Dog pee destroys my lawn - how to prevent this?
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Afternoon all - the PH search is up to its usual standards, so I need to ask.
Our Staffie cross b
h, lovable as she is, destroyed my lawn last year - peeing on it killed the turf right off, even if I watered it straight after ( not an easy feat in the dark).
I tried one of those 'lava rocks' or whatever it was called in her drinking water, but it was useless.
I have heard wives tales of putting ketchup in the food to neutralise the alkali, and some sort of vinegar or similar - any recommendations in preparations for the new lawn I am about to seed/turf ( depending on how impatient I am!)
Our Staffie cross b
h, lovable as she is, destroyed my lawn last year - peeing on it killed the turf right off, even if I watered it straight after ( not an easy feat in the dark).I tried one of those 'lava rocks' or whatever it was called in her drinking water, but it was useless.
I have heard wives tales of putting ketchup in the food to neutralise the alkali, and some sort of vinegar or similar - any recommendations in preparations for the new lawn I am about to seed/turf ( depending on how impatient I am!)
http://www.dogrocks.co.uk/
dogrocks said:
Dog Rocks are a coherent Rock with a mechanically stable framework meaning no significant mineral particles are released into the pet’s drinking water, in other words, Dog Rocks do not break down or leech anything into the pet’s drinking water. Dog Rocks form a stable matrix and a micro porous medium in which active components are able to act as a water purifying agent through ion exchange. For this reason, when placed in water, Dog Rocks will help purify the water by removing some harmful trace elements.
This gives your dog a cleaner source of water therefore lowering the amount of nitrates found in their diet thereby lowering the amount that is expelled in their urine. It is an overload of nitrates in urine that causes the lawn to burn. Dogs do produce nitrates as a by-product from the protein in their diet, but the difference between too much nitrate that will kill the grass and the amount of nitrate that will be good for the grass is very small.
Sorry, but that is complete pseudoscientific nonsense.This gives your dog a cleaner source of water therefore lowering the amount of nitrates found in their diet thereby lowering the amount that is expelled in their urine. It is an overload of nitrates in urine that causes the lawn to burn. Dogs do produce nitrates as a by-product from the protein in their diet, but the difference between too much nitrate that will kill the grass and the amount of nitrate that will be good for the grass is very small.
From experience, very little of the stuff that claims to work actually does. Tried most of them and reached the conclusion that it's either spend hours training them to use a pee post or get some artificial grass.
We went down the artificial grass route. Try as they might a pack of loopy marauding springers have failed to put so much as a mark on it in the 2 years we've had it.
We went down the artificial grass route. Try as they might a pack of loopy marauding springers have failed to put so much as a mark on it in the 2 years we've had it.
Thing is, I would be more worried about anything which did actually work - I can't see those rocks doing any harm or good or anything at all, but trying to manipulate the chemistry of my pet's urine for my convenience would be a big no-no to me. Maybe a bit twitchy about that given that we had a couple of life threatening emergency vet episodes with bladder blockages with Macavity.
Simpo Two said:
Can a dog use a litter tray?
Kind of.We have a good size gravel patch which we fenced off with a low level picket fence. We trained our then 8yr old dog to use it (we have a toddler so wanted to keep the grass clean)
Regardless of the pseudoscience or not I know people have used Dog Rocks and believe they have worked.
Personally I have 4 dogs and this is a real issue for me, I find it hard to sleep at night knowing my lawn in degrading because of the animals that I have, The one cheeky monkey is sat at my feet right now, with "that face" (all true dog owners know "that face")
I find the best solution is to go and urinate on the lawn with them after all if you cant beat em join them.
Fecking lawn nazi's whatever next ..................a badger ran into my car can I claim from the RSPCA or DEFRA ?
I find the best solution is to go and urinate on the lawn with them after all if you cant beat em join them.
Fecking lawn nazi's whatever next ..................a badger ran into my car can I claim from the RSPCA or DEFRA ?
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