OuTside Doggie Areas Question

[fburke]

The Wife and I just are buying a new house it has just over a half acre of land.. the draw back no fence.

I want Willow to have an area…not the run of the yard like she does now it would be so wonderful to have a garden that doesn’t get trampled.. She loves picking flowers for mommy! ;D


Any suggestions? Even pictures of your doggie areas?

She’s pretty young and headstrong so I’m unsure of an electric fence I just want something that doesn’t look like a cage in my yard, we have considered adding another Lab in the near fiture

Thanks

[Charla]

I have no advice/pics. My dogs have the run of my back yard....and it shows.

[imported_Slappy McCracken]

I am envious of your yard and I haven't even seen it! We live on a postage stamp size lot.

I do know this much though: our next place, we are having a designated poop/pee area, because I am tired of our pathetic little yard looking like the surface of the moon. Cooper makes a lousy landscaper. We had some landscaping done last summer and put a big rock in one corner of the yard, with a bit of gravel around it, thinking that it would be a piece of cake to get him to lift his leg & pee there. Nope. Tried everything. There is one last thing I am going to try though and it is this: the next time I see someone going by with a male dog, I'm going to get them to have it pee on the rock. What pisses me off (pun totally intended) is that when we go to the park across the road, the first thing he does is run over to a huge rock at the entrance and pee on it! Arrrggghhh!!!!!

I hope others post pics of their yards with doggie areas, because I need ideas too!

Bev.

[Rascal]

Sorry no pics butt, Our old house had 3 acres and trained her to stay in with a electric fence at 6 months. It worked very well and she learned very quikly ;D

[fburke]

I'm just afraid that she would bolt through an electric fence...i guess for the price and the amount of ground cover it;s cheaper then building a wooden fence...

any suggestion's on brands and types?

[AngusFangus]

I'm not a huge fan of electric fences. I know many people have had great luck with them, but I had a bad experience with Crash and have sworn off. a) He would go through it if the temptation was great enough, b) the collar turned out to be malfunctioning, shocking him even when he wasn't near the perimeter, and c) electric fences don't keep other dogs out, just your dog in.

We built a privacy fence after the electric fence fiasco. :-\

I do know this much though: our next place, we are having a designated poop/pee area, because I am tired of our pathetic little yard looking like the surface of the moon.

Now that was funny!

We have decided, like you, that our next house will have a different arrangement. We would ideally like to have a dog run across the back of the house, and a dog room that they can stay in during the day. Tiled floors (or maybe rubber!) for easy clean-up. They could come and go freely into the dog run if they had to potty, but I imagine them spending most of their time inside.

The dog run would be fenced somehow...haven't decided whether we'd do chain link or privacy. But I want to plant the outside with tall bushes to camoflauge it.

Then outside the dog run, the yard proper would also have a six foot privacy fence. They could be out in the large yard when we are home to be with them. Hopefully next time we will get a yard big enough that it doesn't end up looking like the surface of the moon.