dog urine and your lawn

clee27 – posted 28 September 2008 08:34

I have 2 very large neutered male shepherds, and their urine burns my grass. I live in LA, or lower Alabama, and I have centipede grass. They do not tear it up playing or running, just peeing. I have a Tru Green guy who comes and sprays lawn, and in asking him he looked at me as if I am an idiot. I told him what I have been doing which is putting lime on the spots as soon as I seem the spots turning, and water it in. According to a website I went to that is supposed to “sweeten” the lawn and counteract the urine. Uhhhhhh really I do not see a difference. I have bought pee posts for them to pee on and they are not interested, and the more I try to get them interested the less they care about them. They do not potty on leash, because my husband hated when our former male shepherd, who passed away, marked anything and everything when we walked, and now they only potty in the yard off leash. A weird thing when we travel believe me! (we are military) I have also tried flushing the areas with water which seems to slightly help the area to be less damaged. Please believe me I FLUSH the area, and not just sprinkle a little water. This action has caused one of my males to think it is funny to roam as he pees and watch me follow along, and I swear he and the Tru Green guy had the same look on their face….. idiot! I do not know wether to laugh or cry, maybe I should laugh so hard I start crying. I invest time and money into my yard and my dogs I am just not sure what else to do. We live in a small town with not a lot of resources, and I have asked so many people what to do and the most common answer is that males do not burn the grass, which is not true when they are oversized and nuetered! Please can is there anyone with advice, before my neighbors, the Tru green guy, and my dog have me committed?

katighan – posted 24 March 2009 12:07

I have 4 dogs, and foster dogs, so keeping the yard it can be a challege. I was told a long time ago to put tomato juice in their food and it changes the PH in their urine. It works. So I buy the small 8oz cans of V8 from costco and they get a can in each meal. If I run out and don’t get it for a while I can tell.