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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I don't understand is why these dog people don't just have their dogs poop in their own yards--why do they deliberately take them out to poop on someone else's property? It's gross even if they try to pick it up.[/quote]

I am going to be generous here and assume that you've just never had a dog, so you don't understand what's involved. Responsible dog owners don't just let their dogs out into the yard to pee and poop. Responsible dog owners take their dogs for walks - because dogs need exercise beyond just being cooped up in a yard. It's on those walks that dogs pee and poop. (This is even assuming that the owner has a yard.)

There probably are some dogs that have precision training as to where they are going to pee and poop. I don't know any of those dogs. (No, I take it back - I know one of those dogs.) Responsible owners do what they can to make sure their neighbors are not inconvenienced by dogs. People who put up signs asking for dogs not to be "curbed" on their lawns - we try to respect those signs by leading the dog away from those lawns. But for the most part, dogs pee and poop where they like, and you pick up the poop. That is life in a city. If you don't like it, put up a sign. If you still don't like it, and it bothers you enough that you are considering poisoning your neighbors' pets (as I saw one monster of a PP suggested), then [b]there are lots of places where you can get away from the trouble of having neighbors - it would probably be great to move to one of them.[/b][/quote]Huh??!!  I should inconvenience myself by selling my home and moving elsewhere because the dogs needs come before mine? :roll: [/quote]

What are your needs when it comes to responsible dog owners cleaning up after their dogs?  I fail to see how this affects you at all.  As has been pointed out many times previously, you have no way to stop wild animals from using your yard as a toilet, and no one cleans up after them.

My neighborhood has no sidewalks.  The closest public park is one mile away, and parents don't want us walking our dogs in there at all.  So, yes, my dog might poop on the edge of your yard.  No, not several feet off the curb, but within one foot of the curb.  Frankly, since our County (Arlington) considers that public right of way, and can choose at any time to put a sidewalk there, I don't consider that individual property.  I always clean up after my dog.  Always.  I fail to see that this is so heinous that you are considering ways to kill my dog.  [/quote]PP here and not the poster who suggested poison.  The feces and urine kill the grass and flowers.

What I would suggest is using the baking powder or another non-toxic repellent as suggested by another poster but maybe starting two feet in from the grass line/edge continuing inward towards the door of your property.  That way you can make sure that the dog and its owner adhere to that rule AND they pick up the dogs feces.

And no matter how you slice it, nobody but nobody likes feces on their lawn, doorstep.  Remnants draw flies and other critters seeking territorial rights.  Nobody is saying dogs and people shouldn't co-exist but just as you would expect me to have self-control and not blast my music and cut across your yard as a short-cut, I expect the same respect in turn from you and your dog.[/quote]

But as was pointed out, the first few feet of yard in sidewalk-less neighborhoods is the public right-of-way.  Do you yell at people who step up on the curb near your house?  We are not talking about cutting across the yard, but adjacent to the curb.  You know, the part of the yard that the county reserves the right to pave over.  [/quote]

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