Why can't your dog poop on your own lawn?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I taught my dog to pee on command, so she pees on my lawn at the start of our walk. But she needs to walk to get the bowels moving, sorry. I bet you don't poop on command either.

I have never noticed our lawn damaged by dog poop or pee, across multiple dogs. I know there are people who have this problem but honestly I think it's their weak grass. Plant something more robust.

For me, the damage is when the dog ambles into my yard and the leash gets dragged around. Have had multiple saplings snapped and small bushes and shrubs yanked out of the ground that way. Those owners DGAF so perimeter and pepper all the way now

[Anonymous]

I live in a neighborhood full of dogs. They love to pee/poop in front of my house. A few years ago there was a-hole who let his dog poop in front of my door and would just leave it there. I have a Ring camera so I recorded it and put in on the local facebook group. I shamed the hell out of him and the pooping stopped. But the peeing has not. I have a sign asking people to not let their dogs pee in front of my house. My grass is dead from having 20 dogs pee in the same spot every day. My HOA requires me to keep the area looking nice and I have to pay to replace the sod. I asked AGAIN for people to please respect my property and have their dogs pee somewhere else. A couple of morons got very aggressive and said they would bring their dogs to my house specifically to piss me off.

I like dogs. I think they are wonderful. I absolutely can't stand most of the dog owners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP make sure you never use a public or friend’s or family’s toilet. Why can’t you train youself to exclusively poop and pee at your own house?

Not sure how old you are but that is exactly what most dinos of our era were taught by our family, not to use bathroom when a guest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP make sure you never use a public or friend’s or family’s toilet. Why can’t you train youself to exclusively poop and pee at your own house?

Not sure how old you are but that is exactly what most dinos of our era were taught by our family, not to use bathroom when a guest.

And we most certainly don't just barge into a strangers house to take a shit in their bathroom.

Not even going to address how ridiculous it is that we are comparing people to dogs AGAIN.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in a neighborhood full of dogs. They love to pee/poop in front of my house. A few years ago there was a-hole who let his dog poop in front of my door and would just leave it there. I have a Ring camera so I recorded it and put in on the local facebook group. I shamed the hell out of him and the pooping stopped. But the peeing has not. I have a sign asking people to not let their dogs pee in front of my house. My grass is dead from having 20 dogs pee in the same spot every day. My HOA requires me to keep the area looking nice and I have to pay to replace the sod. I asked AGAIN for people to please respect my property and have their dogs pee somewhere else. A couple of morons got very aggressive and said they would bring their dogs to my house specifically to piss me off.

I like dogs. I think they are wonderful. I absolutely can't stand most of the dog owners.

I think this is the conclusion from several threads about dogs, it's not the dogs it's their handlers.

[Anonymous]

My dog never poops on any private property. He goes on the verge, the piece of county-owned land between the street and the sidewalk. I pick up afterward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in a neighborhood full of dogs. They love to pee/poop in front of my house. A few years ago there was a-hole who let his dog poop in front of my door and would just leave it there. I have a Ring camera so I recorded it and put in on the local facebook group. I shamed the hell out of him and the pooping stopped. But the peeing has not. I have a sign asking people to not let their dogs pee in front of my house. My grass is dead from having 20 dogs pee in the same spot every day. My HOA requires me to keep the area looking nice and I have to pay to replace the sod. I asked AGAIN for people to please respect my property and have their dogs pee somewhere else. A couple of morons got very aggressive and said they would bring their dogs to my house specifically to piss me off.

I like dogs. I think they are wonderful. I absolutely can't stand most of the dog owners.

You need a fence and some sort of dog deterrent. The problem is that now part of your property has become a marked pee area for dogs. Every dog coming by will want to add their own pee. That's how they communicate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in a neighborhood full of dogs. They love to pee/poop in front of my house. A few years ago there was a-hole who let his dog poop in front of my door and would just leave it there. I have a Ring camera so I recorded it and put in on the local facebook group. I shamed the hell out of him and the pooping stopped. But the peeing has not. I have a sign asking people to not let their dogs pee in front of my house. My grass is dead from having 20 dogs pee in the same spot every day. My HOA requires me to keep the area looking nice and I have to pay to replace the sod. I asked AGAIN for people to please respect my property and have their dogs pee somewhere else. A couple of morons got very aggressive and said they would bring their dogs to my house specifically to piss me off.

I like dogs. I think they are wonderful. I absolutely can't stand most of the dog owners.

You need a fence and some sort of dog deterrent. The problem is that now part of your property has become a marked pee area for dogs. Every dog coming by will want to add their own pee. That's how they communicate.

I wish I could, but my HOA doesn't not allow me to put a fence in that area. I'm at the end unit townhome so it would be almost impossible anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in a neighborhood full of dogs. They love to pee/poop in front of my house. A few years ago there was a-hole who let his dog poop in front of my door and would just leave it there. I have a Ring camera so I recorded it and put in on the local facebook group. I shamed the hell out of him and the pooping stopped. But the peeing has not. I have a sign asking people to not let their dogs pee in front of my house. My grass is dead from having 20 dogs pee in the same spot every day. My HOA requires me to keep the area looking nice and I have to pay to replace the sod. I asked AGAIN for people to please respect my property and have their dogs pee somewhere else. A couple of morons got very aggressive and said they would bring their dogs to my house specifically to piss me off.

I like dogs. I think they are wonderful. I absolutely can't stand most of the dog owners.

You need a fence and some sort of dog deterrent. The problem is that now part of your property has become a marked pee area for dogs. Every dog coming by will want to add their own pee. That's how they communicate.

I wish I could, but my HOA doesn't not allow me to put a fence in that area. I'm at the end unit townhome so it would be almost impossible anyway.

PP you replied. I'm sorry. I have a dog whom I force to pee on the street side of the sidewalk, not front yards. But sometimes he really wants to pee on the marked community pee spot, and I can't catch him in time. Luckily we don't have an HOA, so owners aren't forced to have their yard look a certain way. I know someone who installed some sort of motion detector that makes a high-pitched keening sound. It's an animal repellent. It doesn't deter all animals, but it deters enough that their yard looks better (I think they primarily installed it for deer, not dogs). Alternatively, can you border your yard with large "decorative" rocks? That way, it doesn't matter too much if dogs pee on them? Another neighbor has really pretty rocks next to their sidewalk. I guess it's for that purpose. There are some plants that are prickly or give off a strong scent that dogs tend to stay away from (lavender, marigold, and others).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP make sure you never use a public or friend’s or family’s toilet. Why can’t you train youself to exclusively poop and pee at your own house?

Wow. Barring emergencies or extended stays, most of us do.

Right! I think pooping in public is rude. It should be for emergencies only.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in a neighborhood full of dogs. They love to pee/poop in front of my house. A few years ago there was a-hole who let his dog poop in front of my door and would just leave it there. I have a Ring camera so I recorded it and put in on the local facebook group. I shamed the hell out of him and the pooping stopped. But the peeing has not. I have a sign asking people to not let their dogs pee in front of my house. My grass is dead from having 20 dogs pee in the same spot every day. My HOA requires me to keep the area looking nice and I have to pay to replace the sod. I asked AGAIN for people to please respect my property and have their dogs pee somewhere else. A couple of morons got very aggressive and said they would bring their dogs to my house specifically to piss me off.

I like dogs. I think they are wonderful. I absolutely can't stand most of the dog owners.

Get some signs. We respect signs, especially if they are polite (don't really care about lawn treatment signs signs those are ubiquitous).
We also avoid lawns and stick to verges, medians, in general.
There is a strip of grass and plants on the OUTSIDE of a fence, right next to the road, that would normally be fair game, but it has some very nice "be respectful and do not let your dog pee here" signs. So for whatever reason they care about this, so we avoid it.

Bad dog owners suck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in a neighborhood full of dogs. They love to pee/poop in front of my house. A few years ago there was a-hole who let his dog poop in front of my door and would just leave it there. I have a Ring camera so I recorded it and put in on the local facebook group. I shamed the hell out of him and the pooping stopped. But the peeing has not. I have a sign asking people to not let their dogs pee in front of my house. My grass is dead from having 20 dogs pee in the same spot every day. My HOA requires me to keep the area looking nice and I have to pay to replace the sod. I asked AGAIN for people to please respect my property and have their dogs pee somewhere else. A couple of morons got very aggressive and said they would bring their dogs to my house specifically to piss me off.

I like dogs. I think they are wonderful. I absolutely can't stand most of the dog owners.

Get some signs. We respect signs, especially if they are polite (don't really care about lawn treatment signs signs those are ubiquitous).
We also avoid lawns and stick to verges, medians, in general.
There is a strip of grass and plants on the OUTSIDE of a fence, right next to the road, that would normally be fair game, but it has some very nice "be respectful and do not let your dog pee here" signs. So for whatever reason they care about this, so we avoid it.

Bad dog owners suck.

I do have signs as I wrote above. I got them on Amazon and they are bright and polite. My dog owning neighbors don't respect them. They are walking down the sidewalk, staring at their phones and not paying attention to their surroundings or where the dog is peeing/pooping.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I clean it up, stop complaining.

No. I don't have a dog for a reason. It's rude to let your dog poop anywhere that is not your property or a designated area for dogs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dog’s pee can kill the grass in our backyard (generally only when we don’t get any precipitation for a while), but his poop doesn’t hurt the grass because we pick it up immediately. He’s a big boy (79 lbs), so he’s got a big bladder. Maybe really small dogs are less likely to kill grass?

We have a 10 lb dog. There are definitely some brown patches in our side yard from where he pees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in a neighborhood full of dogs. They love to pee/poop in front of my house. A few years ago there was a-hole who let his dog poop in front of my door and would just leave it there. I have a Ring camera so I recorded it and put in on the local facebook group. I shamed the hell out of him and the pooping stopped. But the peeing has not. I have a sign asking people to not let their dogs pee in front of my house. My grass is dead from having 20 dogs pee in the same spot every day. My HOA requires me to keep the area looking nice and I have to pay to replace the sod. I asked AGAIN for people to please respect my property and have their dogs pee somewhere else. A couple of morons got very aggressive and said they would bring their dogs to my house specifically to piss me off.

I like dogs. I think they are wonderful. I absolutely can't stand most of the dog owners.

You need a fence and some sort of dog deterrent. The problem is that now part of your property has become a marked pee area for dogs. Every dog coming by will want to add their own pee. That's how they communicate.

I wish I could, but my HOA doesn't not allow me to put a fence in that area. I'm at the end unit townhome so it would be almost impossible anyway.

PP you replied. I'm sorry. I have a dog whom I force to pee on the street side of the sidewalk, not front yards. But sometimes he really wants to pee on the marked community pee spot, and I can't catch him in time. Luckily we don't have an HOA, so owners aren't forced to have their yard look a certain way. I know someone who installed some sort of motion detector that makes a high-pitched keening sound. It's an animal repellent. It doesn't deter all animals, but it deters enough that their yard looks better (I think they primarily installed it for deer, not dogs). Alternatively, can you border your yard with large "decorative" rocks? That way, it doesn't matter too much if dogs pee on them? Another neighbor has really pretty rocks next to their sidewalk. I guess it's for that purpose. There are some plants that are prickly or give off a strong scent that dogs tend to stay away from (lavender, marigold, and others).

A motion detector sounds lovely. I might look into that. My years is framed by decorative bricks so it's very clear it belongs to me. There is no confusion. Just completely disregard. I might look into plants that repel animals too. Thank you for the suggestions.