Urban Legend 5: Dog Spots Can Be Cured By Sprinkling the Affected Area With Baking Soda to Neutralize the Urine. True or False?

Can we neutralize dog spots with certain products?


 

• Dog spots can be “cured” by sprinkling the affected area with baking soda, gypsum, dishwashing detergent, etc. to neutralize the urine.
FALSE. The only “product” that can neutralize the urine’s negative effects is water. Gypsum and baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) are salts and may compound the problem. Dishwashing detergents, which act as wetting agents or surfactants, may enhance water movement into and through the soil. While this theoretically could promote leaching and dilution of accumulated salts, some dishwashing detergents can burn grass plants.
Source: ColoradoStateUniversity Extension for this information (December 2010 - Fact Sheet #553).

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