Dog poop pickup poll

[dtbach]

I'd just pick it up with my own dogs poop and not worry about it. If I saw their dog taking a poop in the yard, I'd probably start a conversation.

 

[bigcmagor]

We had a similar situation. Both yards were equipped with electric fences, but the owner next door refused to use it. The difference between her pet output and ours was obvious since she mainly fed it Mcdonalds or other human fast food, plus her pooch had a habit of leaving it on our sidewalk. I just gleefully scooped it up and let it fly - back on to her property. One large pile became lots of little ones in the process.


She eventually moved into the nicest community in town and I'm told she received numerous letters from disgruntled neighbors who tired of cleaning their sidewalks.

 

[audreyh1]

Poop pickup is required in our neighborhood. Residents get very angry at any pet owner that doesn't immediately pick up after their pet.

It was funny once, one neighbor got so furious about the dog poop on the road not far from their house. Well, it was full of mesquite seed pods, so it was obviously coyotes that had come into the neighborhood and not anyone's pet. Still, it took a while for this neighbor to pipe down.

 

[NW-Bound]

Being extremely prejudiced against irresponsible dog owners, I would prefer to return their dog feces in their mailbox.

Of course, I have not done such.

It's against postal regulations, for one thing.

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

Things in writing really seem to upset inconsiderate people.

Send 'em a letter with a cc to the law firm of Dewey, Cheatham & Howe!

Seriously, in my case I'd just pick it up along with the numerous piles my own dogs emit. Life is too short to get wound up over a pile of dog dung.

 

[travelover]

I had a neighbor that allowed his dog to do this, which is what dogs do given a choice. I went out about once a week with a shovel and made a pile right on the lot line. Eventually he noticed and it stopped.

 

[Oz investor]

my ' home' is in a semi-rural area ( and i am not currently at 'home' much )

so currently it (s ) poop unwitnessed

HOWEVER there are some sea-eagles in the area ( and they are protected by law ) so the cause of the problem might disappear into thin air ( unwitnessed ) and the poop can stay to become fertilizer ( only trespassers will be stepping in it )

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[BigNick]

I would have to draw the line there.

You could be like George H. W. Bush and draw a line in the poop.

 

[HadEnuff]

When my kids were 9 and 7 years old they had a friend who had a lab who had a litter of pups. DW (at the time) and the kids were talking to me about wanting a dog. I love dogs. So I said I would train the dog, but the kids would have to clean up the poop. And DW would have to attend to the early morning walks. Deal, and done, all settled except the kids wouldn't clean up the poop, and DW wouldn't walk the dog in the morning. She'd open the door and let the dog out.

One morning there was a large paper grocery bag half full of poop on our sidewalk. Whoever left it there, I did not blame.
Another time I gave my kids little garden trowels and some plastic bags and said "get out there and clean up the poop"...they did, through tears. When they were done my son said to me, "Well, Dad, I know where my missing Transformers (a folding plastic toy from the '80s) were. Moose ate them."
He was a good dog. After our marriage dissolved, former DW let him out unattended one morning and he got hit by a car. Which is another good reason not to let dogs run the neighborhood unattended.

 

[ER Eddie]

People can get very wound up about this. I've had two ladies get angry at me about dog poop, although I was either picking my dog's poop up or my dog had not pooped in their lawns. I always carry poop bags and pick up my dog's poop. I think that's part of being a good neighbor. I might also mention that my dog at the time was a little weenie dog, not the type who produces massive bowel movements.

Lady #1 came out of her house to lecture me about how bad it was when people leave dog poop on her yard. I told her I understood, but that I was one of the good guys -- I had picked up the poop. I showed her my poop bag. That didn't stop her; she just kept lecturing me until she ran out of steam. Maybe she eventually recognized she was taking her ire out on the wrong target. No harm, but kind of weird.

Lady #2 was a little crazier. She came nearly running out of her house at me, yelling that I shouldn't let my dog poop on her yard. My dog hadn't pooped on her yard. We were just walking by, and she was just sniffing around. I said my dog hadn't pooped in her yard, and if she did, I'd pick it up. I said I always pick it up and showed her my poop bag. That didn't give her pause, she just kept ragging me, insisting my dog had pooped in her lawn and I shouldn't let that happen. She seemed like a bitter, angry old bat.

A few times after that, I took the dog poop I had picked up earlier in the walk and flung it on her lawn. That'll teach her. Well, no it won't, but it made me feel better. Revenge is a dish best served warm, lol...

 

[HadEnuff]

Since my marital break up I have had two dogs of my own, and always picked up the poop in bags... Except...in the winter, when people couldn't be bothered to shovel their sidewalks, and I had to walk on slippery icy sidewalks, if my dog pooped in their yard I'd leave it, hoping someone would come out and want to have a discussion. Never happened.

I hold DW #2 (and current and forever treasured DW) about my diabolical strategy and she said I was being childish. Which I interpreted as unfettered praise.

 

[joeea]

Poop is a slippery slope.

Particularly if the poop is fresh...

 

[aja8888]

Particularly if the poop is fresh...

Or semi-liquid...

 

[Carpediem]

Seriously, in my case I'd just pick it up along with the numerous piles my own dogs emit. Life is too short to get wound up over a pile of dog dung.

OP here...as I mentioned previously, our dog poops in our fenced backyard and we pick it up either immediately or the following morning when she goes out. If I was going to pick up the neighbor's dog poop, I would have to go out of the gate each time and look for more poop in our side yard. I typically will find it when I start to mow that section of the yard. And if you've ever mowed over poop, you know it's not a pleasant experience.

Btw, DW and I were enjoying our happy hour wine on the back porch last night while watching the neighbor's dog laying next to their compost pile (which is right next to our property line) enjoying some snacks. Grrrrr!

 

[RE2Boys]

I didn’t answer because my answer if it happened once or twice would be very different than if it happened regularly. And it would start with a friendly discussion no matter what. I hope no one would go straight to putting it in the neighbors yard on the first infraction.

We find dog poops in our backyard from our neighbors occasionally, I am sure they pick it up if they see it happen.

It’s amazing how bent out of shape some folks can become over first world problems...

+1
Just picked up some while mowing lawn two days ago. Since, in my case, this is an infrequent event and could be one of two different dogs, just picked up and in the trash.

Had to put my girl to sleep a bit over two years ago so understand occasional occurances.

 

[eytonxav]

In our town dogs are not permitted to run free off leash. It always amazes me how discourteous some dog owners can be, with the other issue being habitual non-stop barking that creates neighborhood disturbances, aside from not cleaning up after their pets.

 

[bigcmagor]

Or semi-liquid...

Harry Truman said, "never kick a fresh turd on a hot day". Good advice in my book.

 

[HadEnuff]

Harry Truman said, "never kick a fresh turd on a hot day". Good advice in my book.

Good ol' Harry...Give 'em Hell....try to imagine him on Twitter...

 

[Mdlerth]

The Hatfields and the Mdlerths

At a previous house, where we tried to keep a nice front lawn, there was one neighbor whose dog particularly favored our yard as its toilet. Complaints were met with snarls, from the owner not the dog.

At our current house, my yard is landscaped by Mother Nature with lots of trees but no front lawn. Owls, falcons, buzzards, bobcats, coyotes, squirrels, deer, opossums, skunks, snakes, raccoons, and of course, cats and dogs, make deposits in the woods all the time. I accept it as part of the biosphere, which obviates any neighborhood feuding.

 

[ER Eddie]

I love that sort of landscape -- just nature, rather than everything all carefully manicured.

Poop is good for the soil. It's nature's fertilizer. Of course, I understand it's different when you step in it... Then it's like %#)&%@!!

 

[Carpediem]

Poop is good for the soil. It's nature's fertilizer. Of course, I understand it's different when you step in it... Then it's like %#)&%@!!

Or run over it with a mower!

 

[travelover]

............ DW wouldn't walk the dog in the morning. She'd open the door and let the dog out. ..........

I walk our dog on a leash in the neighborhood daily. 99% of the ugly dog confrontations we have had are with dogs let out like this. The dogs find it to be more fun to attack us than to just do their business. Occasionally some of these dogs get a face full of Halt pepper spray. Shame on their owners.

 

[ER Eddie]

Or run over it with a mower!

Do you have a bag on your mower, or is the poop just flung across the lawn? If the latter, maybe you could angle your approach so the poop gets shot at your neighbor's lawn.

Although, now that I think more (too much) about it, I realize lawn mowers only eject the debris a foot or so, which wouldn't be enough. You'd have to rig a system where the chute would fire the poop fragments at high velocity over a good distance. Maybe you could hit their house if you angled it right. We have some engineers in here, maybe they could work up a prototype...

 

[pacergal]

There is a leash law in our city and a "poop pick up rule", with posts and bags all over near fields and parks.
I would pick it up and definitely talk with my neighbor, but only if I had visual/video proof that it was their dog, so I could show them.

 

[Sunset]

Our neighbor's daughter started walking their dog, she would walk it over to our house so it could poop on the lawn, then back to her house.
I think she figured it was easier than cleaning up the poop on her own lawn.

I saw her do it after the third pile was on our lawn, and now I knew how it was happening.
That night, I shoveled it up, and tossed it all onto her lawn.

I guess she got the message as she stopped walking the dog to our property.