How to Keep Pet Urine from Damaging Your Lawn

How to Keep Pet Urine from Damaging Your Lawn

Not allowing your dog outside, without a leash, would be the ideal situation to avoid problems with your lawn. However since this is not realistic, because dogs get loose or strange dogs visit your lawn, there are ways to repair your lawn after a dog "strike".

Steps
Understand that the quickest and most effective way to prevent lawn damage is to dilute the offending liquid with water.
Water will wash away the corrosive agents and dilute the urine. This also helps with odors.
Read certain studies on this subject and find that urination can actually have fertilizing affects if it is diluted before 8 hours have elapsed.
To prevent lawn damage for the dedicated lawn gardener is to improve the soil quality. This can be done by using fertilizers and other lawn food to promote soil health.

Tips
For female dogs (females' urine is far more toxic to lawns than urine from males): Give your dog a brewer's yeast tablet every day. They love the taste, it's good for them, and their urine will become non-toxic.

Warnings
Strange dogs visit at all hours. You may not even know when or where they deposit their urine. It might, therefore be difficult to notice these areas until the grass is burned.

Things You'll Need
Water hose
Fertilizer and lawn food/turf builders