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Old 11-07-2013, 21:00
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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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Old 11-07-2013, 21:39
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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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Old 11-07-2013, 21:54
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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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Old 11-07-2013, 22:04
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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?
Lay a new lawn and fence it off.
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Old 11-07-2013, 22:05
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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.
We laid it 4weeks ago and about 1/4 of it is dead. We have a very small back garden so we definitely notice it more than if we had a large one.
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Old 11-07-2013, 22:06
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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.
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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Old 11-07-2013, 22:07
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Lay a new lawn and fence it off.
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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Old 11-07-2013, 22:07
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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.
And a bitch's wee is 10 times a strong as a dogs.
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Old 11-07-2013, 22:08
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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.
Can you not leave a small part for her and put stones down then train her.
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Old 11-07-2013, 22:09
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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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Old 11-07-2013, 22:11
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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.
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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Old 11-07-2013, 22:17
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Can you not leave a small part for her and put stones down then train her.
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!

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.
Shingle is no good when you've got young kids that also want to play out in it.
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Old 11-07-2013, 22:18
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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!
I'll have a read up on that and see if it's OK for dogs to have. I'm willing to try if it is!
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Old 11-07-2013, 22:18
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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.
My youngest was 7 when we did it, he is fine with it but of course toddlers would need to be watched, but they need to be watched anyway.
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Old 12-07-2013, 13:04
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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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Old 12-07-2013, 13:30
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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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Old 12-07-2013, 14:53
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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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Old 12-07-2013, 20:54
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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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Old 13-07-2013, 12:40
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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 ?
It is dog wee, just because that's what happened with the previous lawn and it's spots of dead turf, not a 1/4 swathe as such. It also looks exactly like the pics of urine burn when you Google it.
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Old 13-07-2013, 12:42
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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.
Apparently you don't get it with boys because when they cock their legs and sprinkle, it goes over a wider area. The nitrogen in dogs wee is actually a great fertiliser but with female dogs because they squat it's like a huge amount of fertiliser dumped in one area and it just kills the grass.
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Old 13-07-2013, 12:56
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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
Thanks, will look into them
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