Dog urine can kill foliage.

Well it didn't completely kill the leaves, but sure made some awful brown spots on them. So does everyone who has dogs and roses keep them apart from each other?

I consider some losses to the roses/garden part of the beauty. If it isn't really "killing" the plant, I usually let go. That goes for almost anything, including my Big Black Dogs' bad habits. At leaset they are going outside! I have asked them, clearly, to go "Out!, No!" if I ever catch 'em and never encourage 'em and it never seems to be too bad.

If it is killing...then the pet shop has a Keep Away product that can help with the "NO" leasons. It is good for cats too.

Dogs are great!

Thanks, that's encouraging. I like the way you think. I know he doesn't do it everyday, but I'll do like you said and discourage it when I see it. What is the name of the stuff that keeps dogs and cats away? Can it be used around organically grown veggies?

My neighbor walks their two dogs every day right to edge of my rose garden and wait for them to "water" the garden. All the roses on that end have died. I spoke with them ( nicely ) and they laughed it off. I believe it is the high concentration of nitrogen and the salts that are killing the bushes just as it would kill patches of lawn. I am going to have to install a fence on that edge of the yard and shorten the garden. Good fences make good neighbors, they say. I know it will make good roses.

Thank you, Elizabeth, for excellent info. So glad that I didn't make a rose garden nearby sidewalk !! You are right about fresh animal urine kill roses. Years ago I got fresh horse manure (soaked with urine) in the planting hole of a few roses .. they came down with brown-spots (salt-burn), I had to replace the soil.

It's common to see partial-white-plastic fence to block off a triangular garden next to sidewalk. I saw a guy without one arm doing that. It was amazing how he managed to install that plastic fence with only one arm.

It is such a shame that neighbors would act in such a disrespectful way. Even if they don't believe you that concentrated urine will harm your roses they should as least respect your wish to not have the dogs pee on your garden. I hear that applying water will help leach the urine out of the garden. So I think I have a solution. You need a motion activated sprinkler that will scare off the dogs and water the roses at the same time. You can buy it online and it is very affective for keeping pesky pets and pesky neighbor away from of your rose beds. (Ha, Ha, Kind of Kidding, but they are only $30.00 on ebay)

It does bother me and I flinch each day as I see them do it. I have remained on good terms with the neighbors but I think less of them for it. It says so much about their character. I LOVE the idea of a motion activated sprinkler. I may set one back a bit so if they stray up into the yard....... ...

Elizabeth~I have the same issue. I don't allow my dog in my beds, but I catch my neighbors dog in my bed constantly using it, and digging in it. I've talked to her about our leash laws, and she just says she'll keep him out of my yard. They just moved in, and said they are getting a fence. I hope so, because we had decided not to get a fence when we bought our house last year, and started beds on the border of our property line to make a "living" fence. My HOA sent her a letter, but she keeps letting him out without a leash. So now our HOA has informed me to go ahead and call Animal Control since she won't stop, but I hate doing that. We are trying to be patient, but when I find him on my backporch barking at me on my property, and no one around.....ugh!

That is terrible behavior on their part and you have every right to call you HOA and animal control. I can see the conflict thought. You have to live in the neighborhood and it is awful to battle with the neighbors. In my old neighborhood ( years ago ) there was a woman who brought her dog down to my yard every night at 6PM to leave a mess. I simply put out a lawn chair on the spot and sat and waited for her one night. When she saw me she made a U-turn. End of problem.

Sound like you also need sprinkler with a motion sensor. I have used the Contech Scarecrow brand, but there are others. It kept my dogs from running through my Rose beds. I have friends who have used them on deer and feral pigs.

Thank you ....I will look for that.