I pay the kid next door (13 years old) $20 a week to do it and another $20 to mow it. Im 23 and perfectly capable of doing it myself, but I remember how much it sucked being broke in the summer as a 13 year old, and an extra $40 bucks a week is alot at that age.
Read this quickly, and got the impression that you routinely shit in the yard! :smack:
I current;y have 5 large-ish dogs (3 dobermans, a german shepherd, and a giant schnauzer mix). The fenced part of my yard is about an acre. I live in the country, 1/3 of a mile from my nearest neighbor. I clean my yard regularly. The dogs do have areas they tend to use for their toilet, so it’s not a big deal to through it over the fence into the field beyond. I also clean my horses’ run-in shed daily when I feed, to keep down the flies.
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1 dog + 1 acre with woods = nope. It also helps that in my neighborhood all houses are on at least 1 acre and there is a minimum 50’ offset from any property line to any other house. When we take him for a walk we clean up after him.
In Chicago, it’s a bigger problem because it attracts rats. “Dog Poop On Your Lawn? You Could Get Fined Up To $500” Dog Poop On Your Lawn? You Could Get Fined Up To $500 - Downtown - Chicago - DNAinfo
Yes and no.
Yes, when they get walked, of course they’re cleaned up after.
But I* don’t walk them. My two dogs are are both difficult to walk** and more than happy to run around like a bunch of morons in the back yard for a half hour a few times a day.
*Long story, but they flip around between myself and someone else and I know they do get walked on a regular basis, before anyone goes there.
**It’s really difficult trying to walk two dogs at the same time when one of them is the type that pulls so hard she’s panting and her front legs are off the ground and the other one holding you back because she’s really conerned that she might not have smelled that tree enough, wait, there’s another tree, let’s see if I can wrap my leash around that one twice. And since they’re besties, if they get walked one at a time, the other one goes compleatly wacko waiting for the other one to get back. They’re like spinster sisters. You know, your two crazy aunts that have lived together for the last 30 years and never dated and no one says anything but everyone kinda wonders what’ll happen when one of them dies…like that. In the mean time, it’s really nice to have to dogs that get a long so well. They keep each other really entertained.
TLDR, I’m pretty willing to bet that everyone here that said they don’t clean up in their fenced in back yard still cleans up when their dog shits in someone elses front yard.
Yeah, I figured that. I didn’t mean to imply I think there are a bunch of slobs here. I guess I was mostly wondering if people whose dogs poop in their yard also walk them. When I was growing up our dog was walked twice a day (by me)and very rarely pooped in our yard. And when he did it was immediately cleaned up (also by me). I guess my family was a little more uptight about the whole thing.
Yes.
My previous dog, a golden retriever, pooped like clockwork on every walk. Like she waited for our daily walk to get her business done. I got in the habit of carrying bags for her.
My current two dogs rarely poop on walks. Never seen the girl dog even consider it when on a leash. My boy sometimes does, so I carry bags. There’s a little bag holder attached to their double leash.
All three of the dogs mentioned above poop like it’s mandatory when we go to the dog park. I grab a bag from the cleanup station upon entry and pick up after them each time, and grab a new bag each time I drop one, because there will be more.
I come from the school of “a tired dog is a good dog” so even though I have a big ol’ yard, my dogs walk as much as possible, and we always clean up in public (even if it’s in the woods!) I feel if I don’t walk them they will murder me in my sleep.
IIRC, dog poop can be *more *dangerous as it ages, as some of the parasites mature in it.
We have the same alma mater. Having horses makes it easier for me.
Small city yard, big dogs, yes I clean up my yard - usually once a week or so.
The dogs get walked twice a day, and I always pick up at the dog park or if they poop on a walk. My princess rarely poops in the yard, which is why we have to do an evening walk as well as the morning trip to the park. My male dog and my boyfriend’s dog, both big shepherds, use the yard sometimes, so when I notice piles, I pick up.
It gets left longer in the winter when it’s too dark to see when I get home from work and when snow covers the piles, but in summer, I try to stay on top of it.