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We have been in this neighborhood a little over five years and have always gotten along with everybody. A few months back, a single pregnant woman with three indoor dogs moved in to the house next to us. She likes to let all three dogs go into the front yard to do their business, and then it sits and stinks. She has a perfectly good back yard that she could let them do this in so that we wouldn't have to smell it when we come and go. My husband has mentioned this to her several times, but she hasn't changed her habits. When her baby was born, her parents moved in, apparently to help out. Now they are the ones bringing the dogs out front to do their business. My husband tried mentioning it to her father, and he got angry. He pointed out an indentation in our yard where my husband had to remove and repair a broken sprinkler and said that if he stepped in that hole, he would have to call the police on us. Well, for one thing, if he steps in that small hole, he would clearly be on our property and trespassing, but it was obviously a threat to tell us not to complain about the dog poop stink anymore. When he went back in the house, my husband immediately got some dirt to fill in the hole and had another neighbor that was outside witness him filling it in so he can't pretend that he fell in the hole and try to sue us. So for five years we got to breathe fresh air, and from now on, I guess we have to smell a stink because this family doesn't mind dog poop on their lawn. Any ideas of what we can do since they refuse to be reasoned with?
Is there room to plant bushes between your house and theirs? Something that will get nice and tall so you don't have to see or think about those neighbors?
By the way, it stinks just as much in the back yard. My neighbor doesn't pick up after his dogs and we can smell the poop in his back yard when we come out of our front door.
We have been in this neighborhood a little over five years and have always gotten along with everybody. A few months back, a single pregnant woman with three indoor dogs moved in to the house next to us. She likes to let all three dogs go into the front yard to do their business, and then it sits and stinks. She has a perfectly good back yard that she could let them do this in so that we wouldn't have to smell it when we come and go. My husband has mentioned this to her several times, but she hasn't changed her habits. When her baby was born, her parents moved in, apparently to help out. Now they are the ones bringing the dogs out front to do their business. My husband tried mentioning it to her father, and he got angry. He pointed out an indentation in our yard where my husband had to remove and repair a broken sprinkler and said that if he stepped in that hole, he would have to call the police on us. Well, for one thing, if he steps in that small hole, he would clearly be on our property and trespassing, but it was obviously a threat to tell us not to complain about the dog poop stink anymore. When he went back in the house, my husband immediately got some dirt to fill in the hole and had another neighbor that was outside witness him filling it in so he can't pretend that he fell in the hole and try to sue us. So for five years we got to breathe fresh air, and from now on, I guess we have to smell a stink because this family doesn't mind dog poop on their lawn. Any ideas of what we can do since they refuse to be reasoned with?
I'm not if this is why your neighbor does it this way, but I once had a neighbor who had their dogs only use the front lawn for "their business" so that their children could play in the back yard and they could have picnics in the back yard without worrying about dog poop.
How do they mow the lawn with all of the dog poop just laying in the grass? That was a huge problem for our neighbor.
Is there room to plant bushes between your house and theirs? Something that will get nice and tall so you don't have to see or think about those neighbors?
By the way, it stinks just as much in the back yard. My neighbor doesn't pick up after his dogs and we can smell the poop in his back yard when we come out of our front door.
That might be an idea about the bushes, but I'd have to run it by the HOA, because they are quite picky. You would think they wouldn't like dog poop, too.
And yes, while the poop being in the back would stink just as much, we don't hang out in the back at all, so we were just thinking it would be the better spot for it from our own point of view.
I'm not if this is why your neighbor does it this way, but I once had a neighbor who had their dogs only use the front lawn for "their business" so that their children could play in the back yard and they could have picnics in the back yard without worrying about dog poop.
How do they mow the lawn with all of the dog poop just laying in the grass? That was a huge problem for our neighbor.
Lol, I haven't yet been home when they were mowing to see how it would be handled.
While I think it's gross to leave piles of poop in the yard, it is their yard and unless they breaking a law, they can leave the poop if they want.
What would I do? I'd stop telling my neighbor what to do with his yard/dogs and offer to clean it up myself if it bothered my that badly.
The hedge idea is a good one..plant a nice hardy hedge and you won't notice a thing.
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