I agree with you, you want to improve your garden situation. This would fall in the category "garden or landscape planning and layout" from [here][1]. I don't know why it was closed, my guess is that the focus was too much on the dogs and not on the garden? In that case you can try SE [pets][2].


  [1]: https://gardening.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic
  [2]: https://pets.stackexchange.com/