I'm totally SICK of carpet and am getting new flooring for my house but I would like it to be dog friendly. Lamenate wood looks nice and hardy but is pretty slippery. Tile would work but I'm also concerned with the slipping. I can through in a few rugs here and there put most of the floor would be either tile or lamenate.

In the past, my old dogs always had trouble moving around on slippery floors. Now I have a 2 year old but I would still like it to be comfortable for her.

So my question for you...what type of floors do you have and are there any pros and cons with dogs?

Thanks!
Lynn

my floors are old wood, with poly coating.
Cons: i have to sweep like 10 times a day-with 4 cats and 6 dogs-hair gets everywhere!
and they go sliding when they run in the house.

Pros-because they go sliding in the house, they are forced to slow down, i love that. Plus-they are easy to clean. I don't have to worry about the 2 pups having an accident-and it making my carpet smell forever.

i will never go back to carpet. But i would be interested in tile, or another hard surface....i like wood floors though.

I have carpet, hardwood and tile in the house.Tile will break if you drop something heavy on it, yes that's the voice of experience. Not into keeping hardwood waxed not to mention it scratches but it is pretty. I also worry about arthritic dogs on the tile or hardwood so I guess If I had a choice I would just stick with carpet. It encourages me to keep the German Shedder brushed and with the Dyson it's not bad to keep vaccuumed.


Lisa

OK, check this out. I just saw this today, and don't know anything about it other than what is in this web site. It's called the forever floor, and is supposed to be rather non skid and easy to repair:

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/lee92.html

I would do a better paint job myself...

Oooooh, I like it!
I'll do the kitchen first.

My house is a combination of tile, hardwood, concrete (garage), and carpet. In the future when I finally get around to building a home I'll be going to stone most likely if it's still affordable with a stone halfwall to help with any possible leg lifters. I've seen the same thing done with tile and it's super effective and with the available options today your house won't have to look like a pool or a bathroom.

The bedrooms are laminate.

The living room/stairs/kitchen is marble.

The upstairs hallway is tile, as is the garage.

On the marble I have a big rug in the middle of the room. They do slip and slide a bit on all the flooring, especially laminate, but nothing that is uncomfortable or hinders them too much.

I just have to vacuum the rug and catch all the tumbleweeds along the edges and corners of the walls. For some reason they accumulate in corners, which is nice because it means they're not all over the place

I have wood floors that are old and have lots of character, they are perfect for the dogs! You could always look into recycled wood flooring, the wood is already well seasoned and comes with character

The only place there are problems with nail scratches is at the front door.

They slip a lot more on linoleum or tile than they do the wood, I think they just have to get used to the different surface and you can do a matte or low gloss finish to make it less slippery, the glossy Sealer is really really slick!

I do have a long runner in the hallway because it tends to act like a runway and they were skidding out and hitting their head on the back wall or their hip on the corner. It also catches the muddy paws and tails if I dont catch them at the door.

But it is a rug that can easily be replaced if it gets too nasty or raggedy or somepuppy eats goodness knows what and has an upset stomach ALL over it...20 dollars at garden ridge

With a little boy and 3 dogs I have given up on nice rugs and I dont know how people with carpet cope with it!

heres a tip:
I have always used those libman wonder mops that you can wring out to clean the floors and have a hoover floormate I use once a month or so to really get them clean.
But i broke down and got one of those flat mops with the microfiber covers, Its Libman too with green and white stripes on the cloth. And even though the extra clothes are kind of expensive it was well worth it.

The floors actually got clean, they look totally different than they do with the normal mop. I rinsed the pad out several times while I was doing the floors because it had been a while and geez it picked up a lot of dirt even though I vaccuumed first.
It came out white again after washing it in the machine too.

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I do have a long runner in the hallway because it tends to act like a runway and they were skidding out and hitting their head on the back wall or their hip on the corner. It also catches the muddy paws and tails if I dont catch them at the door.

Reminds me of when I lived in Dubai. We had a long tiled hallway with a front door on one end and a glass sliding door to the back yard on the other end. The dog would come charging in through the front door, then skid all the way down and out the back door

Good times.....

The pup gets the zoomies and it is a full speed silly run where he gets all hunkered down and goes from zero to mach 10 in no time flat...and usually it just hits out of nowhere

His normal zoomie path is up and down the hallway a couple of times then around the coffee table then back down the hallway and right out the back door.
Then repeat the same only in reverse.

Tonight instead of going around the coffee table he went over it!! then froze and slinked over to me like OOOPPSS!

What caused such antics you ask?
My husband talked to him on the phone