What do yall use to get rid of dog urine in our lawn? My grass turned to bright yellow, orange color.
Dog urine in my grass
I have that problem with my cat too. She has decided she likes those places better than her litter box, sometimes.
The grass is basically burned by the ammonia, soaking it well everyday, will help, if he doesn't cotinue to do it on that spot.
Otherwise you could cut out the burned area and put a new grass plug there.
Josephine.
Doesn't happen often here because dogs rarely roam free, but when it does I spread a layer of potting soil mix over the spots. The lawn is St. Augustine, and the grass will grow back over the spot in about a week.
Hey Yuska, I have St. Augustine grass also. I live in the southside area of san anton. I will try potting soil.
Hey guys, This lady who lives a couple of houses away from me. She always has her dog and takes it out for a walk and of course the dog urinates on my green lush grass. This lady has no respect for people lawns. She does not carry a poop bag and takes her dog along to other houses and does the same thing. She comes everyday day in my yard with her dog and that dog pees and who knows what else. So i try to water it but she continues to bring her dog and the dog pees again. Is there any way to handle this lady and tell her something polite about her dog . Please help!!
There was a discussion about this on the Garden Art forum not long ago:
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/522244/
Deb, are they your dogs? We have this problem with our winter lawn and we suppliment their diet with tomato juice. Somehow it neutralizes the acid in their urine. That tip was given on a local garden show and it works.
Deb,
Dont feel bad. I have the same problem in my subdivision. No one seems to think its a problem they just let their dogs do their thing...as long as its not in their yard. I finally had to take it up with the Home Owners Assocation. They sent out some stern letters and that has helped some, but what I really want to do is stand in the front yard and ask these people for there address.....If they can bring their dogs to my yard to do the thing...then I want to take my cats litter box to their yard.......
:-)
good one, geek
When I was a little girl, my Dad always said he was going to get a brown paper sack and full with dog or cat poo atleast half way full. Then place on the
peoples doorstep and set fire to it ring door bell and run. He would hide where they couldn't see and they would come out and start stomping the fire out.
His friend told me they really did it.
Daddy was embarassed at the things his friend told me.
Sandy
I've heard that one too, but then I heard that you make a noise on the other side of the house and they run through the house to investigate hens tracking the 'mess' in on the floor. Gross! I think it's actually an urban legend, but I always laugh about it...
I was in a subdivision in McAllen a while back. I noticed a big sign on a guys lawn. It said "Don't let your dog pee in my lawn. I don't come to your house and use your lawn for a bathroom, so don't let your dogs use mine."
LOL We don't have too much trouble with that kind of thing. Used to - one of the neighbors was forever letting their dog do its business by the fire hydrant (we're on a corner and it's in our yard) until DH waited out there one day and very politely told him that if he wanted that kind of mess in our yard, we'd get a dog. That neighbor now carries a scooper.
The urea in urine has a lot of nitrogen it so when the urine goes on the plants as well as in the ground, it is as though undiluted fertilizer has been applied. The only thing that can be done is rinse the plants and soak the ground, but who knows when to do this if one has not seen the perpetrator in the "act". I do what Yuska said if the spot is large. The St. Ausustine spreads very fast to cover the spot. But, then the spot lloks better than my other grass. :o)
When some of my neighbors walk their dogs they actually stop at my flowerbeds that run along the sidewalks encouraging their dogs to wee wee. I have stopped them when I see this and explain what the urine does to my plants. If I see them continuing this practice, I ask them if they have any plants? If they say, "Yes", I ask them if they have ever seen me permit my 135 lb. and my 65 lb. dogs to urinate on their plants. This usually does the trick. One person who walks 3 dogs uses the leashes that one can release so that the leash length becomes very long. He would release the leashes when he came in front of my house. The dogs would come up to the flowerbed in front of my front window. I told him that I don't wee wee nor poop in his yard so he had better have some respect for my property. He laughed until I told him that if his dogs continued to kill my plants that I was taking him to small claims court. He stopped laughing and now walks on the other side of the street.
Many of my neighbors ignore the leash laws and walk their dogs without a leash. This is a real pain when my dogs are chained in my front yard when I work in my flowerbeds or when I want to walk my dogs. The unleashed dogs approach mine (who are not aggressive unless attacked) to start a fight and I have to scold and protect my dogs who are in their own yard. Of course my dogs are usually larger that their dogs so I have to try to protect their dogs once the fight starts. I can no longer walk my dogs because of all of the ones that are running around loose especially when people come home from work. I became tired of trying to keep them away from my dogs with a 2 inch in diameter 4 foot long wooden pole. Most people who walk everday (with or without their dogs) carry bats, pepper spray and other assorted defense tools.
A German shepherd from down the street jumped on my great pyrenees who was chained in my front yard as I worked 2 weeks ago. It took 3 people to get the German shepherd off of him because it jumped on his back and had him by the top of his neck tearing and biting ferociosly. It cost me $250 to have the tears on the side of his tummy stitched up. Thank goodness he has thick hair on his neck. This saved a lot of injuries that could have happened. Bernie is huge, but young and gentle, and doesn't know how to fight. He thought the dog wanted to play and was in shock as the dog knocked him down. I am thankful that my Rhodesian ridgeback was not chained outside. It would have been a horrific fight. He tends to his own business, but would have defended Bernie and protected me when this happened.
Surprisingly, cats which are free to roam do more damage to my plants (as well as the birds, lizards, praying mantis, butterflies and their catepillars, etc) than the dogs do. Oops, I am sorry I have ranted on and on and gotten off topic. But, I feel better now. :o) than the dogs do.