Ideal flooring when one owns a spaniel!??

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Moving house - Yayy..
Can actually CHOOSE to have any flooring, (our very own house!) rather than just coping with what we get given (always been in rentals)

I don't allow dogs on furniture, although Rosie spaniel has adopted a kitchen chair, and they are never allowed upstairs.
Always kept them confined to the kitchen, with vinyl flooring - for ease of cleaning up muddy, sicky, poo'y or wet pups! Rosie is house trained, but it took a while. She will still have an odd wee accident if left over 4 hours in the day, or if, like last week I was left a puddle with no warning - I was in the room with her. I swear she 'forgot' herself! She is now almost 9 months old. Yet to have a season.
Old dog, Whippet X, is well, now nearly 12. She had an upset tum a few weeks ago, as she ate a whole rawhide chew thing that Mother-in-law got her, thinking it was a treat... not sure if that means treat for the dog, or treat for me when it passes through the dog, but there we go... dog, mother-in-law, is now banned for producing such things for old dog.
So, thinking flooring... Vinyl seems obvious, it will be in the kitchen. New house kitchen isn't very big, and there is an adjacent room - going to be our office, which we will have the dogs in, running into the kitchen. Vinyl flooring, and office chairs don't mix - we know this because the chairs ruck up the vinyl, then it splits, then the spaniel gets hold of a hole... the rest is history...
I'm not sure of laminate flooring.... enlighten me with your views on this??
Carpet - fluffy sort, no... too hard to clean with dogs??
Tough (like door mat) carpet possible?? But, is it easy to clean?

Simply put - Carpets and Dogs - ?? How do you cope... especially when bitches come into season?
Any other ideas?
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We changed our floors downstairs last year. We now have ceramic tiles in the kitchen with turtle mats that go in the washing-machine in the doorways and cork tiles in the living-room. Both are easy to clean and dog-proof. Cork tiles are warm underfoot and not too slippery for most dogs. If you consider using them do not be tempted by the cheaper end, the tiles need to be a decent thickness and pre-sealed. We used the glue down tiles, fairly easy to lay down yourself.
 
Ceramic tiles are ideal flooring for dogs, easy to clean, can't be scratched or dug up.
I have them throughout my downstairs except the drawing room which is carpeted but I keep the door shut and we only go in there occasionally. The kitchen has a rug and there is also one at the front door end of the hall.
I do not have underfloor heating but the tiles do not make the house cold. The dogs have very comfy beds but often lie out on the tiles.
I have a gate at the bottom of the stairs and the dogs do not come up. Stairs and all bedrooms carpeted.
 
I have laminate in the kitchen, ceramic tiles in the lounge with underfloor heating. I'd like Amtico or similar in the kitchen when it gets done. I have 3 spaniels, all of whom love swimming and mud.
 
Clodagh said:
We have flotex, in a fetching brown tartan pattern throughout the back of the house. It was laid when my m-in-law moved in here in 1962 and is absolutely fine now, if a bit faded. You can scrub it with bleach, it is fantastic stuff. The colours have improved in the intervening 54 years!
http://www.forbo.com/flooring/en-uk/products/flotex-flocked-flooring/ctbual
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never heard of this, is it at all slippery for the dogs? my friend has recently got a rescue dog and has decided that her cream carpet is not a good idea so wants to replace it but is worried about dog (greyhound)slipping, also is it expensive in comparison to diy store laminate?
 
We have ceramic tiles in the kitchen and laminate in the living room . We've recently put down some rugs down in the living room to help the old boy but crikey, they need hoovering frequently. The tiles don't seem slippy whereas we had Lino in old rental place which was.
 
We stayed in a cottage last year that had large rough stone flags throughout and I remember thinking how brilliant they were, we had three heavily shedding dogs and four humans with muddy boots tramping around and it only took a quick sweep to look clean and tidy.

We have ceramic tiles at home (rented, no choice) which I've found far better than the mix of laminate, vinyl and carpet we had previously but compared to the stone floor they are colder underfoot and not as grippy for the dogs. I have big rubber-backed dirt trapper mats which helps, there are folk at shows who sell commercial seconds of these very cheaply.

Our old place had cheap and poorly laid laminate that was useless, couldn't so much as mop it without it swelling and lifting.
 
I have stone floors throughout downstairs. Dogs don't go upstairs but have stripped wooden floors there. Turtle mats at front and back doors too.
 
splashgirl45 said:
never heard of this, is it at all slippery for the dogs? my friend has recently got a rescue dog and has decided that her cream carpet is not a good idea so wants to replace it but is worried about dog (greyhound)slipping, also is it expensive in comparison to diy store laminate?
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No, it is carpet, just very flat carpet, hard to explain, but your local carpet shop probably has samples. It is pretty expensive but has a life time guarantee. (and ours still doesn't have any holes!).
 
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