POSTED: June 11, 2005 by newbiegirl
Looking for a VERY hardy shrub....this little guy likes to "over water" if you know what I mean....
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Oh, what a very sweet looking dog! I have a very small yard with a small dog (a cocker spaniel mix) and my grass is a mess. I just moved into an inlaw suite in my daughter's house and she is not much into caring for the lawn or gardening so I will try to help her fix it up. The dog urine kills the grass, but that is okay because I love my Buddy! :)
Well Lore what can I say, maybe a wolf costume LOL
The thing is the application of urine works!!! I have no idea why someone would be so resistant to trying it. Of course from a container of some kind not a DH standing out there howling at the wolves at night LOL>
Old Indian technique...how! :)
you are such a trouble maker!! My dh needs no encouragement to act like an animal!!
I have visions of horrified neighbours everywhere!!
Too funny!!!
Lore
or if the other solution (which does work to ward off other animals) isn't something you are up for, you need to know that dogs can burn pretty much anything.
What I have found to revive my bushes, plants, lawn, etc. that are hit by passing dogs etc. (as well as my own in the back) is water. My vet told me about it and it works. The nitrogen in the urine is what burns the plant, essentially over fertilizing them. To counter it, you need to get your hose out at least once a day and water the area where the dog has gone. It dilutes the nitrogen. It doesn't take much, maybe 5 minutes or less using your nozzle so the water is soaking that area and washing the nitrogen down futher into the soil.
I had to do that everyday last year to recover my lawn and bushes that the passing dogs had been burning. The other thing that happens is if you water that type of area each day, dogs who mark on top of other dogs markings, will stop as they no longer get the scent or whatever triggers them.
Meanwhile if this is your own personal marker, keep an eye on where he goes during the day and then you can water down those spots when it suits you, but you do need to pretty much do it daily.
A person does not go outside and stand there and pee. You put some in a bottle with some water and sprinkle it around LOL. If anyone asks, which I am sure they won't.... it is water soluable fertilizer. The wilderness campers just pee on the trees of course anyway.
I am chuckling here to myself at the vision of people out there in the suburbs LOL, marking the territory.
H*LL NO!!!!!...i would rather just remove the bush/shrub...that ain't happenin'...lol
That is just to much there is no way I am going to let my DH pee on the shrubs out front the neighbours already think he is alitle over the top. I don't know of anything that our male dog won't pee on. I did see in a Chatelaine mag last month where the home owner had to build planters to edge her property just because everything kept getting over watered.
One thing that works no matter what shrub/tree you plant is a few drops of human male urine. Dogs will see it as the territory of a larger animal and leave the shrub alone. People who wilderness camp use this technique on an area surrounding their tents if there are wolves and other wildlife they see as a possible danger to them. Yup they go and pee on some trees. ;) to stake out THEIR territory. After a heavy rain you will have to reapply male urine.
and spiarera (sp?) are both sopposed to be very hardy