Vitamin C stops dog urine from causing brown spots on the grass??

Question

I read somewhere that giving your dog Vitamin C helps get beard stains out and also stops their urine from making brown spots on the lawn. Does this acutally work??

Answer 1

Watering your lawn helps. Also, rotate where the dog can potty.

We have 5 dogs, and a relatively small lot. We don't have brownspots because I make sure to "rinse" the lawn a couple times a week.

The grass loves it!

Answer 2

Basically your dog is fertilizing your grass to death, due to nitrogen in the urine. If too much nitrogen is applied to a lawn it causes it to burn, just as if you were to over fertilize it. That is why the grass around the edges is very long and darker than the yellow spot. Large breed as well as unaltered female dogs tend to cause more of this. Milano is a fixed female and she hasn't left any brown spots in 8+ years.

Answer 3

The answer to that would be no. Vitamin C will not change the pH of a dog's urine. And if that were the case... dogs can make their own Vit. C, so why wouldn't they do it on their own to keep from getting "beard stains?"

No. Hope that helps.

Answer 4

No - the brown stain is usually from too much nitrogen (the urea in urine) encouraging your dog to drink a lot of water will help. Turning the garden hose on the pee spot when the dog is done will help.
Not supplying more N in the form of fertilizer will help...

Answer 5

I don't know about Vitamin C, but if you give your dogs a little tomato sauce with their food every once in a while, that will help lower the acidity in their urine and prevent brown spots.

Answer 6

It's easiest to replace some of the lawn with bark dust or something similar. Dogs prefer the lawn but can be taught to use just the bark dust. It's much easier to pick up waste on bark dust. Just replace the bark dust when you begin to see the soil underneath and that's it. It's cheap and effective and your lawn will be nice and green.

You can use supplements, Drs Foster and Smith sell one, but who knows what the longterm health effects are? Also, why bother.

Answer 7

Hi,

I have a website about Standard Poodles and there is a page about urine and lawn damage. Check it out it might help.

http://www.standardpoodlesusa.com/lawn.html

Answer 8

yes.... but it is not very safe for the dog so you could take the dog some where else to urinate to keep your grass nice n green

Answer 9

BRO ITS A DOG let me give u vitamine C and lets see what happens to your piss