Dog Rocks

Do all bitches' urine burn the lawn? Its just that I don't have any burn marks on my lawn via my bitch although I have heard this before.

Why is bitches urine more acidic than a dogs? (and I wonder if the same applies to humans? LOL)

They have to be worth a shot I guess and not expensive. :)
 
Think I'd be a little wary of using anything that altered the pH (and I believe that's what these products do) of the dogs urine in case it had a negative affect on the dog long term (thinking cystitis/bladder stones etc). My OH is quite precious about his lawn so I tried to train dog to pee on the stones instead. She does - most of the time ;)
 
Surely you just don't allow your dog on the lawn? I'd be vary wary of using something like that in all honesty. Funnily, our small bit of grass (most of our ground is concrete!!) never seems to suffer much despite being peed on regularly by many dogs of both sex. If it did and it bothered me I'd just not let them pee on it, rather than feeding a supplement with who knows what side effects.
 
dog rocks don't change the Ph - thats the whole point of them. They are literally just rocks that go in your dog's water bowl- they are designed to filter the water- so that the chemicals in the water don't react with your dogs hormones to create salts that damage the grass. I've not used them myself but know many that do.
 
We've used them and they didn't work. The best thing we did was have a company called green thumb come and treat our lawn, they come quarterly and it costs £5 a month and our lawn has never looked better, very green and lush and grows like a lawn posessed!

Still have a few small brown patches but no where near as bad
 
Tried to use them but dogs thought it was a new game. Dig the rocks out of the water bowl. Soaked themselves and the floor :D
 
We are only really bothered while the new turfs are taking, someone tell me why the council grass verges don't die when peed on!!
Our youngest Spin will only pee on the grass, when it was almost pure mud she wouldn't pee out there at all.
 
We have been using Dog Rocks for 2 years and they seem to work really well. Our dogs used to take the rocks out the water so we put the rocks in a jug of water and decanted the water into the dog's bowl.
 
Could you try adding a table spoon of tomato juice or puree to the dogs food instead. It seems to work for mine.
 
Thanks Laney1 I have just recieved them so will give it a go, dogs have left them in the bowl so far, how long did it take for you to notice a differnce?
Jake10, how does tom puree work? ours get raw food, tho they would probably eat tom puree off a spoon! they eat most things.
 
Bop! said:
Think I'd be a little wary of using anything that altered the pH (and I believe that's what these products do) of the dogs urine in case it had a negative affect on the dog long term (thinking cystitis/bladder stones etc).
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Just to pick up on this point - not everyone's PH is the same in their water though. We have a private water supply which is incredibly soft - ie rather acidic. The Council do test it every now and then but let the fact that we have a high copper content (which reacts with the lead pipes) go because it would be too costly to change our water supply. There isn't a hope in hell of us getting onto mains water.

So I guess that dogs (just like us humans) adjust to our own water.
 
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