Thread: Dog Toilet

All pots/lawns etc need some drainage or they will become water logged and if it's in the open it will become water logged from rain etc, then become boggy and kill the grass. You could arrange a double layered structure (ie a 25mm tray underneath for the water to drain into and evaporate away from there.

The other thing is female dog pee will successfully kill most lawns if they pee in the same place too often and even when they don't leaves pale yellow patches all over the lawn (we have two bitches)

One of the most successful dog toilets I have see that needed to be kept water proof ie no drainage, used a large flat plastic tray about 100mm deep filled with kitty litter (its treated with stuff so it smells a lot less than other stuff) or equivalent and covered with square metre of artificial lawn. The poops are scooped off and binned every day. The pee flows through the fake lawn into the and into the kitty litter which is changed when it starts to pong. The bit of fake lawn gets a wash every now and then as well. They trained their dog to use it using "kitty nibbles" dogs love them and we use them in training as well.

thank you for your reply. very useful information
Sanda

this photo shows the type of thing I was looking at.potty.jpg

Originally Posted by Sanda

I need a bottom that will hold the soil and grass in and be water proof. I am on a very tight budget so I need something to use that will not cost a fortune but will do the job, I had considered peg board and a lattice type of bottom. But they are not waterproof. So any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,
thank you
Sanda

Wouldn't it be better to just sit the frame on a weed mat sort of fabric where the extra moisture can
flow through ?
That would likely only be when it gets to much rain . What the dog does is likely to soak in but not come out the other side . A little time and it'll convert to what ever it normally does . The solids get picked off and bagged .

Rob