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My Dog Keeps Killing My Lawn
Can anyone help me with a solution to my lawn problem. My dog keeps urinating on my lawn (better than in the house) but as a result the grass discolours in this area a few days later and I end up with a very patchy lawn.
I dont want to stop my dog going out but I want a beautiful lawn as well. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do about this problem? Thanks Mark |
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My Dog Keeps Killing My Lawn
"Mark Woodcock" wrote in message ... Can anyone help me with a solution to my lawn problem. My dog keeps urinating on my lawn (better than in the house) but as a result the grass discolours in this area a few days later and I end up with a very patchy lawn. I dont want to stop my dog going out but I want a beautiful lawn as well. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do about this problem? Thanks Mark -- Mark Woodcock Mark train your dog to pee somewhere else. Do you have a paved or concrete area which can be hosed/watered down after? Guide Dogs from a very early age are trained to go when and where they are told. Mike -- www.rneba.org.uk for the latest pictures of the very first reunion and Inaugural General Meeting. Nothing less than a fantastic success. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association if you served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy www.rneba.org.uk to find your ex-Greenie mess mates www.iowtours.com for all ex-Service Reunions. More being added regularly "Navy Days" Portsmouth 25th - 27th July 2008. RN Shipmates will have a Stand |
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My Dog Keeps Killing My Lawn
"Mark Woodcock" wrote in message ... Can anyone help me with a solution to my lawn problem. My dog keeps urinating on my lawn (better than in the house) but as a result the grass discolours in this area a few days later and I end up with a very patchy lawn. I dont want to stop my dog going out but I want a beautiful lawn as well. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do about this problem? Get rid of the dog! Or keep it on a lead and only let it out into the garden when you can control where it goes. |
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On 9/10/07 00:00, in article , "Alan
Holmes" wrote: "Mark Woodcock" wrote in message ... Can anyone help me with a solution to my lawn problem. My dog keeps urinating on my lawn (better than in the house) but as a result the grass discolours in this area a few days later and I end up with a very patchy lawn. I dont want to stop my dog going out but I want a beautiful lawn as well. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do about this problem? Get rid of the dog! Or keep it on a lead and only let it out into the garden when you can control where it goes. Better yet, keep a bucket of water by the door and chuck it on the grass after the dog has peed. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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"Malcolm" wrote in message ... In article , Sacha writes On 9/10/07 00:00, in article , "Alan Holmes" wrote: "Mark Woodcock" wrote in message ... Can anyone help me with a solution to my lawn problem. My dog keeps urinating on my lawn (better than in the house) but as a result the grass discolours in this area a few days later and I end up with a very patchy lawn. I dont want to stop my dog going out but I want a beautiful lawn as well. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do about this problem? Get rid of the dog! Or keep it on a lead and only let it out into the garden when you can control where it goes. Better yet, keep a bucket of water by the door and chuck it on the grass after the dog has peed. Alternatively, chuck it on the dog before it has peed on the grass and it will learn to pee somewhere else :-) or even easier still do nothing. My 2 mutts **** on the lawn and bits of it die off however the lawn always kicks back. Several things you can do to help your grass recover is not to pamper it with endless chemicals, cut it higher rather than shorter, let it self seed if it is inclined to do so and encourage clover as that will help close up gaps. I do all of the above. My lawn is looking very nice this spring, lovely and lush and full, yet my mutss **** all over it. |
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"Malcolm" wrote in message ... In article , Sacha writes On 9/10/07 00:00, in article , "Alan Holmes" wrote: "Mark Woodcock" wrote in message ... Can anyone help me with a solution to my lawn problem. My dog keeps urinating on my lawn (better than in the house) but as a result the grass discolours in this area a few days later and I end up with a very patchy lawn. I dont want to stop my dog going out but I want a beautiful lawn as well. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do about this problem? Get rid of the dog! Or keep it on a lead and only let it out into the garden when you can control where it goes. Better yet, keep a bucket of water by the door and chuck it on the grass after the dog has peed. Alternatively, chuck it on the dog before it has peed on the grass and it will learn to pee somewhere else :-) -- Malcolm Some good and some stupid suggestions. However a dog, or in this case Bitch by the sounds of things, CAN be trained to go elsewhere, and where you want them to go. I have explained that Guide Dogs are taught to go when and where told and this is done with praise, not chucking buckets of water over them. We were 'Puppy Walkers' for the Guide Dogs for the Blind and we did the initial training from 6 weeks in the case of Labs and 10 weeks in the case of Alsatians, up to about 12 months old when they went back for Guide Dog Training into harness. When a dog wants a wee, you know when this is likely to be, the dog wants to go out!! then you take it to a specific spot and once it has wee'd you praise it. There is a word used by Puppy walkers and Guide Dog Owners as a command and I don't think it right to disclose on an open newsgroup because of cranks which frequent the groups. But make a command or word of your own, which don't forget, can and should be used outside as well ;-) If your dog/bitch is of such an age that re training is going to be a little more difficult because of 'habit', then section/rope off the lawn and lay some turfs elsewhere and take him/her there. Some dogs 'insist' on weeeing on grass!! After a while that grass will be no more and you can replace it first with gravel then slabs. You now have an area easily hosed down :-)) That is the wee side of things. Don't know what you do with solid matter, but we would dig a very deep hole with a border spade as deep as we could under a tree in a quiet border somewhere, a weeping Kilmarnock Willow was superb for this, and pile the earth to one side. Any solids were dropped in the bottom and covered with a small amount of soil. This hole took ages to fill and when full dig another either alongside or elsewhere. After a year or so, the same site can be excavated again. Hope that helps as its a case of been there, done that, got the tee shirt :-)) Mike -- www.rneba.org.uk for the latest pictures of the very first reunion and Inaugural General Meeting. Nothing less than a fantastic success. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association if you served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy www.rneba.org.uk to find your ex-Greenie mess mates www.iowtours.com for all ex-Service Reunions. More being added regularly "Navy Days" Portsmouth 25th - 27th July 2008. RN Shipmates will have a Stand |
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On 9 Oct, 10:37, "Uncle Marvo"
wrote: I am reliably? informed that you haven't got a dog, you've got a bitch. Apparently dogs don't have that effect. You could swap the bitch for a dog. [expects some rude comments] Hehehe! How could I. I've never had a 'dog' but always had bitches. I just couldn't comment ;o) Nah ... George and Sacha got it all in one - mix the two advices together and you'll get results. I've trained two of our 4 bitches to pee on command, but didn't managed with two, incidentally a mum and her daughter. I think it was something to do with their 'jeans'. Unfortunately, one, Matilda and my favorite one, by 4 months old had substituted the word 'pee' with the word 'been'. No kidding - it took a dog trainer friend to point this out. When I arrived home I used to say to Matilda 'Have you 'been' a good girl?' and this would cue her to pee on my shoes whilst jumping up and down in frantic greetings. We don't know why and when she started understanding that 'been' was 'pee'. My friend made me say the same sentence randomly, and Matilda would crouch and pee. However, she now pees on command to another word, pipi, but it took a lot of work to achieve this. |
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My Dog Keeps Killing My Lawn
On 8 Oct, 16:26, Mark Woodcock Mark.Woodcock.
wrote: Can anyone help me with a solution to my lawn problem. My dog keeps urinating on my lawn (better than in the house) but as a result the grass discolours in this area a few days later and I end up with a very patchy lawn. I dont want to stop my dog going out but I want a beautiful lawn as well. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do about this problem? Found it! I knew I had heard about a 'pee post'. Find the link below. However I've no idea if it works or not. Dogs pee to not only releave themselves but also to leave little 'messages' to other dogs. It is however something to try. http://www.petplanet.co.uk/shop_stor...ost_p4003.html |
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Thanks for all your replies. Dont think I will be throwing any water on my dog though!!
I dont have a large garden and there really is no other option than for her to go on the grass. She will often go out unsupervised so I dont always know where she has gone. I suppose I was looking for something that I could maybe put on the grass as either a treatment after the event or something that I could treat the grass with that would stop the discolouring in the first place. I have heard about something that you can put in a dogs water that helps with this problem but I would rather treat the grass than the dog. Mark |
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On 9/10/07 15:23, in article , "Mark
Woodcock" wrote: Thanks for all your replies. Dont think I will be throwing any water on my dog though!! I dont have a large garden and there really is no other option than for her to go on the grass. She will often go out unsupervised so I dont always know where she has gone. I suppose I was looking for something that I could maybe put on the grass as either a treatment after the event or something that I could treat the grass with that would stop the discolouring in the first place. I have heard about something that you can put in a dogs water that helps with this problem but I would rather treat the grass than the dog. Some people say that adding tomato juice to the dog's food helps. And then there are these: http://www.dogrocks.co.uk/ said to be a naturally occurring mineral. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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My Dog Keeps Killing My Lawn
"Sacha" wrote in message . uk... On 9/10/07 00:00, in article , "Alan Holmes" wrote: "Mark Woodcock" wrote in message ... Can anyone help me with a solution to my lawn problem. My dog keeps urinating on my lawn (better than in the house) but as a result the grass discolours in this area a few days later and I end up with a very patchy lawn. I dont want to stop my dog going out but I want a beautiful lawn as well. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do about this problem? Get rid of the dog! Or keep it on a lead and only let it out into the garden when you can control where it goes. Better yet, keep a bucket of water by the door and chuck it on the grass after the dog has peed. Why didn't I think of that? |
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My Dog Keeps Killing My Lawn
I have heard it said that putting tomato ketchup on the spot soonest
afterwards will help protect the grass. Not tried it yet as I dont use ketchup "Mark Woodcock" wrote in message ... Can anyone help me with a solution to my lawn problem. My dog keeps urinating on my lawn (better than in the house) but as a result the grass discolours in this area a few days later and I end up with a very patchy lawn. I dont want to stop my dog going out but I want a beautiful lawn as well. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do about this problem? Thanks Mark -- Mark Woodcock |
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