dog urine in yard

frustrated – posted 11 August 2003 14:58

I live in Southern CA and every place a dog piddles the grass dies. Is there anything I can do to fix this problem? Everyone I ask just shrugs their shoulders and says, resod the places.

Jims’ Turf – posted 12 August 2003 17:51

This is what I use in Florida.http://www.plantmeds.com/pages/6/index.htm

Rob – posted 13 August 2003 21:15

I started using a product called GrassSaver by NaturVet. They are tablets that you feed to your dog. I buy soft doggie treats and I just squeeze the tablet into the treat and feed it to the dog. My dog doesn’t really chew the treats it just swallows them. You can get the tablets at probably any pet store or online. I think they were around $20-25 for 250 tablets. You feed the dog two tablets a day for the first 2 weeks then just 1 tablet a day after that. So far no more yellow spots for me and it’s not terribly expensive either.

Dchall_San_Antonio – posted 18 August 2003 01:50

The problem is caused by too much nitrogen for the soil microbes to handle all at one time. So they try to deal with it by shutting down other processes. If you had enough microbes right there, the problem would never happen.

If you catch the dog doing it, water the spot right away to dilute the urea. Otherwise, you can rebalance the carbon/nitrogen ratio by adding a little sugar. I scatter a heaping handful on each spot. That stimulates more microbes to replicate giving you the proper number to handle all the urea.

Will-PCB – posted 18 August 2003 19:43

It also brings in the ants. ;(

Dchall_San_Antonio – posted 21 August 2003 00:30

I haven’t noticed any ants. But I’m the kind of guy that as long as the ants are outside and not eating my lemons or roses or anything else I can see, they can stay.

Will-PCB – posted 21 August 2003 12:08

They usually just eat my damn toes.

Stoney – posted 29 August 2003 02:24

Is your dog female? If so it’s probably the ph level in a female dogs urine being very different than a males. The supplements mentined earlier will help as will having the animal spayed.

crazypuppy76 – posted 20 September 2003 07:44

Umm…that’s a myth about female dog’s urine having a different ph level than males. If you do a search anywhere, on say google for “female dog urine lawns”, you will fine this statement untrue. Here are some links that search brings up:http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/turf/dog_lawn_problems.htmlhttp://www.extension.umn.edu/yardandgarden/YGLNews/YGLN-Nov0199.html