What do you use to keep the neighbourhood dogs fom peeing on your front lawn. We are in a new subdivision and it seems everyone in town likes to walk their dogs here to look at all the new houses. We have only a sidewalk on one side so every dog going by marks his spot. We are just starting to plant and I don't want my lawn burnt. My DH read that if you pour vinegar on the edge not on the lawn that will keep them off.
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I was reading an article that said garlic will deter them as well. Can you mix up a garlic oil and water mix and spray the area ? gee at a little balsamic and you would have a salad dressing lol
a diluted solution of Nature's Miracle on the area where the dog's are peeing. If you can rid the area of the last urine scent, other dogs will more than likely not want to mark there as well.
why don't you put a grave stone up like the one you saw? :D
Quote: "I saw yesterday a yard with a grave marker in the front lawn so i stopped to see it. it read" Here lies the last dog that pooped on my lawn"
Now that is original!
I will have DH try that one he is a dog trainer and has ours trained to us only the kennel. So our problem is neighbours dogs I will send him out with the hose and he can water (he is a real social butterfly) and he can chat with everyone and water at the same time. Maybe people will get the hint not to stop here as we really care about the yard and take them elsewhere.
Well I have a dog and it's pretty hard to stop them from marking (they are pretty fast) although some people can do it, most aren't able to. No matter how hard you try, you (well me anyway) just can't always stop them from marking.
Meanwhile, I had a really bad problem when I moved into this house with the lawn and shrubs being burned near the walk. It pretty much all started with the next door neighbour who not only allowed, but encouraged, his dog to pee on my lawn and that started other dogs doing it and so on and so on. (What really did it was him coming over and asking me when I was going to fix the lawn...some people's kids...)
Anyway, I told him in my nicest voice that since my dog wasn't allowed to pee there, neither was his and that I'd be watching and using the hose on the both of them next time it happened.
The hose is actually your only defence (my vet told me about it and it works). One, you have to go out everyday and water the area for five minutes or so. That dilutes the urine (it's the nitrogen in it that burns the lawn) and also helps dispurse the marking that dogs are attracted to. If you happen to have the hose going when the dogs come by they learn pretty quick to not stop. I like to get out there personally with the nozzle so I can really drench the areas I know that need it and personally (accidentally) spray anything that looks ready to mark.
I think it took me about 2 or 3 weeks of being out there watering early in the evening (when most people are out walking) before the lawn recovered and it wasn't a problem anymore.
So try watering. It's a little effort, but it works to get the lawn back and to discourage the dogs. It's also a good way to get to know your neighbours.
I'm not sure of any of the product names, but your local pet store, actually even Wal-Mart's pet section, will have something for you. We had a problem with our dogs digging in sections of our lawn. I didn't stop at black pepper - I put out a whole mixture of black, cayenne and chili!
Didn't do too much, though - our black lab was seen outside licking it all up!
This is a tough thing to curb. A sign won't necessarily do anything as male dogs will cock their leg on it as they will on a fence. A think if you can find an odour of some sort to deter them I would go that route. I know my friend used black pepper to keep cats from digging in her garden but it has to be re-applied after a heavy rain. Good luck :)
how about
''Take your f*****' garbage home with you!!!!!''
just kidding...i had that same problem at our first house...there was a convience store a few doors down...and by the time that they left the store and got to my place they would be done whatever it was they were drinking or eating....and my front yard became a giant garbage can...i would be out there 2 to 3 times a day picking up garbage...finally i got fed up and left our green plastic garbage can at the edge of the lawn with a sign that said ''feel free to put your garbage here"...it sounds stupid...collecting other peoples garbage...but in the end it saved me alot of grief and aggravation...you'd be amazed...people would actually use it...at first they would ask me if i was serious...i never had to pick up anymore garbage on my lawn and really didn't end up with all that much extra garbage...
Maybe you could put a little sign there 'please pee-pee somewhere else',
I have the same problem but add to that litter too. I want to make a little sign 'Please do not litter here, this is my home'
Any other wording suggestions welcome!
some stuff that you can buy and spray it on the grass around where they walk...my old neighbour did it...for some reason the dogs would do their business on her grass and not mine...huh...never understood that...but she bought the stuff and used it...she claims it worked but you have to keep doing it...cuz it does get washed away with rain....maybe there is something out there that you could bury in the ground that has a scent or something that the dogs don't like...i know that there is stuff like that for snakes.....either that or maybe a lil iron fence is the only other thing i can think of...