How would you address this?

Petra, Dickens - made my day 😂

When I moved here two years ago I was always pulling my dog off the unfenced lawns along here as she hadn’t learned the difference between a grass verge and a lawn. She has got better, but the other week I was told off for letting her poop on the footpath, under someone’s hedge! When I asked what I was supposed to do she suggested using the other side of the street.

The dog admittedly should not have been on your drive - but such a fuss about dog pee?? Just think of all the other things that can pee, poo, vomit or bleed on your ground - foxes, badgers, rabbits, birds.... I never thought anyone would worry about that!

First, chuck a bucket of water with white vinegar on it, and then when it dries, put some white pepper in a glass of vinegar, and pour over the patch where the dog peed.

RosiesMaw

The OP says the dog ( a bitch) came a few feet onto the drive and peed.

That’s not the gateway or the pavement. It’s someone’s own property, and either the dog was on a long lead and the owner should have not let her go there, or she was off the lead and frankly shouldn’t have been.

I too would be cross if a random dog wandered up my drive and peed on it, whether it washes off easily or doesn’t turn grass yellow is irrelevant.

Shouldn’t happen.

Dickens

nadateturbe

Dog owner shouldn't let dog on to someone's driveway. But I would say nothing.

... would you not?

For fear of offending, or fear of the owner being aggressive?

,,, the latter I can understand.

The latter Dickens. I would only worry about offending someone I know, and I wouldn't expect someone I know to let their dog do this.
When you walk your dog, you should respect other people's property.

I can’t believe for a minute that the owner encouraged the dog on to the drive, but once a dog starts to squat for a wee or cock its leg there’s not a lot you can do as the process will have started.
I’m sure the recent rain will more than have washed it away but it still seems unnecessarily precious .
It reminds me of somebody in our village who posted on FB that she found it disgusting that horses poo’d on the road. What did she expect?( Most people would be out there with a spade collecting the droppings for the roses!)
If it had been Rosie I would not have let her go into someone’s garden anyway but if in the gateway ie on the pavement, well that’s a public footpath. And you don’t get grass on a drive, so nothing to turn yellow.
But I am wondering AIBU to feel a smidgen victimised now as a dog owner?

RosiesMaw

“Dog pees on ground.”

It’s hardly Stop Press is it?

Lots of stuff on GN is not ‘Stop Press’ either, but irresponsible dog owners letting their pet encroach on other people’s drives is worth bringing up it seems.

Also happened ‘very early one morning’. Would he be more careful later on, when he thought he might be observed?

nadateturbe

Dog owner shouldn't let dog on to someone's driveway. But I would say nothing.

... would you not?

For fear of offending, or fear of the owner being aggressive?

,,, the latter I can understand.

I have a cat that piddles outside mine, which has lead to every cat and dog for miles also having a go.
It's revolting.

nadateturbe

Calendargirl

Oh, I wondered what an ‘influenced’ garden was.

Being led astray by other naughty gardens….

Or being well behaved, modelled on ‘good’ gardens…

I was wondering too.

You're not going to let me forget it are you!!

Influenced by Capability Brown 😁

“Dog pees on ground.”

It’s hardly Stop Press is it?

Dog owner shouldn't let dog on to someone's driveway. But I would say nothing.

Calendargirl

Oh, I wondered what an ‘influenced’ garden was.

Being led astray by other naughty gardens….

Or being well behaved, modelled on ‘good’ gardens…

I was wondering too.

I don't mind if dogs pee up the gate . I'd like them to stop peeing and pooing on the lawn .

Installing a gate will just mean the dogs will pee up the gate instead

Gummie

If you hadn't seen the peeing in motion would you have know it was there later in the day?

She might not have noticed.

However, dog urine can turn grass yellow and cause it to die-off.

Dogs are known to sniff out the urine scent of other dogs and whilst doing so, will probably pee themselves to leave their own mark. So you could end up with a bit of a patchy lawn.

Does it matter? I think it does. If you buy a house you own the garden - why should others think its their right to use it like common ground?

Accidents happen and sometimes a dog will just pee where it wants to - but it appears that some owners seem to believe they have some special rights that the rest of us don't understand.

I have actually seen a man deliberately follow his dog on a lead up a driveway almost to the front door, standing watching it do a huge poo against the garden wall in the driveway.

I'm amazed at the mentality of such an individual

If you hadn't seen the peeing in motion would you have know it was there later in the day?

I'm wondering whether to re -establish old fashioned fencing and gates in the front garden .
It won't stop the real problem that I have -foxes scenting , pooing and generally destroying the garden .

Romola

Dickens, what a horrendous story.
Ours isn't nearly so bad, but here goes. Soon after we moved to the house we're in (well, just me now) a rather grand Italian business associate stepped into a fresh dog turd on our unfenced front garden, then took it all through the house. Everyone was mortified.
After that, I insisted that the front garden was fenced - in fact we grew a hedge around it, which was resented by our new neighbours, but we didn't care. And with all the Covid cockerpoo dogs being walked along our lane, I'm really glad of that hedge.

After that, I insisted that the front garden was fenced - in fact we grew a hedge around it, which was resented by our new neighbours, but we didn't care.

Heavens! Why on earth would your neighbours resent you hedging your own front garden?! It's a fairly standard procedure with gardens facing the street.

... I'm imagining your rather grand Italian business associate wearing very expensive leather loafers or some such, and being horrified at them being so fouled!

It seems to be the thinking among some dog-owners that if a house has a front garden - unfenced - then that part of the property is common ground. I'm puzzled at the mentality of it.

Dickens, what a horrendous story.
Ours isn't nearly so bad, but here goes. Soon after we moved to the house we're in (well, just me now) a rather grand Italian business associate stepped into a fresh dog turd on our unfenced front garden, then took it all through the house. Everyone was mortified.
After that, I insisted that the front garden was fenced - in fact we grew a hedge around it, which was resented by our new neighbours, but we didn't care. And with all the Covid cockerpoo dogs being walked along our lane, I'm really glad of that hedge.

You can buy some wonderful pump action water pistols

It’s not just dogs that do this. We have a horse we keep in a field down the road. Poos are picked up every day and left on manure heaps in the field.

Twice already this year my husband has found human poo in the field with toilet paper or tissues! 😱

My niece has a Norfolk Terrier who flies about the place like a bullet out of a gun! She was walking her in the grounds of a NT property near where we live. There are cottages for the employees and as she let her dog off the lead it flew into the open front door of a cottage and disappeared. She called out, banged on the front and back doors but nobody was at home. The dog had gone upstairs and did not come down when called so she went upstairs to find her on a double bed, now covered with muddy paw prints as it had been raining. I pointed out that she could have been accused of burglary! She decided that discretion was the better part of Valour, picked the dog up and went home. I think I would have left a note but if something had gone missing a few days later she could possibly have been blamed. The moral is, don't leave everything unlocked and open but here in North Norfolk a lot of residents never lock their doors during the day as we perceive crime to be very low level. It's just dogs off leads that are the problem.