Landscaping Ideas for Dogs
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- Опубликовано: 7 май 2020
- Here we go with a landscaping ideas for Dogs video. With so many of us being Dog-Lovers and Paradise Restored being Outdoor Living- Lovers it makes sense to provide a Dog-Friendly-Backyard-Space Video to show off solutions to dogscape your landscape.
We all love being outdoors, and the family dog wants to be a part of the action. After all our dogs are part of the family and we want to enjoy the seasons with pets included. This may seem like a compromise of aesthetics, however, you might be pleasantly surprised at how some of these solutions provide convenience with just the right look.
By seeing some landscaping ideas for dogs, you’ll be able to visualize and prepare the space that fits your families’ lifestyle best - all while accommodating your pets needs. We’ve all seen homeowner choices to let their dogs have free run of the back yard. However, this can lead to the challenge of messy, muddy lawns with holes dug in flower beds and entrenched doggie pathways. We hope to offer a few dog-friendly landscaping ideas as a compromise.
Installing Hardscape in portions of the yard offers low-maintenance for years while minimizing wear and tear on lawns and messy dog-digging. Materials like concrete pavers, bricks, and stones hold up and are easy to clean-up. If your dog has some favorite digging spots, add river rock or stone to the beds. They drain well and look beautiful. We call them dog friendly, however, dog preventing might be a better term.
The green, green grass of home may also be problematic if urine spots are part of the look. Let’s face it, doggy urine and grass do not mix. The nitrogen or dog salts in dog urine actually burn the grass.
Need a paw print solution? Muddy Backyard Fix? Yellow lawn spots/burns? Synthetic grass might be the answer.
Love real grass best? See some suggestions other homeowners have decided on.
How-to’s for building a dog friendly landscape include: Cedar Chips, Pea Gravel, Concrete Areas with Doghouse, and Natural Grass with dry creek beds for optimal water drainage.
Some might want to consider a dog run for low maintenance clean-up while others are tired of the paw print struggle on indoor floors and carpets needing bigger solutions
From pavers to river rock, or dry creek beds with French drains to move water, we will point out plans that work. We love helping you plan a dog friendly landscape and a worry-free transition from outside to inside.
We’ll show off SynLawn for a Dog Friendly Yard: Beautifully Green, Pet Stay Clean, Optimal Drainage, Odor Control, Rodent and other Pest Control
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Oh I need this, so much mud from 2 dogs😊
Thank you so much for addressing this issue. We are definitely going to try RTF. I'll let you know how it goes.
Thank you ❤
Good stuff Mikah? Sorry on spelling...Thought I saw it spelled this way on another video.
Awesome stuff: I was unaware of the advances in synthetic lawn and the self-repairing RTF. I feel informed from having watched this and your other videos. Keep up the standard.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment. Have an awesome day!
Ive heard artificial grass holds a lot of bacteria from the dogs and other wildlife need plants and grasses, gardens can be butterfly havens, they lay leave their littlns in grasses too you see. I’ll probably add a dedicated run area (wider path at the least) but keep some grass and flower beds and in the meantime try to fix any patches in the grass, maybe investigate the brand of grass mentioned here depending on how tall it really is!
Have heard some people use sand for dog runs because it drains well, I wonder what the pros and cons are.
I have a dog relief area on the side of my house with pebbles. I don’t recommend small pebbles if you have a puppy, they think it’s kibble. My pup peed on my small area of artificial grass in the backyard for a short period but no bacteria (smell) after hosing it down. The sand my HOA uses on neighborhood stairs and walkways pools like crazy. My landscape contractor used the same sand around my vegetable beds have moss due to all the rain we’ve had this winter in Bay Area. Had I known that I’d continue with river rocks.
Small stones are a big no no. You need a special type of artificial grass as well. I know of one called K9, normal artificial grass will smell badly very quickly from dog urine.
Thank u for the comment. Appreciate your advice 😊
They are really pricey. To do a small portion of my yard is $16,000!
Yea my dogs will eat rocks
It should also depend where you live, if it's very hot then artifical grass is a massive no no for a pet owner as it's plastic it gets extremely hot in the sun.
Well said.
I live in AZ and I would like to start a garden or have a bunch of plants, what would you recommended? I have a big backyard, mostly dirt and a dog.
Good job 👏. I like that idea. Thx
Yay!! Thank u for the compliment. Have an amazing day ❤️
While I appreciate all of the examples, I think you would be better served giving people ideas like "don't do this, do this" "definitely do these things". This was more of a tour of people's backyards who I don't think own dogs, because there was a huge dirt hill in one of them.
Thank you for the advice and the comment. I will definitely keep working to improve and I will apply these tips. Have an awesome day
My dogs when I put them outside will sometimes be fine out there if it’s sunny enough but otherwise they just come right back to the door or bark like crazy at the neighbors or whatever.
I understand 😂
Thank you! Great video! Do you do consulting - would you consider helping me create a plan for my yard?
Yep, I can design your space www.backyardlivingguyde.com/3d-design-process or we could do a 1 on 1 meeting www.backyardlivingguyde.com/coaching. Looking forward to meeting you.
I've seen a space for dogs and a catio for the kitties. What about chickens?
Can synthetic lawn be placed on top of concrete ?
Yes.
And this will be fine with dog urine seeping through ? It won’t effect the concrete would it ? Thank you !
Could I put turf on concrete and then have a dog there if it peed would it seep onto the concrete?
No it needs better drainage than that or it will pool up on the turf.
My dog eats pea gravel like candy. Had to pull it out so be careful. Of course not all dogs will eat pea gravel. Aka pee gravel.
Lol. Wow, thank u for this helpful comment. Funny comment about pee gravel 😂
Glad to know- was considering doing that for my three dogs
When your dog uses your lawn as a giant pee pad, overtime your lawn will smell soooo bad especially after it rains.
Yes, its very important to do drainage under the Syn lawn
How do you get rid of the urine smell from pets on synthetic lawn? I live in California and synthetic lawn smells like urine in the Spring / Summer .
Jeeze, these are human friendly not dog friendly. Dogs need trees, actual grass, which they eat when they have stomach problems so they can vomit, they need different smells, maybe a course with tires and see saws to play, an agility course. Get a plastic dog for your plastic home or talk with vets for real ideas for real dogs. Jeeze!
No rock or stone garden of any kind is good for dogs.
We have had a total of 16 dogs. Dogs NEED to eat grass!!! Check with a few vets before doing a synthetic lawn!!! You dogs also need to sniff nature , not synthetic. This is a thumbs down for me with dogs.
Thanks for this comment and real life experience. Have a wonderful day
This is simply not true. Dogs do not NEED to eat grass. And the smells of nature are in the yard no matter if you have natural grass or synthetic:) Wonderful landscape ideas!