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ess
Citizen
Username: Ess
Post Number: 1058
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 9:20 am: |     |
This morning, as I was pulling out of my driveway, taking my kids to school, a woman with a very, very large dog (Great Dane? Doberman?) approached from the median. Just as I was making the U-turn and passing my own house, the enormous beast ran up onto my yard and began to relieve himself in the bushes in the middle of the yard.
I honked the horn, but the woman did nothing, just looked at me.
Question: is my yard now a toilet for other people's dogs? Why is it that this rude woman felt that not only was it OK for her dog to crap/pee in my yard, but to do so while I was watching?
I have nothing against dogs, and in fact respect the owners who trail their pets with pooper-scoopers, bags, etc. However, this crossed the line. We choose not to have a dog in our house, therefore our yard, and therefore we choose not to have someone else's dog in our yard either.
The sense of entitlement of some people is absolutely galling.
Next time, why don't you let your dog use your yard as its toilet? |
Meandtheboys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 2963
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 9:26 am: | |
ess, why didn't you stop and speak to the woman? I certainly would have! Was the dog off a leash (you said it ran up onto your yard)?
I never allow my dog to use other peoples yards as a toilet. I always walk him on the grassy strip between the sidewalk and the street, and I always clean up after him.
Very rude. You should have said something to her. |
thoughtful
Citizen
Username: Thoughtful
Post Number: 176
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 9:32 am: | |
How do you clean up a dog's pee?
Did the woman not clean up after the dog? If not, that's low. If she did, what's the big deal?
I hate to break this to you, but there are probably a lot of animals using your yard as a toilet: squirrels, birds, raccoons, possums, the occasional deer, cats . . . |
mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 5729
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 9:39 am: | |
Ess,
I have to admit, I used your yard as a toilet once as well, I was on my way to the train platform and I couldn't hold it in anymore!
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Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12424
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 9:40 am: | |
Mem, we expect a recipe from you at this point.
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Morrisa da Silva
Citizen
Username: Mod
Post Number: 363
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 9:46 am: | |
A persons private yard should not be used by other peoples dogs to either pee or poop on.
Human owners/caretakers should be leading dogs to other areas to poop or pee. That is what leashes are for.
Dogowners may use their own private yards as toilets if they choose.
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Crazyguggenheim
Citizen
Username: Crazyguggenheim
Post Number: 873
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 9:49 am: | |
Call me crazy, but I've never seen a dog use a toilet! |
ess
Citizen
Username: Ess
Post Number: 1060
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 11:54 am: | |
I did honk the horn, and would have turned around to say something had I not been on the way to school with my kids.
Thoughtful - yes, good point, other animals probably do pee in the yard, but they don't have owners, nor leashes, and, while not the most pleasant of thoughts, is somehow more acceptable than domesticated dogs running on the property.
The point is that the woman allowed her dog to run up on the grass (and yes, the dog was on a long leash!). It was the owner who was being rude. |
Case
Citizen
Username: Case
Post Number: 1096
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 12:11 pm: | |
I'm not a dog owner, but I think you're correct to be annoyed. I have a tree in the front of the yard that gets 'utilized' once in awhile, but I never thought that was a big deal. If the dog was running onto the lawn and entering the property... I would have had a real issue with that.
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Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 12429
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 12:16 pm: | |
I agree you have a right to be annoyed, especially if it was pooping. I use a six foot leash, and I generally keep my dog on the grassy strip. I do let him wander onto the edges of lawns, but not often and not far, and I don't think peeing is so bad. Pooping is OK allowed on people's lawns, unless the edge of the lawn is against the street.
A dog will not poop on his own turf unless he is left out there often. My dog is never set free except in fenced in places, and we don't have one, so I always walk him on a leash, so he never poops near our house. It would be contrary to his instinct. So dog owners can't really encourage their dogs to use their own yards. But that's really beside the point, because that dog owner really did the wrong thing this morning, and there are reasonable alternatives for her.
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mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 5730
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 12:27 pm: | |
Dog Poop Brownies
Very easy. Very,very Poop-y!
Ingredients:
1 cup butter
6 squares unsweetened chocolate
4 eggs
2 cups sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla
1/2 cup flour
1 cup crumbled dog poop
Directions:
Melt butter and chocolate together.
In a large bowl beat eggs. Blend in sugar. Add chocolate mixture and vanilla. Stir in flour and crumbled dog poop.
Pour into a greased 8 inch square pan. Bake at 300 degrees F. for 45 to 55 minutes. Cool and cut into squares. Store in refrigerator.
Bob apetite!
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redY67
Citizen
Username: Redy67
Post Number: 4834
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 4:23 pm: | |
Mem you must be related to me if you used ess's front yard as a toilet.
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cody
Citizen
Username: Cody
Post Number: 926
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 6:23 pm: | |
I have a dog and I'd never willingly let him relieve himself on someone else's lawn. If he took me by surprise, I would certainly clean it up immediately and apologize to the owners if I saw them.
But I've had people come out and scream at me for letting him use the grass next to the street. Our street has curved, stone-filled gullies that are difficult to walk on and we get fairly heavy traffic morning and evening, so walking out in the street isn't a particularly safe option.
I get annoyed when other dog-walkers don't clean up after their dogs, or when they casually drop their poop-filled plastic bags into my grass or hedges. I don't really have any solution, but I agree you had the right to feel really ticked off.
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george H
Citizen
Username: Georgieboy
Post Number: 118
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 6:55 pm: | |
I think I've heard that dog pee can be very harmful to certain shrubs - my neighbor is trying to start a hedge at the foot of her lawn which seems to be an inviting toilet for some neighborhood (leashed) dogs & the bushes look like they're dying. |
cody
Citizen
Username: Cody
Post Number: 927
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 7:37 pm: | |
I wasn't talking about lawns, I was talking about the grass between the sidewalk and the roadway, which isn't usually kept up as well as people's lawns. On my block, there's lots of fescue, dandelions and crabgrass mixed in with regular grass on most people's 'sidewalk' grass (as opposed to lawn grass) |
The Libertarian
Citizen
Username: Local_1_crew
Post Number: 1546
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 8:15 pm: | |
The sense of entitlement of some people is absolutely galling.
i yell this everytime i see the percentage of my property tax that goes towards schools. |
las
Citizen
Username: Las
Post Number: 937
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 11:28 pm: | |
Ess, you couldn't do anything more at that moment - you were in the car, you had the kids. This lady obviously doesn't know how to control her dog any more than Mem or Red can control their bladders. Do you know who she was?
Providing the rest of your neighbors finished obedience training and can maintain proper control of the leash, you shouldn't have more pee traffic on your shrub. |
Maplewoody
Citizen
Username: Maplewoody
Post Number: 1133
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 1:16 am: | |
ess... she's probably the same Blind Bitch that ran over my carpet 2 weeks ago.
She's obviously mistaken your yard for the strip of grass next to the road! |
Meandtheboys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 2968
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 7:41 am: | |
I thought the Blind Bitch that ran over your carpet, while it was in the road, was an Old Blind Bitch!  |
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