dogs urine in the grass
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The only thing I have heard that works well is to rinse the grass with the hose where s/he goes. 
Anybody else? |
| There are all kinds of tablets in the different dog catalogs,
but I have never heard anyone say the worked. They are usually in the vitamin/supplement section. Here is one: http://www.petedge.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=2753&itemType=PRODUCT&iMainCat=306&iSubCat=385&iSubSubCat=390&iProductID=2753 Has anyone tried this? I have no idea if they help. Shellie |
| This is after the fact, of course, but some people make a "potty area" with a little gravel and some lanscaping timbers-- kind of like a big litter box in their yard. I think this is a great idea, because it's easy to scoop, you don't have to wander the yard with your dog (or wonder where he went), and you can use a watered down bleach mixture to sanitize every month or so to prevent the spread of infection. Also, if you train your dog to go here, he will usually always go there (unless you have marking issues). I read about this, and think it would really solve a lot of problems. We're renting now, so we can't do it at our house now, but as soon as we own, we're going to put one in to prevent bare spots in the lawn. You could even plant flowers or shrubs around it and work it into the scheme of your lawn/garden. Although, picking a potty spot and just dealing with the bare spots in one area (maybe camouflaged by some shrubs) would work almost the same way.
However, this does nothing to help you with your current lawn situation, so I'm sorry! Hope someone else has a good idea for you! |
| We had some friends with 3 OES--one male and two spayed females--who swore by top-dressing their lawn several times per season with gypsum. Their lawn was beautiful.
Not sure why it works, or even if it would work for your type of soil, but I think it allows the water to penetrate our hardpan clay soils better, thus giving the water a better chance to dilute the spots. Donna S. |
| I taught my three boys and previous dogs to go in the same place at the back of the yard which they generally follow.
Although I started this when they were young. You soak up the urine with newspaper and place it outside in the spot which you want them to go. They will smell the urine and generally go over the same spot. It's a lot easier when you have a multi-dog family as they have the tendency to urinate where the last one went. You may have to take them out on a lead the first couple times and use lots of positive reinforcement to get them to go in one particular area. Good Luck! Marianne |
| The discoloration come from the salts in the urine - salt kills grass.
The surest way is to water the area, but not very practical! A specified potty area is the next best solution. I have heard of the gypsum, but don't personally know of anyone who's tried it. |
What's lawn?????? I have sheepie girls so gave up on that years ago, new squat spot each time they go.   Sheepie pee and the drought with water restrictions here, gawd green grass is a thing I can hardly remember. 
Now the boys are just as bad, years ago we had a boy that started at the top of the path and peed on one shrub till it died, then moved down to the next one and so on and so on till all the shrubs lining our side path succumed to leg raising activities of him.
My advice, gardens and sheepies don't mix too well.
We do have a gravel potty area now. |
We used to have a small rose garden, but then we got 3 sheepie boys  . There is actually a forum about lawns that could probably help, it would probably help if I knew the name of the forum  |
| I was thinking about this this morning and I just remembered
seeing something called a pee post at the pet store. I guess it wouldn't work for the girls, but has anyone tried this for the boys? I think it is supposed to be impregnated with some scent to attract the dogs to it, and then of course they pee on it. I have been wondering about this. If I got one and it worked, at least the spots would be much fewer, and I'd know where to water the grass. Anyone tried a pee post? Shellie |
| try a few tablespoons of tomato juice in their food. |
| One patch of our lawn is no more - we have to completely re-do our back garden £££££££ - mind you I let them out the back for the first time since last summer and they're both clued up not to go pee, oh no, they want proper walkies - ah well it will save my new garden lol |
| 2 tablespoons of tomato juice in their food is supposed to stop it. Over time if you look after the grass it will stop burning and become tolerant to the dogs urine!
Not to the digging and the wear but hey you can't have everything!! |
| I am just starting to repair our grass once again. Its worse this year than last, strange, as we had a very wet winter in the UK. I must be mad.
Have a good summer. Roger. |
| Yep, the urine burn..........urea just like the fertilizer. Guess where they got the idea to make urea fertilizer...from animal urine. Anyway, when your dog pees, it's a big nitrogen hit, burns the grass.
Now if the dog were to turn around and dump a bucket of water on the spot, then there's be no burning. I followed 3 dogs around for 7 months in a home I knew we weren't going to be in long. No pill will work because the nitrogen comes from protein breakdown. If you feed your doggie all veggies, yeah, maybe the burn would be less, but then you'd have other problems with the dog's health. I've heard about gypsum but see how it would work since the burn begins immediately. Gypsum (calcium sulfate) is used to eliminate sodium from the soil by exchanging calcium for the sodium........ Well, gypsum is cheap .....just look at White Sands monument in New Mexico, it's gypsum. Dissolves easily in water so will wash thru the soil quickly. Try it, unless your soils are acidic. |
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