Treating a lawn after a puppy goes 1 & 2 :)

[Ved]

Within three days the lawn is taking a battering from the little fella. I understand that spraying the affected area quickly after it's been cleaned up is the main way of treating it and saving the grass but are there any other ways you guys use?

I'd like to get a treatment for the lawn in general, organic obviously, as he's eating it when i take him out for exercise.

All tips gratefully received.



David

[LeftMuffin]

I was going to do similar with our pup but I gave up as she started destroying the garden so wont bother putting the effort in until she is older.

[Who me ?]

Be thankful it's just poo. My bloke likes to pee on anything around our garden ,and then his party piece is ( in true terrier style) to rake the grass/soil with his claws. He's the only thing that I've seen that destroys wild grass. Wild grass will grow under barriers .Short term weed killers have no effect. I've cleared a patch to plant veg in . And before veg comes up ,and cat has found the clear patch, it's got wild grass coming up .

[pikeyboy]

I add apple cider vinegar to my bhs food, stops the pee burning my lawn. I get it from an euestrian suppliers. You can also use tomato puree.

[Mubby]

as a guide dog puppy walker we train puppys to go in one "spend" areas which is concrete, this is definately something I will train in future pet dogs I have, makes things sooooo much easier, one small area, easy to clean up, hose down and no patches on the grass! perhaps worth a try is you have a small area you could use!

[Jasandjules]

boy said:

I add apple cider vinegar to my bhs food, stops the pee burning my lawn. I get it from an euestrian suppliers. You can also use tomato puree.

Yes we use it too. We get the one "with mother" as much as possible.

[Ved]

boy said:

I add apple cider vinegar to my bhs food, stops the pee burning my lawn. I get it from an euestrian suppliers. You can also use tomato puree.

Ordered some from Amazon. Thanks for the advice.

[pikeyboy]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

boy said:

I add apple cider vinegar to my bhs food, stops the pee burning my lawn. I get it from an euestrian suppliers. You can also use tomato puree.

Yup. Used it on the Lab (Dog, not bh)
His pee used to burn or scortch the lawn, so a table spoon of that in his dinner, and it fixed it.
After about a month I stopped adding it, and the lawn still remained fine.

My youngest GSP doesnt pee on the lawn as she was brought up to do it on the gravel drive. The older one however is a different kettle of fish, and if I stop adding the apple cider vinegar I have a lawn that resembles the sahara desert in a few days. She drinks like a fish and then pisses like a race horse, not a good combination. If i try and disscourage her from peeing on the lawn the sensitive sod wont pee at all. I was out there with her for about 40 mins the other night in the rain after I tried to stop her peeing on the lawn.