Help Needed: Brown Spots on Lawn

[MadMaddie]

So we are renting a house and we have a nice yard. It appears that our female dogs urine is burning the grass so now we have about 10 spots.

Does anyone have any advice on how to treat the grass?

Thanks,
MadMaddie

[XemaSab]

1. Keep the lawn well-watered

and if you see her peeing, give that spot extra water.

The salt in the urine kills the grass.

[MadMaddie]

4. Thanks! We have started doing what you suggested!

It will probably take a couple of weeks to see any improvement.

Thanks for the advice.

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Our GSD used to do that, but no more.

When we first got her, she was quite unsettled. She'd been shuttled from home to home to home to home, never really settling in. Yes, she was loved everywhere, but never really got settled in. She had digestive problems and ate erratically. Her urine burned the lawn dead.

I started by getting her some pet store urine "sweetener" treats for her. These worked pretty much right away. But I'd heard these are not a good idea long term, so we needed to change her body chemistry to effect a permanent change. That change came down (it appears to us) to getting her settled and comfortable.

She is now a full member of our "pack" (we have another dog, two cats and us) and is comfortable, happy, well adjusted, and settled. The urine spots are no longer happening except in rare cases if we give her certain human food treats, etc. We never even finished the bag of urine sweetener treats.

So, in our case, it seems the key to stopping the lawn spots was about her mood and not so much her diet.

[MadMaddie]

3. Interesting!

She is highstrung but that is all of the time. Her mind is working all the time.

Maybe if we get her to chill a bit more that might help too.

Thanks for the advice.