Goodbye green grass

OK OK, so finally we have a backyard with grass after recently moving. SOOOO now a whole new set of challenges. What was once a lovely green yard is quickly becoming a brown spotted mess.
I know it's their urine- I have begun flooding the spots with water after they pee- in hopes that it will dilute the stain, but it's not really working.
Any thoughts?
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It comes down to how many square feet you have of grass and how much urine is applied each day. If you have big deposits and small lawn, then the urine and compaction from 4/8/12 or more paws on the soil spells doom for the lawn. Best solution is acreage.

Yeah, you can try training them to pee in one area, limit their time on the grass or eliminate the grass all togethers......see Val's yard in Boulder. You can try applying gypsum to the pee spots, but water is equally good, but the grass type must be one that recovers (fills in) quickly. If it is slow, then the refill will be at the end of season, not beginning or middle.

My solution was acreage and a pasture grass instead of a fine lawn grass.
Finding a pasture in downtown Los Angeles may be challenging :wink:
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: and expensive!

You may have to go with an alernate landscape based on crusher fines and more shrubbery/stuff that the dogs can't climb onto. The trick is not to exchange the grass for rock......that looks bad and boring. A new design with wide path wandering around in crushers with the area between planted.

Realize dogs put a lot of stress on a lawn and no lawn is beautiful under assault.
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