Large garden and dog poo
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I am sure this is the strangest question for advice I have ever posted....
We are going to be buying a house with a 2 acre garden and going from one with a fairly small garden. We have two dogs, who do their business and I clean it up once a week before cutting the grass. Its pretty easy as its all contained in a smallish area.
When we move, the dogs will be able to run about the large garden and I am sure will not be considerate to doing it all in one place. I don't want to be hunting about for turds. Should I build a dog run and contain them in a smaller part of the garden when we are not with them, or something else?
The house comes with a drive on Ransomes mower, maybe this will also pick up any offending items?
Thanks
Andy
We are going to be buying a house with a 2 acre garden and going from one with a fairly small garden. We have two dogs, who do their business and I clean it up once a week before cutting the grass. Its pretty easy as its all contained in a smallish area.
When we move, the dogs will be able to run about the large garden and I am sure will not be considerate to doing it all in one place. I don't want to be hunting about for turds. Should I build a dog run and contain them in a smaller part of the garden when we are not with them, or something else?
The house comes with a drive on Ransomes mower, maybe this will also pick up any offending items?
Thanks
Andy
andyb28 said:
I am sure this is the strangest question for advice I have ever posted....
We are going to be buying a house with a 2 acre garden and going from one with a fairly small garden. We have two dogs, who do their business and I clean it up once a week before cutting the grass. Its pretty easy as its all contained in a smallish area.
When we move, the dogs will be able to run about the large garden and I am sure will not be considerate to doing it all in one place. I don't want to be hunting about for turds. Should I build a dog run and contain them in a smaller part of the garden when we are not with them, or something else?
The house comes with a drive on Ransomes mower, maybe this will also pick up any offending items?
Thanks
Andy
A "2 acre" garden OP?We are going to be buying a house with a 2 acre garden and going from one with a fairly small garden. We have two dogs, who do their business and I clean it up once a week before cutting the grass. Its pretty easy as its all contained in a smallish area.
When we move, the dogs will be able to run about the large garden and I am sure will not be considerate to doing it all in one place. I don't want to be hunting about for turds. Should I build a dog run and contain them in a smaller part of the garden when we are not with them, or something else?
The house comes with a drive on Ransomes mower, maybe this will also pick up any offending items?
Thanks
Andy
Up here, we call that a field!
I am even further oop north and have 5 acres.... and a Great Dane.
Simplest thing to do is to quickly identify an area where you want the dog to do its stuff, preferably a biggish long-grassed border at the bottom of the garden, and make sure you take it there as a matter of course from day one. Simple training should mean that it quickly learns to go there all the time and will run there from anywhere in the garden.
Simplest thing to do is to quickly identify an area where you want the dog to do its stuff, preferably a biggish long-grassed border at the bottom of the garden, and make sure you take it there as a matter of course from day one. Simple training should mean that it quickly learns to go there all the time and will run there from anywhere in the garden.
I think you are being a bit selfish wanting to confine the dogs because you don't want to pick up their poo.
I have two dogs and they have access to 3 gardens each about an acre in size. If you go out once a day and clean up after them then the garden will be fine. My two usually mess in two areas of about two square meters in size.
I have two dogs and they have access to 3 gardens each about an acre in size. If you go out once a day and clean up after them then the garden will be fine. My two usually mess in two areas of about two square meters in size.
kicks said:
I think you are being a bit selfish wanting to confine the dogs because you don't want to pick up their poo.
I have two dogs and they have access to 3 gardens each about an acre in size. If you go out once a day and clean up after them then the garden will be fine. My two usually mess in two areas of about two square meters in size.
Wow, talk about putting 2 + 2 together and not getting 4?I have two dogs and they have access to 3 gardens each about an acre in size. If you go out once a day and clean up after them then the garden will be fine. My two usually mess in two areas of about two square meters in size.
I was not saying I don't want to pick it up, I was saying would it be worth reducing the size of the garden to confine the area they are going in to make it easier to find it to pick up.
Why is it when it comes to animals, people just assume the worst. Lets stop jumping to conclusions shall we?
I think I have a great answer already, so hopefully the dogs will pick their own place, or I can train them by taking them there each morning.
The mower won't pck up the pooh but if set to the right height it will make the problem go away quicker.
Also the countryside
It isn't 6 foot deep in animal crap therefore something makes the crap go away.
We have 2 acres 3 dogs and one mower
We never lift crap and we are no knee deep in st
Also the countryside
It isn't 6 foot deep in animal crap therefore something makes the crap go away.
We have 2 acres 3 dogs and one mower
We never lift crap and we are no knee deep in st
kicks said:
Maybe I worded it badly. But you are still wanting to reduce the area of garden they have because you don't want to do a quick walk around your garden every day. I know you will pick up the poo but it is still wrong to restrict them even if it is a relatively large area.
Hah, barmy answer... you are still wrong on this. I actually said...
"Should I build a dog run and contain them in a smaller part of the garden when we are not with them"
i.e. when they choose to go outside on their own without us, they get the run. When we go outside together, they go in the whole garden.
It is irrelevant what size someones garden is as long as dogs get suitable exercise.
I prefer my dog to crap when we are out - that way I can bag it and lob it in the council provided bin on a footpath.
The alternative is for her to crap in the garden - I then don't know where and when I do find one it stinks out my wheelie bin.
So we just did some basic reward training:
Do a crap on the early morning walk - get a treat.
Do it in the garden when we get home - don't get a treat.
Being a greedy little mutt it took her all of about 3 days to work this one out. Works 9 times out of 10 unless she's been eating crap (like a ball of string, half a flip flop, a chunk if rotting wood etc etc...) and disturbed the rhythm.
Only dog I know that takes a dump and then runs back excitedly looking for a tasty bite
The alternative is for her to crap in the garden - I then don't know where and when I do find one it stinks out my wheelie bin.
So we just did some basic reward training:
Do a crap on the early morning walk - get a treat.
Do it in the garden when we get home - don't get a treat.
Being a greedy little mutt it took her all of about 3 days to work this one out. Works 9 times out of 10 unless she's been eating crap (like a ball of string, half a flip flop, a chunk if rotting wood etc etc...) and disturbed the rhythm.
Only dog I know that takes a dump and then runs back excitedly looking for a tasty bite
andyb28 said:
Hah, barmy answer... you are still wrong on this.
I actually said...
"Should I build a dog run and contain them in a smaller part of the garden when we are not with them"
i.e. when they choose to go outside on their own without us, they get the run. When we go outside together, they go in the whole garden.
It is irrelevant what size someones garden is as long as dogs get suitable exercise.
So how many hours per day do you spend out in the garden with your dogs? I would guess maximum 1. So they spend the rest of the time that they are outside in the run. I am not a bleeding heart I just think you are looking for an easy way out to a minor problem. But to be honest I don't care so do what you like. I actually said...
"Should I build a dog run and contain them in a smaller part of the garden when we are not with them"
i.e. when they choose to go outside on their own without us, they get the run. When we go outside together, they go in the whole garden.
It is irrelevant what size someones garden is as long as dogs get suitable exercise.
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