Getting dog go toilet on garden with no grass

mrcol1000

So we are in the process of buying a house. Its the dream home but the garden has been patioed over. Eventually we would like to sort part of it out and return it to lawn. However previously we had a yard with no grass in and the dog would only go to toilet in it if she was desperate. Lucklily we lived next to a canal with no lights on so if you came along at the right time you could see me on the canal path at 4am in the morning in my PJs with the dog having a pee.

Anyway much prefer her to go to toilet in our new garden so I wondered how other people cope with this? Do you put anything down to encourage them. Also if we do get her to go toilet (liquids) on the concerte. Does it need washing or can you just let it seep down into the earth under the patio? Don't want to upset the new neighbour with any smell?
Thanks for anyones help/

elsien

No ideas for how to train her to go (a square of astroturf?!), but it will definitely need washing down regularly. I've got mine now so she'll go for a wee in my back yard - she won't go on the paved bit but theres a loose stone/gravel bit she's happier with. She won't do a pooh in there at all though - I have to take her out. My neighbours yorkie does its business on a paved back yard and it pongs to high heaven after a few days. I hate to think what the smell would be like from a larger dog. It also marks - you can see the patches where the wee has run which looks icky unless you sling water over it regularly.

Pont

Our puppy is 11 weeks old. We have no grass in the garden, just paving with gravel down each side. He does the 'biggies' at the bottom of the garden on the left hand side gravel, and the 'smallies' on the right hand side gravel! It hasn't been a problem and easy to bag up every evening. Although our dog is young, and probably easier to train at this age, I'm sure with some patience, treats etc you can get your dog to go.
Our puppy, when over excited, does pee occasionally on the patio (which obviously I don't want him to do) so I've been washing it down with washing powder in hot water. It was quite funny the other day as during the downpour we had hundreds of bubbles floating all over the patio!

lisawood78

Our girls do their business on the patio, which is fenced off from the rest of the lawn as it can be a mud bath in this weather.
They haven't always gone there, we've only had it patioed for about a year, but we let them out there when they needed to go and they just went in the end.
I guess it can take time but they will go eventually. Dogs can be funny about toileting in diff places though. When we take them away the younger one can hold on to everything for about 12 hours til she decides enough is enough then she'll go on the lead wherever she happens to be (outdoors of course!)
With wees we hose it off into the gravel at the sides, no 2s get scooped into a bin lined with a bio degradeable liner which gets put in the wheelie bin when emptied, not ideal but best option I can find, at least when it goes to landfill it will break down and not sit in a plastic bag for many years.
We hose the patio down with a solution of Jeyes about once a week, more in the hot weather but ensure it is completely hosed off, and dried before letting them back on it.
Good luck.

mrcol1000

lisawood78 wrote: »

I guess it can take time but they will go eventually. Dogs can be funny about toileting in diff places though. When we take them away the younger one can hold on to everything for about 12 hours til she decides enough is enough then she'll go on the lead wherever she happens to be (outdoors of course!)
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Yes we have that when we go to stay with family on the coast. 6 hour drive. Exhausted and waiting with a dog on the beach in the dark which hasn't gone to toilet in 12 hours and depsite walking for an hour still refuses. Its not just her that feels the relief when she finally goes.

jhe

when we adopted our dog from the dogtrust we had to go to a presentation by the behaviourist there, they advised putting an upturned bucket in garden and taking dog on lead and stand next to it until the dog "performs" i would imagine this would work better with a male dog than the female dog we adopted,

daysleeper_2

I have a similar all concrete garden and i can highly recommend http://mistral.ie/details.php?code=R1546 i bought 4x5litres and in 3 months have used less than a litre. I dilute it in a garden sprayer to wash down the affected areas, there's many different scents too, and its dog friendly

Mutter_2

I've read it's the feeling beneath their feet. So dogs going on grass but not hard surface, would go on snow.
So, suggest a piece of artificial turf? Easily hosed down?

cyberbob

We have no grass. All that happens is that our boy is walked 5 times a day. He is used to these times and knows that is when he goes to toilet. So there is no need to make something for him to go in the garden.

Katiehound

I agree its something to do with the feel of the surface. I have woodchips on top of soil (couldn't cope with the thought of trying to mow a pocket handkerchief sized lawn.) and both my dogs will go on that. When it is hot and dry I wash it down with very dilute disinfectant such as Zoflora. Most of their business is done out in the street. Interestingly when I went to Discover Dogs with a previous lady dog I had (sadly died last year) she would NOT go on the sawdust provided for the purpose.