# Hey asshole! Clean up after your dog! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 28, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682 "2010-04-28T23:56:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/81 "2010-04-30T21:14:22Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Actually, the first meter of my front yard isn’t actually mine; it’s city right-of-way. Your meterage may vary, of course. Just because there is a city ROW (for utilities or the road) in your front yard does not mean the dog walking public or any public has the right to use it. Now if you are talking about a ROW or easement established for the public to gain access to a landlocked park or something, then yes the public has a right to use that ROW. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/82 "2010-04-30T21:40:44Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > Someone mind explaining this “…and shit” thing to me? I’ve seen it in threads beside this one. It makes no sense. Is it supposed to be funny? Saying “And shit!” in a dog poop thread is fucking hilarious, man! Where’ve you been hiding? ps. and shit. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/83 "2010-04-30T23:58:07Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > **If** I step in a dog turd, I don’t rant and rail against dirty dogs and their filthier owners; I curse myself for being such a daydreaming twit and stepping in it. > > You’ve already said you know **exactly** where the dog does its business, AND you are still going and stepping in it! Open your eyes and watch where you are walking, ffs! Would it help if dog-owners took out fluorescent spray paint and highlighted these “doggy-dos” for y’all? In fact, the dog shit is on private property, in a common area of an apartment complex which requires, as a condition of leasing an apartment, pet owners to pick up their pet’s shit. An apartment complex which provides not only doggie doo-doo bags to use to pick up after pets, but doggie doo-doo bag trash receptacles to deposit those bags in. So go rub dog shit on your shoes, or barf on your shoes, or whatever, and then enjoy the ambience. I’m happy to note that after I “spoke” with the “gentleman” who owns the dog, the problem has ceased. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/84 "2010-05-01T00:17:12Z")
The brown rock in the bag: I curbing your dog! ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/85 "2010-05-01T00:30:06Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > The irresponsible dog owners around these parts have elevated leaving their dog’s shit lying around in public areas to a new level; they put it in a bag, now, and leave **the bag** lying there. :smack: Well, they’re being thoughtful. Since responsible pet owners these days clean up, it’s been getting difficult for kids who wish to set on fire a paper bag full of dog shit on someone’s doorstep to find the supplies. Think of it as a contribution to either common pranks or criminal juvenile delinquency, whichever trips your trigger. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/86 "2010-05-01T01:12:04Z")
> [@chela](#): > > So, Miss Responsibility gives not a crap about letting her pooch trespass on other peoples property? Just because you carry a doggy doo doo bag you think your dog is off the hook for pissing in my flowers? :rolleyes: For christ’s sake. Yes, my dog pisses on private property. From the sidewalk. Get fucked if you think I care. I clean his poop up, am I supposed to carry a squirt bottle to wash off his urine as well? Please. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/87 "2010-05-01T11:23:27Z")
> [@Mooch](#): > > For christ’s sake. Yes, my dog pisses on private property. From the sidewalk. Get fucked if you think I care. I clean his poop up, am I supposed to carry a squirt bottle to wash off his urine as well? Please. What fucking sidewalks? I don’t have no fuckng sidewalks! Yes I can see you are enveloped in an aura of ignorance. I would think an anyone of average intelligece would choose the side of the street to walk the dog (to poop piss, scratch and sniff) that has acres of vacant land alongside it, rather than using the side of the street that is occupied by homes and maintained yards. Are we clear now?? ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/88 "2010-05-01T13:22:20Z")
It’s clear that you are talking shite. Did you make that post with a random word-generator? ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/89 "2010-05-01T13:44:32Z")
Even if your think your shite is clear it still generates random stink. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/90 "2010-05-01T17:44:29Z")
This has been addressed before. It’s NOT OKAY to leave dog waste outside even on your own property or in places where people won’t step in it, like “off in the brush.” It’s not “natural” (at least in the type and quantity it occurs from pets), and _actual recognized authorities_ (as opposed to random people on the Internet) have said you should NOT do it. **Pick that shit up!** [Cite](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11051612&postcount=24) ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/91 "2010-05-01T17:56:24Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Just because there is a city ROW (for utilities or the road) in your front yard does not mean the dog walking public or any public has the right to use it. > > Now if you are talking about a ROW or easement established for the public to gain access to a landlocked park or something, then yes the public has a right to use that ROW. The laws differ from place to place. There is no universal rule. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/92 "2010-05-02T00:28:54Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > Someone mind explaining this “…and shit” thing to me? I’ve seen it in threads beside this one. It makes no sense. Is it supposed to be funny? [Leave Super Kapowlzer alone!!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=560777) [Since Super Kapowzler went All “@\*&#”, What is the Increase in Ad $, Please.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=560777) And shit. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/93 "2010-05-02T17:55:08Z")
We have two dogs, that we walk about our apartment complex, and we always pick up their poop. So do most of the dog owners we’ve met here. (There’re about a dozen bag dispensers, so it’s relatively easy.) But there’s still dog crap to be found mere **feet** from many of them. Some people can’t walk the few steps to get a _free_ bag and clean up. Sure, it’s not the most pleasant feeling, but it’s called _ **responsibility** _. A specific point: one of our downstairs neighbors has a cute Lab puppy, Josephine. Yesterday, as I walked downstairs, there were two _huge_ puddles of pee on their landing. Then, on the front lawn, was one of the neighbors with Josie as she was pooping. (Fine, my dogs do it there sometimes too.) But then she walks away without doing anything about cleaning it up, fully aware that I saw. She didn’t return later; the poop’s still there. I reported them to the rental office, as it’s a finable offense. They say they know, and that a notice has been issued. Now technically, they can be evicted for lease violation. But I’m not sure what’s going to happen. My feeling is to write a sign and make a little wire frame for it, then post it over Josie poop: > [@](#): > > This feces, a product of Josie the Lab (apt. 101), has been here since 5/1/10. Her owners need to get some of the _free_ bags in the dispenser at the end of this apartment building and pick up this and all the future BMs of all their pets. > > FYI: we are watching, and informing the management. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/94 "2010-05-02T17:57:10Z")
P.S. – “The pee on the sidewalk is not appriciated either, as it’s the path that many people have to take to get to the pool.” ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/95 "2010-05-02T19:04:19Z")
In Washington state, dogs and cats are privileged to roam, and are not considered to be trespassing when they come on your property. I’m not sure how this applied to leashed dogs where the owner is not on your property but the dog is. ---
**Author:** ![SweetLucy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@SweetLucy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SweetLucy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/96 "2010-05-03T23:37:05Z")
It’s probably the same dog “owners” who don’t care that their mutts bark nonstop 24 hours a day :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/97 "2010-05-04T00:01:48Z")
That wouldn’t surprise me. They’ve probably learned to tune out their dog’s barking and misbehaving, so it obviously doesn’t affect anyone else, then. ---
**Author:** ![cuberdon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/45deac/32.png) [@cuberdon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuberdon)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/98 "2010-05-04T00:06:54Z")
> [@AWB](#): > > My feeling is to write a sign and make a little wire frame for it, then post it over Josie poop: How about some of those little paper umbrellas that go into tropical cocktails? ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/99 "2010-08-19T00:41:53Z")
> [@AWB](#): > > We have two dogs, that we walk about our apartment complex, and we always pick up their poop. So do most of the dog owners we’ve met here. (There’re about a dozen bag dispensers, so it’s relatively easy.) > > But there’s still dog crap to be found mere **feet** from many of them. Some people can’t walk the few steps to get a _free_ bag and clean up. Sure, it’s not the most pleasant feeling, but it’s called _ **responsibility** _. > > A specific point: one of our downstairs neighbors has a cute Lab puppy, Josephine. Yesterday, as I walked downstairs, there were two _huge_ puddles of pee on their landing. Then, on the front lawn, was one of the neighbors with Josie as she was pooping. (Fine, my dogs do it there sometimes too.) But then she walks away without doing anything about cleaning it up, fully aware that I saw. She didn’t return later; the poop’s still there. > > I reported them to the rental office, as it’s a finable offense. They say they know, and that a notice has been issued. Now technically, they can be evicted for lease violation. But I’m not sure what’s going to happen. > > My feeling is to write a sign and make a little wire frame for it, then post it over Josie poop: > > > [@](#): > > > > This feces, a product of Josie the Lab (apt. 101), has been here since 5/1/10. Her owners need to get some of the _free_ bags in the dispenser at the end of this apartment building and pick up this and all the future BMs of all their pets. > > > > FYI: we are watching, and informing the management. Update: the Lab owners _did_ get evicted. Justice! ---
**Author:** ![maplekiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@maplekiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maplekiwi)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682/100 "2010-08-19T02:06:59Z")
Labs are the Kings & Queens of shitting. I used to _hate_ picking up after mine. That’s why I’ll never own a dog again (well, one of the reasons) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-asshole-clean-up-after-your-dog/537682.md?page=6)