zeroday

We recently put down about 6400 Sq. ft. of sod in our fenced in back yard, and now our dog (female) is destroying it one pee spot at a time. We tried giving her a food suppliment called Grass Saver, but it doesn't seem to be working. There's a lot of info on the net about diffent food additives etc, but I wanted to see if anyone's successfully used any of these solutions. From what I understand, reducing the nitrogen content of the dog's urine is the goal with most of these things, as this appears to be the destructive agent. We've spent a lot of money between the sod and fence specifically so we wouldn't have to walk the dog anymore, but now we're back to square one- walking her on a leash.

Street Spirit

We have a male dog now who goes in the back all the time and our grass doesn't seem to have any issues. My last dog (also male) went in the back at my old house without causing damage either. Not sure what the difference may be, but we've never had a problem with burn spots.

zeroday

It's a problem that affects mostly female dogs. Male dogs tend to 'spread it around' whereas female dogs tend to expel everything in one spot.

Scrib

I know of nothing to avoid this issue, other than not having a female dog.

Every female dog I've been around, the grass has been destroyed. Sorry.

Street Spirit

Both my dogs have always peed in one spot (one of 'em doesn't even lift his leg 99% of the time, like dogs usually do). Plus, he's a 100lb dog with a huge bladder, so if it really had to do with spreading it around -- I would have HUGE patches of grass that were destroyed.

silver3.5

Man's best friend is now the grass' worst enemy. Ironic!

gatrhumpy

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zeroday

Just repeating what I read online, but you know how those 'known facts on the Internet' are

zeroday

Sex change it is.

97BlackAckCL

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sadly this is the case, half my back yard was destroyed by the previous owner's female dog, the other half by my female pit. There is some enzyme that you can give them that is supposed to lower the acidity of their urine, but I didn't really feel like messing with my dog's body chemistry like that

97BlackAckCL

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bitches be crazy

Moog-Type-S

Train your dog to pee in a designated planter area.

My mother's dog was well on it's way destroying her lawn, when she trained the dog to pee in a designated planter (non grass area with "shrubbery"). Now when the dog is let out it heads over to the planter area to pee, and then does it other business on the grass.

dallison

walk the dog so you both get exercise. We have three dogs andd our lawn looks a bit rough from now until septempber. We have 2 males and one female.
We don't give tehm anything to help the lawn. I would be afraid that it may affect their liver or kidneys.

I just reseed in the spring.

Dan

Surprised it took seven post to get here.

hornyleprechaun

Water... If you water once a day you shouldn't have such a big problem. I'll take a pic of my lawn tonight, but I have two 80lb dogs who pee in my yard and there isn't a brown spot in the lawn.

fsttyms1

I have had vets tell me the pets diet plays a big roll in it. My mil has had good luck adding some tomato juice to her dogs food daily and it has helped her yard.

LuvMyTSX

I don't think male/female matters. Our male leaves burn spots in our yard and I have been trying to think of a way to stop the damage. I'm afraid to give him any of those pills, not to mention they'd be expensive for such a big dog (I think they say 1 pill per 10lb of body weight). I don't really know what to do, either.

friesm2000

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train to pee in a more specific area, to contain the brown spots




old dog, kinda learn on her own, but anyways, she always did #2 (and even #1 majority of the time) at one end of the back yard, so you could still use the one end of the yard without having to worry about stepping in it






also as mentioned, just accept the fact of brown spots, and reseed those spots occasionally