Dog urine versus lawns

[SueA]

Just wanted to post a pic. of our late-lamented boxer Tess. If we'd had dog rocks when we had her perhaps we'd still have a lawn. She had more soul than any human. I've scanned an old photo I took of her & if you click on the link & open the file you can see her.

[snohare]

According to New Scientist (who had a reader's debate about this subject once !) it is the oestrogen in urine that is a growth inhibitor - plants have oestrogen too, so are sensitive to it. As oestrogen is a neurohormone as well as a sex hormone, both males and females will have it, but males to a much lesser degree.
Dog rocks I don't know about, but I do know that varying levels of acidity in humans diet will make the urine vary a lot in terms of uric acid, which might well be a culprit along with ammonia in killing or burning plants. So given a mineral that helps bind to insolubles/change pH in urine, you may well find that the effect on plants is much lessened. And as a bonus, your lovely dogs may also never suffer from kidney stones !

[SueA]

It's no wonder our lawn died then Snohare as our dog Tess was on thyroxine & oestrogen tablets- must have added some strength to her urine!

[Bugeyes]

Dog rocks still working..............saw them advertised in Sunday papers last weekend cheaper than on ebay. Go to www.dogrocks.co.uk

[Bugeyes]

Lovely photo SueA. We have two dogs who cost us a fortune, old one going in to have his canine teeth removed next week poor thing. OH will have to prechew his food for him......

[SueA]

My OH used to sometimes try the dog's biscuits Bugeyes & thought that some of her meat looked appetising ,yeuch! Your poor dog will have to gum it's biscuits to death!

[lost the plot]

Tomatoe juice seems to work. Dog rocks i am going to try soon. But shop around i found it cheaper in a pet shop near me than direct from the company.