Precious lawn owners

I would add that I know lots of dogs who do their business on my driveway as I live on a fairly busy road. You can't tell where my private property starts and public property ends.

Yes you are very rude. As you do not know to whom the grass belongs you have no right to use it. use your own grass, not that of other people.

Very rude and a total lack of respect. Our first house had an open plan garden and one woman (not a lady) let her dog poo there all the time because she said it was open plan. Dh riposted do it again and I’ll shoot it. She never did it again. Why do you have to get nasty to get people do the decent thing?

I wouldn't have let my dog do it

Where I live, it is open plan, and we are not allowed to fence the front section. My ex-neighbours owned 2 large dogs but never exercised them and allowed them to do their business on my lawn.

I own a large expanse and the grass cutter refused to cut the grass because the poo was never picked up. They have moved on but the grass cutter never returned.

I would never let my dog poo on a piece of grass immediately in front of somebody’s house. It doesn’t matter if it’s open plan, it’s just common courtesy.

The thread is called, Precious Lawn Owners so you clearly knew it was theirs.

Your actions would be considered so rude to most decent people that I’m struggling to believe this is genuine. But I’ll take it at face value…I’d hate to be your neighbour!

If in doubt don’t.

If your dog were to poo on my lawn, I would be raging.
My grandchildren sometimes play on it.

I am certainly not a precious lawn owner. That comment in itself is rude.

These are the reasons, I would be annoyed:

Dog poo can be dangerous to humans, wildlife, and the environment because it can contain:
Parasites
Roundworm eggs, which can remain infectious for up to two years. Humans can become infected by accidentally ingesting the eggs or eating food contaminated with soil containing the eggs.
Bacteria
Pathogenic bacteria that can cause intestinal tract infections and diarrhea, such as:
Salmonella
E. coli
Campylobacter
Yersinia
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Was this grass between the pavement and road? If so, Ip'm surprised it's her land and l would have assumed it was council land. I've never known it not to be. You should be able to check it on the Land Register.

I wouldn't leave dog crap anywhere if I could pick it up instead.

Even if you were going to pick up that lump of poo, you would leave a smear of excrement behind. Reread Marydoll's post at 11:06 pm yesterday to see what that could contain and what it could do to a child who played on that grass, or someone who touched it while gardening.

It also tells your dog (or the next dog that walks past) that is a place where a poo has been, so it is where they will go to for THEIR next poo - which soon turns it into a doggy public toilet for every pooch in town.

Would you let a child do it? You are just as responsible for where a dog does its business as you are for a child. FGS train your dog to shit in the gutter, not on someone's front lawn. Your dog, your training.

Oooh!

Precious dog owner - "My dog has more rights over your garden than you do"

Not you, MissA - It is aimed at irresponsible dog-owners who forget that their pet is their responsibility, and its species name is not spelt backwards.

I knew it wasn't at me, I just agreed with every word, but was too cowardly to say it myself.

I don't own a dog but occasionally dogsit while my DC are on holiday.
Unfortunately one dog would wait until we were out and go at least 3 times in inappropriate places during our walks.
If I am asked again, I will drive her out to the countryside rather than risk being mortified again.
I have some sympathy with the poster.

FGS train your dog to shit in the gutter, not on someone's front lawn. Your dog, your training

Just remember to watch out for cyclists while your bum’s in the air when you’re picking it up!

FGS train your dog to shit in the gutter, not on someone's front lawn. Your dog, your training. When we live in the Netherlands, the pavement edges on our estate, and presumably other areas, were stencilled with the words “Hond in de Goot”. In other words, put your dog in the gutter to do its business. If the grass is between the house and the pavement then it is her garden. I have an open plan front lawn and would be furious if owners let their dogs use it as a toilet. As it is, I don’t have problems with dogs as owners here are very responsible. It’s a very large cat that frequently leaves its doings on my lawn and I wish I knew where it lives as I would return them to the owner instead of having to put them in my bin two or three times a week!!

Grass between the pavement and the road is the council’s responsibility but I still wouldn’t want to see a dog defecating on it.

This takes me back to the bad old days before anyone picked up.
Between our fenced garden and the road there was pavement and then a strip of grass.
My DC would invariably jump out of the car straight into the sh** and into the house.
Once I lay in wait to see if I could catch the chief offender.
Along came a near neighbour with his labrador on a lead. He chatted and then his dog pooed on the grass strip.
When I objected he said "I've always taken her here" as though that was a good enough reason.
😠 😡
Where I live now there must be people who let their dogs out at night to randomly soil the pavements.

Marydoll

I am certainly not a precious lawn owner. That comment in itself is rude.

These are the reasons, I would be annoyed:

Dog poo can be dangerous to humans, wildlife, and the environment because it can contain:
Parasites
Roundworm eggs, which can remain infectious for up to two years. Humans can become infected by accidentally ingesting the eggs or eating food contaminated with soil containing the eggs.
Bacteria
Pathogenic bacteria that can cause intestinal tract infections and diarrhea, such as:
Salmonella
E. coli
Campylobacter
Yersinia
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria

When I went to Bristol Eye Informary there was a big notice on the wall about the parasite Toxocara.

The parasite Toxocara from dog or cat faeces can cause blindness in humans.

Children are at risk if they touch the faeces as they play on grass then touch their eyes or mouths.

I find your heading Precious lawn owners quite astonishing, ftm240.
Perhaps you need to do more investigations and make sure your dog does its business in your own back yard.

OldFrill

Was this grass between the pavement and road? If so, Ip'm surprised it's her land and l would have assumed it was council land. I've never known it not to be. You should be able to check it on the Land Register.

It matters not.
The first six feet of our front garden is Council-owned but we are supposed to maintain it.

A dog won't delineate between what is Council and what is privately owned.
It matters not, anyway, it's anti-social and dangerous.