What dead spots due to dog urine are telling you?? - Page 1

Link to a discussion of urine dead spots in your lawn or grassed areas indicate. 

http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2013/11/11/dog-urine-ph.aspx?i_cid=dogurineph-rb-pets-2

Dogs fed a grain based carbohydrate rich diet have a problem with urine pH becoming alkaline.  Too much protein in the urine also contributes to some problems with dog urine and this may indicate that either too much protein is being fed or that the quality of the protein fed is poor and is being excreted as waste due to low utilization.  Poor quality protein from dry dog kibble is a source of excess excreted protein in the dog's urine.  I have six dogs and I have few if any dead spots due to dog urine in my lawn or grassed areas.  I feed a raw diet or cooked food based on raw chicken, raw beef ribs, and liver ( chicken or beef ).  Many urine dead spots may indicate that the dog's urine has an alkaline pH .. dog urine should have a slightly acid pH.  Dogs and humans with an alkaline pH have more problems with urinary tract infections and "stones" both bladder and kidney.  Of course the damages due to urine spots will be in part due to the number of dogs, size of the dogs and the area they have to use as well as the sex of the dogs ( females cause more damage than males ).  I have two males and four females with an average weight of 75 pounds for the six dogs.  Other factors include rainfall and irrigation.  The number one recommendation for dogs and cats with too concentrated or too high pH urine is to feed wet food and raw food is by definition wet.  Many pet owners buy expensive canned commercial pet food to feed to their pet when it was the dry kibble that made them sick to begin with.

http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2013/11/11/dog-urine-ph.aspx?i_cid=dogurineph-rb-pets-2

Alkaline PH is desirable in human beings. It is the acidic ph that causes health issues.Thought acidic ph is what burns the grass but don't really know. Humans need to keep their ph alkaline. Too much meat, prescription or over the counter drugs contribute the overly acidic and detrimental acidic ph in humans. Fruit (even fruits thought to be acidic but actually in the body are alkaline) and vegetables are good. Nuts are acidic. Get yourself a good book indicating which foods are alkaline and which are acidic and then keep your bodily ph alkaline. Know nutrition and am a horticulture graduate and still don't know much about dog pee on grass but I always thought that it was the acidic nature of the urine that burnt the grass or something else. Male urine, I am told, does not burn the grass so maybe something else is at play here. But, your the one with lots of dogs and great grass. People need to maintain an alkaline body, to thbest of my knowledge.

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"The pH normally is within the range of 5.5 to 7 with an average of 6.2." for human pH source Wikipedia

A pH above neutral ( 7 ) is alkaline and is not normal or healthy in humans or dogs .. pH too acid (5.5-6.0) for long periods is likewise not healthy in dogs or humans. Urine pH in the 6.0-6.5 range is slightly acid and helps in preventing microbial growth in the urinary tract. Urine from a healthy dog should be in the pH 6.0-7.0 range and nearly sterile.  Urine contains waste products such as nitrogen compounds and quickly becomes contaminated and supports microbial growth once eleminated.  Urine should be nearly clear when first eleminated and will quickly become cloudy if left at room temperature due to growth of microbes in the urine and microbial contamination.  The odor of healthy urine upon elemination is due to nitrogen compounds and ammonia.