Neighbor issue - dogs pooping on our lawn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ but you have to see the dog do it. Then, you take it to them immediately.

I'd think you'd want to leave the bag in the sun to warm up a little, no?

Make sure you forget to close the bag when you leave it on their step!!

Personally I’d be inclined to use a plastic spoon and just smear it all over their door step. Wouldn’t want to leave the spoon itself since that might be littering..

This is op - trust me, I fantasize about doing exactly that but don’t think that would help!! We live in a pretty high end subdivision. I don’t want to stereotype but the mom is an anesthesiologist and they downsized from a very expensive home to this which is still expensive by most standards - I can’t help but think they are just entitled ass holes who think they are better than everyone.

[Anonymous]

Take a picture of the dog pooping and put it on holiday cards that you send the neighbors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ring their door bell and hand them the poop in bag
very matter of fact

No no, put on some rubber gloves, pick it up, and HAND it to them when they answer the door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are leaving shit in your yard, it’s already a conflict.

this.

[Anonymous]

Start out polite but firm. Tell them you prefer not to have their dogs poop on your lawn, that the dogs should poop in their own yard. Point out that you have a little kid and don’t want to be stepping barefoot where dogs poop. That’s how normal, civilized people operate. And leaving the poop there is just a million times even more heinous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here - no dogs are not on leashes when they take them out to use our yard as the toilet. I’ve confronted them both times I’ve seen it happen and guess I can continue to do that. I will have to make the conversation a little different, though, about how are we going to stop this from happening in the future. I don’t want a combative relationship with them but I don’t want them walking all over my family, either.

Part of me wants to report them to authorities or the HOA but I feel like that will just start more conflict.

No doubt there are leash laws where you live—report them to Animal Control.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ but you have to see the dog do it. Then, you take it to them immediately.

I'd think you'd want to leave the bag in the sun to warm up a little, no?

Make sure you forget to close the bag when you leave it on their step!!

Personally I’d be inclined to use a plastic spoon and just smear it all over their door step. Wouldn’t want to leave the spoon itself since that might be littering..

This is op - trust me, I fantasize about doing exactly that but don’t think that would help!! We live in a pretty high end subdivision. I don’t want to stereotype but the mom is an anesthesiologist and they downsized from a very expensive home to this which is still expensive by most standards - I can’t help but think they are just entitled ass holes who think they are better than everyone.

Do they have guests? I do think that having poop smeared on their mat and step would have an effect, especially when others will see it.

It’s not breaking laws so I’d just do it. Whatever they could claim (littering? Vandalism?) they’ve already done to you first, so no judge would care about it. Clean hands rule and all that.

Use a plastic lid from salad or something, and just smear it on their step and mat and take back the lid to the trash. You’re just returning their poop. I would do it every single time.

[Anonymous]

Fire bomb their house with flaming bags of sh1t

[Anonymous]

Your best bet is to use the leash law against them. Film the dogs off leash. Call animal control the moment you see them in your yard.

[Anonymous]

We used to live on a corner lot and many people thought it was the community dog crap lot. We used to keep our windows open a lot and whenever I'd see someone letting their dog start to squat, I'd blow a whistle I kept near the window. That'd help the dog to "reconsider" pooping.

As annoying as it is, I'd take the poop back over and knock on their door every single time. Make it as inconvenient for them as possible, but with a smile on your face. If I saw them with the dog and the dog was pooping, I'd take a bag out and say, "Do you need a bag? I noticed that you haven't had a bag with you the last few times Fido pooped and the poop wasn't cleaned up."

[Anonymous]

Return the poop to them when they have guests.

[Anonymous]

Consider landscaping along the sidewalk with shrubs to create a barrier.

[Anonymous]

We have a wooded side yard outside of our fenced back yard for our dogs. Our new neighbor also has a fenced back yard. But they turn their 3 dogs loose to run into our side yard and poop.

Every time they play dumb- like oh no I can’t believe the got out again. They are supposed to stand right by me while I load the car.

So far we have just caught the dogs and returned them because it is difficult to spot the poop in the woods. It is so frustrating. I am thinking of hooking up one of those motion activated sprinklers.

[Anonymous]

They are rude a-holes. Bag it and leave it on their front porch with a note.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are rude a-holes. Bag it and leave it on their front porch with a note.

Why should she do that? They’ll just throw out the bag and the note.

At the least, they should be forced to clean it off their own porch.