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06-28-2007, 07:15 AM | #31 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Houma, LA
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| I learned that lesson on the last house we had. No Carpet in my House at all. Ceramic Tile instead In the bedrooms I have a ceramic tile that looks like wood planks. I had a area rug & throw rugs. Not any more - I had to pick them all up. Tired of washing them all the time.
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06-28-2007, 07:55 AM | #32 | |
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and have any of you ever smelled the backing on a throw rug? it stinks!! it probably smells like a pee place! also, good idea about putting the pee pad in a litterbox!! do you put litter under it also, or just a pad? tell me more!! | |
06-28-2007, 09:05 AM | #33 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Chicago Suburbs
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| For those who say the dog uses the carpet as a pee pad... I want to make a suggestion. But ONLY A SUGGESTION you all have your own reasons for using pads... please take this only as an FYI. Loki is housetrained to only go outside. Sammy is almost there - we got her when she was a year old and not trained. Loki doesn't "confuse" anything or even try to pee on the spots where Sammy has an accident. Yes, Sammy is more likely to have an accident on the carpet, but our house is 75% carpet. I clean it with an enzyme cleaner. Loki had plenty of accidents when he was a baby and I wasn't watching him closely enough - but Sammy doesn't gravitate towards any one spot as if she is peeing there because he did. I guess I'm just saying that even if the carpet has been peed on, you can train them not to pee there again. I guess my point is that I am putting the floor in downstairs because I want to, but I'm replacing the carpet upstairs and I don't really worry about them re-staining it now they are trained (Loki) and almost trained (Sammy). Although, the DO like to PUKE on the carpet.
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06-28-2007, 11:43 AM | #34 |
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| My carpet went this past spring. Ceramic went down in the kitchen, living room and hall. Other bedrooms have tile and wood floors. After getting Venus, as hard as I tried to get her to go only on the pads.....she was constantly going on the pads, off the pads, on the other side of the room, well you get it, right? I had my carpet shampooer parked in the living room since around Oct. Just gave up, carpet had to go! And I still try to put a rug down once in a while, but she pees on them still and she's 1 year now. So no rugs for me yet, they still waiting and hoping here. Since carpet is now gone, she's 100% on pee pads for peeing....now sometimes she just don't poop on them. But at least with ceramic, its easy to clean up! |
06-28-2007, 02:36 PM | #35 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member | Ruined carpet Boy I thought my Yorkies were the only ones that thought carpet and throw rugs were just big pee pads. I have 4 yorkies and one never has an accident or goes any where but outside or on a pad. The other three... We put in laminate floors a few years ago and they actually don't hold up to lots of water so you need to be careful. Our bathroom has tile - LOVE IT- it cleans well and we never have to worry about it. Next time all tile!!
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06-28-2007, 02:55 PM | #36 |
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| Laminate and Tile here! It's yorkie resistant and it looks great! Take a look! #1 = My sitting area in my bedroom. #2 = This is where my furbabies let me and my hubby sleep with them...lol #3 = Living Area #4 = Breakfast Room
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06-28-2007, 06:40 PM | #37 |
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| We are tear up carpet this wekend. And going to live with the sub floor and throw rugs until we can afford those fake wood floors. YEAP they won the war here but, I am a fighter too I'll keep trying.
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06-28-2007, 07:01 PM | #38 |
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| CO Yorkie mom you are too funny!
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06-30-2007, 11:20 AM | #39 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Powder Springs, GA
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| We have hardwood floors throughout most of the downstairs rooms. Nomi likes to run and slide and then has to put the breaks on with her nails. They are scratched pretty badly. And like everyone else, our carpet in select rooms needs to be replace. |
06-30-2007, 01:51 PM | #40 |
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| When we ordered out double wide (mobile home) last year, we decided that only my hubby's office where Gypsy is not allowed to go and our bedroom would be carpeted. Everyplace else is linoleum. (I think that is what it is). She is good with pee pads except for pooping and occasionally peeing on the throw rugs at the doors. Constant patrol for poop at the doors. She can't seem to understand it is ok to poop on the pee pads though it is called a "pee" pad.
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06-30-2007, 02:33 PM | #41 |
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| Have not had to rip up my carpet, Winston took to potty training on day 1...he goes potty outside only. But that doesn't mean I don't want new floors...especially the kitchen and bath. Have wondered how well he would get around on it, or if he would skitter through the house, while running laps!!!
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06-30-2007, 02:59 PM | #42 |
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| My hubby said he is seriously thinking of just ripping all of the carpets out and leaving the bare floor underneath. We live in a trailer and we have had such a HARD time potty training, and we found the reason...whoever owned this trailer before laid new carpet ONTOP of the OLD carpet and they had a dog in the house sooooooo anywhere that dog piddled, my dogs can STILL smell it and they think they have to cover it up!! I tried steam cleaning and that made it worse because I started pulling all the dirt up from the bottom carpet through the top carpet....so we are moving out the woodburner soon and ripping it all out!!
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06-30-2007, 06:32 PM | #43 | |
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06-30-2007, 08:57 PM | #44 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Seymour, Indiana
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| Went 2 Laminate Floors We put laminate floors in our kitchen & living room to replace the carpet and linoleum...I LOVE it, altho they still have accidents they are easier to clean, U just have to make sure to keep an eye out for them, or it will seep through, in the kitchen it was so bad under our table and by our front door in the living room, Justin owns our Construction Company so he replaced ours and put silcone in between the planks under the table, & in front of both the front and back doors...It helped so much, altho I see Dust Bunnies EVERYWHERE and THEY ARE PROTECTED here in our house so we just let them run! LOL! No really the cleaning is easier and it made our rooms look so much bigger & cleaner. Oh the pee was bad in there, I couldn't take it when we was taking it up!! But it's worth it, now we're going to build a room on and put tile down for our babies to come in and out on, that will be nice when it rains, I can just wipe it up. It's gonna be a everything room!!! LOL! Like my craft/family tree/office/whelping room, I told Justin I wanted the plug in's to be in the middle of the wall so they puppies/dogs won't chew on cords, all tables/cabnets made up high enough for crates and whelping boxes to fit under, I'm thinking 100% Yorkies proof it!!!!!!!! That way if they have wet paws (I even wipe their paws off with hand towels but they still make tracks, and U should see them if it's rained or the dew is heavy, they line up for me to dry them off, it's so cute!!!)they can stay in there on the tile and dry and not carry it in the other rooms of the house, I'm really thinking about "TRYING" to litter train my older 3 along with the new babies...Well see about that!! So yep get rid of carpet with babies!!!!!!!! LOL! Hugs, Lee & 9 's |
07-01-2007, 08:32 AM | #45 |
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| LOL! I guess we are not the only ones!! We are in the process right now of replacing our carpet/laminate with ceramic tiles and laminate flooring. It will look really nice I think when we are done. When tearing up the carpet thouch - ICK! We got our area rugs at Target and they are the outside ones. If they get peed on we can take them out and hose them off! They are very pretty too! Not the softest, but they are nice!!
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