The city just had people with jackhammers in front of my house, digging up the five feet of grass next to the road to install fiber optic cable. Any dog shitting there is not trespassing because it's not my property!
Curb train a dog?? Purposefully train a dog to take a dump on a sidewalk where people are just walking?! Now Iโve heard everything.
Part of the public access test for a service dog includes the dog only eliminating on cue, and they have to be able to do it on concrete.
I'm several pages behind so maybe this was covered, but this is for emergency situations where you don't have access to other surfaces, not for all the time.
Unless people leave the poop, how do you know dogs are shitting in your yard? Are you staring out the window all day? I would have no idea if 20 dogs a day were crapping on my lawn as long as the owners are responsible and pick it up.
Holes in the grass and/or the grass turns brown.
Also, just because you donโt see it doesnโt mean you should do it. No wonder many people hate dog owners.
This place often reminds me that I live in a different world than many of you. No one here would use someone elseโs dumpster/trash cans without asking or allow their dogs to shit in someone elseโs lawn or allow kids to hide in bushes of neighborโs without permission.
This thread is killing me. I have lived most of my adult life in non fancy urban neighborhoods. I've had everything from people cleaning out their cars and dumping their trash in my yard to stealing the flowers right off my bushes. I'm not going to complain if a dog poops in my yard as long as the owner picks it up.
Also, many dog owners live in apartments or condos and don't have a yard.
I have a new one: there's this movement of millennial and zennial women who are very anti alcohol/drinking culture. I am 100% absolutely fine with that. That is not my UO.
HOWEVER, there is a subset of this movement that is aggressive about it on Tik Tok et al and appear to be extremely convinced that they are the first hard-core, edgy anti alcohol people ever. And my little Gen X heart that remembers the straightedge crowd drawing giant Xs on their hands with sharpies and violently moshing in the 1990s is warmed by how cute that is. So my UO is get over yourselves with your "start a riot" Tik Toks. Y'all ain't the first.
I have a new one: there's this movement of millennial and zennial women who are very anti alcohol/drinking culture. I am 100% absolutely fine with that. That is not my UO.
HOWEVER, there is a subset of this movement that is aggressive about it on Tik Tok et al and appear to be extremely convinced that they are the first hard-core, edgy anti alcohol people ever. And my little Gen X heart that remembers the straightedge crowd drawing giant Xs on their hands with sharpies and violently moshing in the 1990s is warmed by how cute that is. So my UO is get over yourselves with your "start a riot" Tik Toks. Y'all ain't the first.
back in college, my sorority would always hold a date party at this rural bar (our school was in a small town, you had to go out to the country to find a place to rent out) that would mark hands with an X if you were OVER 21. Lol, they knew exactly what they were doing. Aaaah, memories.
And all this dog walking talk makes me glad to live where I do. If I got worked up over animals shitting in my yard, I'd have a stressful home life. Deer, squirrels, bunnies (my dogs find their shit in particular a delicacy....hurl), coyotes, fox. And frogs all over the street in the spring. We're in a township, surrounded by farms, wetlands, and nature. No sidewalks, and literally everyone walks their dog here. And everyone has a little baggie holder that you clean it up with. The HOA is neurotic about how the mailboxes look, but dogs going on someone else's yard (if picked up) isn't even on their radar.
Another UO - Reality shows just following people's lives/fake drama are the actual worst.
H losses his shit every time someone lets their dogs pee or poop in the yard so heโd be in good company here. Iโm very whatever about it all. Pick it up but please donโt put it in my can. I donโt even put poop diapers in my trash can and I donโt want dog poop in there either. I had no idea you could train a dog not to pee or poop on a walk. I just figured thatโs what they will do.
I need to know where you put your poop diapers?
I offered to take care of my boyfriend's dog for Thanksgiving weekend and I panicked over the poop rules. I did let the dog poop wherever and I find it baffling that one could move a dog once it's started pooping, or even train the dog to poop on the sidewalk.
Also, re: divorce. I don't know a single person who regrets their divorce, including my exH who was devastated when I left. He high-fived me on what would have been our 16th anniversary (a year after I left) and said, "thanks for ruining my life. It's actually better now." I said, "told you so," and we laughed. (Yes, I complain about him a lot on here but he has his moments.)
I have a new one: there's this movement of millennial and zennial women who are very anti alcohol/drinking culture. I am 100% absolutely fine with that. That is not my UO.
HOWEVER, there is a subset of this movement that is aggressive about it on Tik Tok et al and appear to be extremely convinced that they are the first hard-core, edgy anti alcohol people ever. And my little Gen X heart that remembers the straightedge crowd drawing giant Xs on their hands with sharpies and violently moshing in the 1990s is warmed by how cute that is. So my UO is get over yourselves with your "start a riot" Tik Toks. Y'all ain't the first.
back in college, my sorority would always hold a date party at this rural bar (our school was in a small town, you had to go out to the country to find a place to rent out) that would mark hands with an X if you were OVER 21. Lol, they knew exactly what they were doing. Aaaah, memories.
And all this dog walking talk makes me glad to live where I do. If I got worked up over animals shitting in my yard, I'd have a stressful home life. Deer, squirrels, bunnies (my dogs find their shit in particular a delicacy....hurl), coyotes, fox. And frogs all over the street in the spring. We're in a township, surrounded by farms, wetlands, and nature. No sidewalks, and literally everyone walks their dog here. And everyone has a little baggie holder that you clean it up with. The HOA is neurotic about how the mailboxes look, but dogs going on someone else's yard (if picked up) isn't even on their radar.
Another UO - Reality shows just following people's lives/fake drama are the actual worst.
A neighborhood I run in has a about 10 houses that have signs on the strip between the curb and sidewalk where people have places signs that say either "curb your dog," "no dogs," or a picture of a dog with an X through it. We don't have curbs or sidewalks in my neighborhood, and plots are big enough that no one really cares too much about what's happening by the street. My dog escaped the first day I got her and took a shit in my neighbors woods and I could not find it. I apologized and my neighbors thought it was hilarious and didn't care.
I understand some of the annoyance on this topic in cities. My sister lives in Brooklyn and, outside of parks, there's very little plantlife on the streets, so dogs peeing/pooping in these areas kills grass, trees, flowers, etc. The plants end up getting a killer dose of nitrogen/manure through pet waste.
I'm having flashbacks to the 80s when my parents would loudly complain all the time of all the dog owner neighbors whose dogs would poop in our front yard and on the strip between the sidewalk and road. Picking up after your dog was not a big thing back then from what I remember. I think the one neighbor to the left of us sometimes picked up her dog's poop (can't recall the name of this dog), but the one on the right side definitely never picked up Kissy's poop. Kissy used to often be tied to a tree in their front yard, but the leash was long enough to extend a bit into our yard and hence she/he? would poop there.
And this is one of the huge reasons they were/still are a "no shoes inside" house.
Remember loofah-gate? I think this dog shitting debate might be better than that. I'm over here laughing my ass off at some of you.
This has been so cathartic. Since I'm not 'that' neighbor with the "no dogs" sign on my lawn or who chases people off, I got a lot of built up bad-dog-owner annoyance out here.
Still, I don't want your dog's diarrhea on my lawn where my kids play no matter how many times you try to convince me otherwise. Let it "soak in" to the dog park field or get him a doggie diaper.
H losses his shit every time someone lets their dogs pee or poop in the yard so heโd be in good company here. Iโm very whatever about it all. Pick it up but please donโt put it in my can. I donโt even put poop diapers in my trash can and I donโt want dog poop in there either. I had no idea you could train a dog not to pee or poop on a walk. I just figured thatโs what they will do.
I need to know where you put your poop diapers?
I offered to take care of my boyfriend's dog for Thanksgiving weekend and I panicked over the poop rules. I did let the dog poop wherever and I find it baffling that one could move a dog once it's started pooping, or even train the dog to poop on the sidewalk.
Also, re: divorce. I don't know a single person who regrets their divorce, including my exH who was devastated when I left. He high-fived me on what would have been our 16th anniversary (a year after I left) and said, "thanks for ruining my life. It's actually better now." I said, "told you so," and we laughed. (Yes, I complain about him a lot on here but he has his moments.)
We dump the poop in the toilet like you would do with a cloth diaper. If we have a particularly nasty diaper I do bag it in throw it in the trash but thatโs not often.
I offered to take care of my boyfriend's dog for Thanksgiving weekend and I panicked over the poop rules. I did let the dog poop wherever and I find it baffling that one could move a dog once it's started pooping, or even train the dog to poop on the sidewalk.
Also, re: divorce. I don't know a single person who regrets their divorce, including my exH who was devastated when I left. He high-fived me on what would have been our 16th anniversary (a year after I left) and said, "thanks for ruining my life. It's actually better now." I said, "told you so," and we laughed. (Yes, I complain about him a lot on here but he has his moments.)
We dump the poop in the toilet like you would do with a cloth diaper. If we have a particularly nasty diaper I do bag it in throw it in the trash but thatโs not often.
I was coming in here to make a comment about how our dog uses the family cloth and then I saw this and I was sure you were talking about dogs too and had to reread twice.
We dump the poop in the toilet like you would do with a cloth diaper. If we have a particularly nasty diaper I do bag it in throw it in the trash but thatโs not often.
I was coming in here to make a comment about how our dog uses the family cloth and then I saw this and I was sure you were talking about dogs too and had to reread twice.
This whole post has gone to the shitter so anything is possible lol
I find it odd that all of these dogs have the opportunity to shit on someone else's lawn?? I walked my retriever mix everyday for 16 years in four different suburban towns, and I never let him walk on anyone else's lawn, so he would never have the chance to poop there. He would poop before we left home, in the gutter area of the street, or at a neighborhood park if we were doing a longer walk. Pooping on the lawn on the park is fair game to me as long as you pick it up / pour water on it if it is runny. Do you guys just... let your dog walk all over people's lawns? I generally kept my dog close to me on the street side to avoid him wandering onto other people's property, and we would try to walk to a local park so he could wander a bit farther on his leash. I also don't personally wander into people's yards, or let me kids wander into people's yards... its nothing unique to the dog.
When I walked my dog this morning I saw someone in the neighborhood got a blow up of the RV from Christmas Vacation. I wanted so badly to take a picture of my dog next to it, but I was afraid he'd shit on the lawn while I was getting my phone out instead of on the grass between the curb and sidewalk!!
I find it odd that all of these dogs have the opportunity to shit on someone else's lawn?? I walked my retriever mix everyday for 16 years in four different suburban towns, and I never let him walk on anyone else's lawn, so he would never have the chance to poop there. He would poop before we left home, in the gutter area of the street, or at a neighborhood park if we were doing a longer walk. Pooping on the lawn on the park is fair game to me as long as you pick it up / pour water on it if it is runny. Do you guys just... let your dog walk all over people's lawns? I generally kept my dog close to me on the street side to avoid him wandering onto other people's property, and we would try to walk to a local park so he could wander a bit farther on his leash. I also don't personally wander into people's yards, or let me kids wander into people's yards... its nothing unique to the dog.
A lot of people think everything to the street is their lawn.
I find it odd that all of these dogs have the opportunity to shit on someone else's lawn?? I walked my retriever mix everyday for 16 years in four different suburban towns, and I never let him walk on anyone else's lawn, so he would never have the chance to poop there. He would poop before we left home, in the gutter area of the street, or at a neighborhood park if we were doing a longer walk. Pooping on the lawn on the park is fair game to me as long as you pick it up / pour water on it if it is runny. Do you guys just... let your dog walk all over people's lawns? I generally kept my dog close to me on the street side to avoid him wandering onto other people's property, and we would try to walk to a local park so he could wander a bit farther on his leash. I also don't personally wander into people's yards, or let me kids wander into people's yards... its nothing unique to the dog.
A lot of people think everything to the street is their lawn.
This. I don't let me dog walk on the grass between the sidewalk and the house but he is allowed on the section between the sidewalk and street as that is technically city property.
I clearly gave up on this post to early, but the title change and emoji's drew me back in.
I live in a neighborhood with no sidewalks and nearly everyone who has dogs walks them (we don't, we have a fenced in yard). That said, dogs poop in people's yards here, but when I've seen it, they are always very close to the where the edge of the lawn reaches the road. I never see people letting their dogs go further than a couple of feet in to someone's yard. It would never occur to me to be bothered by dogs pooping in my yard as long as it's cleaned up, but my yard is also basically clover and barely grass, so clearly I give no shits LOL
I find it odd that all of these dogs have the opportunity to shit on someone else's lawn?? I walked my retriever mix everyday for 16 years in four different suburban towns, and I never let him walk on anyone else's lawn, so he would never have the chance to poop there. He would poop before we left home, in the gutter area of the street, or at a neighborhood park if we were doing a longer walk. Pooping on the lawn on the park is fair game to me as long as you pick it up / pour water on it if it is runny. Do you guys just... let your dog walk all over people's lawns? I generally kept my dog close to me on the street side to avoid him wandering onto other people's property, and we would try to walk to a local park so he could wander a bit farther on his leash. I also don't personally wander into people's yards, or let me kids wander into people's yards... its nothing unique to the dog.
Out neighborhood doesn't have sidewalks, so if cars are coming we get to the side of the road. The dogs might walk 1-2 ft into people's yards.
There are a ton of dogs in our neighborhood and everyone does the same thing. And no matter how much time I give my dogs in our yard, one of them will still manage to poop on the walk (usually at the worst time).
A lot of people think everything to the street is their lawn.
This. I don't let me dog walk on the grass between the sidewalk and the house but he is allowed on the section between the sidewalk and street as that is technically city property.
I keep my dog between me and the street but there's a pretty big section of land between the sidewalk and the street. So many people have the "no dog" signs in that area.
Post by goldengirlz on Dec 3, 2021 14:23:44 GMT -5
Dog shit is whatever (provided the owner cleans it up) but my biggest dog-related pet peeve is when people let their dogs run off-leash and then yell, โHeโs friendly!โ while their dog is jumping all over me and/or my kid. Iโm friendly too but that doesnโt mean itโs acceptable for me to jump all over strangers who are trying to mind their own business.
Actually, I suppose the โheโs friendlyโ people are step above the group of assholes we once encountered on a hiking trail. This dog came running up to us and was growling at DD. His owners sauntered over and told us, โHe doesnโt like childrenโ like WE were the problem. (Well, now because of you fuckers, my child doesnโt like dogs so thanks for that.)