I was wondering, does anyone know how to get spots out of the lawn from were my pup goes?

In that one place the grass is getting a bit burned.

Pet stores carry products you can put on your lawn to repair the burn spots; but the permanent fix is a raw diet -no more brown grass.

There are many products on the market that claim to repair burt grass (some of which work okay, but must don't) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />.

Raw diets seem to work incredibly well for preventing this problem in the first place <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />. There are also some dehydrated foods that work well enough (such as N-R-G or The Honest Kitchen <I believe Ed sells this>, however it still comes down to diet.

I also find that when combined with a high quality diet, good nutritional supplements help a great deal too (we use Feed Sentials or Nupro with our dogs).

If for whatever reason you are not interested in making any dietary changes then you may consider training your dog to routinly eliminate in the same spot <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />. Pick an area of the yard that is not so obvious (like under a big pine tree or something at the far side of the yard). Then if the burnt grass is still in plain view you can try the commercial products or perhaps landscape that area with something attractive but that won't bleach out (ie: mulching, woodchips, pea gravel, etc). There are many ways to dress up the area so it doesn't just look like the dog's toilet <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

My vet recommended pouring water over the spot after each time the dog goes, so far, no more burn spots.

Someone told me it's only females' urine that burns grass. Is that true?

It's more likely to cause a burn because it tends to be dispensed in a very concentrated area.

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Someone told me it's only females' urine that burns grass. Is that true?

Not from what I've seen. I have a male who somedays can't decide if he wants to lift his leg to pee or squat. He does stick to one are and that area of grass will burn if i don't water that particular area of the lawn every day.

Last summer a rep from “Company A” chased me down in our Petco to give me a bottle of “Magic Pee-Spot Remover” to try out. I heard a long spiel about “magic enzymes” that bring the grass back to life in it’s natural green state.

I took it home and tried it….. it was watered down green paint you spray on the dead grass. I had green painted dead grass spots…. If yer gonna have dogs yer gonna have pee spots! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

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I was wondering, does anyone know how to get spots out of the lawn from were my pup goes?...In that one place the grass is getting a bit burned.

I love the green paint idea, but what I've learned over the years is that only diluting the ammonia (watering the spot immediately and thoroughly) really works.......so what I do is teach them the spot I have given up on, and then I ignore that one spot. I squint when I have to look at it so it's not too clear. (I did pick a spot with something to lift the leg against *and* plenty of squatting places! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

To me, this was well worth the training process.

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Raw diets seem to work incredibly well for preventing this problem in the first place <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />. There are also some dehydrated foods that work well enough (such as N-R-G or The Honest Kitchen <I believe Ed sells this>, however it still comes down to diet.

These are what my dogs have (raw with THK from this site as backup), and you're absolutely right that when I switched to raw, the burns were much less vivid. I had forgotten how much worse they used to be.