This is an awesome rug and an 
 amazing deal! After reading other 
 reviews I was worried about two 
 things: the smell and comfort 
 (walking on it). So I'll address 
 those two things. Yes - when you 
 first open it, it smells like grass. 
 But it only took two days for that 
 smell to dissipate for us. Comfort 
 - maybe we're weird, but we like 
 the feeling of it. It's not cushy 
 like a plush wood rug, but it feels 
 nice to walk on, just in a different 
 way. It's certainly not painful like 
 other reviews mention. My 2.5 
 year old immediately was running 
 circles on it in bare feet, the baby 
 was fine crawling on it, and one 
 of our dogs curled up for a nap 
 the day we laid it out. We do 
 have a thick rug pad underneath 
 it so that might help some. All in 
 all, very impressed with the rug 
 and the price!