Dog owners using yards/plants as doggy fire hydrant--why???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For what it’s worth, my dog pees on my property within the first minute of our walks. Everything after that is like mist, if anything.

How hard is it to keep your dog and their mist out of peoples yards? I have a dog and live in a neighborhood without sidewalks and can manage to keep her off peoples property

[Anonymous]

I live in a neighborhood with no sidewalks, and the first 5 feet or so of peoples property is part of the county easement. I figure a foot or two in is fair game.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in a neighborhood with no sidewalks, and the first 5 feet or so of peoples property is part of the county easement. I figure a foot or two in is fair game.

I think you may not be appreciating the difference between walking on and damaging someone's property.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For what it’s worth, my dog pees on my property within the first minute of our walks. Everything after that is like mist, if anything.

How hard is it to keep your dog and their mist out of peoples yards? I have a dog and live in a neighborhood without sidewalks and can manage to keep her off peoples property

My neighborhood has no sidewalks and yards are huge. No one cares if dogs walk along the edge of their yard. Many even run out with treats.

[Anonymous]

As a homeowner with a sidewalk with heavy dog traffic, if you plant anything valuable and/or “wimpy” near the sidewalk you are doing yourself a serious disservice. Stick with grasses, natives, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have no sidewalks and a short trail that starts about 7 houses away from mine. Sometimes my dog pees or poops on the way to the trail. I’m not sure how to stop that. Most dogs want to go on grass not asphalt. I do pick up the poo.

+1

There are no sidewalks between our house and the park and although our dog pees in our yard before leaving, sometimes she pees again or poops on the way to the park.

I welcome suggestions re: how to handle.

[Anonymous]

Not all dog pee kills plants. I walked my dog on my lawn only and never once had grass brown spots or dead plants.

[Anonymous]

The title of this post cracked me up; I'm sure the firefighters wish dog owners wouldn't use fire hydrants as "doggie fire hydrants."

I really don't know what the solution is here, as there is do good place for dogs to do their business in public. I suppose the curb/sidewalk and/or on trees is the least bad option, so courteous dog owners should get their dogs to go there. For those who say they cannot control their dog, well.....

[Anonymous]

Put up a fence! Our yard is fully fenced and never once has someone walking a dog entered our property. If you can't afford a real fence, you can get those small standalone decorative fence pieces from Home Depot. Nobody is going to have their dog jump over those to pee on your property.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Put up a sign. I pass loads of them every day. There is one right on Connecticut near Woodley that says, “Dog urine kills plants. Please curb your dog.” Buy that, put it up right next to your dead plant.

I think this only encourages some owners to deliberately ignore it. And it's unhelpful to the zombies on their phones.

As a dog, owner, that sign wouldn't bother me. The ones where I roll my eyes are the "be respectful" signs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WHY on earth do so many dog owners let their dogs pee on people's yards and plants? Not on the curb, but clearly on someone's property? A plant of ours is now dying because of dogs and their owners. And there's a big public park just 10 steps away. Truly, what the hell goes through their brains?

OP: As a dog owner, I agree with you.

[Anonymous]

In the city dogs should not go into peoples yards but also people should not put nasty signs or yell at dogs peeing in the treeboxes between the sidewalk and the street. The treeboxes are the only places the dogs can go

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the city dogs should not go into peoples yards but also people should not put nasty signs or yell at dogs peeing in the treeboxes between the sidewalk and the street. The treeboxes are the only places the dogs can go

One of my neighbors put up a little cast iron lawn edging fence on the parking strip. My dog peed on it. I hope their camera caught it and they post on Next Door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the city dogs should not go into peoples yards but also people should not put nasty signs or yell at dogs peeing in the treeboxes between the sidewalk and the street. The treeboxes are the only places the dogs can go

+1. I laugh at the signs in the tree boxes where it's a tree surrounded by nothing but dirt or some scraggly weeds. Sure, if you've put time, money, and effort into putting in flowers or nice plants I'll avoid it. But an empty dirt patch? It belongs to the city and that's totally fair game.