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Wow, you are a lot more tolerant person than I am.... If I've been seeing that happen on my property, I would let those people know a thing or two.
You definitely need to buy that motion sensor sprinkler that I posted a link to earlier...or stand out there with a garden hose and spray your flowers when they are gathered around your property. They'll get the hint then if they continue to get wet.
I've been out and talked to them several times.
I also accidentally turned on the irrigation system one day.
I also put one of these signs out but somebody swiped it.
The urine burns the grass, we have to cut out the sod and replace it. Has happened exactly where this dog has urinated.
Say what you will. I'm tired of paying for a dog to use my lawn as a toilet. Unsanitary.
The neighbor made haste when my husband and I went outside, after view the instance from our window...
Some people care about their property, home values and neighborhood. Perhaps that is a concept that some may not understand.
then he got the message..
Why is this in the psychology forum?
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Why is this even a question? Nobody is allowed on your property unless you allow it except law enforement. I wouldn't care if the person cleaned up the dog mess either because it doesn't matter it's my property.
It's like someone saying hey i'll have a picnic on your front lawn but as long as i clean up after i'm done it's perfectly fine
Tell these people flat out "it's my property i make the rules you don't"
We live in an underdeveloped area, so I try to have my dog go pee on one of the vacant lots if possible during his walks. He actually usually goes with a three-lot section most of the time, so it's a non-issue. But if he had to go and we were in front of someone else's yard, then he'd just pee in their yard. It's pee. He's a dog. I'm not seeing the issue.
I would put a small sign near the street.......WARNING...RAT BAIT SET OUT
This is my stance on one who has owned dogs who are walked on-leash, lived in heavily dog and dog-walker populated areas, etc.
Common courtesy for dog walkers is to pick up poop after dogs go. Urine, you're out of luck. Yes, yes, obedience training and dogs should just know that they aren't allowed to lift their legs on grass that isn't public land, etc., but that isn't realistic or likely to happen. Dogs pee when out walking. Assuming people aren't walking on your private property, but rather on sidewalks or public easements, I wouldn't imagine that leashed dogs are able to reach very far onto your property.
Sorry, yes it is and yes it has. You can train a dog just like you can train a child. Your kind of thinking is why dogs can't be brought into stores anymore and why kids act like hellions in public places. You think training an animal or a child to behave in public can't be done, but I'm here to tell you it can and it has.
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I have certainly avoided going anywhere near the homes of certain people while out walking dogs.
I once had an elderly neighbor who would hang out in a lawnchair at the foot of his driveway, which he scrubbed daily, arms crossed across his chest,and glower at anybody who passed on foot (kids on bikes, people walking dogs, anybody, I assume, who might get something on his driveway while passing by on the adjacent sidewalk. He was very deliberately "guarding" his pristine driveway, and purposefully acting in an intimidating manner to any neighbors who represented foot traffic.
I don't get wanting to alienate your neighbors that way, but, hey, whatever. It worked. Everyone avoided him and thought he was an ass. And his driveway never got so much as a dusty footprint on it.
A friend of mine used to water her flowers in the morning when a someone would go by every day and let her dog pee all over everything. One day my friend casually turned the hose on the dog owner. That dog owner never came near the yard again.
I love to see people out walking their dogs. It reminds me that we still have a healthy society. Dog pee is just about pH neutral, so it shouldn't burn your plants unless it is frequently squirted on the exact same spot. At that point it acts like concentrated fertilizer and might kill something. But if it rains or the flowers get watered once in a while, it will simply be diluted and do no harm. And if the dog walkers do their best to avoid the dog peeing on everyone's prized petunias it will rarely be a problem.
I had a neighbor that got upset with dogs peeing on that city owned section of lawn near the curb so she placed ground up moth balls around the entire perimeter of her corner property. She even poured some mothball flakes on her and her families car tires that were parked in the street..
Long story short, the EPA somehow found out and fined her $10,000 for dumping hazardous material. In addition to the fine she had to pay to have that hazardous material removed by specialists and they dug up entire yard at least 3 inches below the grass line so now she's got to replace that soil and all the sod.
It may have cost her about 30 grand, but she won! I hope she's happy. Nobody ever let's their dog over there now or their kids for that matter because we know she's a lunatic.
I really think a simple 'please keep your dog off my lawn' sign or in person would have worked so much better though.
Spraying the owner with a hose isn't quite as bad but it's still underhanded and sneaky.
Also posted in another forum, I don't know if reposting is correct. Admins please let me know.
Last night a women who lives in my development was walking her beautiful large Husky. She proceeded to let the dog urinate on my front yard, near a tree and a flower bed. We added an element to our alarm system that alerts us to someone in our yard (not near the street) so we looked out when we heard the alarm and watched the owner allow the pet behavior.
I do not know the owners, but have seen them before in the neighborhood and they seemed pleasant, waving, etc. I posted a mention on our HOA FB page that I thought was improper pet owner behavior and rude.
Of course I was summarily blasted by other residents.
Is it too much to ask that all the hard work my 71 year old husband puts into our yard, restoring it from neglect from the previous owner and spending money on flowers, fertilizer, etc. to think dog walkers would curb their dog and use city-owned grass areas near the street? I don't feel it is asking too much.
The owner responded that, basically, his dog could pee anywhere it wanted, it wasn't something he considered or worried about and that he picks up feces per city rules. I understand that there may be a generational difference of opinion here. He was not totally impolite but his responses as well as other responses had a snarky quality to them.
I just wonder how these people would feel if I deposited about a pint of urine on their front yard and flowers.
Opinions, please.
Opinion, do some charity work and quit peeping out the windows at imperfect humans.
I agree that it's rude. I lived next door to someone who instead of walking their dog would simply open their front door 4-5 times a day and let the dog pee and poop in everyone else's yards. I mean, how could someone NOT KNOW how rude that is? I finally just started scooping up the poop with a shovel and flinging it in their yard. Same dog would also knock over my trash can and drag trash all over. I hated that stupid dog.
New neighbors now, 5 dogs who bark when they're outside. If I go out in my yard they bark and bark and bark and bark. Seriously. People your dog is not everyone's dog. Dog owners need to stop being so rude and inconsiderate.
I'm a cat person myself LOL and yes, they are all INDOOR CATS.
I have several neighbours in my neighbourhood who do this constantly. Rather than walk their dogs, they let them out in the yard to poop wherever they wish.
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If I've been seeing that happen on my property, I would let those people know a thing or two. 
