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    Landscaping with Dogs

    If your landscaping is riddled with some filthy dog spots or urine, you’ll probably cringe at the mere sight or succumb right away to a dead faint. However, there’s no particular reason why you can’t enjoy the sight of your dog frolicking around your fabulously manicured lawn. But this would mean taking into consideration the presence of your pets, which can present a number of challenges and may even require you to make some compromises - a tricky balancing act in order to achieve style and function at the same time.



    So how do you actually make some concessions for a dog-friendly yard? Effective landscaping with canines primarily begins with the recognition that the usual landscaping approach will not cut out the work. If you plan to allow your dogs to roam freely around your properly, you need to consider making some adjustment on your landscaping. So if you can’t bear the very thought of chaining your dog and depriving him with the much-needed exercise, then you need to concentrate on finding some sort of a middle ground. Here are some helpful strategies that can possibly present a new ray of hope for you and your beloved pet:


    Hardscapes – generally dogs and grass don’t mix to well together, that is why you might want to sacrifice some strategic grassy patches with some hardscapes or incorporating some inanimate elements into your design, such as some stones and masonry. The advantages of featuring some hardscapes actually goes well beyond dog-proofing your yard, since it has been known to significantly offers a great new alternative to a low-maintenance lawn. Without the presence of too much grass, you have efficiently eliminated having to contend with cleaning up dog mess brought about by constant digging and the general wear and tear of your greens.



    Types of Grass – If you are not so keen on the idea of substituting your lush grass to some hardcapes, you might want to carefully look into the alternative types of grass carpets that can better hold up the constant foot and paw traffic. Bermuda grasses are among the best choices since it is known to be wonderfully resilient against the constant wear and tear. However, if are in a cooler region, the Kentucky blue grass would be the best way to reach a compromise between your dogs and grass.


    Other Alternatives – As you might have already gathered, installing tougher grasses only provides a single solution to your problem, the constant wear and tear. This means you still need to suffer dog spot woes, which often results to the unsightly yellow spots on your otherwise magnificent green carpet of grass. This is basically caused by the nitrogen and salt content that are present in dog urine. However, this is far from becoming a hopeless case. The Clover Lawn actually takes precedence among all varieties of grass since it doesn’t have any telltale stains even long after exposure to dog urine.


    Emergency Care For Lawn – If you can quite bring yourself to totally renounce the presence of grass in your landscaping, then the best thing to do in order to prevent dog spots is to guard your grasses with vigilance. When you sight your rambunctious dog taking leak on your grass, use you garden hose to flush away the urine with water. This will effectively dilute the harmful elements that are present in the urine. While this strategy presents a sensible approach, it is not an entirely practical solution since must people wouldn’t normally want to spend their days constantly keeping watch of their dog’s urinary habits. That’s if you “have a life”.



    Fences – If you want your dogs to keep away from especially delicate plants, building some fences around the plants would be the most viable option. White picket fences are extremely attractive and provide you with a perfect setting to plant some perennial flowers similar to those English gardens.


    Wire Cages – Placing wire cages around the shrubs can effectively keeping your dog urine from reaching the trunks and roots of the plants, which are known to be notoriously damaging. However, this can require some server compromise on the aesthetic values of your landscaping and should be only used as the last resort since it is not especially attractive.



    Dog Behavior Modification - Of course training your dog to steer clear from restricted areas in the house can significantly help eliminate the problem altogether. By training your dog the designated bathroom areas, you no longer have any problems with having to constantly keep a vigilant eye. Another great alternative is to change your pet’s diet by incorporating a little tomato juice to neutralize those harmful elements

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