Hello, Chris,
I like the cement pavers a lot. They are inexpensive (though a bit of
work to carry), can be either the grey, red or sometimes blue color,
dogs can't dig out of them and they keep the nails trimmed. The dogs
come in clean in all weather. One can shovel snow if they are laid
fairly level. Easy pick up of poop.
If your runs are way too large, then perhaps start as we did by doing
one half of them in the pavers as well as pavers around the edges, a few
slates down the middle and fill the rest with rounded small river
stone. Little by little we finished up doing the runs in pavers. As it
does get hot, I put out kennel deck (two or three pieces of it) in
summer so that they can get off of the pavers if they get hot.
The dogs clearly prefer the pavers to stone for footing.
Hope that this is helpful!
Suze
Chris Gingell wrote:
>
> I'm looking for suggestions on footing for the dogs runs. We have to redo
> them this year and I would appreciate any suggestions or others experiences
> with what to use.
> We have dry summers, very little rain, but lots of snow in the winter and
> pretty messy conditions in the spring when it thaws.
> I've tried grass but found poop scooping difficult; tried clay base with
> sand but this carried into the dogs room and was not good for their coats.
> We've tried wood bark as I'd seen it in someone else's place but I found
> that quite unsanitary once it has been soaked with urine. I'm thinking
> maybe I'll put concrete in but have heard that the dogs coats get stained.
> That won't do but was wondering if I graded the runs away from the house
> whether that would eliminate that problem. I can't really afford to put
> those interlocking squares on top of the concrete I don't think as I have
> very large runs.
> Any suggestions would be gratefully received. Thanks a bunch.
>
> Chris Gingell
> Caruaidd Cavaliers.
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