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1-2many
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Username: Wbg69
Post Number: 938
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 11:50 am: | 
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I'm looking for suggestions as to how to respond, and what to do, about neighbors letting their dog(s) crap in my yard, and not cleaning it up. Lately, it seems like every day there is a fresh pile of poop in my front yard. I almost can't believe that people are not just being this selfish and nasty, not to mention, doing it regularly at this point.
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Bailey
Citizen
Username: Baileymac
Post Number: 238
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 12:02 pm: |
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You could try posting a "This Lawn Is Chemically Treated--Keep Pets Off" sign.
Or, maybe a "Keep your damned pets off my lawn" sign.
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Bob K
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Username: Bobk
Post Number: 11219
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 1:15 pm: |
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A sign saying, "This lawn protected by Smith and Wesson" probably would be very effective as would some fresh hamburger laced with arsenic. |
Sherri De Rose
Citizen
Username: Honeydo
Post Number: 115
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 2:26 pm: |
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What I have done the past few years and seemed to have worked is I tie several plastic newspaper bags to the tree in front of my house for people to use. It must be working because I have had very little poop and I have had to replace the bags every day. |
Wendy
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Username: Wendy
Post Number: 2359
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 2:39 pm: |
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Sherri you're a saint to be providing something that people should bring themselves. Also, dogs should be curbed and then the poop picked up from the street. 1-2many, do you know for a fact who these people are? If so, contact either the health officer or the animal control officer if you don't want to have a conversation with them regarding the curb and clean-up after your dog laws. If you don't know who they are I would suggest some type of signage. You might want to consider putting cayenne pepper on that area of the grass which is getting repeat use - however not sure if the pepper would hurt the grass. |
Amateur Night
Citizen
Username: Deborahg
Post Number: 1819
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 2:57 pm: |
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As with many other threads, if these people are your neighbors it seems like it is best to approach them directly. |
cody
Citizen
Username: Cody
Post Number: 989
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 3:15 pm: |
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Do they let the dogs run free or do they actually walk them to your yard and let them do their thing? If they are there with the dogs, it should be easy to go out and tell them you don't want their dogs' waste in your yard. Maybe no one has ever complained before. Maybe they're just stupid, I don't know. But talking to them is a good first step.
If the dogs run free, you'll probably have to go over to their house and complain. Maybe taking some pictures first just to prove it IS their dog/s who are making the mess might give you a stronger case to make.
Good luck. |
Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 7270
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 3:22 pm: |
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I had this problem with my next door neighbor shortly after I moved in but the dog would go in my bushes next to their front door rather than on my lawn. I solved the problem by planting bushes there which have thrived. My neighbor was surprised that anything could grow in that location but the bushes soon got to be so high and dense it was impossible for the dog to go there. |
Lizziecat
Citizen
Username: Lizziecat
Post Number: 1163
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 3:22 pm: |
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First we put up a sign asking people to please obey the South Orange ordinance to clean up after theur dogs. Everybody complied, except one neighbor--the one with the largest and most productive dog. One day my husband caught them at it. He scooped up the still steaming deposit on a shovel and dumped it back un their front walk, with a postit stapled to a stick stuck in it. The postit said "returned to owner." Problem solved. |
Soparents
Citizen
Username: Soparents
Post Number: 170
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 3:42 pm: |
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I had this problem with the same woman perpetually walking her dog off the leash and letting it doo-doo the doo on my lawn while she looked the other way. I had enough after I saw this happen twice (both times she and doggy were walking off so I didn't "see" it happen). Enough was enough, I had a camera and captured the act and confronted her. she said it wasn't her, it wasn't her dog, and her dog "didn't do them like that". I then showed her the photos... she went quiet and then said she didn't have a bag or towel. I said never mind and pulled them out of my pocket and stood there and watched her as she got on her hands and knees and took it all off my lawn.
She never did it again.... |
Alleygater
Citizen
Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 1752
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 9:06 pm: |
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Bobk: I'm sure that was a joke, but please DO NOT poison someone's dog with arsenic. Feel free to poison the owner of the dog, but the pet itself is innocent. |
K_soze
Citizen
Username: K_soze
Post Number: 72
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 9:19 pm: |
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A paintball gun would probably do the trick |
Rick B
Citizen
Username: Ruck1977
Post Number: 1069
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 8:44 am: |
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Soparents...That is awesome! I am surprised she didn't come back with.."you doctored those photos!" |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13687
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 9:29 am: |
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1-2many, first of all, welcome back. Your name came up yesterday. Email me if you want to know how.
This is a tough problem. The offense takes almost no time to occur, and you can't watch your lawn all day for the fleeting moment. If you can catch it, great. In the meantime, I'd post a nasty sign, like "satisfaction guaranteed or double your dog poop back"
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Wendyn
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Username: Wendyn
Post Number: 2947
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 10:39 am: |
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Although I think some people simply ignore the law, I would guess many don't pooper-scoop because they don't realize it is a law. If you have never lived in an area (apartment, condo, in a city) where you have to walk your dog to relieve themselves, you don't automatically know that it is a law.
I'd just leave a sign to please pick up after your dog (as many people don't understand what "curbing" your dog means). If they are ignorant about the law it will teach them. If they are ignoring the law it might get them to at least bypass your lawn. |
grw
Citizen
Username: Grw
Post Number: 420
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 10:58 am: |
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You can call the Health Dept and ask for John (Animal Control)
You don't have to give your name, just give their address and John will send out a letter regarding the leash law and the penalties. |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13696
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 12:13 pm: |
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grw, I can't look at dog schit and discern the identity or address of the owner of the dog. Talking with the next door neighbor or the health department is likely to be fruitless. Dogs don't usually soil their own territory, and most don't do it next to their own territories either. And a typical dog walk is at least a quarter mile. This problem is harder to solve than you seem to think.
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grw
Citizen
Username: Grw
Post Number: 421
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 1:40 pm: |
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Tom
1-2 many posted "neighbors letting their dogs crap in my yard" it appeared to my they knew who it was, but didn't want to start anything by speaking with them.
That's why I posted what I posted |
1-2many
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Username: Wbg69
Post Number: 939
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - 8:37 pm: |
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some good suggestions and stories here! unfortunately, I do not know who is doing the doo in my yard. we have considered a stake-out to try to figure out who it is, because, like someone suggested, I would really rather speak to the offender personally, though I suspect that might be a pretty awkward conversation to have. but a sign of some sort was also what I was thinking, and I have looked into getting and putting out some type of bag dispenser. I think the letter to the health dept might be a good idea as well.
thanks, all. any other suggestions, please post 'em! |
Soparents
Citizen
Username: Soparents
Post Number: 193
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - 8:41 pm: |
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It must be someone within two block radius of you. Which area are you in? Someone reading this might put two and two together and either know who the culprit is, or realise THEY are the culprit and stop the doggie doo.... |
wunderdog
Citizen
Username: Wunderdogny
Post Number: 97
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 8:53 am: |
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1-2many -
I have a similar problem - well not THAT similar, but equally as annoying. Unfortunately many of the middle school kids walk by our house every day on their way home to Irvington (OOPS...did I say that out LOUD?). They have broken my front window, turned over my two year old's playhouse, trampled practically every bush and shrub, and generally used what's left of the yard as their own personal trash can. After fifty kids (that was the police's estimate) decided to use my front yard as a place to mix it up a couple of weeks ago - they even surrounded my car,which was parked pretty far into the driveway, and started yelling and screaming and fighting, I called the cops. THEY suggested buying a cheap computer camera and posting it in the front window. That way, if further destruction to my property happens (or more general mayhem), they can catch the culprits (although I've watched these kids, and they're not the least bit afraid of the cops).
You could certainly catch your Pooper by doing the same, and the cameras are usually pretty cheap.
I have to admit, I'd swap problems with you if I could....I'll take a pooping dog and its arrogant, thoughtless owner over a mob of out of control teenagers any day. |
Bob K
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Username: Bobk
Post Number: 11263
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 9:14 am: |
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Alleygator, you are correct. Arsenic is slow acting and would be an agonizing death for the dog. Certainly no dog deserves that. Use cyanide instead. He/she will be dead before reaching home!!!
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