Anybody got any tips how to stop your Bitch from staining your lawn.(had all our flags removed and new turf put down)

No tips but good luck :)

Actually that is not true there is omething called "GreenUp" I think, which is herbal and is supposed to work not sure if it does though, my only defence is watching where they go and running down to drench the spot
with a bucket of water.

Karen

Someone suggested their bitch drink tea. But it doesnt work :(.
The only thing that I have found that worked is keeping your dog off.
I am a landscape gardener and even my lawn is bad because of my bitch. even tho I have kept her off the lawn for 6 months, there are certain areas that are still  bald even tho have seeded with under shade grass seed :( :(
Afraid you have probably done the wrong thing, as new turf is so fragile you need to keep off walking on it for 3 weeks, but stop your dog weeing on it until it is FULLY established 1 year +
Either that or follow dog around, as soon as she wees, poor water on it to dilute the wee.
Sorry I am not more help
Lea

I've tried everything. Nothing works better than time. If you just leave it, the grass grows back, usually greener than before (so still shows up!).

Hi Labrador, my feeling is that you have made a big mistake in swapping flags for turf, when you have a dog. As others have said, the only sure fire way of avoiding lawn damage is to never allow your bitch to wee on it, ever. I exchanged lawn for flags, they are so easy to keep clean. I have 7 dogs though, can you imagine what a lawn would look like with that lot weeing on it. Not to mention tearing around and churning it up. No mud on the kitchen floor either on wet days, just water.

Good Luck,
Dawn R.

Didn't I read somewhere that feeding tomatoes or tomato sauce/puree etc to your bitch can stop pee scorching? Or am I just going mad? :D :D

I read the same somewhere cant think where tho!

Oh how I wish I had patio instead of a lawn........

I read that if you put natural yogurt in with their food then it meant to tone down the part on the wee that kills the grass.
Dont know if it works or not.

sarah xxxx

Mine has natural yoghurt every day and it doesnt tone her wee down.....sorry ;-)

The grass will survive!

Trust me. I have had bitches of a breed with 'unusual' urine for 30 years. I have followed them about with a watering-can and swilled down their pee. I have tried the 'Green-um' tablets. They have tomato juice from our leftovers. I have grown samples of turf in seedtrays and replaced the browned-off patches.

I gave up. I left well alone. I now have a lawn that is green. All over. I still have two bitches weeing on it every day. The grass has won.

I wouldn't have swopped slabs for grass. In fact I am going the other way... ;)  

Hi,

I have cordoned off the top part of my garden specifically for my dog to wee and poo in, we have put a fence at the top of the garden and left her quite a large patch to go on, and she now knows to go the other side of the fence.
It took a while to train her to go there, but we got there in the end, as long as I keep it clean, ie; pick up poo daily and wash the grass down with the hose, she is really good at going there, now I just let her out and remind her to go "up the top" and off she goes.
keeps the rest of the lawn clean and free of doggy doos.

good luck, hope this may help.

I have a constant supply of 'rapid grow' grass seed mixed with some good compost in the greenhouse, it germinates in about 3 days and then everytime I cut the lawn I scratch out the  brown patches with a fork(cutlery) and spread the seed over the patches, it seems to work. I'm trying to retrain my 2 to go on the gravel too.
Ange

I have exactly the same sort of area as tashina, but mine is called "toilet zone"! :D  It took a while, and also involved training them to "be clean" on gravel so whenever we are at someone elses house, they keep off the grass there too.  Basically the only thing that will save your grass is keeping the dogs from peeing on it, otherwise you have to get into the habit of the re-seeding or suffering the brown patches until it regrows!

We have also trained our lab to toilet in one particular area of gravel, thus saving the lawn.  The problem is this area gets a bit whiffy!  Anyone got any suggestions for keeping it sweet smelling?  Have tried Zoflora but the 'toilet' smell is too strong. 

If it's gravel you eventually need to dig it out with the top layer of soil and refresh it to get rid of the smell.  It's the soil that smells, not the gravel.  That's the good news, tarmac (horrible) or paving slabs (not too bad)  retain the smell forever.  Reason is the soil underneath the gravel or slabs gets saturated with urine and there is no way get rid of it.  New slabs are not bad, but if there are cracks between the slabs eventually you end up with a smelly problem.  The tarmac itself picks up the odour, I have it and it's horrible.

Best surface I've ever used are wood shavings, the kind used for stables.  I replaced the top layer of shavings every week and there was no noticeable smell, even after seven years and four dogs.   (If I dug down into the soil beneath the shavings I'm sure there would have been an odour, but not with the shavings on top of it.)

Stacey

We too have sectioned off part of the lawn for our two, once trained they know they cannot go on our part.  However, there are a couple of brown patches showing so I think someone has sneaked on there when we have not been looking :D

Juliet

Sorry everyone I got my post wrong the last time!!!!
Its Tomato sauce that you put in the dog normal food to neutralises the urine not natural yogurt!! :rolleyes:
Dont know if it works, but a man who designs gardens just for dog recomended it.

sarah xxxx