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80's kid asked in PetsDogs · 8 years ago

ideas on how to stop dog pee from killing grass?

so the problem happens to a lot of people. my dog pees on the grass, and it kills the grass. i get circles of "burn" yellowing grass and eventually it dies. now, I know that watering the grass after each and every pee would stop it, but in no way is that possible, I'm not about to follow the dog and water the spot she pees in. I know there are pills you can give the dog to stop yellowing the lawn, but I'd rather not - not too sure if its safe for the dog in the long run. So, is there anything else that can be done? Ever hear of a special grass seed thats stronger than others and will stand up to this problem? I'ver heard about giving the dog some tomato juice each day, and that could neutralize the pee? Any truth to that? Any other home rememdies or fertilizers like lime or anything? Please help, I like my lawn, and I like my dog, but want this to stop. Plus walking the dog somewhere else each time is not really possible either.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    Nothing will stop the urine from burning your grass, but there is actually a lot you can do.

    1. Train your dog to go in an "island." Have some area underneath trees or around shrubs where you have mulch, pine straw, whatever you use in your part of the country. Walk your dog there every time and give treats for going potty in that area, rather than all over the yard.

    (If your dog stays outside without supervision, then that won't work, since you can't get her to go there on her own.)

    2. Take a little garden rake (they are about a foot long and look like a claw) and rough up the spot a little bit and pull the dead grass out. With sunshine, new grass will fill in, especially bermuda or trailing grasses will.

    3. This sounds stupid, but we do it. Follow your dog and turn on the hose right on that spot after she pees. It dilutes the urine and keeps the brown spots away.

    Do not give your dog a special food or medication that claims to fix the problem. It would change the ph of your dog's urine and not be a good thing, health-wise. You don't want to try to neutralize the urine while it's inside your dog. I asked our vet about that, and he said don't do that.

    So we have the same problem with our lawn. We have pretty much gotten our dog to relieve himself in the pine straw. Every now and then he uses the lawn, and we douse it with water right after.

    Your dog will probably go potty right when you let him out, so it's not that hard to watch where he goes. I have used a pot of water, but the hose is better and easier, as long as I can remember where he just went.

    So if you don't have any mulch, maybe this year you should spray roundup and kill the grass over a potty area for your dog and then add the mulch there.

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  • 8 years ago

    You can purchase products you feed dogs which are supposed to end that but I have no idea how healthy they are. Do some research on-line about the health aspect and if they're OK they can be purchase at most large pet supply houses and I'm sure on-line at Amazon.com etc.

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