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Calming a dog through redecorating
Several months ago, we got new floors - laminated flooring throughout. Love
the stuff. Dirt doesn't stick, very easy to clean. My "teflon floor," I call it. It's also had the rather nice effect of de-rowdying the younger dogs. Cuz they can't go leaping and tearing around indoors on such slick floors. So maybe that's another bit of advice that could be given to people who come in here and say, "My dog is nuts in the house." We tell 'em to rip up the rugs and replace the flooring, and their problem with be solved ;-). flick 100785 |
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flick wrote:
Several months ago, we got new floors - laminated flooring throughout. Love the stuff. Dirt doesn't stick, very easy to clean. My "teflon floor," I call it. It's also had the rather nice effect of de-rowdying the younger dogs. Cuz they can't go leaping and tearing around indoors on such slick floors. Wouldn't mean a thing to my dogs, who like to SSLLIIIIIDDDDDE. |
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flick wrote:
Several months ago, we got new floors - laminated flooring throughout. Love the stuff. Dirt doesn't stick, very easy to clean. My "teflon floor," I call it. It's also had the rather nice effect of de-rowdying the younger dogs. Cuz they can't go leaping and tearing around indoors on such slick floors. So maybe that's another bit of advice that could be given to people who come in here and say, "My dog is nuts in the house." We tell 'em to rip up the rugs and replace the flooring, and their problem with be solved ;-). But there is a downside if your dog is old - it plays hell on an arthritic dog. We found that out when we ripped up some old carpet in a bedroom and exposed hardwood floors. Walking on it was clearly painful for her whenever she lost traction, so we had to put down runners along her normal paths. FurPaw -- "Don't believe everything that you think." - Seen on a bumper sticker To reply, unleash the dog |
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Well, I must have the best of both worlds. My floors are
acid/etched/stained concrete. Completely dog proof. (how can you mess up concrete?) In the living room, I have a huge area rug. It is the place where the two young ones play tug (traction), the older one likes to roll there to scratch her back. And the Boston, who does something we call "frog dog" goes to the rug to do that. But when the young ones play chase, yes, there is much skidding out around the kitchen island....loss of control and sometimes wrecks. Perry "FurPaw" wrote in message ... flick wrote: Several months ago, we got new floors - laminated flooring throughout. Love the stuff. Dirt doesn't stick, very easy to clean. My "teflon floor," I call it. It's also had the rather nice effect of de-rowdying the younger dogs. Cuz they can't go leaping and tearing around indoors on such slick floors. So maybe that's another bit of advice that could be given to people who come in here and say, "My dog is nuts in the house." We tell 'em to rip up the rugs and replace the flooring, and their problem with be solved ;-). But there is a downside if your dog is old - it plays hell on an arthritic dog. We found that out when we ripped up some old carpet in a bedroom and exposed hardwood floors. Walking on it was clearly painful for her whenever she lost traction, so we had to put down runners along her normal paths. FurPaw -- "Don't believe everything that you think." - Seen on a bumper sticker To reply, unleash the dog |
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"Robin Nuttall" wrote in message
news:dinJe.245448$xm3.105522@attbi_s21... Wouldn't mean a thing to my dogs, who like to SSLLIIIIIDDDDDE. Mine continually attempt to slide and continually fail in the grace and form departments. They begin to slide, their 4 feet do some kind of warp-speed bicycling motion, said feet then flail out in all directions and 60+lbs of dog goes thumping disgracefully to the floor, on their sides, and usually with a notable head thwack. It either isn't as bad as it looks/sounds or they're just stoopid (I anonymously vote for the latter) because they keep going back for more. Fancy, I believe, likes the very light click-click her nails make when she walks on the floor. Joe Joe, I think, just braves the floor because A) that's where Jinx the evil hampster lives and B) that's where children can be found. -- Tara |
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"flick" said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:
So maybe that's another bit of advice that could be given to people who come in here and say, "My dog is nuts in the house." We tell 'em to rip up the rugs and replace the flooring, and their problem with be solved ;-). The day/night care place at which I'm leaving Rocky while Friday and I are out of town has a very slippery lobby floor. When the daycare started up in this location, they considered replacing the flooring, but quickly realised that the purchase it *didn't* give excited dogs was a good thing. -- --Matt. Rocky's a Dog. |
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FurPaw said in
rec.pets.dogs.behavior: But there is a downside if your dog is old - it plays hell on an arthritic dog. We found that out when we ripped up some old carpet in a bedroom and exposed hardwood floors. Walking on it was clearly painful for her whenever she lost traction, so we had to put down runners along her normal paths. Yup. While good ol' Murphy could negotiate the hardwood here (it's somewhat worn and not the new permanently finished stuff), it was a different story when Rocky and then-new dog Friday accidentally hip-checked her while running around. Melanie sent me two cans of paw wax (I've one can left for whoever wants it) and that helped significantly. -- --Matt. Rocky's a Dog. |
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Tee wrote:
"Robin Nuttall" wrote in message news:dinJe.245448$xm3.105522@attbi_s21... Wouldn't mean a thing to my dogs, who like to SSLLIIIIIDDDDDE. Mine continually attempt to slide and continually fail in the grace and form departments. They begin to slide, their 4 feet do some kind of warp-speed bicycling motion, said feet then flail out in all directions and 60+lbs of dog goes thumping disgracefully to the floor, on their sides, and usually with a notable head thwack. I must admit that would scare the beejeezus out of me. Fortunately my girls really don't do that much, though one of Cala's favorite things is to slide into the wall sideways with a huge CLUNK on her way to get her ball. But it does make her very agile on slick surfaces. She's a dog who can run full speed on water glazed ice and take a corner effortlessly. Amazing. Viva, no. She's more careful. |
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I keep telling Mike I want rid of ALL the carpet in the house. Now if I
could convince him that this method would keep her from chewing the place up I could maybe get him to go for it........... Celeste "flick" wrote in message ... Several months ago, we got new floors - laminated flooring throughout. Love the stuff. Dirt doesn't stick, very easy to clean. My "teflon floor," I call it. It's also had the rather nice effect of de-rowdying the younger dogs. Cuz they can't go leaping and tearing around indoors on such slick floors. So maybe that's another bit of advice that could be given to people who come in here and say, "My dog is nuts in the house." We tell 'em to rip up the rugs and replace the flooring, and their problem with be solved ;-). flick 100785 |
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"Melanie L Chang" wrote in message
... My new apartment has carpeting -- not my first choice, but it's brand new carpeting and quite plush. The dogs LOVE it. They don't slide, and they feel free to lie anywhere they want rather than sticking to area rugs. Of course, the carpet is beige, so in addition to a new apartment, I also have a new Bissell spot cleaner for the inevitable spots that will need cleaning. Beige carpet. Horrors. I've often said that kids can do a lot more damage to a house than puppies. We had some beige carpet when my kids were young. Even with a steam cleaner, it quickly became a collage of stains from food colorings in juice, etc. flick 100785 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Melanie Lee Chang | Form ever follows function. Departments of Anthropology and Biology | University of Pennsylvania | -- Louis Sullivan | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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