Dogs - carpets/tiles/laminate floors? Fabric/leather sofas? Washable paint on walls?

Indie_Kid

Do you not have covers on the sofa? These might be easier to clean than attempting to clean the sofa.

tanith

Reminds me why I always say 'not on your life sunshine' , whenever anyone mentions getting a dog in our house...lol nice clean cats I can cope with..

gettingready

sh1305 wrote: »

Do you not have covers on the sofa? These might be easier to clean than attempting to clean the sofa.

Nah.. much easier to wipe the leather than to wash covers - few times per day

lostinrates

Damage limitation.

Ours have the hallway only to come in and out of till dry. Every morning I get up do the outside animals then feed the dogs/cats and while they eat do the ''big'' hallway clean. This is all rugs up and in wash, floor swept, walls dusted and quickly wiped (Aout twenty metres os wall I guess, all in, but rarely ALL needs rubbing.) Then floor mopped, dried and new rugs down. Takes 20, fast furios mins minimum.

Mean while dogs eat, and go outside for a widdle. Dogs are met at door with towel, admited one at time, then, and only then, because of impatience, the door is wiped down.

I rinse out mop and leave it clean and damp, in the bucket. Every time dogs are allowed ou I try and get the worst off their feet and mop where I missed. with a barely damp mop (wood floors, so can't leave wet, so JUST damp.) Get it immeadiately it takes seconds, leave it to dry it takes longer.

Twice a week the two ''alcoves'' where they lie and lean on walls get a more thourough scrub...and all the doors leading off hall...door knobs etc, light switches.

The dogs are not allowed IN to the other rooms while damp still, though might have doors open so they don't feel isolated. Also, hosing down after a muddy walk for the hardier two, so that the wet is wet, not filthy wet helps, they other one has regular baths (weekly/fortnightly) anyway, and a short coat, so wipes clean with a flannel.

omething that really ha improved life is, embarrasingly, dog perfume. Clean but wet dogs do not smell good, dog perfume really helps clean dogs smell clean.

I long for some dry, crisp days though....feels continually dank and might have to have mop stiched on to hand!

ETA: we also have two cats...I'm not sure they are all that cleaner....they come in soaked and with mud shoes often!

boingsaidzebedee

I have a nice black line around all walls in the house about dog height and can't for the life of me understand where it comes from.

I have laminate and tile floors and 3 long haired GSDs.I find that the dog hair blows around and tends to collect in the same nooks and crannies.

I admit that for a man I am rather obsessive about the cleaning.Each week without fail I go round and fill a carrier bag with the accumulation of dog hair and bin it.
About once a month I get the hoover out and suck up the dried mud,sand and other detritous.I know when it is time to hoover when I can draw lines in the dust on the TV screen or am unable to make out the letters on this keyboard.

Find that laminate is a Godsend.One of the dogs is a messy eater and the laminate makes it easy to scrape the dried dog food up every couple of weeks.

boingsaidzebedee

I have a nice black line around all walls in the house about dog height and can't for the life of me understand where it comes from.

I have laminate and tile floors and 3 long haired GSDs.I find that the dog hair blows around and tends to collect in the same nooks and crannies.

I admit that for a man I am rather obsessive about the cleaning.Each week without fail I go round and fill a carrier bag with the accumulation of dog hair and bin it.
About once a month I get the hoover out and suck up the dried mud,sand and other detritous.I know when it is time to hoover when I can draw lines in the dust on the TV screen or am unable to make out the letters on this keyboard.

Find that laminate is a Godsend.One of the dogs is a messy eater and the laminate makes it easy to scrape the dried dog food up every couple of weeks.

boingsaidzebedee

Whoops---Double post.

Theres a man for you--totally witless and useless.

lisawood78

I come home to 120kg of slobbery loveliness every day, with drool on the walls, food on the sofas and mud everywhere you can imagine.
Still love em to bits tho, but damn I wish it was easier!!!!
And they are short haired!!

Ooo, editing to add, mine eat outdoors , we have a covered area on the side patio and their food bowls are there, they eat and make all the mess they like there with their piscuits and dribble, and then I hose it all down the drain runner thing.
And if its really cold they just eat faster (before anyone says i'm cruel they are only out long enough to eat their food and toilet, and they do not seem remotely upset by it!)
Water bowls also outdoors by the food, however we have an indoor (raised) water station also, that lives on top of a biiiig towel.

gettingready

lisawood78 wrote: »

I come home to 120kg of slobbery loveliness every day.

You keeping white bear at home?

:huh:

120kg or 120lb?

Or maybe 120kg divided by at least 2 dogs?

LOL

lisawood78

120kg, split between 2 female Great Danes.
Big uns :-)