The old problem of having girls and making the lawn look like a patchwork mud and grass area !

Somebody I know thinks there is a product that you can get that is some sort of rock that you can place in the dogs water bowl and the minerals in the rock dissolve in the water and help neutralise the wee to stop the grass dying ?

Anybody heard of this and know where you can get it , and is it safe ??

Thanks

Lucy

i have heard those rocks dont work
you keep bitches
they pee
get over it
(thats what i told OH)

just chuck a bucket of water over the area when they have pee'd !

My neighbour has a watering can filled up and ready for action. Whenever she sees her bitches pee on the lawn she goes out and gives the puddle a sprinkling. I looked after her dogs at her house once and it was a right fag! Couldn't be bothered to do it myself. Still her lawn looks a lot better than mine ;-)

I dont really have the time to stand and watch waiting for them to pee unfortunately :-)

I do in the summer if we are outside with them but during the winter they go out their own. They have also been outside for most of the day so again very impractical for me to be with them all of the time:-)

Fake grass, stays green all year round :-)

Automatic sprinkler system ?? :) :) :)

Fake grass, stays green all year round

After seeing the picture of yours I still have that as an option !

I have just been out and done the firsy lawning mowing of the year and it is looking pretty scruffy ! Hopefully once the grass get some vigour back it may start to look a bit better !

> Automatic sprinkler system ??

The chocolate girls? Thats the problem :-D

> Automatic sprinkler system ??
>The chocolate girls? Thats the problem 

:) :) :)

you could also fence of the grass and let them toilet in a dog area then let them up into the garden ...thats what I do with my three bitches  ...makes such a difference  .. especially during the winter months no mud bath!!.....we then add  some lawn treatment in the spring which keeps the grass looking reasonably good.

Hope you get it sorted!!

> The old problem of having girls and making the lawn look like a patchwork mud and grass area !

Oh heck this is what is coming to me then, not only do I have craters, this will be added to it.. lol, at least i'm not garden proud, or even house proud for that matter... :-D

> The old problem of having girls and making the lawn look like a patchwork mud and grass area !

http://www.dogrocks.org/

LJS. Think the above link is what you are thinking of. I have two boys who kill the grass (whats left of it after the winter) and asked our vet about them.  He was not for using them or adding anything permanently to their water, especially if they suffer from colitis as ours used to. Another thing thing is that they are best left in the drinking bowl and topping up with water rather than changing it.  That's something I couldn't do with droolly hounds who like their drinking bowl kept clean and fresh.

given up on my lawn,it was stunning,is now a mud pit,luckily the crematoriam was doing its drive so we have a load of paving slabs for free,today we ripped out front half of the garden,slabs go down tomorrow,and this is stans big pee and run round area,the other half is lawn and is mine and the girls,happy all round :)

me neither,suejaw,much as id like a nice clean,tidy house and garden ,it aint gonna happen,i spend long enough working like a twit to keep it in this state,god knows how hard id have to work to make it stay half decent!

Hubby was out yesterday afternoon sprinkling lawn seed all over the bare patches, personally I don't think it looks that bad. I suggested we could fence part of it off but he said a smaller area would just die completely instead of in patches and look even worse. I used to try chucking water over after they've weed but have got out of the habit.

We have a seperate dog lawned area for our girls which we have to re-turf every other year. 

I have tried the rocks, tomato sauce, watering can ideas but nothing works for us.

After 2 hard/wet winters - and slipping on the mossy build up on the bare patches we have decided to give up and concrete it over this summer.

Not sure if I'm on the right wave length here but isn't pineapple juice in the foodsupposed to help?

I know it helps something, is it neutralising pee?

Pineapple juice is supposed to stop the dog eating its own poo.

Having had up to 4 bitches using a lawn I'd recommend leaving it alone - after a few months the bare/burnt patches grow back lusher and greener than ever.

I've used dog rocks before (in our old house - we don't care in new house, there are no neighbours to moan!) and they def did work.  I didn't put them in the bowls as dogs quite liked to 'dook' for them and flood the floor lol.  I got a 2 big 3 litre empty mineral water bottles, put the rocks in the bottom and filled u the bowls from this, using one whilst the other had a chance for the rocks to soak nicely.

I'd recommend leaving it alone - after a few months the bare/burnt patches grow back lusher and greener than ever  Certainly hasn't worked for me!

Hi, have been told tomatoe juice not sauce, small amount in there drinking water will stop it, worth trying

I'd recommend leaving it alone - after a few months the bare/burnt patches grow back lusher and greener than ever Certainly hasn't worked for me!

Or for us, begining to think that area too small for the out put! I always believed that it was only bitches that burnt the grass but our two boys are as good as weed killer.

Yes it would seem boys are just as bad as girls for creating bald patches on the lawn. My lawn can no longer really be classed as such - more a mud patch with some grass growing in random clumps.

I was only asking my vet about this week - he told me about Dog Rocks. He didn't endorse them just said that they exist..... anyway I looked in PAH this weekend. £12 for a bag full of rocks which you have to change every 2 months, it seems very expensive if it is a gimmick? Also you have to put it in the main drinking water and although her bowl at home is the main one she drinks out of streams / puddles etc when walking each day, I also give her water if she is in the car for a bit.....

My viz has discovered her love of water just recently and loves to stick her head under and pick up leaves and sticks from the vottom of the stream so think she may pick these stones out and drop them in the garden!

Might just have to put up with the OH going on about the state of the lawn!!