The Dog Has Ruined Our Lawn . . .
We surveyed 100 dogs across Yorkshire, asking what they considered to be their highest priority, when choosing an owner. As you might imagine, ‘a never-ending supply of food’ came in first place. However, ‘a decent garden’ came in a close second.
As a dog owner, the garden is probably a priority for you. Gone are the days when you could just let your dog out the front door, to roam the streets unsupervised. When he/she gets a bit stir crazy, or needs to go ‘do its business’, or perhaps just wants a sniff around outside, the best you can hope for, is to let it out into your garden.
In my last blog, I discussed the importance of having a garden that you can use and enjoy all year round. “Yeah, but you can’t do that when ‘man’s best friend’ digs, scratches, rolls, poops and pees all over it!” . . . Well, actually, you can!
In the blog, ‘One bark at a time’, Fred’s comments on his struggle are all too familiar to many of us:
Inevitably, though, big round patches of brown would appear and pretty soon the green was polka dotted with those flattened, dead areas.
He continues:
Between the neighbours’ overshadowing trees and Stella’s [the dog’s] buckets of pee, not a blade of grass survived and eventually everything turned to mush and then back to primordial backyard mud.
Over recent years, artificial grass has become the ideal solution to all those problems surrounding day-to-day use of the lawn. Struggling to maintain a lawn, whilst keeping pets, has now been resolved.
What about their business?
We install our fake grass with a breathable underlay which means that it is fully drainable. It actually drains better than a natural lawn. Your […]