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I plant cactus with large spines. It helps discourage the leg lifters.
One of my dogs loves to pee in yards when I'm walking her. I have to wait until it's dark (so the pavement isn't too hot) and then I walk her in the street until we get out of the neighborhood and I let her do her thing when we reach the greenbelt.
One of my clients had a problem with the neighborhood dogs urinating and defecating on his lawn and Japanese maple tree. I suggested that he take a one gallon milk jug, cut a hole in the side about half way up and put household ammonia in it. I did not see him for two weeks and when I did he exclaimed with glee that it worked, no dogs had used his yard since he put it out. It tipped over once, so he put a piece of wire around the handle and anchored it to the trunk of the maple. I learned this trick back in 1986; I asked a neighbor what the milk jugs of water on his lawn were for, he told me that it was ammonia, not water and that when a dog or cat takes a smell of it, they cannot smell anything else for a while. Dogs and cats use scent marks and if they cannot smell, they will not mark the area.
we found low fencing, the cheap stuff at home depot that's about a foot high, was enough to discourage dog discharge, since the town really discourages barbed wire in front yards. This in an urban area with loads of dogs.
The location and zone aren't given, but I suspect maybe Oregon.
Another site about greyhounds suggests daylilies and hostas.
That's a good article, but I suspect you're right that those plants are best for the mild, wet Western Oregon growing climate as I've seen many of them growing here in yards.
The ammonia idea another poster mentioned is interesting. My dogs won't pee anywhere they haven't thoroughly sniffed first so I'm not surprised that taking away their sense of smell would stop the peeing.
When I had female dogs, their urine was always killing off lawn patches and bushes, etc. in my yard. On the other hand, the male I have now could pee all day and nothing dies.
Post a couple of small signs: Caution, chemical spray, keep pets away. If the pet has contact, see your vet.
Then sign it Sundown Garden Maintenance Company.
This is good advice. ^
I'd been going to post something about a similar type of sign to include the advisory that plants have been dusted with long lasting anti-fungal chemicals and to keep pets and children at least 5 feet away to avoid contact with dusted areas.
signs? Many people won't be fooled, and know better, that nothing permitted to be used on a residence or that we can buy in a store is particularly toxic.
I tend to laugh at those signs and point my dogs in that direction, figuring that anyone so ignorant in thinking that such toxic chemicals exist, deserves a spray or two. Unfortunately, my dogs never got the message...maybe they read the signs and believed them?
Yeah, the sign is a great idea but people probably know it's not true for me. We're not a neighborhood of pristine landscaping :-D
I might do the low border fence. But the worst offender, or at least the only one I've seen repeatedly, is a male chow (I did speak to his owners and encouraged the use of my lawn instead, but alas...). I'm guessing a fence may draw him over.
A sign or low fence could be more of a "magnet" for a male dog who does like something vertical to mark ... which is why you experience more pee on your plants than on the lawn.
I'll be curious if using ammonia (or any other kind of strong scent) will work. I think what's going on is not the fact the dogs have to urinate, but instead they have to mark. There's a difference. Smelling ammonia might make the dogs move on, but it might backfire and encourage marking because they can't smell their previous mark nor the mark of previous dogs.
If you use ammonia, please let us know the outcome! I'd be fascinated to hear!
magnet or draw? not in my experience. Problem with ammonia is that the smell evaporates in a few hours. You gonna put up a drip system to keep the smell there?
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