# Idiot, I don't care why your dog NEEDS to poop on my yard **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 5, 2011, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250 "2011-02-05T04:00:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Valerieblaise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Valerieblaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valerieblaise)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250/41 "2011-02-06T21:57:08Z")
A guy moved into my building a couple months ago with his dog. Apparently he is too good to pick up after said dog. Shortly after he moved in, I started noticing piles of poop around the building - and on inside the courtyard, which is a HUGE no-no (this is a condo building, but both he and I are renters) with the condo board. Before I lived here there weren’t a whole lot of rules about dog ownership. Then the girl who rented my apartment before me got a dog and would “walk” the dog by taking it into the courtyard wouldn’t pick up after it. The board passed rules that dog owners (from what I understand, at the time there were only 3 dogs in the whole building, including hers) had to pick up after their dogs. So then she started bagging the poop, but leaving it there. I’ve been told by several neighbors that they’d walk out the front door and see 3 or 4 bags at a time, just scattered on the lawn. So THEN the board passed a rule that you couldn’t let your dog go inside the gates at ALL. She moved out soon after, I moved in and when I got my dogs, I was told I had to take them out of the gates to go. Even though I got them as puppies, it didn’t take a lot of effort to train them to hold it until we got out of the yard. Now this new guy moved in, and at first he was letting his dog poop in the courtyard and not picking it up, and then I guess he was informed of the rules - so he takes his dog just outside the gate and still doesn’t pick up after him. A guy that lives down the block told me that he was walking his dog and stopped to say hello to the new guy and his dog, and when the dog pooped, he asked the new guy if he was going to pick it up and the guy mumbled something about not having a bag. Since then it’s been ridiculous. There’s a new pile every time I go outside. I never noticed how conscientious people in my neighborhood are about their dogs until this d-bag moved in. Since I haven’t actually caught the guy in the act I haven’t said anything to him, but I’ve considered leaving a package of poop bags outside his door w/ a note telling him where they can be purchased. I think most dog owners get MORE pissed off than non-dog owners about people like this because we take the time - the extra 15 seconds or whatever it is - to keep the neighborhood clean and yet non-dog-owners might assume we’re ALL inconsiderate maroons that don’t care if they step in our dogs’ crap. ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250/42 "2011-02-06T23:45:55Z")
Anyone who doesn’t clean up after their dog deserves to have it collected and dumped on them at random unexpected times, like when they’re sleeping peacefully, or in the middle of a very important business meeting, or just before “you may kiss the bride” when they get married. Why do they think anyone else wants to step in their dog shit? It just amazes me that some people think this is okay. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250/43 "2011-02-07T00:04:37Z")
I’m reminded of the scene in Despicable Me Gru to neighbor: “Your dog has been leaving little bombs all over my yard again!” Neighbor: "Oh, you know dogs, they just go wherever they want…’ Gru: “Not if they’re dead!” (neighbor blanches) “I kid, I kid…although it is true…” ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250/44 "2011-02-07T02:02:30Z")
I’m eager for an update. Can you call the city or something? Or pick up the shit and dump it on her property? I’m sure the shock’s worn off. Let her have it. I’m constantly amazed at assholes like this—why have the fucking dog if you don’t want to deal with the responsibilities that come with it? ---
**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:** [February 7, 2011, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250/45 "2011-02-07T02:10:17Z")
> [@Valerieblaise](#): > > I think most dog owners get MORE pissed off than non-dog owners about people like this because we take the time - the extra 15 seconds or whatever it is - to keep the neighborhood clean and yet non-dog-owners might assume we’re ALL inconsiderate maroons that don’t care if they step in our dogs’ crap. I’m a dedicated dog person and I’m _furious_ at people who do not pick up their dogs’ poop. (Also people who ignore the leash laws). Incidentally, where I live you have to pick up the dogs’ poop period, even if it’s your own yard and you don’t mind it…because it’s everybody’s watershed. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250/46 "2011-02-07T02:30:01Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > **lobstermobster**? Yes! That’s the one! Thanks, mang. I saw a sign that someone had posted on a green, off-leash area that I go through to get to Safeway - it was a printed, full colour, complete with photographs polite request for dog owners to PICK UP THEIR DOG’S SHIT so every can enjoy the green space. I think I’ll go take a picture of it and post it in this thread tomorrow. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250/47 "2011-02-07T02:43:33Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > What you need is to find that doper that took a crap on the hood of someone’s car and have her visit your neighbour Or do it himself. [May he poop on her knee](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOgALTFzFbQ)? ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250/48 "2011-02-07T03:19:19Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](#): > > Do you actually own the sidewalk and the easement? No, I don’t own the sidewalk or the easement. But I am required to keep the sidewalk shoveled in the winter and keep the grass on the easement cut in the summer. And it doesn’t really matter who owns it; if your dog shits _anywhere_, you clean it up. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250/49 "2011-02-07T03:46:43Z")
This story is insane! (But sadly not unbelievable) You take your dog out to poop…using your car?! You know exactly when your dog is going to poop and just…let him out of the car?! Your dog poops in a neighbor’s yard and you don’t pick it up?!?! My dog rides in the car all the damn time and I’ve never once looked at her while riding and determined she needs to poop. Dogs are pretty good at holding it. Especially for a few minutes. If this dog truly only poops when you take it for a ride, all the owner needs to do is zip around the block back to her OWN house and let the dog do it’s thing. This is horrible. I hope it gets resolved for you **pabstist**. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250/50 "2011-02-07T04:20:05Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > This thread is boggling my mind a little bit - where are these people coming from who still haven’t got the message that you don’t let your dog shit on other people’s yards, and you sure as hell don’t just leave it lying there when you take your dog out and it shits somewhere that isn’t your own yard? France? Okay, I’m kidding, but poop 'n scoop is a relatively new and novel concept there. Last time I lived in Paris I met one of the cops (actually not sure if he was a real cop or specialized sanitation worker) who was on a small team responsible for catching people not picking up after their dogs. He said he got a lot of shit (no pun intended), more than people giving parking or speeding tickets. He said most people plead ignorance and assumed the morning street cleaners would get it. Two or three pairs of ruined shoes later and I didn’t doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![kjbrasda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/74df32/32.png) [@kjbrasda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjbrasda)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250/51 "2011-02-07T08:05:08Z")
t’hell with dumping it back in her yard. Freakin’ _mail_ the shit back to her! ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250/52 "2011-02-07T09:06:09Z")
If you had a pair of gloves handy you should have picked it up and thrown it on her windshield. ---
**Author:** ![phantom\_lamb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@phantom\_lamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phantom_lamb)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250/53 "2011-02-07T09:33:52Z")
That woman is a an idiot. I would like to tell her that. However, I’ve had bad experiences with the “OMG pick up after your dog’s poop!!!” people. And I do pick up after my dogs poop. But once while walking my dog in the park, comes some woman from behind me “Um, excuse me but your dog just pooped there you have to pick it up”. I looked and saw poop but I knew it wasn’t from my dog because I’d like, have noticed it, you know. I said it’s not my dog’s. She said IT IS IT TOTALLY IS SHE SAW IT OMG. So reluctantly, just to get her to stop bitching, I scoop it up and I can feel the poop is icy cold and hard (probably a few hours old). I felt like flinging it at her. And I should have. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250/54 "2011-02-07T09:35:34Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > It doesnt matter WHO owns it. > > Unless the dog owner owns it, they have NOT right to leave their dogs shit there (and even then in some cases maybe not). If there aint a “feel free to leave dog shit here!” sign, pick that shit up. > > This is the real problem regarding all sorts of anti-social behavior like littering, cigarette butts, dog shit and … These idiots think of things as their property or NOT their property. When, in reality, its their property OR SOMEBODY elses property which they have no rights to. Yeah, even if it is PUBLIC property. Oh, fuck that, especially if it is public property. Also to **YoSaffBridge** - I agree. I believe that any dog owner should be ticketed for not cleaning these deposits. Just picking a nit was I. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250/55 "2011-02-07T09:44:15Z")
Take the shit and cram it under the driver’s side door handle of her car, so that when she goes to take her dog to shit in front of your house, she gets a handful of shit. It’s really the only mature thing to do (well, I’ve done it to someone who parked in my assigned apartment parking space during a snowstorm). ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250/56 "2011-02-07T13:03:16Z")
> [@McReady](#): > > Why the hell does she have her dog in the car every day? Are they carpooling to work? Because she’s too lazy to walk the the dog to the park or wherever? We’ve got people like that in my neighborhood. We also have a fairly large park. People living a block or two away from it will literally drive their dogs to the park to potty because, god forbid, they should have to _walk_ the dog there. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250/57 "2011-02-07T13:09:26Z")
We’ve run into people like this time and again. First, we have two dogs. We walk them twice daily. We pick up their poop wherever we are. We steer them away from yards – if they have to poop, we make them do it on the strip of grass between the sidewalk and street. If the weather’s too bad, they poop in the backyard. We do a big clean sweep every few days. No biggie. Picking up poop is one of the _responsibilities_ of being a dog owner. It’s a no-brainer. If you’re not going to do it, then don’t get a dog. Simple as that. ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250/58 "2011-02-07T13:13:42Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](#): > > Also to **YoSaffBridge** - I agree. I believe that any dog owner should be ticketed for not cleaning these deposits. Just picking a nit was I. Oh, I know. No worries. I’ve seen this in my neighborhood and it just boggles my mind. I can’t understand how people can let their dogs poop anywhere and just walk away. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250/59 "2011-02-07T13:25:48Z")
Rub her nose in it. It’s the only way she’ll learn. ---
**Author:** ![mischievous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mischievous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mischievous)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250/60 "2011-02-07T14:28:11Z")
> [@chorpler](#): > > I’d like to hear more details about this, if you remember. > > Was it a revenge thing? IIRC, she had a designated covered parking space, but her trashy neighbors would park in it whenever there was bad weather. There was an ice storm that coated the sidewalks, she had to park a block away, she was pregnant and crabby… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/idiot-i-dont-care-why-your-dog-needs-to-poop-on-my-yard/570250.md?page=4)