That was the fatal flaw in The Master’s article. Wrong item under discussion.
Although glass pikes might be more cost effective. It would take fewer to ring your lawn.
In the city and in the 'burbs, there are dog owners. Poop happens. And pee happens. I have my dogs trained to go on the north side of my house. But both of them will squeeze out the occasional turd or two on a walk. I clean it up.
Other dogs, in turn, do their business on our yard.
And yeah, the property of people who aren’t dog owners can definitely get sprinkled on, pooped on.
We also get graffiti, cigarette butts (and I don’t smoke!), whatever.
What’s to be done? Well, the other day a man told me that I was trespassing with my dogs and that I had to get off his property. So I did. If lawn burn is his big worry in life, so be it. He could move out onto a rural area, but he’d probably find some other thing to bitch about out there, like roosters crowing or something.
It sucks that people who are not responsible can get everyone else painted with the same brush.
But I will continute walking my dogs and if they gotta go, they gotta go.
It seems that the problem is that your dog for some reason requires a grassy area, but you don’t have one of your own. The answer would be to retrain the dog. It might not be easy, but it should be possible.
As far as where the dog should eliminate, around here the law is “curb your dog” and clean up after it. Although I probably have a certain amount of possessiveness about my front yard, that’s not really the main reason I don’t want dogs eliminating in it. When I had mostly lawn on my front yard, that was where I set up my tables for block parties. My children often played on it when they were small while my husband and I socialized with the neighbors. Now I have flowers, so I’m planting and weeding. I don’t particularly want to do these things where dog eliminate, and I certainly don’t want other people’s dogs using it as a toilet when my own dog doesn’t.
See, then this is what always comes back. Obviously we’re dog haters, or worry warts, or overly anal, because we don’t want a strange dog popping on our lawn. People think they can do it anywhere. I think it’s gross and would like you to stay off my lawn (if & when I do have one) and have your dog go in your own yard. If you emptied your Coke can in my yard day after day, you and I would both consider it rude, but since it’s your pet, it’s OK. Well, I love dogs but I don’t want one. So why should I have to deal with your dog stuff? That doesn’t make me anal.
For me, what it comes back to is living in an urban community in which I can literally hear my neighbor blow his nose next door. You do the best you can with what you’ve got. As I said before, I get my dogs to go in a special spot in our yard, but there are occasional potty times on walks.
I don’t let the male pee on shrubs, I always pick up after my dogs if they should poop. However, it’s difficult and dangerous to get a large, aging, slow-moving female dog to pee off the curb into the street. And I think curbing, with the idea that the poop eventually goes down the sewer, is not so swell for our water. Better to pick up.
The guy who told me to get off his lawn has no sidewalk on his property. There is no public domain there. So I had to walk my dogs in the street.
This guy would be within his rights to call the cops on me if I should return (and yes, we did have words).
How soon the police would arrive is another story. :rolleyes:
I am not trying to turn this into some kind of manifesto, but we all are in this world together. The block where I live is really tightly knit, dog owners or non-dog owners. We have book clubs and block parties too. I have no illusions about how much my non-dog-owning neighbors must adore my dogs. But we don’t let dog pee get in the way of our relationship.
Those of y’all who don’t want dogs pooping on your lawn even if the owner is picking it up, I guess you can put up a sign, build a fence, call animal control or call the cops.
Another irresponsible pet owner. How a big a total fucking asshole are you in other aspects of your life? Keep your Goddamn dog of other’s people property! It’s pretty fucking simple even for dumbasses like you. Don’t trespass and don’t let your Goddamn dog do it either. It’s called being a decent neighbor. Something that seems a totally foreign concept to stupid fucknuts like you.
NO. I don’t have a dog therefore I do not want anybody’s dog on my property. If you don’t have a sidewalk or anything YOU call the city and make complaints and get a sidewalk put in. It’s not my responsibility to deal with your rudeness & carelessness. Keep your dogs off my property.
Why ya gots ta hate?
If the poop gets scooped, why is it so terrible? If I walk my dog from point A to point B, there’s a good chance that she’s going to pee or poop. I come prepared with a baggie and try to keep her out of the flower beds and stuff, but sometimes she’s just gotta go. Why is this still unacceptable? As pointed out in an earlier post, wild animals do it all the time and they don’t even clean it up. And its not like I’m walking her to your yard specifically to poop (which I would consider very rude, by the way.) I’m sorry about it, but shit happens. Deal with it. If you really want to keep dogs off your property, you better build a fence.
(Except ranchers, who can shoot trespassing dogs on sight which I think is fair considering that in this case the dog actually IS a threat to their herd.)
This Pit thread is getting seriously derailed. I could continue arguing but my original pitting was those dog owners that let their dogs do it in the park and leave it there, in violation of clearly posted signs and right in front of garbage bags & cans. I don’t think (or at least I hope) you and I don’t disagree on that being wrong.
Must…stop…thinking about…American History X… 
I’m actually not that radical - I haven’t yet told my neighbors to get their damn dogs off of my lawn, even though they are the suburban lawncare nut types who mow their lawn 3 times a week, mow into our yard because of some apparent fear that our once a week mowing is not often enough and that our “jungle-like” growth will intrude on their putting green. Yet, surprise, surprise, they don’t let their dog take a dump on their lawn; they instead take him for walks through the neighborhood and let him piss and shit on everyone else’s (including ours). I even tolerate that completely assholish behavior, because I try to minimize fights over stupid small things.
Yet I do not think we are talking about whether it is a big enough issue to fight over, I think we are talking about right and wrong. If we followed your logic, where would we be? Is your response really, “Hey, even though you own it, if I feel like fucking with it, even in trivial ways, your response is to buy physical barriers to prevent that?”
I think that’s an obviously problematic statement. What if it were something else? What if I liked to drive golf balls onto your property. Hey, I come pick them up, it doesn’t hurt anything. If you don’t like it, build a fence?
I don’t. Nature takes care of it relatively quickly-- the poop disolves in the rain. Hey, that’s how dirt gets made, you know. It’s the circle of life-- kinda beautiful in its own way. 
No one goes in my back yard besides me, my husband and my dogs. It’s fully fenced, so anyone else in there doesn’t belong and deserves to step on a “land mine.”
The dogs choose to poop in one area in the area furthest from the house, so it’s not like it’s all over the place. It’s a dog-made compost area.
I’m not about to call the city about the sidewalk, that guy is the only person there who has that attitude, and I’ve been told that a sidewalk will eventually be going in anyway; then he’ll have to shovel snow off his walk like everyone else.
If it is not good enough that I make my dogs go before I leave the house, then I guess you and Bull will just have to fume and fuss every time a dog owner comes by, because the reality is, trespassing laws or not, it’s gonna happen.
I know it’s awful to have broken glass, cigarette butts and poop and heaven knows what else littering a neighborhood. It’s terrible when pet owners use parks as some sort of doggie litter box. It’s not my responsibility to deal with that rudeness and carelessness, but I still pick up that kind of trash–not mine–all the time, because it is the right thing to do.