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

[Anonymous]

Our neighborhood is heavily forested, bordering a park.on public forested land, I usually just cover the poo with leaves if it is off the footpath. I don't leave it on the footpath. That seems better to me, ecologically, than wrapping it in plastic and throwing it in the garbage. I looked into getting a dog compost system for our property. Will probably install one at some point.

I kind of think the plastic bag poops are a problem for the environment, just like all of those perfect lawns. When we had a lawn and a fenced backyard, I never noticed any browning.

[Anonymous]

OP here, just checking back to see how the discussion has meandered.

FWIW, leaving dog poop laying around may be more "ecological", but it attracts rodents. Rats like to eat it. Community managers in our previous communities have begged people to pick up the poop for this reason.

Now, back to the case at hand...apparently Mr. DogPee is going to take offense at my request as I saw him yesterday and he avoided speaking to me. Oh well. His dog didn't pee in my yard, but went far into my neighbor's yard to poop. Mr. Dogpee did go pick it up (or at least went into the neighbor's yard for some reason). I did find out who he is and which house he lives in....he's 5 doors down and his house backs up to the same large common area that my house backs to! I guess he prefers walking on sidewalks and using the neighbors' front yards as his dog's toilet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, just checking back to see how the discussion has meandered.

FWIW, leaving dog poop laying around may be more "ecological", but it attracts rodents. Rats like to eat it. Community managers in our previous communities have begged people to pick up the poop for this reason.

Now, back to the case at hand...apparently Mr. DogPee is going to take offense at my request as I saw him yesterday and he avoided speaking to me. Oh well. His dog didn't pee in my yard, but went far into my neighbor's yard to poop. Mr. Dogpee did go pick it up (or at least went into the neighbor's yard for some reason). I did find out who he is and which house he lives in....he's 5 doors down and his house backs up to the same large common area that my house backs to! I guess he prefers walking on sidewalks and using the neighbors' front yards as his dog's toilet.

I guess you prefer to be a jerk. I would rather have the dog owner in my neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our neighborhood is heavily forested, bordering a park.on public forested land, I usually just cover the poo with leaves if it is off the footpath. I don't leave it on the footpath. That seems better to me, ecologically, than wrapping it in plastic and throwing it in the garbage. I looked into getting a dog compost system for our property. Will probably install one at some point.

I kind of think the plastic bag poops are a problem for the environment, just like all of those perfect lawns. When we had a lawn and a fenced backyard, I never noticed any browning.

Ah, so you were the person responsible for ruining my trail shoes when I stepped in dog diarrhea covered in leaves. Thanks, jerk.

Yes, plastic is a problem. The solution is not to leave a camouflaged poop bomb for people who go off path sometimes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here, just checking back to see how the discussion has meandered.

FWIW, leaving dog poop laying around may be more "ecological", but it attracts rodents. Rats like to eat it. Community managers in our previous communities have begged people to pick up the poop for this reason.

Now, back to the case at hand...apparently Mr. DogPee is going to take offense at my request as I saw him yesterday and he avoided speaking to me. Oh well. His dog didn't pee in my yard, but went far into my neighbor's yard to poop. Mr. Dogpee did go pick it up (or at least went into the neighbor's yard for some reason). I did find out who he is and which house he lives in....he's 5 doors down and his house backs up to the same large common area that my house backs to! I guess he prefers walking on sidewalks and using the neighbors' front yards as his dog's toilet.

I guess you prefer to be a jerk. I would rather have the dog owner in my neighborhood.

?? So in your worldview, my property is your property? Got it.

[Anonymous]

I hate those retractable leashes. Lazy dog owners.

[Anonymous]

That’s rude. It’s also trespassing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are supposed to have your dog use your own yard as a toilet. The purpose of a walk is exercise, not to find some other sucker's yard to use as a toilet. If on the walk your dog HAS to go, you avoid other people's property and clean it up afterward.

I've fostered a LOT of dogs. Many will only poop while being walked. Despite taking them out in the yard often. I don't get it but, whatever.

So what happens if they're not walked, do they hold onto it forever?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The rules are very simple:

Main lawn or piece of property? Not OK.
Strip of land between sidewalk and curb? OK.

I think the main point to keep in mind is to not cross the property line. If you follow that rule, you are OK in my book.

I don't own a dog, but I do walk my mom's dog when I go stay with her on the west coast. Even there, I try to avoid having the dog go in the strip of land between the sidewalk and curb. Many of her neighbors have taken the effort to sod that land or plant cute gardens. There's a leafy boulevard with a nice big strip of grass in the middle of the road, so the dog will usually do her business there.

But at a minimum, no dog should ever be crossing over the property line to do its business.

The bolded above is what I follow. It is called 'curbing your dog' - teaching it to walk on one side so that it pees/poops/sniffs on the strip of land between property and street. If the dog doesn't naturally do it, you have to steer him/her over.

I do everything possible to not let my dog poo/pee on the main property. Even a sniff can turn into a quick pee. My dog, too, pees frequently on a walk - 10,20, 30 times. It is her time to see/hear/smell the world after being cooped up in my house. It is my responsibility to see to it that she gets that stimulation.

This is what I do. No peeing on mailboxes, on flowers or shrubs or plantings.

[Anonymous]

Owner of two large dogs. I don’t let them pee in yards. But the strip by the curb is fair game. I do also try to get to the community space (we have many paths in our neighborhood, but I have to walk past 4 houses to get to them). Yep as quickly as possible where they will do their business most of the time. And I always carry bags and pick up poop. This isn’t rocket science.

[Anonymous]

It’s a problem when many dogs, many times a day, pee on your lawn.

To the PP who covers poop with leaves, seriously?! Have you heard of wind? Or a leaf’s inability to stop poop from squishing through when a foot steps on it? FFS.

[Anonymous]

Some of you dog owners are so entitled and disgusting. Keep your dog crap in your own yard where it belongs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of you dog owners are so entitled and disgusting. Keep your dog crap in your own yard where it belongs.

As much as I like dogs I have to agree with this.

I would also add that some dog owners are weird people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of you dog owners are so entitled and disgusting. Keep your dog crap in your own yard where it belongs.

I'm a dog owner but I agree with you. Our next door neighbor let their dogs poop in our yard for years. We asked them nicely to keep the dogs from pooping there and their response was "that's the only place they will go." WTF? Keep them on a damn leash if you can't control them. Entitled assholes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of you dog owners are so entitled and disgusting. Keep your dog crap in your own yard where it belongs.

As much as I like dogs I have to agree with this.

I would also add that some dog owners are weird people.

Original PP here, and this is spot on. There are tons of nice, normal people who own dogs that are polite and reasonable, and then like the crazy 5% of dog owners that are just rabidly insane over their dogs that really give the good dog owners a bad name.