stupid dirt
November 11th, 2006 by Liss
I swear, this is not going to be the housework blog! But I need help, here.
See, we have dogs. Two of them. We love our dogs! We do not love muddy pawprints all over the floor. Unfortunately, that’s what we have. No matter how well we try to wipe their paws when they come in, they track mud all over the floor. Because of the crawling issue, that means that we’ve had to confine the dogs to the family room for huge chunks of time so that the mud stays in one place.
We’ve tried towels. We’ve tried wet cloths. It seems like the only way to keep the mud out of the house is to keep the dogs out of the house, which just isn’t an option. We don’t want to keep the dogs inside all the time, either - the biggest reason we bought this house is the big backyard that the dogs have to run around in. I hate watching them sit at the back door wanting to go out and making them stay inside because I just don’t want to deal with the dirt.
So, other dog-having people, what do you do? Do you just live with the dirt? (Like we did pre-crawling-baby?) Do you only let the dogs out when you can walk them? (On pavement, thus scrubbing the mud off of the paws?) Something else that magically makes it all shiny and good that I just cannot figure out for myself? Share!