We complete tomorrow - Garden is a quagmire

moneyistooshorttomention

Errr....there is the point that I would think quite a few buyers honestly won't have had the thought cross their mind that a dog/dogs might have been allowed to use a lawn as a dog loo. It certainly literally never occurred to me that anyone would until I started reading this forum and realised there are indeed a few people that do.....:eek:

I'd honestly assumed that dogs were "taken out for a walk" if they needed to go to the loo - as that's what happened in my family as I grew up.

rosyw

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Errr....there is the point that I would think quite a few buyers honestly won't have had the thought cross their mind that a dog/dogs might have been allowed to use a lawn as a dog loo. It certainly literally never occurred to me that anyone would until I started reading this forum and realised there are indeed a few people that do.....:eek:

I'd honestly assumed that dogs were "taken out for a walk" if they needed to go to the loo - as that's what happened in my family as I grew up.

If you had my dog you'd be walking all day! it doesn't matter how far we go or how long we are out she'll wait until we get home and "go" in the back garden! obviously likes her privacy :rotfl: I always clear up after her, but at this time of year the lawn is more mud than grass due to her chasing anything that moves. I don't know anyone with a dog who DOESN'T let them use the lawn, it's never ever occurred to me that people wouldn't!

moneyistooshorttomention

Just goes to show then - as I recall my father training his dog to "go" in the gutter beside the pavement (ie this was way before the days of "bagging it up" and tying it to somewhere for the poo fairy I've never yet clapped eyes on to remove it).

So - I just assumed all dogs "went" in the gutter.

phoebe1989seb

rosyw wrote: »

If you had my dog you'd be walking all day! it doesn't matter how far we go or how long we are out she'll wait until we get home and "go" in the back garden! obviously likes her privacy :rotfl: I always clear up after her, but at this time of year the lawn is more mud than grass due to her chasing anything that moves. I don't know anyone with a dog who DOESN'T let them use the lawn, it's never ever occurred to me that people wouldn't!

Same here Our two dogs seem to need to 'go' at different times too and as they get walked together, there will often be one that goes on our arrival home! In addition, one will only go on grass, lol! Outside of our property our dogs' poo is always bagged up and brought home to put in our own bins.....never left for the 'poo fairy'!

Part of our reason for choosing to buy our current house was also to allow for them to have plenty of space to let off steam - our previous garden was larger (third of an acre) whereas this one is about a quarter of an acre - so there is much chasing each other about and running after thrown balls and skidding. As our garden is on three different levels with an upper and lower lawn, they delight in racing down the old stone steps onto the lawns where they tend to skid across the grass

When we were buying this house in late 2014, the EA pics showed a beautiful country cottage style garden. The reality was *very* different as the place had been for sale for two years after the PO bought his new home in 2012 and despite money being no object and having previously used the services of a gardener, he had allowed the garden to fall into wrack and ruin. We were disappointed but accepted it as the price was considerably lower than it had originally been marketed at.

The lawns were 30cm high and an old Victorian path was hidden beneath overgrown planting. The first Winter, the dogs wrecked the lawns further, and initially looked terrible but in the Spring they grew back no problem and we've managed to rescue much of the planting whilst adding lots as well. Last couple of Winters we've tried to keep the dogs from wrecking the lawns again and they were definitely much better last Spring.

Like other posters, OP, I would sweeten the pill by leaving a very nice bottle of something when you complete.....