Precious lawn owners

Yes, you’re rude, ftm40. Hope that answers your question.

I recall the days when dogs were trained to use the gutters. I’d forgotten about that. It’s possible to train a dog to use just one place for its business. A friend has had several guide dogs. They are trained to use a designated place in her garden before she takes him/her out in public.

I’d never, ever let my dog poo on someone’s lawn or outside someone’s house. Just plain rude. Sometimes water pistols come in handy !

ftm420

Walking the dog this morning and he went to poo on a patch of grass in front of a house where the grass is not delineated but has a pavement running along the front, then another strip of grass next to the road. By coincidence, house owner with her dog came home and had a go at me for letting my dog poo on her lawn. I told her I was picking it all up (I'd already got the bag ready) and she stood and watched me, telling me I should move my dog to the other strip of grass and not use hers.

Am I right in thinking that if she lives next to a pavement, where the grass is not fenced off in any way, then I can't know whether the grass belongs to her or to the council.

Am I being rude by letting my dog poo where it might be private but you can't actually tell?

No, you’re not being at all rude. We have a grass verge in front of our house, owned by the council. I maintain it, mowing it regularly. I would not complain if a passerby allowed her dog to poo on it, as long as it was picked up. I have been known to remonstrate with someone who started to walk away, leaving it. I called out, offering him a bag, and he quickly picked it up! Mind you, I am a dog owner/lover.

I like animals, it doesnt mean I want to risk treading in the contents of their bowels.

Mind you, I am a dog owner/lover

So are many of us.
We are/were responsible dog owners.

For disabled people, the verge is where some need to tread to get out of a car safely.

I'm another dog owner who would never let my dog do this. It's just common good manners and courtesy not to let your dog do this. It doesn't matter who owns that particular piece of lawn. I'm sorry, but it's owners who do this who give all dog owners a bad name.

But please remember oh dog lovers that not everyone is.

I had to be the person telling/explaining to a customer in the food shop/cafe where I volunteer that he would have to move himself plus large dog into the designated dog friendly, area.
You should have heard the backlash I had to put up with!
You hate dogs. (No but we want to please all our customers)
So you're the boss. (No but noone
else wanted to tell him)
Where does it say no dogs? (it does but not on the tables)
I was bitten by a dog in here and if that had been a small child (you could be bitten anywhere was the retort)

I am an earlier generation it's true so maybe don't get this passion for taking your dogs everywhere.

To my mind, if you loved your pet, why would you want people dreading the sight of it, or eyeing it suspiciously.

I looked it up. There is one patch of grass outside the first house that is Local Council owned. The verge next to the road is County Council. The grass in front of that particular house is privately owned. Other houses are still owned by Housing Associations, so effectively private.

Ok I accept my rudeness and will drag my dog to the grass verge next time. As for pooing in the gutter - I've never in all my years heard of that one.

I’m a bit torn here, we do let our dog out before she is walked, but sometimes she simply doesn’t need to go til halfway to the park!

Always cleaned up and always wiped outwards with kitchen roll.

Our dogs a fully vaccinated, flead and wormed, vet checked every 6 months and I’m pretty sure don’t carry anything nasty.

Spot on Elegran. Some dog owners infuriate me with their entitled attitude.

I am a dog owner and you are completely out of order.

Does it matter who the lawn belongs to? Someone has to cut it and get the (residual) poo in the cutters.
I like dogs but not their owners if they annoy or even risk other’s people well-being by their irresponsible behaviour.

You are assuming it is the owner’s lawn by the title of your post btw.

My neighbour acquired a dog and I just happened to be looking out of my window when her dog did its business on my front grass, while she stood watching. I waited until she had gone in, then scooped up the deposit with a shovel, knocked on her door and, when she opened it, I threw the mess into her doorway and told her to clean it up in future.

My front lawn is exactly as described in the OP and I can't tell you how sick to death I am of finding piles of dog shit on it. I have watched as dog owners stand, staring at their phone screens, apparently oblivious, as they wait for their dog to finish shitting on my lawn. I've run outside to ask them to pick it up and move it but they shuffle off and pretend they haven't seen or heard. I regularly have to pick it up and dispose of it before my grandchildren come, walk in it and trail it through my house. So yes ftm420 you ARE being unreasonable, rude, disrespectful, entitled and disgustingly filthy by leaving your dog's excrement for someone else to deal with. If you're in any doubt as to how home owners feel about it, consider how you'd feel if one of us crapped on your lawn, walked away and left you to pick it up.

Farzanah: I put 'owner' in the title as she told me it was!

I still feel a bit torn as you can't always move your dog quickly enough. And before anyone jumps on that, no - I do NOT make a habit of letting him poo on lawns or driveways, if I can clearly tell it is one.

From comments on other posts, you might as well not bother taking your dog to a park either as 'Someone has to cut the grass'. As for putting the dog in your garden first, that only works if they want to 'go'when you want to walk. The purpose of a walk is to allow them to have a good sniff around, poo, and run about if they can.

Grunty: I agree, but I WAS picking it up, having missed the chance to move him. Not to be too specific, but it was already on its way out.

FTM420,my attitude is that since unruly dogs are a normal fact of life she 'd be better to get a fence than to have rows about dogs shitting on her lawn.

mum2three

My neighbour acquired a dog and I just happened to be looking out of my window when her dog did its business on my front grass, while she stood watching. I waited until she had gone in, then scooped up the deposit with a shovel, knocked on her door and, when she opened it, I threw the mess into her doorway and told her to clean it up in future.

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PS ,FTM420, I belatedly note that the ownership of that bit of lawn is not obvious. I think you are more careful than many dog owners, and will avoid the woman's grass in future.

Gutter training is a step too far for many owners ' capability and moreover is potentially dangerous.

I have recently been considering moving house, and before I even began to look at Rightmove one priority was to have a well fenced garden.

I think the truth is always important. I'm odd that way

Really?

That was in response to mum2three’s way of dealing with the problem.
Two wrongs…………

Kate1949

Spot on Elegran. Some dog owners infuriate me with their entitled attitude.

It really is a very small group of dog owners who are “entitled”, just as there are a small amount of people who are “entitled”