[QUOTE=HowardCoombs;2190166]1) Were you (or vet) able to determine what the poison was?
HowardCoombs, it just happened like within 15 minutes of him eating the cake, so the vet believed it was poison although we didn't do any autopsy.
Thanks SataySue. Though I wished it was just something he could recover.
If you use a sufficient amount of water (perhaps with a bit of white vinegar in it) it will wash the urine off a hard surface - lamp post, planter box, fence, etc. - and help control the odour. I don't routinely do this as my dog, a female, will only squat and pee on dirt and refuses to relieve herself on concrete or other hard surfaces. But there are plenty of smelly lamp posts, etc. around where i live from dogs repeatedly lifting their leg on them and infrequent rinsing or washing of the surfaces. It isn't necessary or even helpful all the time, but it can help keep surfaces that dogs pee on less smelly in some cases.
Never got the water thing as Grunt said. Does not achieve much in my opinion except that because some dog owners believe it's clean, they let their dogs urinate about anywhere....
It's hard to find a green patch or dirt for dogs to relieve themselves in this city. Our nine-y.o. dog from Japan had hard time when he first came to HK as he grew up with green patches and trees. Nevertheless, even on Bowen where our dogs peed into green and bushes, we still water any possible spot just for eliminating/ or at the very least diluting the smell as I thought no one would like to walk through a place that smelled pee everywhere.
As useless or pointless as most people would think, we hope at least they would appreciate the thought of ours and live harmoniously with our love for dogs.