I have recently aquired an adult male dog who seems to think it’s his mission in life to pee on every one of my fruit bushes and vegetable garden plants. (Other males I’ve owned in the past were nowhere near as bad as this guy is.) I do not want him in the raised vegetable beds either, something he also likes to do. Has anyone had any sucsess with deterrents or training a dog not to pee all over their plants? I would really rather not fence all the bushes and beds off. My other two dogs, females, do not cause problems with my plants, I don’t want to reduce their yardspace due to the male dog’s behavior.
Haha good luck. Lucmily my dog just pees on my other dogs pee. You can try training it by getting a pee target (they sell them, like little stakes in the ground) and giving a treat and some praise every time he pees on it.
Also kind of weird but i had an extremelt hard to house break dog once and peeing outside where i wanted him to pee somehow how worked. So if you live sonewhere private enough can try that lol.
Oh also walking the dog before you let them out will help. Though of course a bit labor intensive. Otherwise a small amount of pee is just extra nitrogen. Just dont want it to scald anything which if its marking and doing small amounts may not happen. Rinsing after also helps
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Pee is fertilizer, maybe fence temporarily away from the problem areas, walk the problem dog as soon as it is let out, or water in the pee area. Dilution is the solution to pollution.
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A soray bottle with water works as an amazing dog training tool. If you go out with him and see him doing, spray him in the face. Dogs hate it. If he associates peeing there with getting sprayed, he should stop.
My rescue killed a huge number of plants before I realized what was happening. Given my dog’s suspected trauma history prior to adoption, simply yelling no a few times worked after I figured out why plants were abruptly croaking and patches of grass going yellow.
That said, I really think it’s only a problem if your dog is on a med or preventative that increases the nitrogen spilling over into the urine. My dog was on advantage multi and that stuff made him crazy and caused toxic nitrogen pee. As soon as we could switch him, his urine became benign.
Or if theyre female and empty their whols bladder in one piss. Ask me how i know.
Males can do it too but they tend to like to dribble around
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i have 2 males and so far they havent killed anything in the last 6 yrs. i just make sure everything is washed well. 
I’ve had dog pee kill several plants already, so,I am not ok with this happening at the moment, fertilizer or not. He is also being treated for blastomycosis and has been on a variety of meds, not really wanting that on my plants.
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i have lots of things that they pee on and they arent out with me all the time. probably why they havent killed anything yet.
So per my other post, I would venture to say that it’s the med causing the problem and to walk him until he is off and for whatever the wash out period might be after. And then, see what happens with his urine. That’s what he had to do. A bit of a pain, but it’s also nice…part of that reason why dog owners are healthier than non.
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agree taking him on a leash until he pees a bit helps. was one of my suggestions
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Wish I could train my coyotes to pee around my trees. I heard it helps with the raccoons.
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