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Dog using grass verge?

109 replies

namechanger0002 · 29/05/2022 13:43

Sorry for the terrible title. Obviously name changed.

I'd just mown and strimmed the grass verges in front of my house and was in process of sweeping. I stopped sweeping temporarily as people approached on the path so they could get past. One woman and her dog left the path and started walking directly over one of the verges. She then let the dog stop and use the grass as a loo, it was crouched and she waited, she had a waste bag ready in her hand, but didn't need to use that.

I didn't say anything but I thought it was inappropriate and rude. I'd clearly just mowed it and now there will be a patch where the dog used it. I know I don't own the verge but I maintain it (the local authority only does them once every few months and not well). I'm not a dog owner and wondered if this was normal and I'm being unreasonable.

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Idratherhaveacuppa · 29/05/2022 13:52

My dog goes where she goes. I can't control this unfortunately but I can clean up after her. Obviously I won't allow her onto front lawns or flower beds but as far as I'm concerned a grass verge is perfectly acceptable.

namechanger0002 · 29/05/2022 13:50

She was around a metre or so away from me. I'd stopped to allow her to pass, but she walked on the verge instead. I don't know why someone would allow their dog to do that on something clearly well maintained. There are fields and parkland literally around the corner.

I said I know I don't own it. It just seemed rude and entitled. I didn't say anything, as I said, as I'd never seen this happen before and wondered how usual it was.

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Notonthestairs · 29/05/2022 13:50

You don't really "let" a dog wee. They just go. Better on the verge than on the pavement or driveway.

legalseagull · 29/05/2022 13:50

Haha of course YABU. It's not your garden.

potteringinmysocks · 29/05/2022 13:47

YABU. That's all there is to say.

coffeecupsandfairylights · 29/05/2022 13:47

YABU, verges are public property.

FinnRussell · 29/05/2022 13:46

YABU.

outcrops · 29/05/2022 13:45

I prefer my dog using a grass verge to a footpath or pavement.

girlmom21 · 29/05/2022 13:44

You're upset that a woman let her dog wee on public grass? Yes you're being unreasonable.