That neighbor was rude as well as unreasonable OP.

If someone specifically states to a dog owner that they do not want dogs on their property - that request must be fully respected.
How honorary of that miserable man!!

I think putting up a sign stating you have sprayed your lawn will be a huge deterrent to people allowing their canines on your property.
Some people just have zero respect for other people’s property.

So sad..... ;(

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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.

Oh, it happens to people too. It's called a "constitutional".

Aristotle:
For instance, taking a walk is for the sake of evacuation of the bowels; if this does not follow after walking, we say that we have walked 'in vain' and that the walking was 'vain'. This implies that what is naturally the means to an end is 'in vain', when it does not effect the end towards which it was the natural means.

interesting!

I walk my dog, and everyone else I know walks their dog, in order to pee and poop. You clean up the poop with plastic bags. And throw poop in either a public trash can or your own. End of story.

Anonymous wrote:I pick up dog poop and only let him poop on the strip or close to the sidewalk in someone’s yard. I don’t want to be walking all over someone’s yard to pick up poop. If someone who lives in the house is outside I don’t let my dog walk or pee in their yard. If they aren’t outside, I let him pee wherever the leash reaches.

Why is that? Because you know it's wrong and offensive? Why do you do it when they aren't there to witness it?

There are videos on YouTube of delivery guys urinating on people's door steps. They don't do it when people are looking, only when they don't think anyone can see them (and don't realize there are cameras). Would you be okay with a delivery guy urinating on your door step? I'm sure there's a group of people somewhere in the country that would be okay with it for whatever reason. And just because they're okay with it, you should be okay with it too, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Poop gets picked up, dog leash doesn't extend beyond the first foot or so of lawn.

OP you do realize squirrels, raccoons, deer, birds etc freely use your yard as a bathroom all day and night, correct?

not to mention bunnies

First of all, people mentioning acidity are just wrong. Dog urine tends to be neutral or slightly acidic. Browning due to animal urine is due to the nitrogen and basically it is a fertilizer burn. Frequency makes a difference. My (neutered male) dog pees like a race horse in a small area of the yard first thing in the morning and usually when I get home from work. That area is chronically brown, due to getting dosed constantly. Walking, he tags trees, fenceposts, whatever. Quantity is small. Sometimes he will find an area in grass (maybe where a female has urinated?) and sprinkle that--but if dog urine was going to instantly kill the grass, it would have been browning already but those spots are indistinguishable from the surrounding grass. I'm skeptical that dogs being walked are likely to damage other people's lawns although that would depend on the amount of dog traffic and available area for voiding. I have a few regular routes for walking and usually walk 2x a day, 8 to 10 blocks each time, have been doing this the past 7 years, no indication that my dog or other dogs in the neighborhood are killing anyone's grass.

Stop making excuses for your own rudeness.

I have a dog. I love dogs. When I walk my dog I don't let it pee on other people's property or even on my own. Our basement also tenants have a dog. When they first moved in they routinely let it pee on our front lawn. Took no time for everything to turn yellow and brown. I told them they couldn't let the dog pee there and put up a small metal fence. The lawn is alive again.

Somehow I doubt you regularly inspect your neighbors' lawns for signs of damage from your dog.

Really? Do you have the poor animal catheterized?

A little dense are we? I walk the dog and curb it. I don’t just open the door and send it out to pee. Because I care about my own lawn and respect other people’s property as well.

Dogs pee on lawns. It’s a thing.

Anonymous wrote:I’m not buying that hoards of wild animals pee and poop (no sign of it) and that makes it ok for your dog to leave a pile or a puddle of urine on my yard. But it’s your special dog friend. I get that. Stay off my yard. You know it’s rude.

The more I think about it, the more I'm starting to wonder about that. You know how some people just have absolutely no class, no self awareness, and can't understand something despite how obvious it may be to others? I think it's like that.

I’m not buying that hoards of wild animals pee and poop (no sign of it) and that makes it ok for your dog to leave a pile or a puddle of urine on my yard. But it’s your special dog friend. I get that. Stay off my yard. You know it’s rude.

I pick up dog poop and only let him poop on the strip or close to the sidewalk in someone’s yard. I don’t want to be walking all over someone’s yard to pick up poop. If someone who lives in the house is outside I don’t let my dog walk or pee in their yard. If they aren’t outside, I let him pee wherever the leash reaches.

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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.

Given all the deer, raccoons, rabbits, squirrels, birds, insect life, and overhead birdlife that are no doubt pissing and pooping on my lawn at all hours of the night and day, I'm not going to freak out if old Mr Smith's beagle pees near my mailbox a few times a week.

I don't sleep or eat my meals there. Have at it, beagle.

I'm sorry, I have a beagle whose former last name was Smith, and for some reason I laughed heartily at your post. Thanks!

I love it that your beagle had a last name!

PP here- don't all dogs?? No? Just mine? I figure your dog has to have a last name of some sort when you go to the vet. We actually retained Smith and just added our actual last name, so he's FirstName Smith LastName.

That's completely adorable, the hyphenated beagle name.

Our pet, now that I think about it, does technically have a last name too: when I've picked up a prescription for her, it's usually labeled as "Ms. Jonesy Lastname."

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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.

Given all the deer, raccoons, rabbits, squirrels, birds, insect life, and overhead birdlife that are no doubt pissing and pooping on my lawn at all hours of the night and day, I'm not going to freak out if old Mr Smith's beagle pees near my mailbox a few times a week.

I don't sleep or eat my meals there. Have at it, beagle.

I'm sorry, I have a beagle whose former last name was Smith, and for some reason I laughed heartily at your post. Thanks!

I love it that your beagle had a last name!

PP here- don't all dogs?? No? Just mine? I figure your dog has to have a last name of some sort when you go to the vet. We actually retained Smith and just added our actual last name, so he's FirstName Smith LastName.

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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.

Given all the deer, raccoons, rabbits, squirrels, birds, insect life, and overhead birdlife that are no doubt pissing and pooping on my lawn at all hours of the night and day, I'm not going to freak out if old Mr Smith's beagle pees near my mailbox a few times a week.

I don't sleep or eat my meals there. Have at it, beagle.

I'm sorry, I have a beagle whose former last name was Smith, and for some reason I laughed heartily at your post. Thanks!

I love it that your beagle had a last name!

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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.

Given all the deer, raccoons, rabbits, squirrels, birds, insect life, and overhead birdlife that are no doubt pissing and pooping on my lawn at all hours of the night and day, I'm not going to freak out if old Mr Smith's beagle pees near my mailbox a few times a week.

I don't sleep or eat my meals there. Have at it, beagle.

I'm sorry, I have a beagle whose former last name was Smith, and for some reason I laughed heartily at your post. Thanks!

OP here -- haven't been back since this morning.

To clarify a few things... I do not spend my "whole day" worrying about this, but I do have a reaction TODAY based on my interaction with this man TODAY. So, yes, it is on my mind, and it was brought to my attention by my handyman yesterday when he observed it, so that was a data point indicating that it was not typical behavior.

This dog isn't peeing on the edge by the sidewalk. He is allowed to extend his leash about 8-10 feet into the middle of my yard, pee (or poop) and then move on. We did pick up fresh poop in our yard just a week ago, but we don't know which dog left it, so I can't say it was the same man/dog.

I have not complained about dogs peeing in the strip b/t the curb and sidewalk. Yes, they have damaged all the mailbox posts, but I painted ours and moved on with the issue b/c I understand that dogs mark everything and there probably isn't much an owner can do to stop that.

We have started paying a company to treat our lawn, re-seed it, etc. and it is looking better than ever. So, that's why the spot where I saw the dog is so noticeably yellow/brown.

I have never noticed any other dog/owner do this. Like I said, I don't really care if a dog sniffs around and keeps moving. There are common areas in our development. I'm assume dogs pee there. This particular owner/dog walk around the neighborhood multiple times a day -- not three times a week as someone suggested. More like 3 times a day, everyday.

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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.

Oh, it happens to people too. It's called a "constitutional".

Aristotle:
For instance, taking a walk is for the sake of evacuation of the bowels; if this does not follow after walking, we say that we have walked 'in vain' and that the walking was 'vain'. This implies that what is naturally the means to an end is 'in vain', when it does not effect the end towards which it was the natural means.

interesting!

It is like with everything else. Respectful people can walk the dog on the side of the little grassy strip between the trees, while they walk on the sidewalk so the dog does the business there, both pee and poop. Others just let the dog roam everywhere.