Dog Poop Poop Troubles

I am planting a flower garden in a certain area. The problem is my dog keeps going over there and doing her business. I tried this concoction of chili paste, garlic powder, vinegar, and water. It worked in the beginning but now she seems to be getting used to the smell. Just for now I have tulip bulbs planted there. Nexts month I'll be getting more bulbs in the mail that need to be planted as soon as possible. Is there any one with some advice. I do not want to put a fence there. The area is too small. I'd appreciate any help.

Since it's your dog I'd probably try training her to stay out of the area. When it someone else's dogs then repellents and fences may be your only choice, but for your own dog I think training her may be your best bet for the long term.

There is a great natural spray I use called Invisible Fence. I initially used it to keep deer away (its great because it has no smell once it dries but plug your nose when you initially use it!) but I noticed my neighbors annoying Lab who had frequented our shrubs would avoid those sprayed areas like the plague as well! It is great because it only needs to be applied once a month,rain or shine!

Where do you buy the Invisible Fence product? I Googled it and only get hits for the electric kind, not a spray.

Thanks,

Sorry! Its called Liquid Fence www.liquidfence.com . It is available at any home center like Lowes/Home Depot etc...in the gardening aisle. Sorry for the mistake!

No problem. Thanks for the correction. I'll check it out today. Just planted my fall veggies and puppy wants to lay in the bed. Bad puppy.....good thing he's so cute.

I had to dig up a spot for my dog. Just like the flower beds. Every time she even looked at the flower beds, I showed her Her place. It didn't take too long. I had to move her poo to that spot and talk "angry" while I was in the NO zone and sweet when I was by her place. I think it took a couple of weeks at the most. By using the liquid fence and redirection training, your dog should catch on fast.

That's good training technique nan....tone of voice, positive reinforcement, consistency. Our puppy is nearing 6 months old and he learns quickly using technique you have described.

Thanks for all your feedback. I'm goin with britbrighton Liquid Fence. My dog is 15 years old , and all the discipline I give her does not work. I've been down that road and it does not work. But I still think you can teach a old dog new tricks. She is just being stubborn, because when she was a pup, she was no problam.

I just noticed they have a "Liquid Fence" Dog and Cat repellant as well. So that might be good instead of the deer version. As I have forewarned PLUG YOUR NOSE when you spray! But trust me, it really does dry to NO smell at all. Good luck!-Brit

my brother hooked a sprinkler up to a motion detector for his two bernese mt dogs.

Is there a Liquid Fence for grasshoppers? ;~}} sigh

I wish there were one for mosquitoes, My dog will only poo on grass. Funny how spell check wont accept poo but is quite happy with the s word!

Ha ha! I have a million crickets, myself. I thought snakes eat them but my woods are full of snakes and no luck! I hope they don't do damage to anything I have planted!

Well Brit, I'll not rain on your parade, darlin'........wishing you the best with your crop. :~)))

Oh no....I sense sarcasm...what are they going to do to my lawn?!?????? I planted a fortune's worth of plants!

Duck toller, how did he hook it up? Where do you buy it? I need that for the deer and don't know even so much as what it is that I need to buy or where to go for it.

He bought a motion detector that is supposed to turn on an outdoor light, after that I don't know. He's an engineer. I knw that for a while he had a remote control on the sprinkler and turned it on manually whenever he saw the dogs going over there. But they're smart and started watching in the window for him.

He had more troubles than feces. For example, the older, female lay patiently watched him plant his wegeila bush. All sweaty and knowing he had 4 more bushes to go, Mike moved on. He made it to the third of five bushes before he looked behind him to see his dog was digging up each of the bushes, rolling in the smelly compost, and looking really pleased with herself. Her son was eating the compost and arffing on the deck.

They ate veggies even though there was a fence around the bed. They climbed his trellis to get grapes. They lay on top of his lilies because he planted them on the shady side of the house where it was nice a cool. Bernese are wonderful dogs. Loyal, gentle, and smart ...it is the smart part that is difficult. They're huge so a little boo-boo can be a really big mess.

I'll stick with my little Duck Toller. Her worst is to kill patches of grass during the winter. Not so bad.

Duck_toller, you've highlighted several issues I spent too much time typing out last night and finally decided was waaaaay too much information to pass on to madinlv in the middle of his/her dilemma about poop in flower beds and deleted it. So, I'll make an attempt again, briefly, to make your "highlights" specific.

1. I NEVER NEVER NEVER plant plants with my dogs watching me do so. I park them in the house, garage, kennel, WHEREVER, but I don't let 'em watch. It's their job to retrieve for me. And if it's not to retrieve, it's certainly to have as much fun as I am CLEARLY having in that dirt! So they do. They retrieve, they play, and . . .

2. they could eat my plants [eeeeeeek], potentially including bulbs. And many bulbs (rhizomes) are potentially toxic. And some plants, as has been noted above, are potentially toxic. If you want to check out the ASPCA toxic plants web site go to http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=pro_apcc_toxicplants and check out what they have to say. The Cornell University web site highlights a variety of plants potentially toxic to dogs at http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/dogs/index.html and to cats at http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/toxcat/toxcat.html . It is my habit to research and compare information between sites.

Oh my, poor madinlv. More information than you probably ever expected, much less wanted to know. Doubtless your pets will never get into munching on your outdoor plants. But I'd sure watch a puppy or kitten into early adulthood to make sure they aren't doing so, then feel safe leaving them alone.

Toxicity at my house?!! If that poodle chews up ANOTHER ONE OF MY coffee table books or British-published garden design books I'll find SOMETHING toxic!!! {chuckling}

Linda and The MopTops (checking out the street, which is their job, afterall) Note the rug under my main man, who lives to stalk!


[edited for grammar -- sigh]

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I need to chime in here about using Liquid Fence as a dog repellent. It works wonderfully as a deer & rabbit repellent, but not so well for the dogs. THEY LOVE IT !!! As in, they love to roll in it, rub up against it, Ohhhh, that yummy, stinky smell. I alert the neighbors when I intend to use it, we all have hunting dogs.

Well, it sure worked on that Golden Retriever.....maybe the best bet is to try a little, if it doesn't work, take it back and get a refund!

Some mulching wood bark materials are more attractive to cats and dogs, there has been a large advertising program for coccoa shell as a mulch here in UK, it is good for the soil but toxic to dogs, so dont use it if you have pets, I found that pruning from my holly bushes scattered around helped better than anything, dogs are not as daft as we think and wont step on this, well it was the case for us when we had 3 big lazy chow dogs who loved to lay on the very bed you were working on. good luck. WeeNel.

To all my fellow gardeners out there. I thank you very much for all you information. Especially those little chuckles here and there. When I get a chance to check out the site it is always a pleasure. Sure brightens up my day. Thank you all.

thank you thank you thank you for the info about Liquid Fence. We have a 1 yr old Golden Retriever digging/chewing machine named Mac. I almost gave up wanting to plant some beds in the backyard this year until I read this. I'm hoping it works on the A/C unit too. He decided to pick on the one thing we can't take away out of the backyard. When he's hanging out inside, his best buddy Nitwit is usually right there with him.

Great pic!

For anyone who is on a tight budget in these very tight economic times, I just go to Dollar General, Big Lot's, any discount store, and buy the biggest, cheapest can of black pepper they have. I sprinkle it all around very liberally where ever I need it and it has worked great 99 percent of the time. When the dog sniffs around looking for just the right spot, he/she gets a snoot-full of the pepper and quickly decides this is not the right spot :-}

What a good idea.

That is a wonderful idea! I've tried shredded orange peels & gum balls (those darn seeds will sprout!).
The cats in my neighborhood love the flower bed under my bedroom windows! --No More! I have a big can of pepper and when the snow melts, that bed is getting it. Thank you!!!

Try moth balls or moth flakes in your garden. I used it to train my dog to not jump up on a low table where my houseplants were. I also used it against male dogs using my evergreens as a fire hydrant.

If you have small children, use the flakes. Walmart carries both. I think it is located in the laundry isle where irons,etc are.

I suggest you rethink the mothballs. My mom and grandmother used them, but according to my vet, some animals will EAT them, and then they are poisonous! (Survival of the fittest??) Just thought I'd throw that out there.

I don't think any animal in their right mind would eat a mothball. Have you ever smelled one? They hurt your nose and animal noses are a heck more sensitive to scent than ours. Besides that, there is flakes available also.

All I know is what the vet told me, honest! I, personally, have never seen any dead critters around when I've used mothballs in the past, but then, I used to live out in the country. Now I'm in the suburbs, so anything can happen, I guess. If I were still out in the country, I'd still be using mothballs, but here there are too many cats around, so I've been trying to find plants that repel cats for my flower garden instead. However, if I can ever find anything to deal with the chihuahua down the street whose owner doesn't seem to know what a darned leash is......