As Athena said, urine only causes brown spots if it is repeatedly and frequently “applied” to that one area. It’s essentially causing “fertilizer burn” due to the high amount of nitrogen that builds up.
I’d have no problem with a leashed dog using the edge of my yard for his/her purposes, as long as owner cleans up. If I had a problem with this, I’d say it’s up to me to put up a fence.
I’d have a problem with the owner letting the dog wander into my yard, for instance on a long leash, and do business wherever. Even if the owner cleans up, there’s often… residue. And we like to walk in the yard barefoot.
Let em take huge dumps all over my yard and leave em there, I dont care. Have them piss on the weeds, god knows no one else around here is going to attempt to kill them.
I’d have a problem. I’m not sure exactly why, because I don’t mind if kids go in my front yard to retrieve a ball. I suspect it has to to with the fact that five feet from my front yard is a curb, in which I never garden.
And I don’t really understand the business about “when a dog’s gotta go, it’s gotta go”. Well, sure,but they somehow get trained not to go in the house. I don’t think it’s anything close to impossible to train a dog to walk toward the curb becasue 1) my mother has had at least four dogs. She never walked any of them. They were all trained to poop only in the alley, not the main part of the yard. 2) I see dogs being walked all the time that walk toward the curb before pooping.
It wouldn’t bother me at all. I’d be happy to see a person picking up after their dog for a change.
In the states I was living in a condo. Some people seem to think that as long as their dogs dump off to the side of the building, not directly in front of someone’s front door, it’s OK to leave it there. Now THAT bothers me.
It would bother me only because the dog and owner would need to climb about 10 stairs to get to both my front yard and back yard. So I figure if a dog is shitting in my yard, it’s pretty deliberate. 
Oh, yeah. When the aliens come and land and ask to be taken to see our leaders they are going to be in a hell of a shock when it’s not a dog they’re taken to see.
What !
The people clean up the dog poop and the people are in charge of the planet. Shouldn’t this be the other way around.
If you clean up then I don’t care if you (or your dog) poops in my yard.
If I hit a fresh one with the lawn mower and I know it was yours (or your dogs), you are sooooooooo going to get it thrown in your general direction next time you come around.
I have enough dog poop for the entire SDMB to come over and pick up in my back yard. Ah, but that’s my back yard.
As for someone’s dog pooping in my front yard, and they clean it up. Go for it.
A dog doesn’t know when or where it’s appropriate to leave their poop. As long as someone cleans it up and it isn’t me, by all means, let your dog poop in my yard. When a dog’s gotta go, a dog’s gotta go and they don’t have toilets like some humans do.
Why would anyone get annoyed if the owner was present and accountable and cleaned up after their dog?
Now if someone could help me figure out how to deter the cats in my neighborhood from using the front of my house (under the window there’s an area that my friend/landlord bordered off with landscaping bricks so it’s all dirt) as a giant ass litter box, I would be greatful.
It started with a cat that is no longer here and the cats that moved into the neighborhood picked up on it and I keep noticing more and more cat crap in there.
BTW, I have a cat but she’s indoors so I know it aint my kitty.
Why would your dog be in my yard in the first place? Unless you mean the dog might go along the edge of the yard where it meets the road, I’d be pretty annoyed with you. My dogs don’t go tromping through other peoples’ yards on a walk, and I can’t see a valid reason that anyone else should let theirs without the owner’s permission to do so.
So, for some of you, if I want to walk my dog, unless I drive to a park and/or put a diaper on my dog, I have to walk in the street and keep my dog unwaveringly at my side the whole time so she doesn’t poop on the edge of your yard, even though I clean it up every time. How about I let her go in the street right outside your driveway and don’t pick it up? That way, I and the dog are not anywhere near your property, the poop did not occur on your property, and therefore I don’t have to pick it up. But that won’t work, either, because, contrary to someone who obviously has never walked a dog’s opinion, you can train a dog to go in a certain part of the yard (or alley) when it’s in the yard, but I don’t think you can train a dog to hold its poop while on a walk until you have reached a suitable location and tell it it can go, now.
AlaItalia
I’m the one who made reference to training. Perhaps you didn’t notice , but I did mention that most of the dogs I’ve seen walked walk toward the curb to poop (certainly something they were trained to do, the same way they were trained not to poop in their owner’s homes), which does not at all require that the owner walk in the street.You’re right, I never have walked a dog, but I find it extraordinarily difficult to believe that a type of animal that can almost always be trained not to poop in the house, and one in which some can be trained to do everything from being guides for the disabled to locating trapped victims is, at the same time, usually unable to be trained to walk toward the curb to poop. And if it were impossible, I rather suspect that I’d hear a lot more complaints from dog pwners about the unfairness of my city having a law requiring that dogs be curbed ( as well as another requiring that the walker clean up even in the street).
I don’t hate dogs or dog owners, but even if you clean up, it’s still going to leave a residue on my yard. My kids are going to play there and I’m going to garden. Would you want to sit on a chair that got the same level of cleaning that you can give my yard? I don’t think so.