Just happened onto this thread today.
@mom2goldens I am interested in what your designer suggested to have a more dog-friendly pond. We have a small preformed pond in our front bed which the neighbor lab pup is quite enamored with. She knocks the rocks all over the place, tips over the pots, stirs up the mud, and of course tracks water and mud everywhere. I gave up trying to do anything this year as she is so young, and she did finally find our farm pond which is much larger and I hope will be more attractive to her. Any suggestions for my planned redo this fall would be greatly appreciated.