My husband and I currently have 5 cats who have access to a side yard that I have enclosed with cat fencing. I am currently designing a house that we will be building and moving into in a few more years. I've decided I don't want to mess with the cat fence again but would still like the cats to have access to an outside area. We will be getting a dog, so he has to be able to go out as well. There has to be a place for the dog to go out and relieve himself, and I am considering the fake grass that animals can urinate on and it is easily hosed down and goes into the ground through a netting. It feels and looks like real grass and since in my experience, dogs like to use grass, this is what I want. I am sick of real grass. I don't like maintaining it and we live in the desert, so it doesn't even make sense. I would also like the area to be at least partially covered by roofing like will be on the back porch, but the entire thing doesn't have to be like that. It would need some kind of top enclosure so the cats can't climb out though.
Why I'm posting, is I am hoping to find some suggestions for an area like I've described. Does anyone have any photos or ideas for something like this? We can do it however we want as we will have enough acreage to not share a fence line with neighbors. I'm trying to find something that doesn't look too much like a kennel.
If anyone has any ideas, it would be much appreciated. Thank you.
Why I'm posting, is I am hoping to find some suggestions for an area like I've described. Does anyone have any photos or ideas for something like this? We can do it however we want as we will have enough acreage to not share a fence line with neighbors. I'm trying to find something that doesn't look too much like a kennel.
If anyone has any ideas, it would be much appreciated. Thank you.