A harmless rant, since he’s not doing it on my property, but it is still rude and obnoxious.
I rent from an association, which means the association’s property is right behind mine. They have a large, open, grassy area, and kids play on it all the time.
Very recently the landlord told me that they were going to block off a part of their driveway with two big signs that say “Do not enter” because, as they said, people were allowing their dogs to go back there and poop all over the place and not clean it up, and their kids ran around and played and they were sick of cleaning it up.
Now they are not there all the time, only at events and when they are cleaning up the lawn. Since then I have seen almost no one bring their dogs back there…except for one dickweed that goes every morning, with his two…boxers? I think? Big dogs with square jaws. Anyway he never has a bag and just lets his dogs shit all over the lawn back there. And he looks me right in the eye so he clearly has no shame about it.
My town has aggressive laws about dog shit cleaning but my neighborhood is pretty insular - everyone knows each other. I’m afraid he’ll know it was me who reported him. I want to tell the landlord, but I don’t really know where he lives or anything; it would just be “That guy drops off his doggie poop in your yard.”
I just don’t understand people who think this is OK. Everyone knows the association has their meetings there, and have kids there.
There is a greenway around the corner from my house. I have noticed baggies of dog shit in the bushes along the trail. Apparently people will pick up their dog’s poop and then fling the bag into the woods, some of which snag on the tree branches making lovely hanging dog shit decorations.:mad:
The rules don’t apply to some people (they think) - they just do as they please. I’m not sure if they don’t care about the consequences and the rules, or if none of that ever crosses their consciousness. I don’t think their thought processes ever make it as far as, “Hmm, there’s a rule against this, and there’s a good reason that everyone else isn’t doing it. Maybe I shouldn’t do it, either.” I think the thoughts only make it as far as, “See. Want. Do.”
I rent a condo in a courtyard building. There’s only one other renter right now (it’s a fairly small building, I believe 12 units total), and we both have dogs. I’ve been here for 2 years, the other guy moved in around November. Since he moved in, I went from NEVER seeing poop left around the neighborhood to seeing it almost daily. Stepped in it twice in one week while walking my own dogs - I suppose that’s my fault, since I never needed to be cautious before he moved in.
The condo board keep slipping notes under everyone’s doors with reminders of the various dog policies, which lead me to believe he’s been violating their rules in other ways, too. Almost ever condo owner I’ve spoken to in the past few months has had some complaint or another about him (he leaves the dog alone too much, so it spends a lot of time scratching/whining/barking; he doesn’t walk the dog enough, he was letting it go to the bathroom inside the courtyard gates, he was leaving the gates unlocked, etc). Now, they’ve all also said things at the same time like, “But we LOVE your dogs and they’re never a bother,” but I’m getting worried about that they’re going to pass some kind of no-dogs-for-renters rule because of all the grief he’s (the owner - I don’t blame the dog one bit) causing them.
It’s not that the people in my building are especially uptight, either. Other people in the neighborhood have stopped me when I’ve been walking my dogs to ask things like, “What’s with that guy in your building with the big dog? He doesn’t pick up after him.” So apparently he doesn’t even care enough to be sneaky about it.
Anyway, in this one case at least, the guy not picking up the poop is inconsiderate in a lot of other ways. He’s oblivious to how he’s annoying other people, and he’s not taking great care of his dog, either.
When I used to run alongside the Erie Canal near Syracuse, they had a sign on the towpath reading “Dogs must be on leash,” which you’d think would be unambiguous enough. But goddamn if every single time I ran there wouldn’t be at least two or three off-leash dogs pestering me, sometimes growling, sometimes apparently friendly but still off-leash, with their idiotic owners following behind, leash securely in hand. I soon found better places to do my run, but thought I would append the following to all the signs: “Except of course for YOUR slobbering brute.”
Simply put, Anaamika, pet-owners never think the rules apply to them, because their pet is so sweet, so special, so exceptional, the law would obviously never have been passed if only the legislature knew their little darling’s sterling character. How are you going to argue with that degree of delusional, anti-social behavior?
Okay, I am not sure what the regas are like in your city/town/county - but I know here if your dog is not licensed then you get a $200 fine and if you are reported as not cleaning up after your dog, you get a written warning. You may check into it in your place of residence, it may be one way to get him to start cleaning up and may not be obvious it’s you if it comes through the city?
And that’s just my dog! You should see how special my children are.
All it takes is one dog to mine a large field. Even if the owner does pick up the shit it is unlikely that he will pick up every single turd every single time. The only way is to ban dogs from places where you don’t want dog shit and even then, like the local elementary school, it only takes one “special” dog owner to ruin someone’s day.
I realize you hate pets and pet owners, but REALLY? All pet-owners think that rules don’t apply to us? We’re all delusional and anti-social? I love my dogs, but I have put a LOT of effort into training them. They know how to behave outside our apartment, and they have never been off-leash where it wasn’t allowed. You know… I was going to go into a whole thing defending my dogs - and most dogs and their owners - but you’re not going to believe me. So, sure. Rules don’t apply to my special dogs. They menace children and destroy property! They vandalize street signs and rob banks with the trio of clearly evil poodles down the street! It’s ok, though, because they’re my widdle cuddlebugs. That’s why I don’t mind when they plot to overthrow the government! Hell, the GOVERNMENT probably doesn’t mind, either!
Better they should be stopping him and asking “Why don’t you pick up after your dog?”
I know confrontations aren’t fun, but someone who’s jerkish enough to leave his dog’s shit lying around probably doesn’t care if people are talking about him behind his back. People need to call him out, publicly and often, or he won’t change his behavior.
That’s exactly it. Everyone else in my neighborhood, so far as I can see, picks up their dog crap. ONLY this one dick thinks he’s too entitled to do so.
I was just thinking about it again this weekend - they held a wedding over there, and you could literally hear the second the kids were freed because the door banged open and they all ran out to play! I was wondering how many turds they were stepping on.
Get one of those loud assed canned air horns. The kind ethusiasts take to sporting events and assholes take to graduations.
Wait until the guys dog is hunched over in mid crap. Then blow the horn. The dog’s sphincter will likey explode and with any luck take out the owner as well.
Simply put, dog-haters are psychopaths who are incapable of maintaining relationships of any kind and resent that the loving bond between a dog and its owner brings them more happiness in an hour than the dog-hater will experience over his entire bitter, twisted, miserable life.
Actually, my generalization is probably correct. But yours isn’t.
This is a concern of mine, even though I’m an owner, not a renter – some of the people in our condo association don’t pick up after their dogs, which is not only against condo board rules, but also against state environmental laws. Hell, the former condo board president once confided in me that “people who don’t want to pick up after their dogs should just take them down in the woods like I do,” showing that she’s unaware of the state law or only cares about her immediate property.
We have two dogs and we pick up after them religiously – even going so far as to come back with a flashlight if we can’t find the pile in the dark – specifically because there’s no reason anyone else should be inconvenienced by our dogs. But I worry that the pinheads will ruin it for everyone else.
This is an even bigger problem. Never mind that state law requires leashes; our property and every development around us on all sides is infested with people who find it too onerous to leash their dogs. Surprisingly, I’ve only had to collect three strays so far; but I’ve seen plenty of them run at OUR dogs, barking and trying to start a fight. There are two dogs I know of nearby who are human-aggressive and repeatedly walked off-leash; one of those has rushed me on a few occasions, followed by a frantic woman calling out, “Sorry! Sorry!”
I quite agree with your frustration.
Okay, now your prejudice is showing. Not ALL pet people are this way.
While it is true that our little darlings would never hurt a person (they’re pit bulls, and thus human-friendly in the extreme; we call Sadie “the mayor” because she wants to greet everyone she sees), my indulgent attitude doesn’t cause me to be dimwitted enough to have them off-leash. A leash is safety – for humans and dogs – and control, and a communication tool.
But it’s not just* pet* people – (many) smokers will throw their butts down in the street; many drivers will throw fast-food wrappers out of their cars; the kids in the neighborhood leave burst water balloons in the common lawn like it’s somebody else’s problem now. Plenty of people ignore rules or laws, especially when it comes to “trash” they don’t want, and they don’t seem to be shy about inflicting it on the rest of us. I hate it when people do that, and it pisses me off, but I’m not so delusional I think it’s a problem unique to people with pets.
That’s because they’re FROM the government! Didn’t you know that 73.2% of all pets are spies planted by the CIA, FBI, or Tri-Lateral Commission in shelters and via breeders? We unwittingly bring these domestic intelligence agents into our homes and feed them! That sound you’re hearing? No, it’s not voices in your head; It’s government agents laughing their asses off at how brilliantly they’ve infiltrated us!
Now, back to the mini-rant at-hand: Call the authorities/HOA/Superman/Eric Cartman on this guy. Seriously.
I know you don’t want to ‘be a rat’ but this guy is wrecking a good thing for everyone and by your silence, you’re complicit. In this case, being a good neighbor means taking a stand.
I was going to call them Ruiners in my first post, but I just posted that yesterday and I don’t want to sound like a broken record. This guy is totally a Ruiner, though - he’s going to ruin it for everyone.
I don’t quite get it, either, because it’s just not that onerous a task to clear up your dog’s poo. Clearly most of the people around here agree with me, because it’s really rare to see poo even in the park; so rare, that either it really is just one or two people or it’s the rare mistake if someone forgets to take enough bags or whatever.
Totally true that it does only take one dirty bastard to spoil it for the rest. I know sometimes dogs can be noisy, but I reckon poo is the main reason for quite a few new estates here having no-dog laws. (These are privately-owned or rented flats, but rented with no furniture - landlords renting out furnished homes obviously have more reason to be wary of dogs).
Still, it’s SO much better than when I was a kid, when most pavements would have a contingent of dog poo in varying states of decay and some walks would inevitably end up with everyone scraping poo off their shoes.
You know, it wasn’t actually necessary for you to type all that. You simply needed to put an ellipsis or something and everyone would have inferred the rest from reading your name.
§ 1705. Destruction of letter boxes or mail
Whoever willfully or maliciously injures, tears down or destroys any letter box or other receptacle intended or used for the receipt or delivery of mail on any mail route, or breaks open the same or willfully or maliciously injures, defaces or destroys any mail deposited therein, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
Not ALL pet people are this way.