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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:23:12 AM EDT
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Pee is a horrible fertilizer.
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:23:51 AM EDT
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Pee is a horrible fertilizer. Word. |
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:23:53 AM EDT
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I think most females urine will kill the grass. I've got a few small dead spots from my AB squatting on the lawn.
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:23:54 AM EDT
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Train her to pee on the neighbor's lawn?
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:24:09 AM EDT
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I have the same problem, my dogs are murdering my grass.. in for comments.
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:24:51 AM EDT
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Train her to pee on the neighbor's lawn? I live in a large chunk of land all by myself. She would have to walk 20 minutes to go to the neighbors. 
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:26:04 AM EDT
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Female piss kills grass.
Either train her to pee elsewhere or get use to brown spots. I spray spots with water heavily and patch every spring. |
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:26:15 AM EDT
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We used to feed my GSD wellness dog food. Her pee would make the grass really green and we had these dark green spots around the yard. Then we switched her to Taste of the wild upon vet recommendation and now her pee kills the grass. Strange.
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:26:39 AM EDT
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Put a table spoon of tomato sauce (think pasta sauce) in with their dog food, works for my in laws.
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:26:42 AM EDT
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:27:28 AM EDT
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My female pit used to do that, we gave her a supplement that toned it down..NaturVet Grass Saver..
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:28:09 AM EDT
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Add some tomato sauce to her dog food.
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:28:18 AM EDT
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Unfortunetly it is really a dog to dog issue. My sheepdogs, 3 of them over the years, had no effect on my lawn, my daughters labradoodle pisses battery acid apparently
 . I have heard some talk about trying to change the dog food they eat, have not heard of any success stories with this though.
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:30:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Put a table spoon of tomato sauce (think pasta sauce) in with their dog food, works for my in laws. |
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:32:44 AM EDT
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Add some tomato sauce to her dog food. I'm assuming this neutralizes the Ph in the urine? |
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:33:12 AM EDT
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Unfortunetly it is really a dog to dog issue. My sheepdogs, 3 of them over the years, had no effect on my lawn, my daughters labradoodle pisses battery acid apparently . I have heard some talk about trying to change the dog food they eat, have not heard of any success stories with this though.Our female chocolate lab mix doesn't affect the grass, but our 4 month old goldendoodle male does. Maybe it's the poodle that does it. |
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:34:17 AM EDT
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Only thing I've found that helps is to water the grass more, and if it dies then reseed.
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:34:53 AM EDT
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I put lime down in the spring , it seemed to help
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:37:42 AM EDT
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Switch to a raw diet.
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:37:58 AM EDT
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We used to feed my GSD wellness dog food. Her pee would make the grass really green and we had these dark green spots around the yard. Then we switched her to Taste of the wild upon vet recommendation and now her pee kills the grass. Strange. It can be tied to diet and flea control. On a raw diet, my Dobie girl's pee never kills the grass except for the 2 days after we after apply flea preventive. On Taste of the Wild, dead grass everywhere. |
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:38:09 AM EDT
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I'm assuming this neutralizes the Ph in the urine? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Add some tomato sauce to her dog food. I'm assuming this neutralizes the Ph in the urine? Always heard that it works, and it worked for mine. Just did some looking around online just now, and it's because it makes them drink more water and dilutes their urine, so probably not the best. It's not the pH of the urine either, it's the nitrogen. Probably the best bet is to train the dog to go the same spot, or spray the area with water or just accept that it's part of owning a dog. |
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:39:07 AM EDT
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Cranberry supplements available at pet big box stores...4 dogs...2 male 2 female...one pees hydrochloric acid...I think it disolves concrete too...
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:43:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I live in a large chunk of land all by myself. She would have to walk 20 minutes to go to the neighbors. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Train her to pee on the neighbor's lawn? I live in a large chunk of land all by myself. She would have to walk 20 minutes to go to the neighbors.  Tag for GD's solution. |
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:43:56 AM EDT
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I have had this problem with my labs for years.
Only thing that seems to help is watch where she goes and water the hell out of the spot. Lime helps, but if you turn around and put fertilizer down for that nice green grass look it is counterproductive. I also have a bag of dirt and a bag of Shultz once n done grass seed for the spots i miss. If you dig up the spot, roots and all, add dirt and seed it will grow back in about 10 days. |
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:47:46 AM EDT
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Maybe teach your dog to pee only in one spot? That's what we did with ours.
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:55:52 AM EDT
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Grass is nothing, Mine managed to piss on the central air coil unit all winter and it not only took out the fins but it also put a hole in the freon line causing all to leak out. Would love to only have dead grass. But what is odd is there is no dead grass in the yard.
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:58:33 AM EDT
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My male lab pisses on the same bush every morning and has killed it. However, I'm in an apartment complex so I don't care
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:59:12 AM EDT
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Yep, female dog urine is hell on grass. With my GSD and Border Collie both being female I gave up on that section of the yard. The can pee in the wasteland they created.
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Posted: 7/6/2015 9:59:43 AM EDT
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Always heard that it works, and it worked for mine. Just did some looking around online just now, and it's because it makes them drink more water and dilutes their urine, so probably not the best. It's not the pH of the urine either, it's the nitrogen. Probably the best bet is to train the dog to go the same spot, or spray the area with water or just accept that it's part of owning a dog. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Add some tomato sauce to her dog food. I'm assuming this neutralizes the Ph in the urine? Always heard that it works, and it worked for mine. Just did some looking around online just now, and it's because it makes them drink more water and dilutes their urine, so probably not the best. It's not the pH of the urine either, it's the nitrogen. Probably the best bet is to train the dog to go the same spot, or spray the area with water or just accept that it's part of owning a dog. I thought most grass fertilizers were mostly nitrogen? |
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Posted: 7/6/2015 10:04:39 AM EDT
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Maybe teach your dog to pee only in one spot? That's what we did with ours. We do this with our 140 lb mastiff. Specially the first pee of the morning. I leash him and walk him to the area with a stone mulch. Seems to work. Now if we can find a solution to the digging. |
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Posted: 7/6/2015 10:09:25 AM EDT
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I thought most grass fertilizers were mostly nitrogen? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Add some tomato sauce to her dog food. I'm assuming this neutralizes the Ph in the urine? Always heard that it works, and it worked for mine. Just did some looking around online just now, and it's because it makes them drink more water and dilutes their urine, so probably not the best. It's not the pH of the urine either, it's the nitrogen. Probably the best bet is to train the dog to go the same spot, or spray the area with water or just accept that it's part of owning a dog. I thought most grass fertilizers were mostly nitrogen? They are. The way urine breaks down overfertilizes and burns, which is what would happen if you put too much fertilizer down. I personally have given up. The nursery told me a good rule of thumb is to water four times as much, and then it will effectively fertilize the grass rather than burn it. But I can't really carry around a big cup of water or whatever to counteract this, especially since my wife lets her out to go wherever. |
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Posted: 7/6/2015 10:18:34 AM EDT
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My dog could piss through the hull of a space ship.
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Posted: 7/6/2015 10:28:12 AM EDT
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A 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda in the h20 bowl always did the trick for ours.
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Posted: 7/6/2015 10:50:15 AM EDT
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Wow. GD comes through again. Our female Pit mix leaves little spots of dead grass all over the front yard. Never knew about any of these "remedies". Will start trying them tonight.
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Posted: 7/6/2015 11:36:39 AM EDT
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Train her to pee on the neighbor's lawn? |
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Posted: 7/6/2015 11:39:41 AM EDT
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Train her to pee on the neighbor's lawn? Don't do this. My neighbor's dog is chained so that she does all of her business in my yard. The neighbor cleans up the crap and that doesn't bother me. However, the grass is starting to die in circles and he seems not to care. I'm going to have to have an uncomfortable conversation with him soon. |
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Posted: 7/6/2015 12:18:04 PM EDT
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This happened with my dane as well. She was killing off the grass in the back yard. Never bothered to figure out why.
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Posted: 7/6/2015 12:22:59 PM EDT
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I use powder lime and pellet lime to try and minimize it.
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Posted: 7/6/2015 12:50:03 PM EDT
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My dog could piss through the hull of a space ship. Lol. Seriously hilarious. I think I may give the watering trick a shot. She uses about a 50 yard radius spot. I'll start keeping a watering can on the porch and dilute the spot she uses and see what happens. |
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