Precious lawn owners

Well where else are people supposed to take their dogs?🤗

Granmarderby10 - By public recreation ground I hope you don't mean a park or sports field. We would rather not have dog poo there.

Either thoroughly train your dog as soon as you get them and get them to do it at home … or don’t have a dog unless you are within comfortable distance (for the dogs bladder and bowels) to a public recreation ground.

And …Don’t have a dog if you don’t have any garden or space.

Ps. there is an aerosol spray that “ “petrifies” (hardens) the poop and makes pick-up easier and the product also sterilises the area. ..apparently.

One thing worse than dog poo on open plan lawns is when it’s picked up and hung on tree branches , gaps in walls or slung into someone’s garden

Caleo

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.

We're not allowed fences.
Perhaps she isn't either.
I assume by she you mean the unfortunate person who doesn't want dog poo on her lawn or even on the verge part of it where people might walk.

I was toying with the idea of getting a small dog when we retire but am now 🤢 and very much put off.

ftm420

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.

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.

Allowing your do to do its business on the grass verges is not pleasant either; not neighbourly or community-minded.

If you have to drag your dog, do you think it needs more training?

Grammaretto

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.

😯 The manager should have taken over and asked him to leave immediately!

As has been said by many posters, most dog-owners are responsible for their pets and have taken the trouble to find out their natural way of life and train the dog so as to adapt that to living amongst humans. A few either don't know anything about what a dog does naturally, want to treat it like a miniature human being, or don't care so long as they are not inconvenienced in any way themselves.

Take that good sniff around that a dog loves to do. It is reading the daily doggy newspaper, using its sense of smell, which is 10,00 to 100,000 times as sensitive than that of a human. Every dog that has walked this route has left a scent behind, which gets gradually weaker, so later dogs know who has passed along here and how long ago, whether they are fit or ill, male or female, and if female what phase of their reproductive cycle they are in. If a dog or bitch has pood here, the smell will last for another dog, even if it has been picked up and the area cleaned.

Dogs prefer to use a spot which has been used before, by them or by another dog, so they repeat the action - and leave more scent, much as a human will leave a comment to add their two-pennorth to an ongoing conversation. They also like to please the human with them - who can show their disapproval and discourage them from doing it the next time they pass the spot, or they can do nothing and allow it to happen.

This is how good owners train their dogs to be good dogs, and bad owners don't bother. House-training starts when they are puppies, when they are taught not to use the nice soft carpet as a toilet, but it doesn't stop at the owner's house.

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.

Ah! So home owners should be prepared to spend £££ fencing off their gardens so that irresponsible, feckless dog owners aren't inconvenienced? And how does that work when many housing estates stipulate that the frontage must be kept open plan? And why is it someone else's job to do what dog owners are incapable of; keeping dog shit off their property? "Unruly" dogs are not a normal fact of life; they're a scourge of society. Their mess spreads disease, gets smeared all over shoes and pram wheels and then gets trailed through homes. It's not the home owner who should fence off their lawns; it's dog owners who should train their animals properly and take responsibility for them. And if you can't do that; don't have a dog.

MissAdventure

Why would mayone want to cause bad feelings, when they could just pick it up?
Surely it shouldn't come down to whose grass it is, or whether the dog did a "surprise" poo, or whether the owner usually picks it up, or who should have a fence.

Just pick it up!

Yes, and OP did pick it up, as we always always do, wherever said poo is.

Why would mayone want to cause bad feelings, when they could just pick it up?
Surely it shouldn't come down to whose grass it is, or whether the dog did a "surprise" poo, or whether the owner usually picks it up, or who should have a fence.

Just pick it up!

ftm420

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.

I agree. 😊

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”

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

Really?

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

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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.