Anonymous wrote:The problem is that there are some respectful dog owners. Those owners will tend to do the right thing whether you have a sign or not. But there are many apathetic dog owners who don't care about anyone else's property, especially post-pandemic. There are many people who acquired a Covid canine and don't really know or don't care about the etiquette of dog ownership and respecting other people's property.
Pre-pandemic, signs were good. Post-pandemic with many more of the apathetic dog owners, I just get the large container of cayenne from Costco and sprinkle around my mailbox and the edge of my property along the sidewalk (only my side, not the edge along the verge). I do this whenever I see signs of dogs on my property. The dogs learn and tend to stay away. So, I've found that you have to do it more often when someone gets a new dog or moves in but it gets further and further apart as the dogs learn to stay away.
Will wind blow the cayenne? I have next door neighbors that have dogs, and are great about their dogs and very respectful. I wouldn't want cayenne from my yard blowing into theirs. But the neighborhood dogs that step on my own property... that's different.