Pawfriendly Landscapes, Inc., out of Golden, Colo., is a company that creates customized landscape designs based on the habits of the pets of the property owner.

“We do not try to retrain dogs, rather we incorporate material that withstands foot traffic, urine, destruction of plant material, among other habits of your four-legged critters,” explains the company website.

Elizabeth Bublitz is the owner of Pawfriendly Landscapes and author of Pawfriendly Landscapes-How to Share the Turf When Your Backyard Belongs to Barney. The company, established in 1998, aims for beautiful yet functional yards.

Customer excerpts from her book include such concerns as “Our new puppy ate our yard”; ”Our terrier cut himself on the edging”; “My cat want outside, how do I keep her safe?”

The basic idea is that as dogs or other four-legged creatures use the yard more than family members, and in different ways, special attention is warranted.

The owner wants to branch out beyond the Colorado boarders. A recent book signing in Wyoming convinced her there is interest for her designs here, where the Great Plains meet the Rocky Mountains. She will be a guest speaker for the Wyoming Botanical Garden this coming spring.

The company reports it gives back to community animal shelters with some of the proceeds from the book.

Editor’s note: I wonder what her strategy would be for rabbits? We have three areas of our backyard with colonies of rabbits. One group lives under the olive tree; one group resides on the north side yard, and the other warren on the south side yard. What they all have in common is a penchant for digging tunnels, which our dogs have been known to venture down. We recently added a few brick rows to the short retaining wall around the olive tree to make it harder for the rabbits to pitch dirt over the wall onto the pool deck.