What can I do with the yard and still have a safe place for my dogs?
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Beautiful yard! What specifically do you need for the dogs? Mine have a doggie door from the house to the back yard and they have crates in my bedroom and sleep with me too, along with the cats . . .
Well looks like make a doggie door at screen porch and put crate or dog house in there . To keep dogs in yard an no structure use invisible fence. We diy ours or get it professional installed. Doggies safe in yard and go into their house through doggie door on porch. Happy dogs happy home!
You can build them a lean to type structure for a dog house, that way it is attached to the house, even with a couple of nails or screws. That way if it is real hot or starts to rain, they should have somewhere to go. If you want you could make it just a little bigger and you will have a place to store your gardening tools, etc. Put in a couple of dog beds and a water dish for them and you have somewhere comfy they can go to.
A firepit with seating around it.
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Thank you for your answer! i should have mentioned that the pups are in and out of the house at will so they are not there all day. They have beds on the screened porch if they choose to stay out. I was looking at a way to dress up the yard a bit.
You could put in some small gardens, you could use the regular bricks to edge them, just even out the ground underneath and set them in, or put them up the long way and sink them a little bit to have a little more barrier between the garden and the dogs. You don't have to do anything fancy, and you could go perennials so that you don't have to replace everything each year. Hubby will be 73 this year and he just put in a small four foot square garden around our yard light a couple of weeks ago with 4x4's. The garden in on the first of three tiers on the property and pretty steep, the old garden was hard to keep since it was downhill and I kept losing soil and the top didn't stay watered real well. I think I did the hardest part, putting in the huge bags of soil and planting 150 glads when he was done. Start small and gradually add as you decide what to do, it is much easier on our aging bodies. It all doesn't have to be done at once. Have fun and give your dogs some loving!
Hi Cbaver!
i can definitely relate to feeling overwhelmed when trying to plan things for my landscape. But remember this...”it doesn’t have to be perfect to be beautiful.“. That’s my issue, I tend to be a perfectionist and I’m slowly learning to let that go a bit. Can you tell us about the type of sun exposure the yard receives? (Ie: full sun (6+ hrs/day), partial sun (3-5 hrs/day), or full shade)? Also how big are your dogs? Are they likely to knock over say a ceramic birdbath? The answers to these types of questions will help us come up with more solid ideas for you to implement if you choose to. Looking forward to hearing back from you! Best, Mindy (another fellow dog owner too!) 😊
I would put in a dog run along one side of the house or porch, they have them where you can sit them down, or you can use chain link and make your own. https://www.walmart.com/search/?query=dog%20runs&cat_id=0 be sure to provide some shade, water.
I have also used that coated cable to run a zip line from one side of a yard to the other, and then add a down lead to your dogs collar. Allows them to run but prevents from coming out of yard. I fastened one end on the house with a heavy duty eye bolt, and the other end to a tree at the other end of the yard. This was sturdy enough for my clients pit bull.
Perhaps using invisible fences as a pet containment system is a better idea? where you can contain the pups in a sub section of your garden? here is a detailed guide ...
http://shihtzuexpert.com/wireless-vs-wired-dog-fence/