Idea on a fence

Mindy
by Mindy
We turned this little area by our driveway into a flower bed. The trouble is our 3 dogs love to use it as their personal bathroom. Any ideas on what to use for a border fence that will keep them out and still be able to see the flowers? We have an 85lb golden retriever, 60 lb black lab, and a 25lb mountain fiest/terrier. We don't want to spend a lot of money on it. And we are always up for ideas on repurposing materials. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This is the area we need to put a fence around. We put the border in, and added the small fence but that don't keep them out.
  8 answers
  • Douglas Hunt Douglas Hunt on Mar 24, 2014
    Surely 3-foot chicken wire would keep them out and let you see in.
  • Mindy Mindy on Mar 24, 2014
    Thanks for the answers, but I'm still hoping for more ideas.
  • Katie Katie on Mar 24, 2014
    You could not let your dogs out the front of your house. I suppose it depends on what type of look you are going for. It's very small area, so anything too substantial wouldn't work to well. I think the chicken wire is a good idea. You could also try a line of electric fence. They only need to touch that once.
  • Elizabeth Sagarminaga Elizabeth Sagarminaga on Mar 24, 2014
    I would say you should get metal fences with a height that the dogs would no longer be able to climb. Make sure that it has a gate for your entrance. There are innumerable options available, just get in touch with a professional fencing company.
  • Jennifer G Jennifer G on Mar 26, 2014
    A hot wire fence sure cured my dogs of using my flower beds for their 'business'. I had 3 dogs - a huge 120 lb,, a 70 lb., and a 40 lb. and after getting shocked once a piece, they never ventured in again. It's not expensive to hook up or run and is nearly invisible (unlike a 'real' fence).
  • Mary Ker Mary Ker on Apr 06, 2015
    I would love it if my 3 would choose one place in the yard to poop! Sure you want to trade this one stop scooping place for scooping all over the yard? If so, it looks like you live in a traditional house, so how about getting wood pickets, maybe cutting them to 3/4 length and painting them to martch your house? A more invisible solution is something we out here in Arizona call javalina fencing. Not sure where you would find it..maybe on the web.
  • Rymea Rymea on Mar 27, 2017

    You could try laying a piece of 4" x4" wire fencing down flat over the garden. The flowers will grow through it and I doubt that the dogs would walk on it. Might work even better if you could raised it up a few inches.

    We used fencing laid flat to keep our dogs from digging holes around our foundation. I know it works for that.

  • Claude Claude on Mar 27, 2017

    There is deer fencing...black, strong and in 3-7' heights stick stakes in and zip tie it to them. The electric would work but I use deer fencing because it's effective and invisidle from a distance. Jmo