Anyone with hardwood floors?

[LeosMomma]

I have hardwood floors and Leo, who is about 7lbs, does not scratch.

[Grendel]

Originally Posted by chestermama

I have wood laminate and I dont see any scratches and he is 9 lbs

You are right they will not scratch the laminate, but if the wet on them very bad things will happen.

[QuickSilver]

Just FYI, Thor has wee'd on my floors before. I have Nature's Miracle in the spray bottle. I just wipe up the urine, and then spray the spot. I've never had any trouble with odor or staining. Again, my floors are the super-laminated hardwood from the 1920s.

[LuvMyPuppE]

Originally Posted by QuickSilver

Just FYI, Thor has wee'd on my floors before. I have Nature's Miracle in the spray bottle. I just wipe up the urine, and then spray the spot. I've never had any trouble with odor or staining. Again, my floors are the super-laminated hardwood from the 1920s.

at risk of sounding argumentative or being off topic in a thread, god forbid, i asked the vet about the spray stuff to mask odors. i'm super paranoid about my house smelling like a dog pen - and the vet (who i'm sure makes money from sales) told me not to bother. she said a dog is going to pick up its scent regardless. she suggested just using whatever i would use to clean up and take care of the scent for MY nose.

i personally use spray and wash (the kind for laundry stains) just because i love it and it's magic - lol.

i'm sure it can't HURT to use some sort of scent masking spray, but that's what i was told.

[2girls]

We chose brazlian cherry wood and had 3 coats of commercial grade polyurethane applied. It has been 15 months and no scratch's from the furbutts, although, they did pee pee all over them with no ill effects.

[Breeze]

We have 6 inch hand-scraped solid maple floors and cannot see any doggy scratches on them but the cat scratches are bad. The cat loves to play chase and digs his nails in the floor going around the corners.

We also have them in the kitchen area so there are also many marks from dropped cans, cups, knives..... from the kids. After only 2 1/2 years they are pretty beat up. We would like to remove the hardwood in there and put in tile.

[daylee]

Originally Posted by Karrie

We have hardwood in the kitchen and main hallway. Bailey hasn't damaged them at all - however, she slides on them alot. She'll walk on the runner and rugs whenever possible for traction.

Whenever she gets excited and wants to take off and run on the hardwood, her hind legs spin just like the flinstones - we just say "yaba daba doooo"

LOL that funny.Mine do that too and exactly yabba dabba do!!

[StaceyDee]

My parents have very high quality laminate floors that look exactly like wood and Linus doesn't scratch them up at all. He's 4 1/2 lbs right now. They really love the laminate floors because they're so durable!!

[cthalhofer]

Lol my kids do more damage then my dogs do but it has to be real wood the laminate stuff scraches way to easy

[cthalhofer]

Originally Posted by cthalhofer

Lol my kids do more damage then my dogs do but it has to be real wood the laminate stuff scraches way to easy

I should add cheap laminate when we go to my moms hers is from zellers and it scraches every time you turn around

[TyMan]

My dog is 9 pounds, and we have never had any scratches from him on the hard wood floors. He even runs and slides across the floor when he's excited.

[llcornell]

We have hardwood floors and foster several dogs at a time plus 2 of our own...not a scratch anywhere on our floors.

[ocd4yorkies]

We have wood flooring and have 3 Yorkies ( 1 who weights 9lbs ) and i have had no problems with the floor at all. My 3 babies run around non stop an play like crazy. I do belive it does depend on what kind of wood you use. Ours is maple which from my understanding is a very durable wood. When you go to a flooring place let them know this concern and they should show you woods that are hard not soft, you should have no problem.

[MyYorkieIScAsey]

Originally Posted by MI Yorkielover

We have hardwood floors throughout our house. No problems at all with Sophie. She is 4.8 lbs. We keep her nails trimmed and have never had a problem or a scratch with our Bruce Hardwood floors

Ditto on the Bruce Hardwood flooring- we've had it for over 15 years and there are NO scratches anywhere on our floors. Great product as far as I'm concerned

[JeanieK]

I've been researching on hardwood vs laminate vs engineered and discovered that they have vinyl planks that look like wood.

From everything that I have read, none of the wood products would tolerate being peed on, so I am considering the vinyl planks.

I am sure if looked at closely, it will not fool anyone, but is still better than linoleum that looks like wood.