Neighbour's teen letting dogs do their business on our property

Open the door and say stop letting your dogs crap on our property. Let them crap on your lawn, driveway etc. Have a chat with the parents to let them know what’s happening and say if it happens again and you know it’s from their dogs (security camera) you’ll put the dog mess on their front step, entrance for them to clear up.

Honestly some of the advice on here is bonkers 😜.

I have teenagers and a dog. I hope they pick up after him and always remind them but would fully support anyone (politely) confronting them if they didn’t. And if a neighbour knocked and told me this, I’d be mortified and send them round to apologise profusely. I’d be asking neighbour to not only ensure he picks up after dog but he’s kept on a lead so he doesn’t wonder all over your property and avoid this happening in the first place.

Thankfully the cat was killed. Are you for fucking real? How nasty, bet you're a peach in real life...

Open the front door and say “what are you doing?”

Thankfully the cat was killed? How vile

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Some of these responses are bizarre. You don’t need to go nuclear at the first instance! Teenage boys are not exactly known for being the most considerate or mindful neighbours. If his parents are good people there’s a good chance they will be mortified if you let them know. It’s completely reasonable to either knock on the door and let them know what’s been happening and ask them to have a word with their son or to send them a letter politely doing the same.

Obviously if after you’ve raised it with them it continues to happen that’s a different issue and you might want to consider another option, but suggestions like putting it back in their garden at this point are ridiculous. You have to live alongside these people so best to keep it polite and friendly or at the very least civil if you can!

It's insane isn't it, why would anyone need to ask the question and why do posters suggest absolutely stupid things to do when it's totally obvious that you have a polite word

In my head I would:

• Await a week’s worth of dog shit
• put it in a paper bag
• put the bag on their doorstep and light it on fire
• ring the doorbell and run

In reality I would probably have a polite word or post a letter through their letterbox as other posters have suggested

Obviously talk to the parents, preferably the teen himself. Letting them wee up the house is pretty disgusting.

Speak to teen directly. That will hopefully work.

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if it still happens after you speak to them then I would be putting it on the doorstep

This place is insane sometimes. The neighbours by your own account seem nice, just go and talk to them! No need to immediately jump to the nuclear option!

So instead of telling the neighbours their cat was pooing in your garden and showing them, you took to throwing it all over first?

I had an image of that poster banging a tambourine on her head as she did all that angry typing! 🙈

Surely you'd just go round and tell them ?
Camping out ??
Giving them dog poo bags ?
Why does everything have to be so complicated on MN

As for people shovelling it back through the letterbox ? Yea right.

As an extra step, a liberal dusting of chilli powder or cayenne pepper over your garden/locations where the dog does its business will deter the dog (it doesn't hurt the dog, they hate the smell). Dogs will scent mark so you need to scrub your front door clean (you can get special cleaner for dog smells). Allowing a dog to pee up against your front door is beyond vile!

I'm really starting to despair more and more about some of the questions asked on this forum.

In what world/planet/universe could it ever possibly be unreasonable, to politely tell your neighbour they need to stop allowing their dog to shit on your property?

Seriously??

... Talking to them isn't a big issue. A simple word over the fence. You know like we used to do before we had to make a Mumsnet post about every interaction with people we had in our lives

Wow some of these responses are crazy 😂
I think it's absolutely disgusting what he's doing and you are definitely NBU.
You say the parents seem nice so just have a word with them about it and ask them to make sure their son keeps the dogs off your property and that he picks up after them.

If they are unreasonable or it keeps happening though, then it's totally fair to throw it all back in their garden and report them 😆

I don't know what kinds of fuckery my teens get up to.
If my neighbour came and told me this I'd be very apologetic as well as mortified, and would ensure it never happened again.
As well as making child buy them a box of chocolates.

For the love of God, just go and knock on the door and tell them what’s been happening. Their son should be picking up the dog shit no matter where it’s done.

Buy ‘get off my garden’ or similar (doesn’t harm animals) and squirt around where they go.

I found it worked. Dogs won’t go if a place fails the sniff test.

Just go next door , tell them what you’ve seen on the camera and found on the garden and tell them to sort it out .