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Dog ruining the lawn
Summer our goldie will be 3 in Sept. When we got her we accepted the garden would take a hit - lots of chewing and digging and weeing saw it turn into a muddy bog. Not nice for the kids or us and as we are looking to sell the house soon we decided to lay a new lawn. Her chewing and digging is now a thing of the past so we thought we'd have a half decent garden.
However the dog's wee is ruining the lawn! We have huge brown/dead patches. We've got Dog Rocks in her bowl and I've bought some Lawn Patch stuff especially to reseed and balance the nitrogen that's in dogs wee which kills the grass. Nothing has made any difference. Has anyone on here got any other ideas? |
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Every couple of years we take up the areas Mollie wees on and lay new turf it soon takes root and she usually moves to another area for a while, worth trying as it takes a while for a dog to kill grass so it may last long enough to sell your home.
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Are you sure it is caused by the dog's wee? My son was blaming their lab for the dead looking patches on their lawn. He started digging up parts of it to lay new turf to find dozens of daddy long legs grubs which were the cause. The grubs were dealt with and the lawn looks brilliant. Good luck with selling your house.
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Summer our goldie will be 3 in Sept. When we got her we accepted the garden would take a hit - lots of chewing and digging and weeing saw it turn into a muddy bog. Not nice for the kids or us and as we are looking to sell the house soon we decided to lay a new lawn. Her chewing and digging is now a thing of the past so we thought we'd have a half decent garden.
However the dog's wee is ruining the lawn! We have huge brown/dead patches. We've got Dog Rocks in her bowl and I've bought some Lawn Patch stuff especially to reseed and balance the nitrogen that's in dogs wee which kills the grass. Nothing has made any difference. Has anyone on here got any other ideas? |
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Every couple of years we take up the areas Mollie wees on and lay new turf it soon takes root and she usually moves to another area for a while, worth trying as it takes a while for a dog to kill grass so it may last long enough to sell your home.
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Are you sure it is caused by the dog's wee? My son was blaming their lab for the dead looking patches on their lawn. He started digging up parts of it to lay new turf to find dozens of daddy long legs grubs which were the cause. The grubs were dealt with and the lawn looks brilliant. Good luck with selling your house.
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Lay a new lawn and fence it off.
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Thanks. Yes it's def her wee. We had it before with the old turf and now it's history repeating itself.
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We've just laid the new lawn. If we fenced it off the dog would have no outside space to do her business.
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We used to have a lovely lawn, then we got a choc lab and within a year it was a muddy bog, so we skimmed it all off, put membrane down and shingled the whole damn thing, we now have a lovely low maintenance garden and no mud in the winter.
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Thanks. Yes it's def her wee. We had it before with the old turf and now it's history repeating itself.
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Can you not leave a small part for her and put stones down then train her.
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We used to have a lovely lawn, then we got a choc lab and within a year it was a muddy bog, so we skimmed it all off, put membrane down and shingled the whole damn thing, we now have a lovely low maintenance garden and no mud in the winter.
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Have the same problem, I have read about putting tomato juice in their food, haven't tried it myself, so don't know if it works!
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Our garden is just not big enough for her to have her own toilet section. If our next garden is a bigger one we're planning on doing exactly that!
Shingle is no good when you've got young kids that also want to play out in it. |
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Keep the dog off the lawn and take it for walks until you have sold the house. It is the only way.
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If you laid the turf 4 weeks ago and have 1/4 of it dead it's unlikely to be the dog unless she is producing pints a day. Was the turf watered in and tamped down properly? have you kept off of it while it puts down roots ? and watered it frequently ?
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My 2 Labs boys both intact 11 yrs and 7 yrs, never had problem with grass, but brother and sister in laws female westie, we know shes been around after a couple off days always dry patches on our lawn, which can be annoying although as soon as shes been my 2 will queue up to wee over hers.
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I had my garden laid to lawn for my dogs and got the burn marks. I use 'Green-Um', and they work
I was dubious about using them but they are vet recommended.My dog is only small so only needs 1 a day and they are chewable. Not sure if this link works .. http://www.google.co.uk/aclk?sa=l&ai...id_26004754561 |
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If you laid the turf 4 weeks ago and have 1/4 of it dead it's unlikely to be the dog unless she is producing pints a day. Was the turf watered in and tamped down properly? have you kept off of it while it puts down roots ? and watered it frequently ?
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My 2 Labs boys both intact 11 yrs and 7 yrs, never had problem with grass, but brother and sister in laws female westie, we know shes been around after a couple off days always dry patches on our lawn, which can be annoying although as soon as shes been my 2 will queue up to wee over hers.
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I had my garden laid to lawn for my dogs and got the burn marks. I use 'Green-Um', and they work
I was dubious about using them but they are vet recommended.My dog is only small so only needs 1 a day and they are chewable. Not sure if this link works .. http://www.google.co.uk/aclk?sa=l&ai...id_26004754561
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I was dubious about using them but they are vet recommended.