I have a front gravel garden which had been kept clean and tidy for my kids, until three weeks ago, I found a dog poo laying right in the middle of the garden entrance. I picked up and put in my own bin, because I didn't know what else to do. But 3 days later, another poo appeared further into my garden, on the side. I cleaned up again. 2 days later, it happened again. So within the last 3 weeks, the disgusting stuff appeared 6 times, either late in the night, or early in the morning, when nobody is around. I used citrus toilet liquid, vinegar, dog repellent powder, trying to form a barrier. None of those worked. I rang county council, they said it's in the private owned area, so they couldn't do anything about it. There are some other ways to solve the mistery, like setting up a camera, like staying awake all night to keep an eye, like putting a gate up. But they are not easy, not cheap. I wonder, is there any other way to keep the dog off my garden?? Any effective way please??
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What shall I do with dog poo keep appearing in my garden
Hengou · 09/06/2013 22:59
I would go for the gate option as its the owner that will be letting it go there and they would be less likely to go to the extra hassel of opening the gate and risk being caught (plus an unattended dog isn't going to have the manual dexterity 
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Worst example we had was someone hoik up their dog at 2am and throw it over our wall (which was 4 feet high on the pavement side) to poo. They muttered some pathetic excuse about trying to teach it to jump on the wall and quickly called it back once I flew to the front door and demanded to know what he thought he was doing.
We have CCTV covering our fronts as we'd had some issues with vandalism on the car, one morning I noticed a pile just inside my driveway.
I reviewed the CCTV and found the culprit, a man with a small dog who I hadn't seen before who obviously thought that because it was dark he'd get away with it. Unfortunately for him I saw him walking up the street a few days later as I was going out in the car. I stopped and asked him if there was a reason he let his dog crap on my property. He was just going into denial mode when I told him I'd got him on CCTV. His attitude changed then and he said he'd sort it.
When I got home the pile had gone and a quick review of the cameras showed a rather sheepish bloke poop scooping my garden. I've seen him a few times since....he crosses over now before he gets to my drive
Get a cheap camera or set up a camcorder in the windowsill and see what you pick up.
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