woman's dog CRAPS on my yard--did I respond appropriately?

It is not acceptable to allow your dog to crap or piss on somebody else's maintained private property. Even if attempts are made to clean it up.

Yes I own and like dogs, and yes I understand that when they want to go they go.

Realize that not all dogs crap or piss just to get it out of their system. Some do it to mark territory. I know some dogs that will crap and piss 10 times during a 3 mile walk. Many dogs use excreted waste as a weird form of public communication and/or to mark territory. These dogs are not sick since they will go all at once when confined to their own yard.

You can not pick up every last bit of crap, and there is no way to clean up piss. Some always remains.

Once a dog craps or pisses in a place, many other dogs will also want to also go in that same place.

The OP's front yard seems to be semi-maintained, and is not an acceptable place to allow a dog to crap or piss.

The woman, and many other dog owners, are wrong for allowing their dogs to crap/piss on other people's property. If you walk a dog around other people's property, you must have it on a leash, constantly watch the dog, and pull it away when it tries to go in inappropriate places.

I would have thanked her for picking it up, politely informed her that people's front yards are not acceptable as dog toilets, while then suggesting places that are.

If you do not have an acceptable place for your dog to crap/piss, and are unwilling to control it, you should not have a dog.

Unfortunately there are far too many dog owners whose believe behavior 3 -4 is ok, and you missed an opportunity to educate one.

There's more barking go on on this thread than happened in your front yard. The only other thing you might have done is to have got the dog to sniff your rear to show who's dominant.

Curious of what you would have done if it was a big scary looking guy with a pit bull. You probably would have volunteered to pick it up yourself.

Do you expect the dog walker to carry a cork? When the dog starts to poo the walker can just shove the cork into aforementioned buttyhole to ensure the dog poo doesn't extricate itself.

I have a dog and while she is walking a turd will fall out of the butt. How am I supposed to stop this?

I just pick it up and resume my life.

you dick wrote:

you're a dick. she picked it up, just like most responsible dog owners would, relax

This ^

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Should have been the end of the thread.

You should have said nothing more than hello, and if she didn't pick it up, you would have had every right to let loose with a condescending blue-streak.

Your lawn is "outside", it's not your living room carpet, don't be a D-Bag.

This was an appropriate response. You can't have people's dogs crapping on your lawn. Must be assertive and show them who's boss

you dick wrote:

you're a dick. she picked it up, just like most responsible dog owners would, relax

The area won't necessarily be clean even after it's been picked up. But I suppose you never know which animals are doing what in your yard, so perhaps this is no different. You probably wouldn't want you children playing in that area afterwards though, would you?

Ura Dick wrote:

you dick wrote:

you're a dick. she picked it up, just like most responsible dog owners would, relax

The area won't necessarily be clean even after it's been picked up. But I suppose you never know which animals are doing what in your yard, so perhaps this is no different. You probably wouldn't want you children playing in that area afterwards though, would you?

Maybe you live in a place devoid of wildlife, but at least the following have pooped in my yard: birds, black bears, brown bears, moose, squirrels, porcupine, fox, coyote, and many more. It's the outside. Playing outside can be dirty. Kids raised in households with pets are actually heathier. They have better immune systems and fewer allergies.

Harambe wrote:

The dog will poop where it pleases. You can yell at it all you want, I guess.

She should pick it up, which she did.

I took a crap in my own front yard and didn't clean it up.

It was a terrific freeing moment.

I live at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.

I'm sure there's some video of it somewhere.

Put up a fence if you don't like it

they are animals and will go wherever they please

the owner should pick it up

this is the correct analysis

Poop Happens wrote:

Better than a molotov cocktail in your living room, prick.

What's your address, and let's test to see how that works for you. Idiot.

OP, you are an idiot.

People walk dogs on sidewalks. Dogs crap. Dogs will preferentially, almost exclusively, crap on grass over pavement.

If the woman was carrying crap-bags, like most dog-owners do, of COURSE she was going to pick up the crap (that is what the bag is for, get it?) and your comment served no purpose except increasing your own sense of self-righteousness (and everyone else's sense that you are an idiot).

I often walk my dog early in the morning (before running) and after dark. If someone treated me the way you treated that woman, I would make your yard the prime destination for Spike's morning and night-time constitutional for the next few years. Hope you like waking up to crap you could have avoided.

rothnroll wrote:

Do you expect the dog walker to carry a cork? When the dog starts to poo the walker can just shove the cork into aforementioned buttyhole to ensure the dog poo doesn't extricate itself.

I have a dog and while she is walking a turd will fall out of the butt. How am I supposed to stop this?

I just pick it up and resume my life.

Exactly. Dogs will develop favorite places by habit, scent and territory, so it's a good idea to vary walking routes. (Or find a crapping destination you are comfortable with, like an isolated patch of grass or the OP's yard.)

But if you are just out for a random 30-minute stroll and your dog decides to deuce, well, it's gonna happen. All you can do is pick it up, and that is all you should have to do. Not listen to some overwrought prig who would never have known it happened, anyway.

Fred Gwynne wrote:

Curious of what you would have done if it was a big scary looking guy with a pit bull. You probably would have volunteered to pick it up yourself.

Call the cops, have him arrested, and have them put the dog down.

'burban feces philospher wrote:

Serious thread.

I walk out the front door of my house this morning at 8:35AM to find a 40-something woman allowing her leashed dog to take a big steaming crap on my front yard. FYI this is a small front yard, maybe 12 ft wide x 30 ft long, with wood chips and native plants.

She gives me the "whoops, totally busted" look.

I stop walking and give her a stink eye that communicates, "are you f-ing serious right now, lady?"

Controlling my urge to say something more rude, I say, "make sure you clean that up" in a decidedly unfriendly, yet controlled tone. In the heat of the moment, I tried to convey that I never want this to happen again, without going overboard.

What say you, LRC?

if it happens again, with the same dog or another, just ask "do you need a bag to pick that up?" It will be non-hostile yet convey the expectation that it will be picked up. A responsible dog owner should have a couple of bags but if it is the dog's 4th crap that walk ....

I am always amazed at the nice people who let their dogs crap on my yard, or pee on my car's tires, but who would be horribly offended if I peed in their driveway.

I am always amazed at the nice people who let their dogs crap on my yard, or pee on my car's tires, but who would be horribly offended if I peed in their driveway.[/quote]Similarly, what do you all think about this? The coastal Maine town I live in has beaches. We have a dog ordinance that says dogs can be on the beach until 8:00AM in the summer and also after 6PM. What happens now is that people collect their dogs and bring them to the beach to run with the other dogs. Nice and all, but as dogs will they crap and urinate all over the beach up until 7:59. (People generally do pick up the crap.) Meanwhile families arrive for their day at the beach putting their blankets down where dogs just took a leak and/or dump, kids playing in the sand etc. A busy day at the smallest beach (the one I run to/from) gets about 25 or so dogs in the morning. What say you? And why is it wrong for me to take a leak on the beach @ 7:59?

Man, I hope you and I are never neighbors (and I don't have a dog)!!