How do you discourage dogs pooping on your lawn?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once you find out who it is, pick itup and put in brown paperbag, add a bit of gas to the bag, light it on fire and put on their door step, ring the bell, when they open the door and stomp it out... man i miss being a teenager

This is creative, but then I'd be accused of arson. Very creative!

[Anonymous]

Just google a motion detector video. They are small enough to not be obvious, which is convenient. There are tons of them out there. Even if you can't positively ID the owner, you can positively ID the dog. The police department would love the extra money by handing out fines for not picking up after your dog.

The people who do it are blatantly rude about it. And probably have toilet issues (and worse) of their own to be so obsessed with leaving sh*t on their own neighbor's lawn. If you can't do a simple act to foster common courtesy in your own neighborhood, your issues are pretty deep.

But I admit, I really love the idea of lighting it on fire on your neighbors doorstep I would say anything goes if your neighbor doesn't pick up after their dog. Let the fun begin, OP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Once you find out who it is, pick itup and put in brown paperbag, add a bit of gas to the bag, light it on fire and put on their door step, ring the bell, when they open the door and stomp it out... man i miss being a teenager

This is creative, but then I'd be accused of arson. Very creative!

Maybe I can pay a 12 or 13 yo to do this. Priceless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pour bacon grease on the droppings. They magically disappear.

Then I figure this will attract cockroaches and other vermin.

The poop alone would do this.

Dog poop really craps all over rat abatement measures because it's a source of food for vermin.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately in my neighborhood, EVERYONE seems to leave their dog poop out in the public right-of-way (near the sidewalk, not on anyone's yards, by the bus stops, etc.) I'm convinced we are the only ones picking up our dog's poop but I refuse to pick up anyone else's. It's disgusting but I don't know what to do about it. Just another reason why I hate my neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

All the more reason to give it back to your deserving neighbor. Maybe release some mice and dog food while you are at it. Mice love dog food. A trail up to your neighbors house would work nicely. There are a million more vengeful ideas. Hey, they asked for it. I'm going to let you use your imaginations. Let your neighbor be surprised!

[Anonymous]

my german shepherd has a delicate stomach, so half the time her poop is diarrhea. not picking that nasty stuff up ...

[Anonymous]

On the news this morning, there was a guy who shot video of his neighbor stealing his shovel. She didn't return it after she used it (also on video from inside his house). So he used his snowblower to cover up her parked car. NIIIICE! Are neighbors really that stupid to not know who they are tangling with?

[Anonymous]

11:01 - says a lot about what kind of people live there - TRASH! Are people really that proud that they are trash? Funny!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:my german shepherd has a delicate stomach, so half the time her poop is diarrhea. not picking that nasty stuff up ...

Then make sure it happens on your own property.

Can dogs really be trained to use something like a "Potty Patch"? Collecting poop for disposal from a specific place under the owner's complete control is much more socially responsible than using the entire outdoors as a toilet, which we'd all agree was downright unsanitary if the poopers were human or livestock. We consider the building of closed sewers to have been a milestone in public health and even the development of civilization, yet now too many think it's charming when their furry fake children spread filth all over their neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On the news this morning, there was a guy who shot video of his neighbor stealing his shovel. She didn't return it after she used it (also on video from inside his house). So he used his snowblower to cover up her parked car. NIIIICE! Are neighbors really that stupid to not know who they are tangling with?

Did he use a webcam or did he have to sit by the window all day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:my german shepherd has a delicate stomach, so half the time her poop is diarrhea. not picking that nasty stuff up ...

fix her diet or have her crap in your own yard. Or, you know what, don't own a dog if you can't clean up after them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the past couple months, neighbors' dogs have been pooping in front of our house. It might be the same dog. We have to step over that part of the lawn from the parking lot to get to our house and don't want DD to step in it.

Is there a (natural) remedy that I can sprinkle on the lawn to discourage the dogs pooping there? I know they smell the poop from their previous visit or from other dogs.

This isn't a natural barrier and I doubt that there is one that is safe but how about putting up a fence?

[Anonymous]

Marry my DH who just yelled at a man with a 3 legged dog that pooped on our lawn. The man was scooping but DH was mad that he let his dog poop near our front door. I was so embarrassed.

[Anonymous]

12:08 - webcam, obviously. I know plenty of people who have them and they don't share that they have them with everyone. Makes it easier to catch any offenders.
There was also a couple in D.C. last week who caught someone stealing packages from their front porch and (the way their interior cameras were set up) their neighbors, too. It was all over the evening news. The police found the perpetrator! I would not have believed it, had I not seen it myself.
Just being able to see what is going on outside at night makes them worth every penny (dog walkers included). You don't have to watch the cameras every minute, the cameras do the work for you. But I think you knew that.