New Floors!

[RobiLee]

I can't answer the question about the dogs and flooring but I'm sure they will get use to it before long. Hopefully!

I just wanted to say that the floors look great! I can't wait to see it all in person.

[pitc9]

The floors look Great Anna!
Bon will like it when it's hot outside and he can lay on the cool floor!
Just ask Buddy!

[Taz_Zoee]

The floors look really good!

We have original hardwood flooring in our house. The house was built in 1964, I think. It's all Zoee has known since she's lived with us. The thing I don't like about it is when we play with Zoee in the house I'm always afraid she's going to hurt herself when she slips and slides on the floor.
She loves to lay in the hallway right up against the wall. In the summer that is her favorite place because it's cool. In the winter she stays in the bedroom on the carpet or the bed.
The thing I do like about hardwood floors is sweeping feels cleaner to me. I can SEE what is on the floors, unlike carpets. And you never really know if you get everything up from the carpet with the vacuum. Especially if you do not have a very powerful one.

[Pawsitive Thinking]

The new floors look great.

I am sure the doggies will get used to it in time - we put laminate flooring in Katie's room and Tobey has just got the hang of walking on it. At first he did look a bit like Bambi on the ice

[Daisy and Delilah]

WOW!! The floors look fabulous, Anna!!! I had laminate floors put in most of the house a few years ago. The dogs never have seemed to mind it. Sometimes I think Delilah will throw her shoulder out as fast as she moves when she has to run to the window. All in all, it's worked out great. I loved seeing that carpet leave the house. With the new floors, you get to hear their claws clicking and it's a wonderful little sound. I think you'll really enjoy it. Bon will eventually come around.

[Cincy'sMom]

The floors look great!!!

When we first took carpet out fo the kitchen (yes, kitchen!) and dining room, the dogs were no so sure. They have adjusted, seem to like it fine, and Cincy even "surfs" on the floor mat in front of the sink as she goes racing for her tennis ball.

[Pam]

Congratulations Anna! The new floors look great! You will NOT be sorry. When we had ours put in we had considerable slipping and sliding on the part of the dogs for a couple of days. My two have adjusted very well. You can literally see them put on their brakes at times. Occasionally when my granddog, Harlee, visits she has a "splat" moment which is funny because Robyn has laminate flooring in her kitchen and Harlee needs to deal with that to get to the back door. I guess "the bigger the dog the harder they fall" (just like Bon!) Nevertheless, you will NEVER be sorry! Lookin' good!

[Seravieve]

The floors look great!!!

When we first took carpet out of the kitchen (yes, kitchen!)...

AHHH someone else who had carpet in their kitchen! Gross! Ours left a couple months after we moved in. Put in Maple colored laminate. Dogs love it on hot days... or after a walkd... they come in here a stretch out to cool their bellies, especially Bunny.

Your floors look great!! Much improved.

[anna_66]

With the new floors, you get to hear their claws clicking and it's a wonderful little sound.

LOL! Little? Not so little here I don't know, the bigger the dog the bigger the sound?! But I am getting used to it.

Thanks for the nice replies everyone. I think the three of them are adjusting well, it's just Bon (yes, very much so a drama king ) He gets spooked by so many things, guess this is just one of them he's going to have to get over!

I am going to be obsessed with cleaning them though! I was coming in from the garage and a Huney furball came floating right at me
Oh well at least like you say, I can see what's there where with the carpet it was all hiding (which wasn't always a bad thing)

[Cincy'sMom]

I am going to be obsessed with cleaning them though! I was coming in from the garage and a Huney furball came floating right at me
Oh well at least like you say, I can see what's there where with the carpet it was all hiding (which wasn't always a bad thing)

That is a downside...I am constantly picking up furballs off the floor! They are so much more noticeable then in carpet, and even right after sweeping, it seems another small animal has formed!!

[petslover]

The floors look really good. Carpet with pets rarely work. We had to pull our carpet a few years ago. They didn't like it at first, but they got used to it.

[Animalhouse26]

I think they look LOVELY!! WOW!! What a big difference. I LOVE tile and Hardwood floorings. In my mom's house we had carpet through out.And we moved out and now just have carpet in the bedrooms. Falise can care less really.. Ty.. I never thought about him not likeing the tile.. cause he is always a Dog bed type of dog. If there isn't something on the floor for him to lay on, he wont! Period! Lol Carpet or not! :-) So, I Don't know!


As far as vaccuming on the tile.. I found this vaccum and it is AMAZING!
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1188438378410

It is made FOR Tiles and hard floors! it is Light,and Moves VERY Smooth! I have a sensitive back,and it doesn't bother me AT ALL! I LOVE IT! I bring it out every other day and vaccum!

[elizabethann]

Nice floors. Nice dogs too.

[Sevaede]

That looks superb! Poor Bon, it will be okay. *petpetpet*

The only rooms in our apt that have carpet are the bedrooms and the living room. It is tile through the rest. Spanky first came home to hardwood and tile throughout so she has been used to it. She slides a lot when she is running but she doesn't even pay any mind to that.

(while apt hunting, I found a place that had carpet ONLY in the kitchen!)

[CathyBogart]

When my parents put in hardwood floor, Star did NOT like it at first, but she got used to it after a few weeks.