What would you have done if you were me

[bria]

That's exactly what I wanted to do, deposit his on his lawn. The thing is that when I did make the comment about how today is a poo pick up day for me he didn't even respond to that. Instead he said the city is putting a tree on that patch of grass. Personally I think he was a little embarrassed and may have fully expected me to leave it having just witnessed him doing that.

Susan

 

[lacey9875]

I see your point as well Angela but here it's a really big issue. I am so sick of finding and having to clean up poo on my front lawn from those that don't. It really does ruin it for people like me who do clean up and I'm fed up with it. Not seeing it happen is one thing but actually seeing it I'm sorry I think it warranted a remark. I did offer the bag first.

Susan

You handled it well, and I wouldd have done the same thing. When I had my lab, she was trained to only go in the ivy in my back yard. It was her spot because picking up poo grosses me out. I would come home to not- her- poo in the front yard, where my toddler would play! After a few nights of recon, I saw who was letting their dog wander. The next time I saw him wandering to my yard to do his business, I let my dog out. 90 lbs of barking, running dog at midnight coming at you, well I'm suprised the owner didn't leave a deposit it the yard! I just said, "Oh, sorry..didn't see you in my yard."

Now I have a mean little doxie next door who snaps at Maggie. :nono: Some people just shouldn't have pets.

 

[Leonard and his bud Snuffles]

I too would have picked it up. Yeah it urks me too to see people not pick up after their dogs. Since we walk the streets a lot around here, I think most know I pick up, since a lot of the times I have a bag in one hand or have my clam shell pooper scooper on shorter walks I even had a Sheriff Deputy who use to live a few blocks away thanking me for carrying a bag even though Snuffles did his business elsewhere.

Around here there are a lot of people who's dogs go in their own front yards and boulevards. I wish they would pick up the boulevards anyway, since that is really public land. I step in more poop going to pick up after Snuffles who generally does it close to the curb on the boulevards.

Really believe it or not, the safest place to walk bare footed here may actually be the dog park. People are real good there.

 

[Diana]

I would definitely have picked up both of them. What's one more poop? I understand your frustration though. We live on the corner of two fairly main streets in our subdivision and tons of people walk their dogs past our house. Sometimes, I think I pick up more crap from the front yard than from my own dogs in the back, and the owners of the little dogs are the worst offenders.

 

[victoria1140]

oh yes I can relate, if I can pick up after four dogs why cant others. I have only ever run out of bags once and I still knocked on a ladies door who I know has dogs to ask if she could spare some.

You were very diplomatic but I'd report him if you can do it anonymously or leave a note for the dogs owner that you are concerned if he isnt picking up poop then someone is liable for a fine. The dogs owner then has responsability if hes paying the other guy to tell him to pick up

 

[R Taft]

I always pick up and would hopefully make him feel a little ashamed, maybe (maybe not)

 

[Jorge's mum]

yeh would have picked it up too- he will hopefully get a fine one of these days! what goes around come around!

 

[skoorka]

There's a park near us where we let our guys off leash. There are a few people who go there who never pick up after their dogs. If I'm there I hand them a bag (as they feign searching for one!), but if I'm roaming around I end up picking up 'extra' poop because a) kids play in that park, darnit b) I don't want me or my pooches stepping in it. Same thing goes when we're on our walks. It annoys me that people don't pick up after their dogs, but I guess it's my way of making our neighborhood a better place. I also tend to pick up litter as we wander... Maybe I've got OCD!

 

[new_2_newf]

hehehe...when I moved into my house last summer, I had someone accuse my CAT of doing that. Now, my kitties have always like to sit in their cat tree and watch the world go by out the front window and lay in the sun....one also likes paw, meow at, lick and throw herself at the window when someone walks by outside (I ALWAYS know when the mail has arrived). Anyway, most of my neighbors know I have cats because of the retarded one. About a month after I moved in, I had a really angry neighbor bang on my dog and thrust a bag of poo at me, very upset that I had let my cat poop on her lawn. She lives about 6 houses down. Try as I might to explain that my cats are inside cats, and are outside rarely, and only then when leashed and in my yard (yes, I walk my cats around the front and back yards so they don't bolt for the door when it is open), she insisted that this poop was from the retarded cat. I look in the bag, and the poop is twice the size of my thumb..I am sorry, but neither of my kitties bums are THAT big, even if they are piggies.

With all this commotion going on on my front porch, my next door neighbor steps outside to see whats going on, and crazy lady starts to insist it if from HER dog (Harley is roughly the size of my foot, he is smaller than my cats). Same story there. It was so odd. At Christmas I had my friends two dogs stay with me for a few weeks, and every time we walked (with bags!), she'd be staring us down through the window, and Jessie would always stop to pee on her lawn...it made me happy on the inside anyway

 

[bria]

All very good points here. What bothers me the most is that I often don't see it on my property until it's too late i.e. one of my dogs or myself have stepped in it and have carried it into my house. There is nothing worse than having poo in your house and not knowing exactly where it has been deposited. We're out very early in the morning and it's still dark, if there's no snow and a dog has pood on my walkway, chances are I won't see it.

Many years ago a crossing guard that I used to see regularly observed me walking my dog (I had only one at the time, a small dog) and my dog pood on the lawn beside where the guard stood. I of course picked it up. He looked at me and said you really have to love your dog to clean up after him. At first I thought he was a little coocoo and I think it was years later that I realized he's absolutely right. You have to love your dogs to clean up after them. This guy clearly does not love the dog he looks after therefore he can't be bothered to clean up.

Dawn I think that's funny and the fact that the owner didn't crap on your lawn is even funnier.

Susan

 

[lacey9875]

You know, I'm wondering what he would have done had one of your dogs done their business in HIS yard? Would he have said anything if you said, "oops, not my day to pick up?"

Susan, she didn't like dogs in her yard because the neighbors bulldog ( ironically the same people with the snarling doxie ) attacked her. If a dog ran after however, she ran like a little girl.

I don't think Maggie will do that. Plus, she poops way bigger!

 

[NinaA]

We have a neighbor who does this. I actually caught them once leading their Bichon up to my front steps (up a driveway and down a sidewalk across the front of the house and a 3 car garage) to pee on my landscaping. I asked what he thought he was doing and he gave no reply. I caught them several times, and the last time I told him, "My dogs go in my back yard. You have a back yard, too. Since I have to clean up after your dog, maybe I'll bring my dog's poop down to your yard and let you clean up after mine." Now, I swear I didn't do it, but apparently some other neighbor did. It became so irritating to the neighbors that a notice was posted in the neighborhood newsletter, and they have pretty much stopped. BTW they also let their dog off leash in order to spread the poop around.

 

[newfiemomof2]

I would pick it up and then hand it to him to dispose of in his trash, and smile sweetly when you do it.

 

[JRM]

I would pick it up and then hand it to him to dispose of in his trash, and smile sweetly when you do it.

With or without the poop bag, depending on blood pressure level at the moment........

 

[newfiemomof2]

With or without the poop bag, depending on blood pressure level at the moment........

LOL, bag is optional. :new_smilie_colors1:

 

[KodysGrandma]

My ex brother-in-law used to have an expression about Swinus Americanus and I guess Canadianus as well. Some people are just pigs and most of the time you can't ever shame them into anything, they have no shame. The high road is good for the neighborhood and for your karma. The only way to change them is probably to do as several have mentioned happening in their areas- enough other poo on their property that they finally get the picture. Fortunately where I live is rural, no one else walks dogs they all have enough property of their own. As some of you know I DO walk 3 of our in the 80 acre woods next to us and bless their little doggy hearts they NEVER poo on the trail, always step 5 or 10 feet into the woods. Taught themselves that. Get big time "good doggy" from me when they do.

 

[bria]

You guys are too funny. I like the bag no bag option. In fact when I did threaten my neighbour two doors away (the one who's dog pees all over my front porch and poos on my front lawn) that I was going to collect the Newfs poo for an entire day and deposit it on her doorstep I did say and that would be without a bag. It's just so annoying when people do this. Face it who likes stepping in it or having to clean it from your dogs' paws?

Dawn that is what happened to this guy. One of my boarding dogs had actually pood on his property right after I saw him not clean up his dog's poo (well his friend's dog) and as tempted as I was to leave it I couldn't do it. It would put me on his level. I did tell him that lucky for him it was a poo pick up day for me.

Don't even get me started on the cat issue here. The people in my neighbourhood are very serious about their gardens and cats doing their business in it is deadly to the cats. The guy across the street throws rocks at them and has threatened to kill them. Here's what they don't get, how do they suppose these cats got here? Did they fall from the sky? People here got cats to get rid of mice in their homes and when the mice were gone out went the cats. Tossed out to fend for themselves neither spayed nor neutered. They started leaving kittens on my front doorstep. They weren't leaving envelopes with money to help defray some of the costs of feeding and vetting for these kittens. I could not leave them out there to die. I'm planning to move because I can't take this neighbourhood and their attitude about animals. I can't even stand walking in my neighbourhood and seeing some of the things I see. For someone like me this neighbourhood is a fate worse than death.

Susan

 

[NewfieMama]

I just can't imagine what he could possibly have had in his head - "I'm not picking up today..." - like, we get a choice about these things? Well then heck I'm going back to bed. Not doing laundry, not cleaning, not cooking...nope not doin' it.

I'm glad you didn't stoop. I'd be tempted, though, if you see him do it again, to deposit it on his steps.


Mary

 

[CMDRTED]

Something I did when lived in Memphis, TN, was If I saw them Poop in the yard I would go pick it up, follow them to their house and "sling it into their front yard. Only took a couple of times before people got the idea that the "CRAZY" policeman that lives down the street takes poopin in his yard seriously.

 

[bria]

Mary I like your thinking no laundry, no cleaning today etc... if only I could go a day without doing any of these things.

Hey CMDRTED if you really are a policeman you could probably get away with that. I however live alone and we have some very questionable people in my neighbourhood. I have had the breakline cut on my car, my muffler twisted sideways, the air let out of my tires twice, my hubcap stolen, a beer bottle thrown in my yard (my worse fear broken glass with dogs) and the handle on my screen door broken off. So much as I like you way of handling things unfortunately I have to keep a low profile here.

My old neighbourhood was so animal friendly and you never saw any stray cats wandering the streets. Unfortunately I can't afford to buy a house there (I was in a rental there).

Susan