any way to own a dog and not have it f*ck up the hardwood up?

[alfa147x]

So my dad and my sister really want a dog, any way to own a dog and not have it tear up our hardwood?

Thanks!

 

[BigJ]

Groom your dog.

 

[Raduque]

Yep, clip it's nails.

 

[SoulAssassin]

Our....it's our. Also, how does it "fuck out" hardwood up?

 

[KeithTalent]

Are != our.

KT

 

[SSSnail]

Let are kids walk!!!

 

[alfa147x]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
Are /= our.

KT

wait isnt it suppose to be

Are != our ?

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: alfa147x

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
Are /= our.

KT

wait isnt it suppose to be

Are != our ?

Hah, owned, yep.

KT

 

[Auric]

Doggy booties.

 

[alfa147x]

Originally posted by: Auric
Doggy booties.

Lol thats what i told my mom

 

[huberm]

clip their nails. A good general rule is if you can hear a dog's nails while they walk across wood floors, their nails are too long.

 

[Kelemvor]

Also depends on the dog as some have such tiny nails they won't hurt anything...

 

[covert24]

cut its feet off?

 

[OrganizedChaos]

doggy socks?

 

[WisMan]

The hardwood stairs are what got really scratched up from my black lab. He really digs in running full speed up and down them. We had to sand the stairs down and refinish them. It didn't really matter how well i kept his nails groomed. Though keeping them trimmed really helps the floors. I tried booties but he chews them right off.

I've heard that walking them on concrete can really dull down the nails and that helps, though i never tried that. I always let him run around in my backyard on the grass.

 

[Epic Fail]

anyone read it as any way to f*ck a dog and not have it own the hardwood up?

 

[Capt Caveman]

Keeping the nails clipped and lots of area rugs/runners.

 

[OulOat]

You could get a Rowdy

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: SSSnail
Let are kids walk!!!

Please tell me this has thread for itself. Just so many things I want to say.

 

[RbSX]

Originally posted by: alfa147x
So my dad and my sister really want a dog, any way to own a dog and not have it tear up our hardwood?

Thanks!

Our entire house if hardwood, and not that fake hardwood, the real thing, and our shoes are more likely to scuff it up than our dog.

 

[Reel]

My dog has long nails and we live in a rented house with crappy laminate flooring. I don't think she has scratched it up yet. There is lots of "texture" to the surface but most of that was already there when we moved in. I had the vet cut her nails and I may continue to do so because they are much better at cutting them then I am. Even so she still clicks when she walks. I think it is her nervousness about sliding causes her to walk with her paws clenched. She has also walked on my parents' engineered wood floor and not scratched it.

A dog walking on wood floor is not an instant guarantee of scratching. I think it is more likely to occur when they run around inside and try to play inside.

 

[thedarkwolf]

I have real hardwood and haven't notice any of my three 70-90lb dogs scratch them up at all. Same for my parents and they had a 180lb great dane. In another house we did wear out the wood treads on the stairs but thats probably just as much human as dog doing and over 10+ years.

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: yamadakun
anyone read it as any way to f*ck a dog and not have it own the hardwood up?

No. Shens.





Freak.

 

[TheKub]

Throw down some linoleum and your hardwood will be safe.