20 Best Ground Cover For Dogs (2023 Updated)

Used this seed for years to bring back good greens for my chickens to eat. It sprouts and grows well, and the girls love it!

wish it had more seed in the bag. looks harty enough

This is the best thing we’ve ever done for our cats! They can enjoy the outdoors and be safe! We have had this system installed for about 15 years – 3 cats all of the time and not one has escaped! We have it installed top and bottom along our fence and it has to cross a small piece of our yard in one spot.

We live in an area with significant snowfall – the second year the snow resulted in the lower wire breaking – we have since put the lower wire through black sprinkler piping to protect it. The wire works through this piping.

It also works when snow covered. Super happy we did this for our cats! Customer service is also excellent!.

Works great! We bought a second collar and now my two dogs with different temperaments stay in the yard. I’m free of the leash and the fear of them getting hit by a car. One odd thing is that settings 1-4 were like irritations and my dog blazed through the fence in a moment of exhilaration on setting 4 and also just walked through it and sneezed a bit.

The highest setting of 5 was a huge jump in correction. It makes them yelp and one of my dogs wanted up in my arms (she’s not a picker upper at 45 plus pounds). It makes them run back to you so just realize that this is their reaction that they want you to help them not feel that again.

I have a friend that also uses a remote training collar for going on walks and I see now that it should work well because they run back to you when they hear the beeping. The fence works and after a short time they will know and respect the boundaries.

They both saw a squirrel the other day which is irresistible to my more instinct driven yet sensitive female. On the leash she will yank me around and endure the yank at the end of her leash for just a chance at a squirrel.

But not so with the fence and collar. They both looked intently at the squirrel and watched it climb the tree and then went back to sniffing in the yard!.

This fence works great, but it was finicky to set up. The wires have to be inserted just the right distance, but not too far or the box thought the wire loop was broken. It took us a while to figure that out.

In the process the spring popped out of one of the wire clamps so it was useless, but we found the spring and my husband was able to fix it. I really wish there was just a screw we could wrap the wire around and tighten, which would feel much more stable.

Everytime we moved the thing, the wires popped out, up till we got it into it’s final resting space. We’re a little worried the box will get bumped and a wires will come loose again. I will say that when we thought the device wasn’t working, the PetSafe team replied to my e-mail within minutes, and on a Sunday.

I was super impressed with the fast customer support. We’ve been using it for almost 2 weeks, counting training time, and our hound foster now stops about 8 feet from the fence he was previously jumping, which is about when he should be hearing the beep.

We keep the collar next to the back door and turned off, unless we’re putting the dog out. We haven’t needed to charge it yet.

I bought this as a last resort and man how i wish id bought it first. We have 3 dogs. 1 a very pigheaded pitbull ( 18 mo) that likes to test us at every turn. 1 German Shepard (4 mo) who is way to smart for anyone’s good as she can open all our doors and gates.

And 1 Cane Corso Doberman mix pup so far he’s a good pup but he’s only 7 weeks old. We have tried everything to keep the other two in ( 8 ft chain link. Hot wire. Adding an inward incline at the top.

Burying the fence. ) but they always found a way out. We installed this fence 3 days ago in about 2 hours and have already introduced the dogs to it. Our gsd is already steering well clear of it. Our pit on the other hand is being more stubborn about it his color is is set at max and he is still trying to run through tho he bring himself back inside the barrier very fast once he crosses it.

So if you have smart stubborn hard to contain dogs. Just get it. You wont regret it.

I installed this system about 2 weeks ago and, have done some light training. I first tried the wireless system but, it had issues with coverage and dead spots in my yard. I have a miniature Daschund and I have found that she quickly learned the boundaries almost to the point of being gunshy of going out into the yard.

Probably my fault. The other system zapped her a few times and, now I’m going to have to back off and work into it more slowly. We had a problem of her running off and paying absolutely no attention what so ever to our calls, scolding or going after her.

Very frustrating, and dangerous to her going across the street not to mention also my wife and I get very tired having to go after her!!!!! At this point with only the audio she will NOT cross the boundary wire! Good for us and safer for her! Right now she has a problem with going out in the yard but, in time and as we work with her I’m sure she will regain her confidence.

The system was fairly easy to install, took me about a day to do it right. Toughest part I had was going across the 24ft driveway, several years ago I put caulking in the expansion joints and it was pretty tough to clean it out.

Had to go about 6″ at a time. I did mine above ground and, I did opt for 14ga wire, the 20ga that came with the system was way to flimsy. My choice because I like to do things thoroughly with no problems when I’m done.

Used almost 500ft of wire and about 160 yard Staples. Barely visible and I can mow over it with no problem. I think this system will do the job for what it is intended to do and way less expensive than having a fence put up.

I didn’t want to fence in my whole property at all. Just going to have to work more with the dog and, after awhile I’m sure she will feel at ease with going out in the yard. My wife and I will not have to worry about her running off and being injured when we are outside working or relaxing in our patio or deck.

Pet Safe is what it means and what it will provide. Safety.

Must say this has been such a deal breaker for me and my fur babies. Living in a country setting you think that life would be so easy. Teaching your fur babies that they can’t go anywhere they want was a struggle.

Yes there acres is alot of room for them to run but yet they never seem to want to run in the right direction. I was terrified that one day I would not be able to stop them and yet I couldn’t afford privacy fence or fencing at all.

Just out of my budget so I came across the basic in ground fence. This has been a game changer for sure. Must admit it does take some time effort and well a little extra materials to successfully set it up.

Overall the process was not as hard as I anticipated! I did get a little help from my father in setting up the area in which I felt was big enough and safe enough to let my dogs out without worry. The kit comes with easy instructions and majority of what you would need.

Placing the flags in the area in which you want your dog to be familiar with is key! I literally spent a full week a couple hours a day taking them out walking them on a leash within the area. This helped tremendously! Giving you dogs the knowledge and ability to understand what area is safe and what area might cause a little shock makes a word of difference.

It took my dogs roughly a week to learn where they were not allowed to go! The kit however only comes with one collar so it’s important to know if you have two you need to purchase another collar. I’m completely satisfied and now I’m not worried as much as before! I can let them out without being out with them.

Hands down awesome and a must have! The only suggestion I would say is that should sell kits with multiple collars otherwise definitely would recommend!.

I finally caved and purchased this fence after trying to train and use a wire fence to contain my 70 lb. poodle mix. He is very stubborn when he gets sight of rodents and wild life which became a serious problem as he’d break out of the fence and be near the busy road my house is off of.

Once we actually ended in the road and thank god he wasn’t hit! I then took down the wire fence and purchased this dog fence as it has phenomenal reviews. It truly is all it’s made out to be. I installed this around 2 acres in maybe 2 hours – so easy! I then brought out my dog and followed the training guide.

It’s been a process but by three weeks he’s becoming more comfortable with it. Have patience! It was tough the first time he got zapped -however- he now looks to me for guidance and doesn’t launch after squirrels.

If you have a stubborn dog, buy this.

Purchased the system being cautiously optimistic. We have a 160lb St. Bernard who is 4 years old. He is very playful and likes to explore, so I had no idea if the system would contain him or not. I will start by saying I did upgrade the wiring to 14 gauge wiring for durability and longevity.

I mapped out doing approx. 2 acres of free roam for him around our home. I rented a trencher from the local equipment store and while this did save from hand digging the entire perimeter, it was still a meticulous process of packing the wire to the depth I wanted (approx 4-6in).

This process took around 9 hours from start to finish and the receiver box showed that the loop was connected. I placed the given flags around the boundary and leashed him up. The first couple days we spent going out and about around the space, he’d get close to the flags, the collar would beep and I’d give him a tug back to safety.

(The collar has 8 settings. The first 3 are only beep and vibrate, then from 4 up- the correcting gets stronger) After the fifth day I felt he was ready to check it out on his own. I set the correction level at 5 and fastened it to my leg.

(Typical male, right?) I wanted to feel what he would possibly feel on the correction. He is a very big boy but he is also a pampered baby. Needless to say, I hardly felt a touch so I was convinced I had wasted my time and money.

So later that night I went out with him and he saw a deer in the lower part of the field and he took off after it. the was no yelp, bark or anything but he immediately came back to my side and sat down.

I was shocked by this. the next morning we woke up and I went to put the collar on him to go outside and he crawled halfway under the bed. This made me feel awful and I was afraid he was scarred for life.

After a day of research I saw this was very common, that I needed to spend more time together outside and get him used to it. So this doesn’t turn into a novel, fast forward 6 weeks and he wears the collar like a badge of honor.

He knows he can’t go outside without it. He knows his boundaries. I only have it set on Beep mode, and he runs and flops and rolls and has free roam and I don’t know who’s happier-Him-or my wife and I.

It has given us complete peace of mind for him to enjoy himself and spend as much time as he wants outside. I think it almost makes him forget about his own queen sized bed inside.

I’ve had the train and contain collar for about a month it works very well. Pleased with the quality of the unit the collar is a little big compared to some of the others but I knew what I was buying.

The only negative I have so far is with the wire. out of 1000ft I was only able to use maybe 250ft of each roll. Somewhere toward the middle of the roll the wire sleeve had breaks in it. The closer I got to the end of the roll the more the sleeve had breaks in it.

it’s like it was pulled to hard or rolled to tight on the small spools. I ended up buy a extra 500 ft from the hardware store which is not cheap. The collar, the containment unit and the remote all work very well! I still believe the quality is worth the extra $$.

We purchased this item in anticipation of using it in a few months when we neuter our dog, to prevent him from removing stitches on his own. Since Fergus is a 160# Irish Wolfhound, I had some trouble finding a product that may fit the boy! Since this boy has only one testicle in the proper position, there will be a search process going on to locate and remove the second testicle; hence 2 surgical sites.

While undergoing the surgery, he will also have his stomach tacked to his abdominal wall to lessen any possibility of torsion. Hence, he will have several surgical sites to work on. This will take quite a garment indeed, to fulfill our needs.

Luckily, this garment is designed for a Giant breed! The suit does fit him at this point. He FILLS the suit. with NO gapping, and some stretching. But we think this will be our solution. We will try to remember to send a post surgical photo!.

This is a GREAT product! I was afraid our Cavaliere King Charles Spaniel, Charlie, would hate it , but we had to figure out something that would help our daughter and granddaughters with allergies around him when we visit.

To our amazement, he was just fine with both putting it on and with wearing it! AND the allergies were MUCH better with Charlie’s fur and dander contained inside his, oh so fashionable, Shed Defender! 🎉❤️🎉 Now our daughter who is NOT allergic to him would also like Charlie to wear his Shed Defender at her house, so she has less fur flying all over the place when we visit.

They all love Charlie dearly, but his flying fur, not so much. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Shed Defender to the rescue! Thank you for developing this product! We are fans!.

As a Malinois/shepherd, I shed like crazy all the time. My owner thought this would help control the hair in our car rides. I weigh 85 pounds so we went with the XXL and the “sport” style. It is very snug around the chest and back but I look like a gangsta rapper in the hind quarters.

It is so loose in that area that it slips down my thigh and knee and binds my legs so much that I can’t straighten the legs. I have worn in 3 times for 30 minute rides and have fallen 5 times into the floor board of the back seat and couldn’t get up.

I hate this thing so much I don’t even want to get in the car anymore. A size down would have been too tight in the chest and neck. Fortunately my owner loves me more than a clean car and we are so done with the Shed Defender! Quality is good, design is bad, product is way over priced.

This sand is very fine, smooth, and soft. I have purchased 25 lbs of this sand for various projects, and It works for me every time, I love it!

My terrium is already sprouting ☺️ sending some to my nieces girls…. Got it as planned on time… Take care

We have an existing fence however our Chessie loves to dig and has at times escaped out from under parts. My husband dug out the perimeter of our existing fence and installed the wire and flags in about a day and a half.

Started Saturday morning and took a few breaks and finished Sunday afternoon. We already had an edger and spade so those tools are very helpful. So far we have only needed to use the tone only for correction and our dog has reacted well.

I feel on the lowest setting if he were to not stop digging that would be enough to get his attention but I feel more confident if I were inside and not paying attention and he tried to get out that this would keep him in the yard.

Easy to charge the collar. I like that if we decide to move or add to our family that it’s easy to take with us and not permanently in the ground. Just add another collar and you are good to go. Our boy is very smart so it’s only been about 5 days and he is already getting the hang of where he can go.

Very happy with this product and with the quality of this unit I know it will last.

I highly recommend these products to every dog lover. The dogs love them. And for the humans, they are easy to wash, comfortable to sit on, attractive, and they look brand-new even after a few years of use including some washings.

The removable covers for the beds are easy to put back on after washing. I started out with one bed for a narrow space between our bed and the wall. and our dog immediately got on the bed with her frozen Kong.

The cover is so easy to put back on that I have actually washed that cover a few times rather than just live with a manky dog bed like I have in the past. Then we bought a throw for the couch, and that became my dog’s favorite spot.

So we bought another throw for her twin-mattress-by-the-fire. And then another bed for under my desk in my home office. And then for holidays, we bought a throw for each of my family households. Each household reported that their dogs — ranging from a tiny Maltese to a 75-pound Golden Retriever — loved it.

This blanket is great for pets. Our dogs and cats like to lay on it. We put it on the sofa where our senior dog likes to sleep. We bought it specifically for her since she is in the later stages of kidney disease.

Ironically our dog threw up on it within an hour. I tossed it right into the wash machine and then on very low heat in the dryer and it washed up perfectly, I think it is important for people to know that it is good quality, except the “fur” is not the silky soft fur that you find in the nice faux fur throws humans.

It’s more like the fur you would buy for fabric for a Halloween costume. I personally would not want to use it as a blanket for myself, but probably good for the foot of your bed if that where your pet sleeps and you need a moisture barrier “just in case.

” I would say that is my only disappointment. Otherwise it works great for our purposes. We bought the white, not the polar white, and it has brownish tips which looks very natural.

I bought this latest blanket as a Christmas gift for my daughter. I have two of them already and she loved the fact that they are so protective and even waterproof! My daughter and son-in-law just purchased a new couch and they have two dogs that they would like to protect their new purchase from.

They received the gift in time for Christmas and they love it. The color matched their decor perfectly and their catahoula leopard dog basically claimed it and won’t share it with their little bichon frise! The only problem here is that they only have one blanket and will obviously be needing another, LOL.

As to the quality, I love it because it protects from everything including my Lola attempts to dig a hole on the couch to lay on not to mention the accidents that occurred when they were younger! It’s a great product for sure!.

We have a 1+ acre lot that borders on a very busy road on one side and a large tract of conservation land on another. We bought this system to replace an invisible fence system that was about 20 years old that had worked well for several generations of dogs.

We now have a second property as well as two young dogs and wanted to ensure their safety at both locations. We shopped around and chose this compatible system so we could have two systems without having to get different collars.

Customer and tech support were excellent – we had questions about interchangeability of different systems, specifically the fence/training collar. The SportDog equipment arrived quickly and all in good order.

Instructions were clear and installation was relatively easy. Took about 1 day to clear brush through some woods, but mostly to dig a channel for the wire. Burying the line across lawn is hard work but worth it to avoid inadvertent breaks when cutting the lawn, snowblowing, etc.

We bought an inexpensive (used) small trench digger (basically a motorized spinning blade for edging) to cut a thin trench, then used a 1″ rounded handle to clear and bury the wire foot-by-foot, backfilling over the wire as we went.

We have trained for a week following carefully the clear instructions and the dogs arelearning quickly. What loses this product a fifth star is the 20-gauge wire. This wire is sooooooo thin and is not very durable.

We ended up reusing large stretches of the old line (20 years old), which was 10- or 12-gauge. Both the wire and the protective outdoor insulation were so much better in the old fence; our old wire was easily 5x the diameter of the 20-gauge There is a huge difference in durability, quality.

Regrettably, it seems that the “standard” wire this manufacturer (and the other fence companies) supply is the thinnest, cheapest that will work. If you have a simple suburban yard, it may be fine. We have long stretches of drops in the woods and cross driveways and other break “risks.

” If you do too, and can afford to upgrade the wire, do so. If not, be extra diligent in burying it and encasing it (tubing or pvc pipe where warranted) to minimize any danger of breaks. The upcharge was quite steep through SportDog to get better (thicker) wire.

You might do better buying the wire in bulk. The upgrade can be solid or braided copper and be sure to get wire rated with outdoor insulation. Likely much cheaper at your hardware store, online, or even used.

Overall, we are happy with the purchase. It has only been a week, but the system, flags, collar, rechargers, etc. appear of good quality, instructions are clear, and the programming is easy. The fence is for your pets’ protection – use it carefully and kindly, including by using the very lowest “stimulation” (really, electric shock) level necessary — minimize the pain/discomfort by taking the time to train your dog(s) per SportDog’s very clear step-by-step week-long training steps.

Worked better than I expected- sprouted within 10 days and growing great under the maple tree.

We needed high traffic grass seed and since it has been a bit warm and raining it is coming up already