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Yellow Grass and Dog Urine
Weekly Expert Pet Advice
with Dr. James Glover, Resident Expert

We have a 1 year old German Shepard, and when it goes to the bathroom outside, it turns the grass yellow. How can we prevent this? Is it something he can eat or drink to help? It is ruining our yard! (Kristen Soares, Texas)
Dog urine causes dead patches and lawn burn due to the high levels of nitrogen that is released into the lawn through the urine. Every dog owner who has a yard will be familiar with this.

Nitrogen is actually a lawn-growth stimulant that encourages lawn growth when properly applied as a fertilizer. The problem presented with dog urine is that since most dogs urinate in one spot, then will introduce large amounts of liquid nitrogen (urine) to that spot thereby causing a burning reaction and even a dead-spot in the lawn. Often the effected spot will show vigorous grass growth around the spot due to the nitrogen levels that stimulate growth around the edges. Since larger dogs usually produce larger amounts of urine, there is a direct correlation between the size of your dog and the changes of developing lawn burn and dead spots in your lawn through urination.

The best way to help prevent urine burns and dead spots is to saturate the spots with water. This will allow the excess nitrogen to leach or dilute through the lawn and reducing the concentration in one area. It is usually best to treat the areas up to 9 hours after urination and to apply at least three-time the amount of water to urine to the area. Dead spots can also be reseeded. Most lawn grasses will eventually repair itself to cover the dead areas.

Among the many reputed cures for dead-spots from dog urine are also to apply sugar to the affected areas, with the thinking that this somehow balances out the nitrogen overkill. If you have old unfinished bottles of soda this can be liberally applied to these areas, or apply a handful of corn syrup. This particular remedy is often reported to work!

I copied this info from another web site hope it helps!

oh and keep working with your dog until he becomes familiar with what you are doing. Then introduce him to other things he can go and find.Be sure to reward him for being good.

But Will It Change Its Own Potty Pads? What Service Dogs Really Do

There are many kinds of service dogs trained to help humans with differing conditions and in differing situations.  Assistance dogs are put through many kinds of rigorous training before being placed in a home or a job.  Most service dogs are initially raised in foster homes, with human foster parents who work constantly with the puppies to get them ready for serious careers.  They start with the basics that all family puppies must learn:  puppy housebreaking, puppy crate training, and general puppy house training such as not chewing the furniture.  These skills are then built upon by trainers to teach the dogs more complex commands and behaviors.

The advanced skills that service dogs are taught depends greatly on the type of work they will do as adults.  Dogs bound for police work undergo agility training, and specialized training for the type of work they will do.  Beagles and Bloodhounds are often trained to sniff out narcotics and cadavers.  German Shepherds intended for police work usually undergo training in crowd control and suspect detainment.  Most all kinds of service dogs go through a large amount of socialization training.  This includes dealing with crowds and loud noises, as well as dealing with children and the elderly.  Social training is one very important aspect of service dog training that police dogs and assistance dogs both learn.

When most people hear the term “service dogs” they think of dogs that are trained as companion helpers to humans with disabilities.  Many movies have played up the abilities of service dogs and given the idea that they can do absolutely everything for a human, including changing their own potty pads or taking themselves for walks, or even cooking dinner.  While assistance dogs are intelligent, highly trained, and well skilled, they are still canines on four legs.  The purpose of a service dog is to help a person with disabilities handle daily activities more easily, and to provide a companion.  In many ways, simply being a constant companion is the best help a service dog can give.  Some service dogs’ jobs are simply to stay with their humans all the time and get help in the event of persistent occurrences such as seizures.  In many ways, these dogs do not just perform helpful assistance, they literally save lives.

Many assistance dogs do help around the house by opening doors and drawers, or fetching specified objects on command.  This can be an enormous help for persons who use wheelchairs.  Still others enable visually impaired people to move more freely through the home and the outside world.  Some assistance dogs are now being trained to help doctors find cancer in humans by sniffing out the cancer cells.  The range of what canine companions are capable of is extensive, as are the number of organizations that help place assistance dogs with people who need them.  For people interested in fostering and training service dogs, becoming acquainted with the most local assistance dog services available is a good first step.  Most all of these organizations have different training programs for people and the dogs.  Just don’t expect them to change their own potty pads; at least not without a bit of training.

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