What can you do to prevent dogs from going to the bathroom on our lawn?
amerizim asked:
There are several owners who walk their dogs through our neighborhood. Is there anything we can put on the lawn to prevent them from soiling our yard? Someone once told me cayenne pepper. Does that work? I don’t want to hurt the dogs. I just hate mowing over dog dirt.
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There are several owners who walk their dogs through our neighborhood. Is there anything we can put on the lawn to prevent them from soiling our yard? Someone once told me cayenne pepper. Does that work? I don’t want to hurt the dogs. I just hate mowing over dog dirt.
August 4th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Cayenne Pepper does work, but it’s intended more for indoor use to keep your own pets from soiling on a rug or to keep them from scratching at a door.
I’d suggest maybe a small fence, not much more than maybe a foot high, or if you see people allow their dogs to soil in your lawn then ask them not to let their dogs do that.
August 7th, 2009 at 3:33 am
shoot it in the face
August 8th, 2009 at 5:23 am
Cayenne pepper works until you water and some dogs are unaffected. I like a product called REPELL which you can find at home improvement stores. It works for cats and other critters, too. Also, check the Fosters Smith catalog, they carry REPELL and some other natural formulations you can spread on the lawn that detract animals from urinating and deficating on the lawn. They come in both spray and pellet form, with the pellets lasting longer through watering and rain.
August 8th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
They do sell motion detectors that you can hook up to your water hose or hard pipe them in. I use them to keep my dogs from poopin where I don’t want them too. If you like your neighbors it may not be a good ideal. You would have well watered grass and angry neighbors.