Battling Dog Urine Stains On Your Green Grass (Part 4)

Battling Dog Urine Stains On Your Green Grass (Part 4)

Battling the fight to keep your beautiful lawn green, you may want to consider changing your dog's diet. Because nitrogen is a byproduct of metabolized protein, a lower protein diet would produce less nitrogen.

However, please be cautioned that your dog needs protein, and dropping too low can cause problems. Owners should not consider feeding their dogs a diet that is extremely low in protein in an attempt to produce an even lower nitrogen-potent urine. Restricted protein diets are for specific medical conditions and are not healthy alternatives for the average dog.

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Work With Your Dog

There are other alternatives that you can consider when to keeping your lawn from turning into a brown, patch-filled area – solutions that can be enjoyable for both the dog and owner alike.

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1) Reroute the dogs: If your dogs are eliminating in one specific area, say on the side of the backyard deck for example, move the steps from the side of the deck (where the brown spots are highly visible) and place the steps at the other end of the deck.

If the dogs continue urinating immediately after trotting down the steps, the grass damage will now be in an area that is far less visible.

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2) Create an attractive area: A second thought is to keep the steps where they are but replace the areas of burned grass with nearly pee-proof plants, such as a bed of English ivy. The dogs can continue to use the same place but without destroying anything.

3) Create a new area for the dogs: A third approach is to reroute the dogs to a new location and create some privacy. When developing a location specifically for your dogs to use, design the area so that it can be attractively hidden with a cluster of ornamental grasses, miscanthus grass or Leyland cypress, which grow quickly into a privacy screen.

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Then, take the time to train your dogs to use the area you've created. Dogs can be trained using positive reinforcement to use a particular area of the yard. Pet products, such as urine stakes, also are available to help attract a dog to a specific location.

4) Just live with it: And finally, a more philosophical approach to the issue – is to just live with it. The train of thought here goes something like this: If you make a commitment to having a pet then you need to accept that there should be some wear and tear to your yard. That goes along with owning a dog.

That doesn't mean you have to accept  living with a mudslide for a backyard, rather, you just need to take a look at your dog's habits and turn those habits into opportunities for training, as well as to improve your yard.