Please explain the "rules" of dogs/walking/peeing and neighbors' property

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Anonymous wrote:Here is a radical suggestion. If you don’t have enough green space for your dog to poop on your own property, you should not have a dog.

Translation: If you do not live in the suburbs you do not deserve to have a dog. Really can't believe someone had the audacity to post this asinine comment.

I'm not the poster you have responded to, but I disagree with your translation.

You don't have to live in the suburbs to have a dog, but you don't have the right to let your pet defecate on someone else's property. You are in control of your dog aren't you, so surely this is common sense as trespassing is breaking the law?

Having a dog is not a right. If you don’t have the resources for it, than, no, you shouldn’t do it.

Dogs need to walk. And when the walk, they pee and poop. And they dont like doing it on the edge of their own lawn. They are so so excited to leave to walk, they will almost drag you to get on. Deer, squirrels, raccoons, foxes, bunnies, chipmunk, they all walk around and poop and pee on your lawn. They don't use toilets. Do you get angry at them?

I am not a dog owner, but I recently dog sat for a week for a 10 month old golden doodle. This dos normally lives in a condo building and walks on sidewalks / pees on fire hydrants. I successfully walked this dog 4-5 times a day only on the strip between the sidewalk and road and the dog did not relieve itself once on any of my neighbors yards. This is a dog that is leash reactive and has terrible leash manners - I also managed to teach it to heel and walk with a loose leash in less than 3 days with a handful of treats. If I can do it - with no prior dog experience - I imagine people who choose to let their dogs relieve themselves anywhere they want are just lazy and inconsiderate.

Thats impressive. What technique did you use to teach it to heel so quickly?

[Anonymous]

Our neighborhood has streets with sidewalks and streets without. I walk my dog on the streets with sidewalks and let him pee/poop between sidewalk and street (I always clean up). I only walk him on streets without sidewalks if I think he won't have to go.

I live on a street without sidewalks myself. If someone let their dog pee or poop on the first couple feet in, that's fine. Not on flowers or trees or mailboxes, and not in the middle of the yard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, dogs can pee on anybody's lawn. FFS this is what you worry about all day long.

I don't think you should let your dog pee in the middle of the lawn

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Anonymous wrote:My family and I waited years to get a dog. We wanted to be sure our youngest child would be gentle first. We had him a total of 6 weeks before having to hand him over to a rescue b/c one of our children had severe allergies to him (couldn’t breathe/developed pneumonia/confirmed by drs). On our very last goodbye walk, heartbroken & fighting tears, he suddenly started trying to poop. Bless the guy, he pooped 4x a day- did not matter that we made sure he had done his business before we set out. I quickly steered him to the little strip of grass b/w the sidewalk and the road. From down the street, a woman ran towards me screaming, “no! no! Get your dog off my yard! Don’t you dare let him poop in my yard!” At this point, there was nothing I could do but let him finish. We immediately cleaned it up and apologized, but she continued to yell at me and dance around, saying she hated him & that it would never happen again. It was embarrassing. An hour later, I would hug his little face and tell him goodbye. That woman ruined what was supposed to have been our last moment together. I’m still so mad to this day snd don’t think I could have done anything differently. What a hateful person.

You're crazy.

If you don't think the last hours with a dog being put to sleep isn't completely traumatizing for many people, you are the one who is crazy.

You do understand that “hand him over to a rescue” doesn’t mean euthanasia, right?

In *most* cases, it does.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here is a radical suggestion. If you don’t have enough green space for your dog to poop on your own property, you should not have a dog.

Translation: If you do not live in the suburbs you do not deserve to have a dog. Really can't believe someone had the audacity to post this asinine comment.

I'm not the poster you have responded to, but I disagree with your translation.

You don't have to live in the suburbs to have a dog, but you don't have the right to let your pet defecate on someone else's property. You are in control of your dog aren't you, so surely this is common sense as trespassing is breaking the law?

Having a dog is not a right. If you don’t have the resources for it, than, no, you shouldn’t do it.

Dogs need to walk. And when the walk, they pee and poop. And they dont like doing it on the edge of their own lawn. They are so so excited to leave to walk, they will almost drag you to get on. Deer, squirrels, raccoons, foxes, bunnies, chipmunk, they all walk around and poop and pee on your lawn. They don't use toilets. Do you get angry at them?

Dogs need to walk…I.Don’t.Care. I do not care about the needs of your dog. You deal with it. Having a dog is your hobby, not mine.

Dp. We get it. But you live in a world with dogs and their owners. Better to learn how to get along with others

[Anonymous]

It’s not the dog that’s ignorant… it’s the owner!

Or maybe just entitled… call it what you want but most proper dog etiquette site’s direct dog owners to do the business on the their own property and respect other’s property.

Owning a dog or any animal is a responsibility and there are a lot of people that can barely take care of themselves…. Let alone an animal.

Be responsible and respectful… please and thank you.

[Anonymous]

I always chuckle when people get miffed about dog pee. You do know that when you’re sleeping, all the animals come out and pee & poop all over your yard… rats, mice, racooons, coyote, bats, plus squirrels, birds, and rabbits during the day.

In other words, your grass is not pristine. It’s rude to enter someone’s front yard, but the little grassy area along the sidewalk or street is fair game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always chuckle when people get miffed about dog pee. You do know that when you’re sleeping, all the animals come out and pee & poop all over your yard… rats, mice, racooons, coyote, bats, plus squirrels, birds, and rabbits during the day.

In other words, your grass is not pristine. It’s rude to enter someone’s front yard, but the little grassy area along the sidewalk or street is fair game.

People say this like it’s some earth shattering truth only you possess. Is the idea of “domestication” new to you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always chuckle when people get miffed about dog pee. You do know that when you’re sleeping, all the animals come out and pee & poop all over your yard… rats, mice, racooons, coyote, bats, plus squirrels, birds, and rabbits during the day.

In other words, your grass is not pristine. It’s rude to enter someone’s front yard, but the little grassy area along the sidewalk or street is fair game.

I have an 80 lb dog who can go 8 hours without peeing. I assure that that when he is let out after holding it for a long time, he is going to pee waaaay more in one spot than any one of those animals will pee in a given backyard in a single day. There’s no comparison.

[Anonymous]

I have a dog and I would never let him go up into someone’s lawn. On the edge of the side yard is OK and I always pick up.

[Anonymous]

Pooping on the grass strip between the curb and the sidewalk is a problem. Some don’t pick up their poop. Others attempt to pickup their poop, but it is smeary and leaves runny poop on the blades of grass. We have to park along the street curb and get out onto that grass. It’s nasty because we might unknowingly walk in those poop smears as we exit the car to the house. We have neighbors who immediately walk their dogs without first trying to get them to use their own yards for the bathroom. It’s like they just want the mess in front of someone else’s property.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always chuckle when people get miffed about dog pee. You do know that when you’re sleeping, all the animals come out and pee & poop all over your yard… rats, mice, racooons, coyote, bats, plus squirrels, birds, and rabbits during the day.

In other words, your grass is not pristine. It’s rude to enter someone’s front yard, but the little grassy area along the sidewalk or street is fair game.

Those are wild animals. They do not know any better.

Are you a wild human? Do you not abide by social norms and decencies? If you do, then you should be controlling your animal. But you'd be fine with other wild people peeing all over your property - your car, your belongs, etc? Sounds like you're cool with people urinating on your things?

And yes, my yard and plants are my property, my belongings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pooping on the grass strip between the curb and the sidewalk is a problem. Some don’t pick up their poop. Others attempt to pickup their poop, but it is smeary and leaves runny poop on the blades of grass. We have to park along the street curb and get out onto that grass. It’s nasty because we might unknowingly walk in those poop smears as we exit the car to the house. We have neighbors who immediately walk their dogs without first trying to get them to use their own yards for the bathroom. It’s like they just want the mess in front of someone else’s property.

I know it can be a problem. I specifically steer my dog away from areas where neighbors park. We have a pretty good routine down where he goes in areas where people don’t walk. I work hard to leave no trace behind. Every once in a while, something goes awry, but I do everything I can to leave the area how I’d want to find it.

[Anonymous]

The boulevard ( between sidewalk and street ) is technically fair game as it is City property, but in our area the bylaw states it must be cleaned up.

The other side of the sidewalk is private property, whether it’s grass, flowers and shrubs or a low maintenance rock landscape as mine is….. but that is my property and not for others to use at their discretion.

It’s pretty simple and it’s a small ask… and really we shouldn’t have to ask to begin with…

Just be respectful, responsible and courteous dog owners or cat owners for the at matter and read up on dog owner etiquette.

Dog poo and pee is carrier of potential harmful bacteria ( fact )

[Anonymous]

Depending on where you are, a certain amount of yard on the house side of the sidewalk may also be fair game -- if you notice that all the fences start about a foot in from the sidewalk, that's because the county owns the land outside the fence

Dog owners should clean up after their dogs and everyone should watch where they step.