Telling me you’re “coming back later to pick it up” doesnt cut it either when I happen to catch you letting your little darling shit in my yard. Do you want to step in dogcrap? Let the dog go in your yard then.
Did you happen to think your dog miiiiiight be gonna take a dump when you walked him at 0430??? Carry a damn bag with you like everyone else does.
I get up early too. Seeing your dog taking a dump is not on my list of Favorite Things. Next time Im taking a picture of you and your dog in the act. Did you know its a law to pick up your animal’s refuse here?
I agree with you, and it is infuriating. In my old age, I decided it’s a battle not worth fighting any more (plus it’s too close to the old-fart “get off my lawn” meme).
I just grab a shovel and pick it up so I don’t mow it.
Around here people tend to police their own front lawns so this doesn’t happen.
It’s one thing if the dog happens to poop on somebody’s lawn and you, the owner, picks it up immediately. That’s what we do. I’ve seen others do the same on our lawn. I appreciate it, they appreciate it, everything is fine.
It’s a whole other story if the owner doesn’t pick it up. We haven’t had this happen, but I’ve seen it happen elsewhere in the neighborhood. One neighbor literally chased down the owner in question (it was a 12-year old boy walking the dog) and humiliated the boy in front of the adults at home. Mostly everyone sided with the lawn owner with the “well, he could’ve expressed his anger in a more tactful way” caveat.
Nowadays mostly everybody takes their dog down to the park. The town put up doggie disposal bags and extra trash cans as a hint. So far, so good – I haven’t seen any stray poop anywhere in months.
No one should ever walk their dogs without poop bags. As a dog owner, I give you permission to chase after people who let their dogs crap in your yard and throw the poop at them.
When a dog walker let their dog poop on my father’s lawn dad caught them and asked if they were going to pick it up.
“I don’t have a bag” the owner whined.
Dad gave him one and watched while the owner picked up the poop. Dad knew where they lived, and told him that if he ever caught him letting the dog go on his lawn again, he’d pick it up himself and throw it on the owner’s porch.
If I may be permitted to express a side-whine here:
Also, I pit owners who let their dogs kick my bark chips far and wide. It’s getting tiresome to go and kick or rake all the bark chips back into the planted areas every morning.
And there’s always the “but the dog is so tiny!” argument. Oh, that’s nice…tiny dogs leave tiny shits. So you don’t mind if I gather those tiny shits on a shovel and sling them at your front door?
I ended up having a fence installed because my back door neighbors don’t understand poop scooping (I’ve seen the woman rolling her dog’s poo out of the way with a stick on several occasions). Now their dog has lost so much weight that it can now slip through my fence if it wants. Ugh…I don’t want to deal with these people!
I had a yard customer with this problem. I found a “hippie shop” Where I bought some musk scent, and sprinkled some around the edge of the yard. It worked: Dogs would smell it, take it to be some other animal’s territory (which in a sense it was) and find someone else’s front yard to use as a restroom.
Pardon me for saying this, but I think the reason this happening to you is that the dogs don’t know any better. I remember when I first adopted my dog and brought her into the house (well, duplex at the time), she pooped in the corner of the spare bedroom. I cured that real quick, and did so in a way where I only had to do it one. Granted, she was a Besenji mutt, and thus smarter than the average dog, but I think my method works regardless.
So here’s what you do. Next time you see a dog poop in your yard, take the owner by the collar and rub it’s nose in it. Yell “Bad owner! Bad owner!” and whap 'em on the butt a few times. Not too hard, though, because you want the owner to know that this is discipline rather than aggression.
You’d be surprised how well this works.*
*You may get the cops called on you the first few times, but just now that posting the video of it on youtube is a normal part of the training process.
Never had this problem since moving into a residential neighborhood, but when we lived in apartments, it was rampant. It was so bad at our last apartments, I dreaded going to walks with the kids. Almost every time the stroller wheel or one of their shoes would have dog crap caked to it. I never understood why the owners couldn’t clean it up. There were several trash cans all along the side walk and other walk ways with little doggie poo bags on them. It was just pure laziness and selfishness. I didn’t let my kids poop on the sidewalk then walk away. I at least made them go in the bushes away from foot traffic…(just kidding, they used indoor toilets, when we aren’t camping. I bury it if the campsite doesn’t have toilets, LOL)
