Anonymous wrote:I didn't have pets growing up and was not around dogs very often, yet somehow I always knew that dogs poop in the yard!! It is common sense. How -- and I ask this in the nicest way possible -- can you not have figured that out over the course of your lifetime?

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Anonymous wrote:I live on a corner lot and have lot of old growth trees in my front yard. I have signs up that say specifically no trespassing. I can't stand it when dogs pee in my yard bc it destroys the sod that I pay a lot to maintain. For some reason people with dogs just let their dogs up on my trees and sod to pee and think nothing of it. I just take note of who they are, and right before my evening walk around the neighborhood, I urinate into an old Gatorade plastic bottle, and when I get to the neighbors home that decided to let their dog pee in my yard, just pick an area that I believe is fair game, and empty my pee on their yard. Then we are even. One owner let their dog poop in my yard and didn't clean it. I just picked up the poop, boxed it, and fedexed it to the neighbor with a note saying that they forgot to clean their dogs defecation from my yard and that I'd appreciate it if they returned my overnight fedex cost. I was surprised that They did (probably let the dog pee on the cash, but whatever) and now I never see them walking in front of my house anymore. What they do in their own yard is their business. In my yard, don't touch my property.

Do you have many friends? Are you married?

Man, I hope not. Can you imagine living, day in and day out, with that level of... vitriol? Paranoia? Hatefulness? I don't even know what words to use to capture that level of nastiness.

I agree that PP sounds insane and hard to live with, but letting your dog pop on someone else's property and not picking it up also requires a very high level of nastiness, don't you think? It's completely unfathomable to me how anybody can do this, but I know that (sadly) it happens all the time.

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Anonymous wrote:I live on a corner lot and have lot of old growth trees in my front yard. I have signs up that say specifically no trespassing. I can't stand it when dogs pee in my yard bc it destroys the sod that I pay a lot to maintain. For some reason people with dogs just let their dogs up on my trees and sod to pee and think nothing of it. I just take note of who they are, and right before my evening walk around the neighborhood, I urinate into an old Gatorade plastic bottle, and when I get to the neighbors home that decided to let their dog pee in my yard, just pick an area that I believe is fair game, and empty my pee on their yard. Then we are even. One owner let their dog poop in my yard and didn't clean it. I just picked up the poop, boxed it, and fedexed it to the neighbor with a note saying that they forgot to clean their dogs defecation from my yard and that I'd appreciate it if they returned my overnight fedex cost. I was surprised that They did (probably let the dog pee on the cash, but whatever) and now I never see them walking in front of my house anymore. What they do in their own yard is their business. In my yard, don't touch my property.

Do you have many friends? Are you married?

Man, I hope not. Can you imagine living, day in and day out, with that level of... vitriol? Paranoia? Hatefulness? I don't even know what words to use to capture that level of nastiness.

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Anonymous wrote:I live on a corner lot and have lot of old growth trees in my front yard. I have signs up that say specifically no trespassing. I can't stand it when dogs pee in my yard bc it destroys the sod that I pay a lot to maintain. For some reason people with dogs just let their dogs up on my trees and sod to pee and think nothing of it. I just take note of who they are, and right before my evening walk around the neighborhood, I urinate into an old Gatorade plastic bottle, and when I get to the neighbors home that decided to let their dog pee in my yard, just pick an area that I believe is fair game, and empty my pee on their yard. Then we are even. One owner let their dog poop in my yard and didn't clean it. I just picked up the poop, boxed it, and fedexed it to the neighbor with a note saying that they forgot to clean their dogs defecation from my yard and that I'd appreciate it if they returned my overnight fedex cost. I was surprised that They did (probably let the dog pee on the cash, but whatever) and now I never see them walking in front of my house anymore. What they do in their own yard is their business. In my yard, don't touch my property.

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Anonymous wrote:I live on a corner lot and have lot of old growth trees in my front yard. I have signs up that say specifically no trespassing. I can't stand it when dogs pee in my yard bc it destroys the sod that I pay a lot to maintain. For some reason people with dogs just let their dogs up on my trees and sod to pee and think nothing of it. I just take note of who they are, and right before my evening walk around the neighborhood, I urinate into an old Gatorade plastic bottle, and when I get to the neighbors home that decided to let their dog pee in my yard, just pick an area that I believe is fair game, and empty my pee on their yard. Then we are even. One owner let their dog poop in my yard and didn't clean it. I just picked up the poop, boxed it, and fedexed it to the neighbor with a note saying that they forgot to clean their dogs defecation from my yard and that I'd appreciate it if they returned my overnight fedex cost. I was surprised that They did (probably let the dog pee on the cash, but whatever) and now I never see them walking in front of my house anymore. What they do in their own yard is their business. In my yard, don't touch my property.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread on PoPville was amazing. Wealthy couple lays down an astroturf lawn on a prominent corner, proceeds to allow their dogs to constantly crap on it and never pick up the poop. The entire corner stinks and starts attracting rats.

They got publicly shamed. The owners then enter the thread and defend themselves. Hilarity ensues.

http://www.popville.com/2014/02/ridiculous-and-disgusting-dog-crap/

Hooooooleeeeeeeeeshiiiiiiiit that is nasty. I love how that was clearly weeks and weeks worth of crap and the owner was insistent they don't pick up "every single day." Lady, you don't pick up ever!

It was absolutely disgusting. I frequently passed by this area and saw the poop with my own eyes.
The public shaming actually worked - it's no longer a problem.

I mean, I feel for her, 8 months pregnant is tough, public shaming isn't fun, but wow that was nasty.

Wow, the neighbors are lucky the woman didn't heavily lawyer up about their "public shaming" - a very dangerous approach, on the neighbors' part!

I'm pretty sure the owners are lawyers themselves (or at least the "partner" who works 14 hours per day is an attorney).
That said, there's no libel or slander here if the neighbors are telling the truth. Which they did - there's documented evidence of tons of poop and that happens to violate the DC health code. Where's the damages for the negligent home owners?

There are many issues at play here.

Such as.....? Enlighten me.
I'm trying to understand on what grounds the owners would have for taking legal action against the neighbors or the owner of the PoPville blog. They would get laughed out of court.

Not necessarily. Not if they had a great lawyer who knew what they were doing. If I have to spell out specifics for you - you have never been in that situation - shut it and be grateful.

Or you could instead, argue with a stranger on the internet. Have at it. You seem ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread on PoPville was amazing. Wealthy couple lays down an astroturf lawn on a prominent corner, proceeds to allow their dogs to constantly crap on it and never pick up the poop. The entire corner stinks and starts attracting rats.

They got publicly shamed. The owners then enter the thread and defend themselves. Hilarity ensues.

http://www.popville.com/2014/02/ridiculous-and-disgusting-dog-crap/

Hooooooleeeeeeeeeshiiiiiiiit that is nasty. I love how that was clearly weeks and weeks worth of crap and the owner was insistent they don't pick up "every single day." Lady, you don't pick up ever!

It was absolutely disgusting. I frequently passed by this area and saw the poop with my own eyes.
The public shaming actually worked - it's no longer a problem.

I mean, I feel for her, 8 months pregnant is tough, public shaming isn't fun, but wow that was nasty.

Wow, the neighbors are lucky the woman didn't heavily lawyer up about their "public shaming" - a very dangerous approach, on the neighbors' part!

I'm pretty sure the owners are lawyers themselves (or at least the "partner" who works 14 hours per day is an attorney).
That said, there's no libel or slander here if the neighbors are telling the truth. Which they did - there's documented evidence of tons of poop and that happens to violate the DC health code. Where's the damages for the negligent home owners?

There are many issues at play here.

Such as.....? Enlighten me.
I'm trying to understand on what grounds the owners would have for taking legal action against the neighbors or the owner of the PoPville blog. They would get laughed out of court.