Looks like Rin Tin Tin to me. Get a gun and shoot the dog.

Could cat be the case?

Will this turn green again?

It actually looks more like a human went winkle there due to how it looks like it was puddling then the stream moved closer to the person. I'd say either human or a very large dog.

Getting a gun and shooting the dog is not very good advice, something you would expect from a gun toting ned reck in texas.

something you would expect from a gun toting ned reck in texas.

You bet, and we have the Shoot First, Ask Questions Later law in effect.

I just heard on the radio about a bumper sticker some guy saw in Texas that said "Guns don't kill people, Texans with guns kill people" or something like that.

Ah Texas, where the law is something you wear on your hip.

;)

Back to the original question. It looks like a urine burn, doesn't matter what the source was. I assume that is Fescue or Rye, and if that is true, you can't repair it per se, you patch it come this fall by over seeding.

Many thanks for all the suggestions.

I know you got it the last time you suggested shooting a dog on the forum so I'll just leave it alone. When are people going to learn that guns are not the answers to our problems?

I'll take a stab at that one...probably when the hoods and crooks put down their guns. Of course talking nice to them usually has worked. :)

Just ask the Australians how their gun control has worked out. Man, to be a criminal in Australia.

It doesn't matter where you stand on the gun control issue, telling someone to shoot a dog for peeing on the yard is a terrible thing to say. Shooting the dog would only get you in a heap of trouble, probably in court if not jail. The brown spots would be the least of your problems. Once you shot the dog and they are dead is the brown spot suddenly going to green up? No. Even joking about shooting a dog.... what kind of person does that?

Thus, guns would not solve this problem.

Don't forget the UK and they're gun ban.. Crime up almost 40%..
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Quirky you city dweller lighten up, it was a joke. My BAD for not putting a smiley face at the end of my first post. Life in the country is a lot different than in the city. You city folks bring your unwanted pets by the millions and dump them to die a long, slow, and miserable death from disease and starvation. IMO putting an unwanted stray down is a far kinder act and a lot less risky to my family of pets.

FWIW no country folks would ever hear a word from law enforcement about shooting stray animals that is only a city thing.

Some lawns never get brown spots from dog urine. The lawns with too much N and water along with shallow roots seem to be vulnerable. Not sure if leaving the clippings down helps yet.

If it is from a dog, I found that if I give my dog a couple of teaspoons a day with her food of tomato juice it doesn't happen anymore. Sometimes I just give her a slice of tomato when I am eating. When I stop the lawn burns again.
Lynn

I'm not a city slicker, I am a suburbanite slob.
We're even worse than the city slickers.
Big smiley.

"I found that if I give my dog a couple of teaspoons a day with her food of tomato juice it doesn't happen anymore. "
Warning tomatoes can be fatal or make dogs really sick. I don't know why you would give them tomoato juice is that some city slicker technique?

Yep we need some new laws, if you fire a bullet on your property and it doesn't leave. it's ok...