Dogs and a Garden

All you folk with dogs ... are they allowed to tromp around your lovely gardens doing their business wherever and trampling things down or are they all perfectly trained? :eek: What about your three with your lush hideout, BM? :confused:

 

Candy is perfectly trained the Jan Fennel way - she never steps on the border, she likes to lie on the lawn and bake as dogs do, and has her own special patch of long grass as she grazes alot.
As she was a cruelly treated rescue dog she has some odd habits - including never peeing or using the garden as a loo.

 

I dont let rosa out downstairs as not to annoy my neighbours sharing the same gardens to front and back of the property and we have this mad women living on the ground floor and she keeps imajining rats and bugs all over and throws white powder around the blocks and we for that reason dont let rosa down. precaution.
I either take rosa out take bags with me or she goes on an area on my balcony

 

My 3 dogs are far from perfect, they will walk on the borders if the cat has been there, but they know they're not supposed to. They don't dig, except for this hot weather they have made a shallow depression in the lawn under the hedge where they go for dust baths and a bit of 'coolth'
They have a catflap to go in and out as they please.
They use the lawn for their toilet; I have read that you can train a dog to 'go' where you want it to but I've never succeeded. My dogs are shelties and every one I've had has stubbornly refused to pee or poo whilst on the lead, so it's difficult to even start. If anyone has any ideas, I'll be very grateful!
Being fairly small they don't harm the garden. The cats are worse!

 

iff they dont harm your garden liz i would just carry on as you are doing, years ago when i had homes with gardens i always had large dogs, german sheperds and rhodesian ridgeback i can never remember having a problem with my gardens, mind i was out three times a day with my dogs.

 

I have a dog yard which I had levelled and sealed for ease of washing. All the water runs into acco drains and the concrete is sealed so it doesn't smell. We only have the lurcher at the moment and she is allowed on the garden but she is very well behaved and mainly sticks to the deck or dog yard as she seems to feel more comfortable setting her own boundaries. She only legs it up the garden if uninivited four legged friends dare enter!

 

Awww Rosa, my first dog was a ridgeback, they're fab!!

 

like your prancing dog BM how do you get those up on the screen. :D

 

hi jay yes they are lovely dogs, friend of mine he also has one now, his is great with me but is funny with strangers going up to her, he goes mad as he cannot understand why some people have to go up to her, when they dont know her and she gives a growl, well you know what they sound like when they bark and growl so distinctive.
happy days are our memories of our past pets

 

Just another picture, just treat them like a photo, paste in the the same way.

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Im with Liz on this one - mine are hopeless We had just grass and concrete where they grew up and I said, when we moved to this lovely garden, I would not get cross with them......I have on occasions Im afraid
Nothing pleases me more than seeing my little Molly snuffling through the undergrowth, rooting out things she thinks are there - and sitting with the 2 dogs in the sunshine on my pee-patched lawn fills me with joy :D

 

Well, my dog isn't the trouble here - its the kiddies!!!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: Bramble runs and poos on the lawn, jumps in the pond, drinks from anything - except her water bowl, she is particularly into the saucers in the greenhouse (yeuck!!! - complete with tomato feed), and last year made a point of eating any flower she came across!!!!! or just pulling the head off and spitting the petals over the lawn!!! She has calmed down alot this year, but as the garden is a building site, I won't know until next year..... but you just go with the flow when you have a dog - at least they don't dig up the flowers and poop all over them like cats!!!!

 

A lot of my garden is flower beds and borders so it seems rather unfair to keep the dogs off them - the biggest problem is in the Spring when the new shoots are pushing their way through. My lab was the biggest problem because she always liked to "help". Whenever I was digging in a flower border she would magically appear just where my fork was... she probably thought I had turned up one of her chews!

 

My dogs go for a long walk in the woods then come back and poo everywhere. If I forget to clean it up straight away my toddler is most obliging! :eek: Several times he has brought me a sun dried poo in from the garden because he thinks this is helpful. :eek: :eek: :eek: :rolleyes:

 

my dog just goes on the lawn he doesnt cock his leg so i have stains but i cant complain as he doesnt walk in the flower beds..he goes in the hedge bits occasionally rooting and a tooting to see if their is anything of interest..he lives here and he has to go to the toilet..so its just one of those things..my daughters dog goes in my flowers when he comes visiting..so he gets told off ..