Any polite ways to handle my neighbor letting his dog crap in my yard

I have the same idiot neighbors who let thier labs go on my lawn daily. They get let out in the morning, out the back door, owners looking on while their dogs poop on my lawn. My wife doesn't like my response to this problem.

I have a beagle who poops too. I take my dogs poop with a scooper and fling it on my neighbors driveway. The nieghbor has no balls and decided to tell my kids, my wife tells me just now. How gutless and selfish can one be? I now have to tell him to not discuss such things with the children.

Your answer to your problem [like mine] is simple. The driveway isn't good enough, throw it at the garage doors so it can be seen. It isn't seen while it is on the ground. Must get in eye level on his property. Throw the poop on the doors.

Good luck, I will be doing this one also!!!!!

politly kill his dog politly

You said the guy was nice, so act accodingly. Just politely ask him to pick up the dog doo with a plastic bag.

Sometimes people can be totally clueless about the offensive things their pets and kids do(do).

make a sign that says "this poop belongs to 'neighbor's name'" and add a phone number if you know it. put the sign on a stick and the stick in the poo. repeat for each poo. polite is not yelling in your neighbor's face. so, this is polite.

I remember in the neighborhood I used to live in, some people had a little sign in their front yard:

It was just a small cut-out in the shape of a dog squatting to poo and on it wes written "No!"

Find one and put it out in your yard where your neighbor will definitely see it.

You just got to man up and say something to your neighbor. You don't have to be confrontational or have an attitude....just let him know that his dog is wrecking your yard. If they're as cool and polite as you say, they'll probably be embarrassed and the situation will be remedied immediately.

If it doesn't improve, then I am totally in favor of flinging the shit on their yard and sidewalk.

Why are all of you so passive aggressive?

This thread is so weird.

When you see him/her next, just say, "Hey, I have been meaning to ask you... Totally not a huge issue, but could you please try to keep Fido from pooping in our yard? I have stepped in it a few times and, well, you know..."

Don't be a dick about it, don't do anything weird that will make them all pissed off. Just straight up ask them nicely. They probably don't even know...

Blood Type ACC wrote:

Why are all of you so passive aggressive?

because poop signs are funny to me.

Politely ask him to stop his mangy-ass dog from dumping in his yard, but if that doesn't work...

Catch the little bastard in the act. Get some latex gloves (maybe a couple pairs). Grab the fresh, steaming pile, and smear it all over the little bastard's body. Be thorough. Make sure to cover his legs and paws, and make sure he smells atrocious. Let him wander back into your neighbors house.

There's no proof you did anything. The dog could've rolled in his own poop. Your neighbors will soon discover that each poop results in a poopy dog, and they'll soon investigate, realizing he poops in your yard.

Take it up a notch. Rent a cow and tell him it's your pet cow. Then let it crap in his yard.

Free Advice wrote:

Put the dog's crap in a clear plastic bag, like a sandwich bag or something. Twist tie the bag to the dog's collar and send him home. Do this as often as possible. Eventually the dog owners will get the hint.

Don't let the dog owners see you do this. For all they know it could be any number of neighbors sending the crap home with Fido.

paint man wrote:

Entice the dog with some treats, apaint it's body white while it's eating the treats and then send it home.

Every time the dog comes to crap it will look for more treats and more paint.

Mr. Fields wrote:

Go into the yard and collect some nice specimens and bake them a cake or some cookies

I love this thread.

upper decker!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSVBpmDyRbY

I have a dog, my neighbor where I used to live had a dog. There was a steep ravine in both of our back yards. I conditioned my dog to deuce at the back of the property. Nothing but leaves and ground cover back there. I usually went back with a shovel I had leaning against the wall off the back patio and flipped it down the ravine after the deployment or in a couple days later.

I came back from a run, showered and was eating dinner in front of the TV. My dog is looking out the slider into the back yard and barking and growling. I figured it was a squirrel, turkey, or deer.

Then I hear "JAKE!!" - "JAKE!!" - "JAKE!!". I see the dog sniffing around the back yard and I move over to the chair. Here comes my neighbor with leash in hand. I figure she is going to clip on the leash and drag him back home.

But no, Jake goes into full hunch-backed hot plastic extrusion mode and drops a steamer right at the edge of the patio. She waits until he finishes, clips on the leash, walks him right past the shovel and heads back home.

I am livid but I refrain from a Pete-esque tantrum. I finish dinner and let my dog out a while later and flip it down the ravine.

The next day I get some of her mail in my mailbox. No, I did not use her electric bill to scoop my dog's poo. I walked over, knocked on the door, and presented her with a clean, unblemished bill. I then informed her:

Please do me a favor and clean up after Jake. I don't mind if he comes over for a visit because I like him, I like having you as a neighbor, and our dogs play well together.

She feigned ignorance. I said I am referring to last night when he crapped near my patio. She then said: "Oh, but that's good because it will help keep the coyotes and deer away."

I replied - I have to clean up after one dog, I don't want to clean up after two. And my dog almost always goes near the edge of the ravine. I'd rather not step off the patio into a pile.

She then said "How do you know it was Jake? There are lots of dogs around here."

I almost lost it but I calmly replied. I was sitting in a chair and I saw him do it. I also saw you watch him do it and then clip the leash on him when he was finished. He can't help it, he was just being a dog. But you walked right by the shovel... All I am asking is that you please clean up after your dog.

Jake was always tied or leashed after that and she would not talk to me for over 6 months.

Somehow I am the bad guy? No matter how civil you are, be prepared for your neighbor to over react.

Thats why people are so passive aggressive most people who have dogs are absolutely impossible to talk to.

Some guy I know up the street spent a few bucks and set up a sprinkler thing. If you step on his grass the sprinkler explodes on you. He said it only took twice because the dog remembered the water blast and started to skip his yard. He was pissed cause he said, "If I knew it would have worked that well I would have just waited hiding and turned it on when they stepped in."