Dog piss killing my grass - is it the food?

To answer your question, it’s the piss not the food.

I'm with you on this, I've done a shite ton of googling and found there is no real remedy you can give the dog. They do sell grass "paint" for this though.

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According to the internet it's the nitrogen content and I do fertilize my lawn so I'm sure that's the burn.

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It will happen whether you fertilize or not. I've done 2 things to help this situation.

The first was that I left a sprinkler out in the yard where he normally would go to the bathroom. It had a timer on it so whenever he was done, I would hit the 5 minute timer and that was usually enough to dilute it to the point that it either wouldn't burn, or it was reduced. The problem was that you always had a sprinkler out there and so then you are just killing the grass under it and the hose. I only did this for a short while for that reason and moved to #2.

The second thing I did was I (somewhat) trained my dog to pee away from the back patio. The further he gets, the less the burned spots are noticed. When I take him out, I have him go off to the side and about halfway between my patio and fence. At that point, no one can really see it unless you are walking to/from the gate. It was pretty easy since most of the time, if I walked in the grass he would follow me until I stopped then he would sniff around and pee somewhere pretty close to where I was standing.

I’ve searched as well and nothing I can find. I’m pretty nerdy about my grass, and my dog is smoking it, especially on the edge of my back porch where he likes to piss right when he walks outside.

All I can do is till it and re sod every so often

get them to start pissing in your mulch which will help filter and dilute the nitrogen before it gets under your foliage.

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My lab pees behind the shed like the elegant lady she is. My wife's retard mutt pisses right off the patio and leaves spots. Tried training him to piss in the back but I was barely able to get him to stop pissing on the concrete. I grab the hose and water it in whenever I can. That's the only thing that's helped.

I have a great-looking 2-year-old St Augustine resod, and it really shows dog-pee brown patches. Previously, the weedy lawn hid any damage. The dog picks one area for about a week then switches. When one area starts looking bad, I make a free-standing circle out of a 50' roll 4' tall fencing and block off the area. On cutting days, I roll it up out of the way. Right now, with all the rain the patches fill in about 5 days. Then I move the barrier to the new war zone.

There are lots of previous threads on this.

The only solution I've found is to saturate the area right away with a garden hose.

The dog supplements and lawn treatments from Amazon are a waste of money.

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He does go right by the patio which makes it worse. I’m so frustrated, my beautiful grass is goat ranch now

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mine does too. Lazy fricker can't even make it to the grass.. Just pisses on the chair and table legs on the patio.

My dog killed the grass where ever she peed when she was a puppy.After she was a year old swapped over to Purina One,doesn’t happen anymore.
My theory is was the increased protein in the puppy chow.