a brown spotted lawn

Something has happened to our backyard.  

We have slowly been witnessing the demise of our green mini (and I mean mini) lawn.  It went from lush and green, to a brown polka-dotted canvas for Dexter to continue his "art."  We are in need of a change!  

The Hacker has done some research, and we are now looking into four options.  We may even combine two of them.  Who knows?  There are no rules here to say we can't.

1.  Spray the brown spots with a solution that will recover the brown spots and make them green. 

However, the Hacker's research has shown that this spray will make our spots go from dead brown to blinding neon green.

2. There is a supplement that will balance out Dexter's pH levels.  This way his waste isn't so lethal to our grass. 

I am a little nervous about this one.  I don't want it to cause liver damage in the poor pooch.

See what I mean?  Just look at that pathetic face?

3.  A peeing repellent that will, hopefully, guide Dexter to a particular area on the lawn to pee on.  That way he pees in one spot, and one spot only.  

I think I could live with one small brown spot.  Just not 30 of them.

4.  A peeing brick.  The goal here, is that Dexter will only pee on a particular brick.  Knowing our crazy dog, he'll pee on the brick, as well as everywhere else. 

These are the choices that we have.  In the next couple of weeks, we hope to have found a solution, and post a different, brighter looking lawn.

Just like the pre-Dex days.

until then,

Kristin

Comments

[jen]

Hi - I followed a link here from the nest.

Another option for the pee spots in the yard - lamb and rice dogfood. For whatever reason, dogs on lamb and rice food don't kill the grass with their pee. one of Our dogs when I was growing up had food allergies and so they all ate it and we never had spots.

[Kristin]

Thanks Jen! He has been switching between lamb and beef. We'll stick to the lamb. Good to know!