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Warning: This JE contains descriptions of dog poop, links to images and movies of dog poop, and the posts to it may discuss dog poop as well.

So, from the day we moved in our one neighbor (several doors down) would bring their dog up to do his duty on our lawn, on our walk, and practically on our porch.

I talked to them and they claimed they would clean it up. Rather the claim was that they always cleaned it up, but that their son wasn't good about it and that they would be more diligent. Having just moved in I pretended to be nice (you know I'm really not) and gave them a chance. Piles of poop later they got more talking to.

More poop.

One Saturday morning Luvsbway and I are enjoying a breakfast and there's this man standing outside of our kitchen window. Sure enough, it is poopy-dog daddy leaving us a present. Luvsbway handled the yelling this time.

Now, there are plenty of other dogs in our neighborhood, their owners seem to realize that dogs need to be walked (more than three or four doors down) and that they should clean up after their dogs. I see them out with scoopers and bags, and they go around the neighborhood. These hapless souls, on the other hand, go as far as our house and don't clean it up.

Of note, when Luvsbway and I (and as far as I can tell other neighbors) go for a walk down the street we walk on the road (there are no side walks), not the front lawns of our neighbors.

Well, after several discussions with them, polite as we can be, they finally go about 30 feet further from the house. They still don't clean up after the dog, but at least it is outside of our general walk path.

This, however, could change. One of my loves in life is football and I'm always trying to get people to go out and play catch with me. Where they are going now is a decent grassy area with little tree coverage and is generally level. It also isn't outback of anyone's house so window breakage potential is reduced.

Maybe I'm alone in this, but I don't enjoy running in doggy land mines when I'm playing football.

Well, I don't think we're going to use the things that follow for a little while (there is an ordinance against not cleaning up after your dog, but we worry about getting the cars keyed), I thought I'd share the findings with you.

I had a camera in hand the other day taking pictures of the cat when the dog in question walked by our kitchen window to take a dump. I dutifully got stills of the mom (clearly showing her face) and a video of the dump and run.

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  • Well.... (Score:3, Informative)

    by BWJones ( 18351 ) * on Sunday March 14, 2004 @02:47AM (#8559820) Homepage Journal
    Well, that is certainly a shining example of society. Perhaps you could simply, politely show the offending neighbors your photos and video and then..........Oh, screw it. Take the photos to your local mayors office or police and ask them to enforce this issue. These people sound like absolute lazy, low life losers and you have already been polite enough.

    Better yet, show the evidence to some of your other neighbors and get them to talk to the offending people as well. There is nothing like a little social peer pressure to get people to fly right.

  • I need to go and clean up my backyard. With 3 dogs it gets messy pretty quick, but thanks to the size of my backyard, I don't need to do this often.

    I just feel sorry for the neighbors dog. Locked in a 10' by 4' pen 24/7, without any cleanup at all (I think the neighbor cleaned the dogs crap up once, about a year ago). I sometimes take the dog for a walk with my other dogs so he doesn't have to be in his "prison" all the time. Worst of all, that dog was once mine; when one of my dogs had pups, my dad gave h
    • I just feel sorry for the neighbors dog. Locked in a 10' by 4' pen 24/7, without any cleanup at all ~.
      Some people are not responsible enough to own pets. Why not give ASPCA [aspca.org] a call?
      • "Why not give ASPCA a call?"

        I've thought of that for a while. It seems sort of underhanded to me. I'll confront him and tell him myself to give up the dog if I ever decide to do anything.

        I just don't to gain an enemy, which is what will probably happen if it comes to calling the aspca.

        And I didn't even know that the conditions that the dog were being kept in were bad enough for the law to intercede.
  • and keep that video camera recording your car for the next three days. ummm, yeah. can you find someone with an old VHS model that takes 6 hour tapes? That's 12 tapes. you tape them keying your car, and the police really will get involved.
    • You can just plug your digicam into your VHS VCR and record on the VCR.

      Luckily if the neighbor lady wears a mask while keying your car you'll be able to identify her by the tacky oversized button she is wearing.

  • Mrs Turgid has a novel solution in such cases. She sccops the poop herself and depostis it upon the owner's property.

    There's nothing worse than seeing a dog's bottom first thing in the morning, on the way to work. Mrs Turgid thinks that someone should invent a pelmet for dogs' bottoms for modesty purposes.

    • I was thinking of doing that same thing, but then I figured I should go dump my own poop on their lawn. Luvsbway doesn't seem too keen on me doing either of those, however.

      Someone one suggested we put little flags in the poops. Ummm... yeah. I guess to sort of symbolize "Hey, look what we saw!" and serve as a warning to not step in it. I think this is about the worst suggestion yet.
  • Surely we can set up a fund to pay a homeless man to regularly take a shit on the hood of her car.
    • BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!

      This has been a great sunday- your post, and I got a bench that Lowes was selling for $100 for $30.

      thats right, I'm a cheap, laughing bastard.
  • Interesting...uh... looking neighbors. Is she running for office or something with that big button there? Hmmm.

    I really don't have a problem with dogs going on the edge of my lawn, by the road because I figure that other animals (rabbits, for instance) do it as well. The problem I have is when people walk into my yard to let their dogs go. I personally think that taking the time to walk the dog up into your lawn shows intention of letting the dog go in your yard. If the dog just suddenly has to go and
    • Best advice I could offer (and it won't protect again car keying, unfortunately) is to keep a stack of plastic bags by your door and "nicely" walk one out to her after her dog goes and politely ask her to clean up her mess since you and possibly children play in that area and nobody wants to step in dog doo.

      This is probably a good tactic to take. The next time you notice them walking away, walk outside and tell them something to the effect of "Oh, looks like you forgot a bag to clean up...I've got an ex

  • Like a fine a day from the city.

    They'll do that if you ask.

    Whatever you do, don't do anything wrong like rescoop the poo onto thier lawn. This (white?)-trash will charge you for doing that asap. Just get the inforcement in and let them take care of it.

  • That is a big fucken dog. I don't blame the owner for not wanting to go *near* that steaming pile.

    I mean - DAMN.

    In all seriousness, I don't understand people who just leave their dog's shit on the street. Are they just lazy, sadistic, stupid - all three?

    Of course, here in NYC it's not always *dog* poop you're looking at.
  • one - start picking up after their dog.

    two - move to france, where it's acceptable to let your dog crap in the middle of the street and not clean it up, although it is advised that you put a piece of paper over it to make it a little less obvious.
  • Well, for what it's worth, we have a no-dog-pooping-without-cleanup type of ordinance around here.

    I love the roadsigns. It's a "roadsign diagram" (you know the sort, like the styleized animal you see on a road sign pointing to the zoo and that kind of thing) of a dog, and beside it a red circle with a slash across - i.e. the usual 'prohibited' symbol. Then in this circle is a picture of a dog turd. A roadsign type diagram dog turd. And above it, roadsign type diagram wisps of steam!

    The designer of the lit
    • In my old apartment complex we had similar signs only they were the stylized figure of a man and a dog (like the men's room symbol) and the dog was like pooping and the man is sort of crouched at the knees behind the dog with his one hand outstreached at the poop. Sort of like he was going to catch it.
  • Do you "own" that lawn or do you live in an apartment and "share" the lawn?

    If you own it you should just tell them to stay off the lawn, if you live in an apartment you should complain to the owners.

    Be careful, thats a big dog there, you wouldn't want her to sit on you.
    • The part they are going on now is not owned by us. The part they were going on was. They are off of that part which we have a real good reason to bitch about, and moved to an area of "public" land. However, IMHO marking the land with your brand of land mines to sort of laying claim, and to me it removes some of the public shared nature of it. For example, I don't feel comfortable going and playing catch there.

      Be careful, thats a big dog there, you wouldn't want her to sit on you.

      You mean the canine
      • Oh I agree 100%, they should be picking up their crap regardless of who the owner is..

        I'm sure the dog would bite rather than sit on someone so I guess I mean the owner.

      • Well, that's a difficult matter then. If there's a housing association, you might try bringing the matter to them. Unfortunately, it's precisely this sort of crap (no pun intended) that leads to apartments and associations banning pets. If your area has a pick-up-your-poop ordinance, I would get the authorities involved.

        BTW I have a dog and live in the city, and there's nothing more irritating than stepping in someone else's dog poop when cleaning up after your own. Some people just don't deserve a dog.

  • LOL. Well, I would say that you have less room to complain about the dog going on the public area, but its understandable why you wouldn't like them to.

    However, if the dog ever goes on your lawn again, here is my new brilliant dexterpexter idea. lol. Get a piece of wood, cut it into the shape of a gravestone, and paint it grey. Before putting it in your yard, on it you should paint very clearly:

    Here lies,
    All cold and hard,
    The last damn dog,
    That pooped in my yard!

    *cackles maniacally*
    Boy, do I need

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