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Gardens and lawns require proper care. The care includes pets as well. Several gardeners around the world must be worried about the probable damages that can be caused by dogs and other pets. This worry is quite important as the plants in your garden or your lawn are susceptible to dogs in specific ways.

Dog urine affects the garden and lawn quite often. The pattern of disposing urine is different in male and female dogs. A male dog spreads its urine around. They generally prefer to pee on objects like plants and shrubs in the garden. On the other hand female dogs generally dispose urine at one place and it may be the grass itself.

Such urine disposal on grass or plants and other ornamental plants causes an accumulation of excess nitrogen at one spot. This causes burning effect on the plants or grass. If you have a dog and garden both you need to be extra careful. One of the best way to deal with this problem is to spray water consistently immediately after the disposal of urine in the garden or lawn. Such water spray will cause a dilution in the nitrogen. This diluted nitrogen in turn would help the grass grow healthy as well.

You might have come across some advices like bringing in some major changes in the diet pattern of your dog with adding some tomato juice or salt in their diet. You might have also been advised by a friend to add a little backing soda in to the drinking water. Let me tell you the truth. Nothing of these tricks will work. Such hypothetical solutions will never solve your problem and you will never derive any advantage at the same time. Any excess of salt could further worsen problems like bladder diseases and other health problem for your dog.

There is another myth that female dog urine causes more damage to the lawns and gardens compared to the male dog urine. Cheryl S. Smith, author of a book “Dog Friendly Gardens-Garden Friendly Dogs” demystifies this myth that the female dog urine causes more damage simply because it is more caustic in nature.

Training is one of the best methods to deal with such problems. You must put in some more efforts to train your dog so that it uses specified place for any disposal. All you need is a little more patience and persistence while training your dog. Remember that dog feces should never be added to the compost pile. It could be even more dangerous as there would be worm eggs in it.

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