Dog using grass verge?

You are the rude and entitled one thinking you can mow it and do as you please with it but other people can't use it as a public green space.

Who the fuck would walk their dog into the road to squat on a drain? Like, when traffic is going past?

Where I live the road and houses are all separated by grass verges, almost the whole area. I would have a hard job stopping my dog using the grass to go on, they naturally want to use it. I would never let him go on someone’s private property or garden but a public area is surely maybe better than a park, where people want to sit on the grass? People don’t usually sit on grass verges. YABU

My dog doesn't go on pavements. Grass verges is what he aims for.. you're being unreasonable.

We have a maintained grass verge. Someone let's their dog shit on it and doesn't pick it up.. so maybe pick your battles

@MissMaple82 how do I sound insane?! I was responding to a poster who had issues with dogs weeing in their front garden... I was pointing out to the poster that the dog the op has taken offence to wasn't in the garden.. the dog had never been in the op's garden. Not sure what's insane about that?!

😂😂😂

Potteringinmysocks, you sound insane

Of course you are bring unreasonable. Get a grip!

The storm drain thing is an old fashioned thing to me. In the 70s you were seen as a ‘responsible owner’ if you trained your dog to wee and poo in the gutter near a drain! Now, quite rightly, you pick up poo. Wee is unpleasant I suppose, but not potentially harmful like poo. I don’t like to see trails of wee across the pavement though, so I make sure my dog isn’t so desperate she needs to do it there. I’ve never had a dog that is random with their toilet habits though, they have always been easy to predict so I work round that to avoid unnecessary mess when out.

Probably a dog like mine. She really hates weeing on pavement so will hold on until she gets to some grass. We have verges like yours down our road and I avoid them as much as possible so she doesn’t wee on them. But on the occasions that she does…..🤷‍♀️ not private property, no difference between that and the council-maintained wild fields we are heading for. So I think you’re being a bit precious tbh. Even bitch’s wee won’t damage the grass as an occasional thing.

My dog can poo and wee on any grass verge that she likes, no matter how well maintained. I'll always clean up after her.

You need help if this is genuinley how you behave.

Fwiw you won't get a brown mark on the grass from one wee. My dog didn't used to pee on our grass but since covid restrictions had lifted and neighbours have been dog sitting their sons dog daily who happily pees there it's now fair game. They both wee all over (as I'm sure do the foxes) and there is only one brown patch where the 2 dogs have what I can only assume is like a long running game off doggy pee snap. This also happens to be on a corner where the grass was already more worn than the rest of the lawn. No need to panic!

YABU. Hyacinth Bucket springs to mind.

Oh God, you’re one of those neighbours. Why would you even want to do the council’s job, the one you pay them for? Strange.

As the others have said, please leave it wild for No Mow May.

Yes,YABU.

Good lord! You can't really be upset that a dog peed on public grass?

What effect do you think the dog pee will have on the grass verge. It's likely that by this time tomorrow and dozen more dogs will of peed on it also!

Christ 😆. Other dogs will pee there (which is why her dog chose that spot. Mine is very selective about where she pees - must be atop another dogs fresh wee.) Cats will pee there, foxes will pee there, any other wildlife will also pee there! A public verge whether mown or not is exactly where dogs will and should be peeing. Most won't just go on the pavement and anyway it would be less pleasant if they did. Nothing entitled about it!

You're being ridiculously unreasonable.

Somebody checked a couple of decades ago? I know local authorities can be slow but even their policies and management plans will have almost certainly changed in the last couple of decades. It seems very unlikely they would plant the next street with wildflowers but not yours. Or if they genuinely haven’t planted wildflowers, it’s because they’ve realised it’s pointless as you and neighbours will destroy any habitat they try to create.

What, realistically, do you expect her to do? You don’t “allow” a dog to go anywhere. Like toddlers. It’s possible to housetrain them, but once they are out there’s literally no way for a dog to distinguish your verge from any other grass.

I think it's lovely that you want your neighbourhood to look nice. I think it's wonderful that you take the time and effort. However it's not yours, it's everybody's. So, keep doing it if you enjoy it but knowing (and understanding) you can't be upset it others use that space too.

Yabu. The fact you choose to maintain land that is public property and doesn't belong to you is irrelevant. People can walk on the verge and let their dogs poo/wee if they want to.

YABVU

It sounds like you think you are in charge of that area just because you choose to maintain it.

I’m glad you didn’t say anything as she probably would have just laughed at you.