WTH is wrong with dog owners these days!

[Endat]

I went for a walk this morning before everyone woke up, at the peaceful hour of the night.. I get down the road about a mile and these dogs come screaming and snarling out of this one persons yard.. no leashes of fences.. they chase me onto the other side of the road and continue closing in and barking for at least 5 minutes after i'm gone...

On my way back, I pick up a huge stick ready to beat them all within an inch of their lives if they tried that again... luckily they didn't want to chase me again.

In your case, I would equip a huge Super Soaker water gun ready to spray the dogs and the owner next time it happened

[TerryH]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

Got to agree with Denis, its his yard, not the neighbors.

I walk my dog on my left side and we walk with traffic. In California, that puts my dog on city owned "parkway/boulevard", the area between the sidewalk and road. Technically, not owned by the resident, but common ground. My dog pees on those trees, he doesn't poo anywhere but home. We respect the owners property, but I'm not going to clamp shut my dogs orifices while we walk to the park that's 1/2 mile away.

[Cdnone1]

I think you can pretty much divide North American's into dog people or not. I grew up with dogs in the house but don't have one now that I'm a father. I love dog's, but I just don't get some peoples blindness to others in regards to their pets behavior.
We had the neighbor walk over with their dog to chat last night. We stood on my front lawn and talked for about fifteen minutes. Their dog barked at my wife and I, and was straining at it's lease trying to get to us the whole time!
The neighbors just acted like the dog wasn't there or that it was perfectly normal for it to bark uncontrollably at people they where talking to.
When they left, my wife and I both where dumb stuck at the fact that they didn't try and quiet the dog or at the very least acknowledge the dog was acting inappropriately.
I would have never let my dog act that way. I guess it's getting like some people's kids, they can do no wrong and should never be disciplined.

Steve

[Nathans_Dad]

I'm sorry, I still don't get the problem.

So someone was walking their dog, the dog needed to poop and proceeded to poop on your lawn. The owner picked up the poop. WTF is the problem??

Sounds to me like you just got a tiny bit of free fertilizer.

Do you also scream at the birds that happen to land in your trees?

[David McLaughlin]

But birds aren't led there by their owners. There are forested areas just down the street and just up the street. If you have a dog, you know it needs to do it business; why let them on other peoples lawns.

Before I had kids, I used to have a dog. He did his business in his part of the yard before we went for a walk. When I walked him, he was kept on his short leash and walked next to me on the street, not on another property. When we got to a forested area or public field, I'd let him on the longer leash.

Also having owned female dogs like these two this moning, I know that dog pee kills grass. My family and I work hard to keep up the lawn to be an inviting place for people to walk and play and I don't want my grass killed by another's animal or remnants of dog piles left for barefoot kits to walk through. If I has a cow pasture I'd make sure to watch for steaming piles, I have a lawn instead.

I anger is that people don't want THEIR dogs to drop on THEIR lawn, but it's ok for them to drop on MY lawn. Actually it's not so much anger but annoyance. I was quite pleasant about the whole thing this morning until she started going on. I asked in a nice way and was expecting that she would say that she would be more careful next time. What I got was a complete lack of respect.

[scottbombedout]

Originally Posted by Nathans_Dad

I'm sorry, I still don't get the problem.


Sounds to me like you just got a tiny bit of free fertilizer.

I dont think dog **** is fertiliser

As for peoeple saying the kids should still play on the lawn or in the yard after the dog has had a crap Why the hell should they? Dog dirt can cause blindness. Not all dog dirt comes out in solid lumps you can pick up.

I love dogs, dog crap, no thanks.

[nostatic]

Many in my neighborhood don't pick up the dog poop. I know because it is on my front lawn daily. Not fun when my son or I step in it.

Most of these people live in apartments as well (as do I). For the life of me I don't understand why apartment dwellers own dogs. Truly sad for the dog imho. They aren't fashion accessories, they are animals.

[AFC-911]

Originally Posted by David McLaughlin

I anger is that people don't want THEIR dogs to drop on THEIR lawn, but it's ok for them to drop on MY lawn. Actually it's not so much anger but annoyance. I was quite pleasant about the whole thing this morning until she started going on. I asked in a nice way and was expecting that she would say that she would be more careful next time. What I got was a complete lack of respect.

Do you honestly think that the owners prefer for their dog to poop on your lawn as opposed to theirs? Come on, no one can control when their dog is going to poop. For all you know, they were on their way to the forested area up the road...

At least, they were considerate enough to pick it up, unlike most people.

[RWebb]

I agree that this is extremely minimal, and you should just relax.

That said, it is illegal to go onto someone else's private property in most states. Legally, you might have to put up signage or a fence.

If it really bothers you that much, just do a fence.

[David McLaughlin]

I do have a fence on one side and I have posted signs.

Is it ok for my dog to poop in your Porsche if I pick it up?

[rouxroux]

Our yard even has "warning signs" for the casual pedestrian:

[vash]

nothing puts me into a sour mood as quickly as stepping in dog crap..0-60 pissed off instantaneously. my neighbor lets her schnauzers run free, and they have deemed my yard the "dogpoo graveyard". i bite my tongue, because they have done so much for me and my past dogs.

i feel for the PO. but the lady did make the effort to pick it up.

and no, dog poo is not fertilizer. kills grass actually.

[Nathans_Dad]

Originally Posted by scottbombedout

I dont think dog **** is fertiliser

As for peoeple saying the kids should still play on the lawn or in the yard after the dog has had a crap Why the hell should they? Dog dirt can cause blindness. Not all dog dirt comes out in solid lumps you can pick up.

I love dogs, dog crap, no thanks.

Actually any **** is fertilizer, what do you think compost is? **** is the best fertilizer there is, properly composted.

As far as the kids, lots of different animals crap on lawns across the world every day. Birds, squirrels, worms, crickets, bees, rats, raccoons, skunks, cats, dogs, you name it. All of 'em crap on people's lawns and most of the time you probably don't even know it. Your kids still play on that grass right?

And I'm sorry, but dog **** causes blindness? Maybe if you rub it IN THEIR EYES...

[Nathans_Dad]

Originally Posted by David McLaughlin

I do have a fence on one side and I have posted signs.

Is it ok for my dog to poop in your Porsche if I pick it up?

If the floormats were made of GRASS yes.

Seriously, a dog owner cannot control when or where their dog decides to get the urge to poop. Even if the dog has gone recently, often the excitement of a walk will make them need to go again. This owner picked up the offending poop and removed it from your lawn. So basically, you are all up in arms over some dog poop that was in contact with your grass for probably less than two minutes.

Maybe this thread should be retitled "WTH is up with overly sensitive lawn owners?"

[syncroid]

I hate it when dog owners don't clean up after their animals too. I posted my own thread on this a couple weeks ago. Clean up after your dog!
Since I confronted the owner I have not had a problem since. My next step was going to be, collect all the crap I could find and deliver it straight to his reception desk when he had customers there.

[stomachmonkey]

You can make gun powder from dog poop, bird poop is better but dog will do in a pinch.

[TimT]

I found an older woman letting her two dogs out on a long leash into my yard

Into his side yard..

I don't currently have a dog, have had a great Husky I rescued a few years ago....

But to all you nay Sayers, did you read the OPs post?

The woman let the dogs out on a long retractable leash and the dogs crapped, in an area that is not really public domain...

Would you feel comfortable if your dog walked up into a yard, say near a picture window, or the main entrance... and took a dump and the homeowner took notice and said something to you?

I once followed a non-poop-picker-upper back to her house with a bag of steaming dog poo.. and presented it to her.... Never saw her walk her dog by my house again..

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by TimT

Into his side yard..

Well that's really the crux of this.

If the dog were on a short leash would it have been OK for both the dog and the woman to wander onto his property so the dog could take a dump on it?

I think no.

She was in control of the animal and could have kept it in the street to take its dump.

[trekkor]

I don't like poop...




KT

[chapo]

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