"No dog pee" sign - is one style more effective?

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Anonymous wrote:I love how these psycho dog owners think they can just decide what to do on my property. "My dog's pee doesn't kill your grass."

You don't get to decide that. It's my property. Keep your dogs off my lawn PERIOD.

But the curb side of the road is not your property. You might mow it but it's fair game and technically, not owned by you. Hence the term 'curb your dog'. Otherwise, put rocks in

I live in Fairfax County. I'm looking at my deed and at the county tax map. I DO own the strip of grass between the sidewalk and grass. The county has an easement but it, absolutely, is my property.

+1 maybe wherever the poster who is convinced it is public property lives it is, but that isn’t the case where I live. This is why many neighborhoods decide to take out the sidewalks and claim
the land all the way to the street. It is a courtesy to have sidewalks, dog walkers should curb their dogs. My kids absolutely have a greater right to the hell strip that I purchased than your dog does to pee on it.

The vast majority of dog owners do curb their dogs. These posts make it seem that all dog owners are jerks. It is just not true.

Not at all my experience in Alexandria. The vast majority expect others to always accommodate their furbaby. There are some good, thoughtful dog owners, but they are the overwhelming minority... very few and far between.

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I honestly don't know and don't care whether or not I technically own the curb on the other side of the sidewalk in front of my property. If dog owners would let their dogs relieve themselves there instead of on my yard/plants, then I'd be cook with it. If I did own the strip, it would be completely preferable for the dog to pee on the curb.

But most dog owners these days are selfish thoughtless morons and let them go, pee, walk, trample, wherever.

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Dog owner in the city here who does my best to curb my dog. I am sometimes too late for a leg lift to redirect but I try. I understand wanting to protect your yard and landscaping.

When I walk my dog I also want to protect my dog. So moms and dads and others who leave kids snacks on the sidewalk, chicken bones, steak bones, pieces of chocolate bars, chocolate covered raisins, grapes, raisin containers, sandwiches and other food laying in your grass, on the sidewalk, in your curbs how about picking up? The stuff you leave laying around can actually kill my dog.

With it without a dog it is gross and it is everywhere! Pick up your trash folks. (And yes I scoop. And I pick up your food so my dog doesn’t eat it.)

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Anonymous wrote:We live in a suburban neighborhood in Falls Church (22043) without any sidewalks, so there is no “strip next to sidewalk” that others refer to - is all lawn. As a dog owner, there is literally no other option than to allow my dog to go to the bathroom on someone’s lawn. I do not let him sniff or go on a lawn with any signage asking not to, but tbh we have deer, foxes, squirrels, raccoons, neighbors roaming cats, etc - so ppl who think their OUTDOOR space is not being used as natures bathroom are deluding themselves.

No, wildlife urinating is not the same as domesticated dogs urinating. Wildlife does not seem a familiar path and mark the path. Wildlife does not seek out the same spots to mark and continue to mark the same spot. Wildlife will not look for paths that other animals have used and follow similar paths and mark similar spaces.

As has been noted above, small amounts of urine are not a problem but larger amounts are. So, a small dog may not deposit much urine, but when they visit the same place continuously, they wlll kill the grass. A large dog usually leaves more urine and fewer visits by a larger dog will cause the same problem. Also, there are some dogs that will smell for markers from other dogs and may use the same places to mark and follow the same trail. When multiple dogs use the same spot, the killing of the grass will happen more frequently.

If you have the situation that you describe, you should pick different paths every time you walk the dog so that the dog is not marking the same trail over and over. If you vary the path, then the urine will be less likely to kill the grass.

This is all true but I don’t really think the people complaining about brown spots in the grass understand lawn issues.

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You should know that signs and anything that pops up out of the ground like a fire hydrant attracts dogs more, especially male dogs. I do my best to keep my dog moving along but she’s always most attracted to the signs.

I only let her pee on the grass in the median regardless. I never let her get near flowers or other areas that someone put a lot of effort into.

If the sign is snarky and says something like “No!!” Or “Be respectful”, especially if it’s in a median, I don’t try as hard. That’s just obnoxious.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, if you put one up I will try to stop my dog from peeing. But know that you are in a minority of people that consider dog peeing somehow offensive, and now I as a neighbor know that about you.

It’s not offensive. It kills the grass, leaving little brown spots all over the yard.

And it's a problem that accumulates, because once one dog has peed somewhere, every other dog on the block needs to pee there since half the time they are marking.

So yeah, have your dog pee in your yard please.

Except it rains. Listen, dog owners should be courteous. Agree. But the brown grass stuff is wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, if you put one up I will try to stop my dog from peeing. But know that you are in a minority of people that consider dog peeing somehow offensive, and now I as a neighbor know that about you.

It’s not offensive. It kills the grass, leaving little brown spots all over the yard.

And it's a problem that accumulates, because once one dog has peed somewhere, every other dog on the block needs to pee there since half the time they are marking.

So yeah, have your dog pee in your yard please.

Except it rains. Listen, dog owners should be courteous. Agree. But the brown grass stuff is wrong.

You think rain washes away the smell of urine? You think it rains immediately after a dog has peed? Your house must reek.

Repeatedly stating something doesn't make it true. Reposting the citations from 14:40. If you can find any legitimate ones contradicting them, feel free to post. Otherwise, stop spewing misinformation.

other plants. Dog poop is not really a problem.

https://cmg.extension.col...es/553.pdf
https://www.frontiersin.o...15979/full
https://www.forbes.com/si...11e8216f04

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are these "no pee" signs effective, or do the jerk dog owners just don't care? Have you noticed a change after putting one of these signs in your yard?

The jerk dogs don't care, idiot.

The jerk dog owners SHOULD care. We have a lawn service that costs $$. We have many dogs in the neighborhood, a Great Pyrenees pees tons and ruined a large portion of our grass and our neighbors grass. Once one dog marks a spot other dogs will follow. Rude dog owners who knew we had our yard rope off for a long while during lawn treatments just let their dos pee on our lawn after we took the barrier down. People are so careless these days. And yes, dog urine kills grass!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I love how these psycho dog owners think they can just decide what to do on my property. "My dog's pee doesn't kill your grass."

You don't get to decide that. It's my property. Keep your dogs off my lawn PERIOD.

But the curb side of the road is not your property. You might mow it but it's fair game and technically, not owned by you. Hence the term 'curb your dog'. Otherwise, put rocks in

I live in Fairfax County. I'm looking at my deed and at the county tax map. I DO own the strip of grass between the sidewalk and grass. The county has an easement but it, absolutely, is my property.

In Loudoun we own it. People don't understand that. Their is an easement for the county/state whomever but it is my property. Dog owners don't care anyway.

[Anonymous]

If a dog is doing damage to your property including the grass you can bring a civil suit against the owner. That might be expensive but so are lawn services trying to make our lawns beautiful. At least we could sue them for the cost of the lawn service. We do have cameras to prove their trespassing.

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Anonymous wrote:If a dog is doing damage to your property including the grass you can bring a civil suit against the owner. That might be expensive but so are lawn services trying to make our lawns beautiful. At least we could sue them for the cost of the lawn service. We do have cameras to prove their trespassing.

Meh, lawns are environmentally unsound. As the water situation becomes more and more dire, they will become a sign of the poorly educated, as the cognoscenti move towards more natural, less water-hogging plants.

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To whoever said, “Meh, lawns are environmentally unsound. As the water situation becomes more and more dire, they will become a sign of the poorly educated, as the cognoscenti move towards more natural, less water-hogging plants.”

If a person wants a nice lawn that doesn’t make them poorly educated. If the dog owners would keep their dogs off other people’s lawn it wouldn’t take much more than rain water to keep it nice. Just keep your dogs off other people’s property. It trespassing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, if you put one up I will try to stop my dog from peeing. But know that you are in a minority of people that consider dog peeing somehow offensive, and now I as a neighbor know that about you.

It’s not offensive. It kills the grass, leaving little brown spots all over the yard.

And it's a problem that accumulates, because once one dog has peed somewhere, every other dog on the block needs to pee there since half the time they are marking.

So yeah, have your dog pee in your yard please.

Except it rains. Listen, dog owners should be courteous. Agree. But the brown grass stuff is wrong.

You think rain washes away the smell of urine? You think it rains immediately after a dog has peed? Your house must reek.

Repeatedly stating something doesn't make it true. Reposting the citations from 14:40. If you can find any legitimate ones contradicting them, feel free to post. Otherwise, stop spewing misinformation.

other plants. Dog poop is not really a problem.

https://cmg.extension.col...es/553.pdf
https://www.frontiersin.o...15979/full
https://www.forbes.com/si...11e8216f04

Between my dogs, and dogs that come for playdates, and the wildlife in my yard (we are in parkland), by your logic, my yard reeks and would be brown from top to bottom . . . . and yet, it's not. You're wrong. 100% plain and simple.

I always pick up my dogs' poo on walks. And won't allow them to pee in the middle of people's yard. Because I know how overly precious people are about turf grass - lol. But, on the perimeter, by the street and curb or mailbox, sorry. You're going to have to deal. Just like I deal with any number of annoyances in my day from you and other people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To whoever said, “Meh, lawns are environmentally unsound. As the water situation becomes more and more dire, they will become a sign of the poorly educated, as the cognoscenti move towards more natural, less water-hogging plants.”

If a person wants a nice lawn that doesn’t make them poorly educated. If the dog owners would keep their dogs off other people’s lawn it wouldn’t take much more than rain water to keep it nice. Just keep your dogs off other people’s property. It trespassing.

It kind of does make you poorly educated on this topic, actually. Lawns are wasteful and provide no biodiversity or benefit whatsoever.

[Anonymous]

We have a wild and woods walk before we get to houses. My dog will lift his leg but he has no pee left, so calm down.