Has anyone used products to neutralize dog's pee on grass??
Karen |
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| I have seen and heard of these pills too. Was wondering what effect they may have on dogs. Anyone know? |
| I have used that stuff that turns it green agian (in spray bottle), But dont buy it it just washes away, waste of money!!
I hear you my grass is in bad shape, Spots everywhere!! There has to be something out there.I really need it whatever it is... |
My husband insists that Barney pees in a specific area that isn't grassy--just mulch and pine needles, but if he for some reasons pees on the grass he is right behind him with the hose, hoping to dilute the pee...I'm not sure if it works or not, our grass is still spotted  |
| Brian does the same thing with the hose....he'll even go as far as kicking off his flip flop to mark the spot he has to hose down....he insists that I do it too, and honestly, hosing down right away has seemed to help the yellow spots... |
| I heard that baking soda works well. You put some in their water and it neutralizes the acidity in their urine. |
| With 2 dogs and a small yard, I was always battling brown spots, until I read in a "doggie magazine" that if you add a small amount of apple juice to their water it will cut down on the burning. So I said what the heck... I would give it a shot. My yard is virtually spot free after about 2 months. In addition to the apple juice.. I always spray the spot where they go with the hose almost immediately and when it rains I try the night before to throw a hand full of seeds around.
The only down side is that it's working to well.. I have to mow almost twice a week now. |
| I work with a funny old guy who's one of those guys that has done everything from playing for the Red Wings when he was young, to being a school superintendent. Now he's retired and works as a janitor in our building just to give he and the wife "some space." He also owns a landscaping company so I always go to him when I have lawn and gardening questions. He told me something early on that I thought was funny but true. He said, "Jill, you have to make a choice, you can have a nice lawn or you can have dogs-- you don't get both!" |
I've got a nice lawn. Barney pees through the fence on the neighbors lawn and Maggie does it on the concrete.  |
Has the neighbor noticed   |
George wrote: I've got a nice lawn. Barney pees through the fence on the neighbors lawn and Maggie does it on the concrete.
Lol. My neighbor's male dog does the same thing-- only on my lawn! |
| I have a suggestion
I once had a caretaker at a property I rented who used garden lime on the pee spots. So we tried it at our house with some success. In the spring we dug up the little brown patches and turned the earth, we then sprinkled garden lime (organic-sold at the garden center) into the dirt spots, we then watered and let it rain a few times to soak the white powder into the earth, even though the lime is inert I don't allow the dog on the yard when the white powder is still visible. But a few dousings with some water and it absorbs into the dirt. We did this and then planted grass seed, lo and behold the seed grew and we had all sorts of little green patches. I believe the lime is a balance to the acidity in the urine and it restores the proper ph to the soil. At any rate, it's the end of the summer and we have new brown spots, so I'm sure we will do the lime thing again in an attempt to stay on top of it. It seems to work for what it is worth, it isn't a solution - but it is a fix. Up. |
| Hi all, I have a repair kit for what I used to call "Bentley spots" (now Willoughby spots). It's just a plastic container with soil and grass seed mixed together.Once a month I go round the garden and lift out the brown patches, water well and fill with the new mix, watering again. It works ! |
| Thanks much, I will have to give that a try.
My yard just looks awful during the spring as soon as the snow melts... Spots everywhere from the long winter months  |
I speak from experience: both as a multi dog owner and a horticulturist for many years............pee burns are caused by the nitrogen in the dog's urine. (If we peed on the lawn it would cause the same burns  ) Burns are not caused by pH: acidic or alkaline. No pills are going to stop nitrogen production.
I've followed dogs around with the hose too when lawn burn could not be tolerated. It's really the only cure. It's like dropping too much lawn fertilizer in one spot, you dilute, dilute, dilute. I don't believe unspay females or females cause more problems than males..........male damage is on shrubs and walls so not as noticeable. Several of my guys have been squatters and their burn spots were just like the girls'. Lawn variety plays a big role in how much damage is seen. I have tall fescue, the old K31. It's mainly a pasture grass, tough as nails and rarely shows burn spots. Finer bladed grass show the problems more quickly especially bluegrass and fine fescues. Perennials ryegrass is somewhat more forgiving, but not much. I've not worked much with warm season grasses such as Bermudagrass so can't be much help there. So leave the pills, etc alone and just pick up the hose. If you don't want to wait for reseeding, cut a plug from an inconspicious area and put it in the dead spot........after leaching the soil first, of course. |
| You could always just set aside a small section of gravel and teach the dog to do it's business there...
We have a sort of long driveway, gravel, that comes to the beginning of the backyard off one corner of the house. It's fairly near my back door, so it's very easy to just let them go there where I can stand on the deck to keep an eye on them. Cleaning up poop is easier when it's left on rocks too...lol.... I could care less about my lawn really... I hardly ever even mow it, and when I do it is only so I don't annoy my neighbors too much. |
| try product called "patch perfect"
cheap enough and won't harm your pets saw it on tv, they have a web page |
| darn expensive for perennial ryegrass encapsulated with fertilizer. |
| We do the water thing too but sometimes it's really hard to figure out where they went when you go to grab the watering can. |
| Put 2 tablespoons of tomato juice on their food. We do it and it works great. |
| I grew up with Bermuda grass and dog urine was never an issue.
We had St Augustine in Albuquerque - not dog friendly at all. At first, we thought it was a fungus attacking the yard (small yard, 3 dogs). We started setting the sprinkler to run a very short cycle every morning and every evening. It made a huge difference. We are in the Dallas area and back to Bermuda in the back yard. Unfortunately, it does not like the shade (lots of trees back there), so it doesn't grow back there as well as we would like. But no urine spots. |
| Simply crush up a bit of wallboard (drywall) and sprinkle it on the grass.
The lime in the board neutralizes the urine. |
Trying to grow St. Augustine in Albuquerque is a loosing proposition anyway  I'm quite certain dog pee did not help at all!!
We are actually between cool season growing and warm season growing grasses, so none do real well without extraordinary effort. |
| Doing some research lately and here's what I found.
There is grass that is urine-resistant and hardy enough to withstand even the roughest foot and paw abuse. According to Texas A&M University's agricultural research department, the most urine-resistant grasses tend to be Perennial Ryegrasses and Fescues. The worst urine-resistant grasses tend to be Kentucky Bluegrass and Bermuda. Anne Arundel County, in Maryland, found a Kennel mix grass that resists absorption of urine, says Tom Donlin, parks administrator for Anne Arundel Parks Department. The county recently opened its fourth dog park within the last two years. All the dog areas have grass and pockets of dirt, which Donlin says is perfectly okay for. |
| I have used the K9 Yard Patch. It neutralizes pet urine and has seed that grows back fast to match the lawn. It contains gypsum, which organically fixes the damage of dog pee. It changed the yellow spots in about 3 days and seed was growing in around 7 days. It is very easy to use becuase you just sprinkle it on the spots. I bought mine on their web site k9yardpatch.com and it has lasted me all summer. I don't know where it is sold retail. [Link to spamming low-life company k9yardpatch.com removed -ed.] |
| Gee, guest...
Imagine that. You post in a green font -- and the website to which you link is all in green font. On top of that, your IP address is in Seattle, Washington, and the "contact us" for the website is in... Tacoma, Washington. I'd guess "their web site" is probably "your" website. If anybody wants to do business with a spammer, you know, those people who paste advertisements all over forums, stuff your email box full of crud, and try to steal your passwords and other personal information, please do business with the (in my opinion) spamming low-life company k9yardpatch. If I'm wrong, dear guest, please feel free to contact me and let me know you were a real customer giving an unbiased opinion. But I won't hold my breath for your call. |
| Ron- I am a real customer. I have purchased this product 2x on Amazon.com. I have tried several other products that I will not endorse on this website (dog treats, spray, etc) and I just want an easy solution. I am from gig harbor, WA and this product is produced and packaged in Oregon and it really works.
I am sure Karen needs a solution and I feel this is it. Don't apologize for your spam comment. I hate spam as much as the next person but I do like good products! Cheers- |
| Buy some Calcium carbonate (powered Limestone) at your local garden store. |
| This is May 2009 and I have had to deal with both types of urine in my home.
I have had my carpet professionally cleaned and I have purchased many products trying to remove ordor that certainly rears it's smelly head when the sun shines in my home on the carpet were the crime was committed. Out of frustration and many little tricks I have found the very best thing to do is to take a cloth and get as much of the pee out of your carpet as you possibly can. Then go and use a bottle of Lemon Extract. You can find it in the baking section of your grocery store next to the vanilla extract. Pour the lemon extract on the stain. Make sure the stain is completely covered with the extract and leave it on there for 30 minutes. Now go back and take a rag and step on it and get as much of the liquid out as possible. Then let your carpet dry. You will find that the urine odor does not exist. Only a fresh lemony smell. It doesn't return when the carpets are professionally cleaned either. It was a fluke and a gift from God that I found this out, so I am passing it on. The lemon extract is a tiny bottle and cost about $4.50 a bottle, but it is worth it. Good Luck! N. Berry : |
| Best solution is to pour three times the amount of water as your dog urinated. If you are like me and not around 100% of the time when your dog urinates, you will have to find a different solution. Check out this site. It explained a lot for me and I found a pretty good solution. [spam removed] I walk my dog more often and make sure she has fresh water twice a day so she drinks more. It helps to reduce the concentration of nitrogen in her urine. |
| Try a product called TInkle Tamer |
Guest wrote: Try a product called TInkle Tamer http://Www.tinkletamer.com, you spray it on the grass to prevent the brown spots from happening. |
| Limestone in dogs water is supposed to work |
| I used the Green Ums pills for years and they work great!!! Give it to the pup as a treat and grass stays green!!! |
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