I live in an appartment complex with a grassy area between two rows of buildings. The grassy area is for everyone’s use, but there are three dog owners in the building who apparently think that it’s their own private back yard. They let their dogs out without any supervision and call them back in when they’ve done their business. How nice for the rest of us. :rolleyes: There are at least 7 children that live here and play in the common area that have to watch out for the doggie bombs. Today I was talking to a neighbor while keeping an eye on the kids outside and all of a sudden she points out that the 1 yo seems to have picked up dog crap. When I catch him to wipe off his hands, he also has a mouth full of it. DAMN IT!!! If you are going to own a dog, be responsible for it! People who don’t pick up after their pets should have them taken away and given to people who will. Either that or they should buy a house. Then they could let the dog crap all over the yard without anyone else having to live with it.
Maybe you should pick it up for them, and place it neatly on their doorstep with a nice note.
Now there’s a thought… Would I need a brown lunch sack or would it be better to just place it there uncovered with the note laid on top?
Oh man, my neighbors would never pick up their dog’s shit-and then they’d mow the lawn over it…the whole backyard and OUR backyard stank so bad. I’m so glad they’re gone.
Then, you could set the bag on fire, ring the doorbell and run. What else would they do but jump up and down on the burning bag of poop?
Fire may be a bit too much. Way too many potential witnesses. But if I get up around 4am and start stacking piles in front of doors, I might not get caught.
i had a rant that i posted not to long ago similar to this. only thing was it was at the bottom of the stairs… dead center where people walked. luckily i was warned about it before i left my place. but from the shoe print i saw some one else wasn’t as lucky.
still don’t know who exactly cleaned it up, but there’s still a bit of it hardened to the cement.
In my townhouse complex, there are a number of dog owners, including myself. I always, always pick up after my dog, but at least one other dog owner does not. There has been an ongoing issue of heaps of poop on the common lawns, and a couple of years ago the trend was to blame me and my dog for the problem.
Often, after my female dog would squat to pee, a neighbour would see, assume she had gone #2, and come running outside to chastise me for not picking up. I would often have to physically show people that there was no poop to pick up before they would believe she had just peed. There was also a dog that looked similar to mine that would be occasionally seen running loose in the complex. I had neighbours come to my door and tell me they had just seen my dog go to the bathroom and demand that I come out and pick it up. Once I showed them that my dog was in fact fast asleep inside my house, they would apologize, but the next time they saw the same dog, back to my door they’d come.
One day, I invited a new coworker over for a coffee after work, and when we arrived at my house, there was feces smeared all over my door and path. It was humiliating, revolting, and hurtful. It took me days to properly clean it up.
My point is just that while I totally agree that it’s disgusting to see the crap lying around, and I know you’re probably not totally serious about it, please, please be sure you’re absolutely right before you try to get any revenge.
ElretI’m really really careful about these things. First, I’d never smear it anywhere. That’s just disgusting and cruel. Second, I’ve witnessed the dogs being let out of the appartment alone and unsupervised as well as them being called back in by the owner standing in their doorway. Seriously, no one is with these dogs while they are outside.
My neighbors have an elderly, overweight beagle dog…and they walked him by my house and let him squat…at later inspection I notice a steaming pile of dog crap smoldering on my sidewalk (right in front of my mailbox)…so a few days later the beagle is ambling down the walk and the urge struck again…(I don’t know why my house has the exlax effect on him) and he squatted…an oozing mass of liquid crap…I say to the two children walking him “you need to clean that up” and she says “why?” Um…excuse me? Your dog just rid himself of excrement on my front walk, pick it up…and she just gives me a snotty look and saunters off…so I called my homeowner’s association, I figure I pay dues, let them send her a letter. If that dog is allowed to do his doo again on my walk I will pick it up and put it in her mailbox. I have two kids and I don’t want them stepping in it, besides it is hot and the smell of baking shit on a hot spring day is sickening…Margo
I don’t doubt it. I didn’t think you were really that serious about it anyway, and I hope you didn’t think I intended my story as a personal attack - I’m on your side. 
Oh, no. I didn’t think you were attacking me.
People who don’t pick up after their dogs probably don’t deserve to have a dog. The apartment complex where I live allows dogs up to 35 pounds, but requires that poop be scooped. The city, Plano, has a poop scooping ordinance but the amount of crap that can be found in parks and along paths is shocking.
The city runs a dog park that is fenced in and safe - it really is a great place for dogs. There are drinking fountains with a doggy dish on the side and there are several trash stations with small bags, for picking up. I get pissed off when I see how much crap is left all over the ground there.
A note to dog owners and potential dog owners: Having a dog is a responsibility. You are responsible to make sure your dog is vaccinated, has access to food, access to water and shelter and you are responsible for any mess your dog makes. Nobody, even other dog owners, likes dog shit. Now, if you are unable or unwilling to be responsible for your dog, either don’t get one, or give yours up, a cat is more likely your speed.
RTA That’s a GREAT link. Thank you.
This thread reminds me of the time when I was a kid and my folks were considering buying a home in a subdivision. I remember coming out of the front door of the home they were looking at and on the unsodded front yard were a great many TOUS’s (Turds Of Unusual Size). My dad’s comment? “Those people have either a large dog or a small elephant.”
Oh, they didn’t buy the house.
Reminds of a guy who lived in our frat house. Brought a puppy into his room that shit all over. Unbelivable stench and nobody would say a thing. One night someone broke into his room and shit on his pillow. He came home drunk, hit the sack and got a head full of shit. The next day the dog was gone, the carpet replaced and the room was repainted. Sometimes these fuckwads need to be shocked into reality.
Damn, what are these people * feeding * their dogs?
Since I have my own yard, I don’t pick up the “land mines.” (It discourages the neighborhood kids from playing here. 
) My yard does not stink. Yeah, there are a couple small patches where the grass is yellow, but I’ve never detected any odor, nor have my family when visiting. (And trust me-- they’re the type to say something if they did.) Her poop dries out in the sun and crumbles away. With the next rain, it’s completely gone.
Our neighbor’s dog stank abominably, but he was detained in a small kennel which was never cleaned out.
Leifsmama:
I am in no way, shape or form trying to defending poop-non-picker-uppers.
However, I’m a little unclear as to who the one-year-old child in your story belongs to. Whether it be yours, or someone elses, if it is general knowledge in your complex that there is dogshit everywhere, and that one year old kids tend to put things in their mouths…I think common sense dictates you do not allow a 1 year old out to play in the shitlot unattended, or even further than arms-reach away.
Dog turds In the kids mouth? Ugh.
Reminds me of my old apartment complex. (Ah, the nostalgic smell of dogshit in the morning!)
Our complex was right across from a yard-free group of condos; the people who lived in those condos would always walk their dogs on our large grassy areas. Leaving little stink bombs in their wake that were upwind from my apartment. Drove me NUTS in the springtime when I wanted to open my windows!
So one time Mr. Levins used the condo dumpster, instead of our complex dumpster, b/c it was just one bag and their dumpster was closer.
And this lady, who’s walking her dog on our yard, yells across to him, “EXCUSE ME, THOSE ARE OUR DUMPSTERS! YOU CANNOT THROW YOUR TRASH INTO OUR DUMPSTERS! I AM SO TIRED OF ALL YOU PEOPLE USING IT!”
And Mr. Levins turns around and says, “Tell you what, you stop letting your dog shit all over our grass, and then maybe we’ll stop using your dumpster. Deal?”
The lady called him a son of a bitch, right as her dog squatted to take a shit about ten feet away from our bedroom window.
And then we never heard/saw her again.