As a mother of five 2-legged children, I learned pretty early on how to best keep things in order - - AND how to delegate chores!! So when the furfaces started coming along, it wasn't all that difficult since I'd already resolved to hard wood or stone tiled floors in the majority of the house (but the house is very small as well, so it's still tough with clutter issues sometimes) - as well as mostly leather furniture in the living room and stain resistant carpets in the bedrooms.
I still have two kids at home and now have SIX furfaces in the house.... from the tiniest of my 1.5 lb Yorkie baby to the big ol' 75 lb Border Collie mix - (and stair step sizes in between) - - - so chaos is a constant here... but with diligent feet, face and bottom washes - it's not intolerable to be here at home with them.
The biggest issue is the younger dogs who still have the "chew anything and everything" phase going on.... so keeping things out of reach is the hardest part, I think.
My Yorkie baby never touches the ground unless we're outside to potty.... her precious little feet never touch the floor.... so it's pretty simple to keep her and her area clean.... she's in my bed, in my arms or in her playpen or bassinet .... potties on the wee pads when it's too cold to go outside and that makes for easy clean up.
The rest of the dogs are all housetrained and go in and out all day.... (a doggie door helps!) - - - so aside from a quick clean up each night with the broom to keep the hair off the floors - a good mopping once a week - and the couple of baby gates that we've all learned to maneuver around - it's just your basic dishes, laundry and other yucky daily stuff to worry about!! |