Large garden and dog poo

[andyb28]

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

[andyb28]

Honestly....

LaurasOtherHalf said:

You could always try taking the thing for a walk

Of course we walk our dogs, the problem is they like to poop in the comfort of their own home. TBH, I am much the same.

[andyb28]

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 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.

[andyb28]

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.

[andyb28]

Spare tyre said:

When I was a kid dad trained our staffy to poo in a hole he'd dug!

That is very cool