Hi my hubby has just laid new turfs to replace the one badly damaged by leather jackets! It's looking great...but already brown patches are appearing where my female gsp has urinated!! We have watering cans at the ready immediately flushing out the strength of the wee.... But this means we have to watch her every move.....also I think she is getting a complex about us repeatedly following her butt with a watering can! Wondering whether anyone had any remedies for this problem....thanks!

We don't have grass at home, but do where we have the static van and have the brown patches too. I follow Isla around with a watering can and try and get her to wee is the same area so it can all go brown in the same spot, but it doesn't always work. I'm trying dog rocks that are put in the dogs water bowl, but haven't been staying long enough at the static this year to really test them. I've heard votes both for and against them as to whether they actually help, but I thought it worth trying.
I suspect in the long run they won't as Isla's wee seems particularly virulent, if I could find a way of collecting it I could sell it as grass killer as it would be remarkably effective. I've wondered if food is the cause of such acidic wee or is it just this dog as I can't say I particularly noticed the brown patches with the last dog of the same breed.

The only thing left is to have a sand area and train the dog to only go there.

Hi Jodi. Yes we have thought about those rocks...but she is such a peculiar girl that she may be put off drinking from a bowl with a rock in...but that's gsp's for you ! Also thought they were a tad expensive and have to be replaced every few months! We have a pebble patch at the top of the garden--my last gsp would obey the command "go pee on the pebbles!" Will try and get my present 2 year old to do this but will take a lot of training! Meanwhile back to the watering can saga! Thanks for your suggestions Jodi.

Mine ate the rocks. The only solution I have found is either no grass or training to one area.that is grass less.nothjng else seems to work.it also doesn't matter if the dog is male or female I have both and before artificial  grass was laid both burnt the grass

If she will take it put a spoonful of tomato sauce in her food.  This stopped all brown patches on my lawn.  I read about it somewhere, cant remember where. I used it for years.

Does it really work? I will give that a try, I suppose tomato sauce is ok for dogs, not something I ever thought I would be asking I must say.

Best to use a low sugar one.  I think it neutralises the acid (or something.).

I've just and a bit of a Google and the general opinion seems to be that the salt content of the sauce makes dogs drink more therefore diluting the wee, rather then the sauce actually curing the problem. Gone off the idea now as don't want to introduce salt into her diet.

When I asked a landscape gardener what I could do he said 'the only way to stop it is to get rid of the dogs'   Not helpful!

Don't have grass where the dogs are allowed to toilet.

Gravel or pave an area and fence it for the dog/s, helps with keeping the house clean in wet weather and then only have her on the grass areas by invitation and get her back to her patch if she needs to pee.

If you keep the grass longer then it is less likely to happen, but a short cut lawn will go initially yellow, but grow lusher fro the nitrogen later.

Thanks Barbara ...will try that! The fenced off area is a good idea....at the mo I'm constantly watching her in case she squats...and she loves the freedom of the garden!

Is that a teaspoon or a tablespoon of ketchup.

Just a teaspoon once a day.

FWIW and I have tried those 'rocks', I'd not mess around with them as they alter the Ph balance of the urine, which may well be something you don't want to be doing for the sake of the dog, never mind the grass.    If you have newly laid patches, I can only suggest you rope off that area at least until it's 'taken'.    Just now, with a comparatively dry period at last, our grass is beginning to start to show patches again and all I can really suggest is be there with a hose of watering can.   Imagine the double hit our's gets with first her peeing, and then him over-marking!!!   And note, this damage isn't always the fault of the bitch - after we lost the last our our girls, and just had the one male for some months, we still got brown patches!!!   And he was an entire male at that.