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Nathan GGuest
Hi All, I hope you’re all getting some good time off to get on the walls 🙂
My mate’s dog peed on my rope (I used to like his dog…)
How concerned should I be about the acidity of dog pee? We washed it within 10 seconds and I gave it a good wash when I got home (all in cool clean water and I let it dry inside out of the sun)Any comments would be great. Thanks all.
ed nepiaGuestits not normal to wash your dog after peeing … its very thoughtful but probably unnecessary 🙂
your rope will be fine as well
AngGuestYour rope will be fine. Not drying the rope properly is more harmful than dog piss.
GarethGuestCat Pee rope testing.
http://www.blackdiamondequipment.com/en-us/journal/climb/all/qc-with-kp-from-the-archives-1
GarethGuestand from Rock and Ice
“Powick does cite additional testing by Pit Schubert and the University of Stuttgart on ropes contaminated with human urine. A rope soaked overnight in urine saw a 30-percent reduction in the number of falls held, while a rope on which urine drops had been dribbled held 13 percent fewer falls. These results clearly show that you shouldn’t soak your cord in a tub of piss and raises the question: Just how do you go about getting a vat full of pee? Yeech!”
http://www.rockandice.com/articles/how-to-climb/article/94-Dog-Pee-on-Climbing-Rope
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