We have an amount of lawned areas, and just as well we are not that bothered about the condition of these. We have had boy dogs for many years and as you know they tend to cock-a-leaky against things, walls, hedges, whatever. Molly however is inclined to hunker down anywhere and everywhere, result being that the lawns now look like interesting patchworks, almost like Alice in Wonderland's chessboard lawn, apart from the fact its green and pale yellow rather than black and white Fingers crossed though that Moll's allergies fade with the dying back of the grass and all pollen producing stuff generally, as autumn sets in. She's back on steroids and antibiotics, poor little mite.
Oban is our first boy after girl dogs and he leaves dead grass in the middle of the lawn. He does do the tri-pawd pee but in winter when we blow paths through the snow for for him he pees on the resulting snow banks. So every spring we have dead grass pee spots from him. I think he might be a culprit too in my potentilla declining so much we ripped it out this year. Which steroid is Molly on? We used Prednisone with good results but it can do some scary things. The next year we switched to Atopica, a lesser evil. Oban only needed it in summer, fine all winter. Now he's not on it at all.
Our lovely bitch Belle never left burnt patches on the lawn, she weed all over it, she was perfect. Coco (dog, neutered), however, at 2 years and 3 months, still squats to pee and makes dreadful brown patches on the grass. (Scooby used to pee on our Bay Tree - burnt lower branches - and on the rotary washing line (brown grass around it and corroded post - we got rid of it, and reseeded the grass)).
We gave up with the grass in the back garden all together and brick paved it instead. As well as the pee killing the grass it was two dogs doing zoomies, and tearing it up!
My Cooper as your Coco also squats to wee and he is 2.5 years old! Will they ever cock their leg???? And Cooper also has to pee right on the plants.....he goes through the garden bed, squashing the plants and takes a nice long wee......there is grass everywhere but he prefers the plants. Luckily,you really can't see any burns!!!
I've got a boy and a girl....and no lawn. I dug it up and put slate gravel down over weed surpressing mat. Best decision ever - and no mud in the winter.
I have grass but the garden is split into 2 with a fence and gate inbetween. One side grass the other shingle. Shingle for dog grass for me and dog's when I'm with them . Rory jumpd the fence though but he's a git
Our old boy BJ never pee'd in the middle of the lawn, in fact he tucked himself away as out of sight as he could for all toileting and he did that from the time he was a pup, almost as if he needed privacy. He wasn't hiding because of being told off either, he was always clean from the start. Molly is on Prednisone, 2nd lot and she's only 4 months, worries me a lot.
I try to take Tatze out for her first morning wee as they burn the most. Zaba (three year old entire male) stays with us often and I take them both out to the green first thing. But, after that, he wees in the middle of the lawn just as much as Tatze does. I try to re-seed a little bit every day with a mix of seed compost and seeds. The lawn survives but doesn't look great. I'm very tempted to fence it off but I love the dogs hoolying round outside and it's not a very big lawn. We have car-park matting under the grass so it doesn't get churned up or muddy when they are charging about. ...
Mine hooly round them, they have survived four pups so far - but the vine weevils nearly killed em all off! ... ...
Wow, that's wonderful and neither of them touched a single flower as they passed. Molly's trick is to dash past and snatch a mouthful of plant on her way - funnily enough BJ used to do exactly the same thing.
