it happens, yes

[TFU] Thegoon84 · 9 Jan 2016 at 18:32

ChocolateStarfishRammer said:
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

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

Hmmmmm..... A very good shout!

robin66 said:
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.

jsmoke said:
Take her for daily walks to the park.

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

bitslice said:
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.

Stash. · 9 Jan 2016 at 20:41

Regular dog walkers at the park don't need any imput. Thanks for the offer.

Street · 9 Jan 2016 at 21:19

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.

stewski · 9 Jan 2016 at 21:20

My dog only smokes the real deal

disclaimer I have no do and If I did I wouldn't allow that kind of behaviour.