Should residents be able to 'police' sections of their street?

He's not right, it's diet based.

No I'm not that type of person. Why would you think I was? I don't understand some of the responses on here either!

Soapy water kills the grass, plain water is enough to dilute it and wash it away

It's not true, I've got a male dog he turns the grass brown where he wees

Carry a washing up liquid bottle with water and a tiny bit of soap in it. Squirt over dog urine.

Ends the drama. Seen it done all over Malta and Spain.

Sorry, he’s wrong. Sex of the pooch is irrelevant.

That’s actually quite interesting. Off to see if it’s true.

So it is ok for fox wee, cat wee, bird poop but not dog wee.

Dog owners can control a lot of things their dogs do but when they want to go they will go especially when they see a nice bit of grassed verge

I can’t believe some of the responses. All those saying that this woman is right to keep people off a piece of land owned by the local council and all residents in the borough are paying through their council tax for it to be maintained.
Would you think if someone came onto your front garden and started planting flowers then screamed at you to not use your front garden. Would you comply.

Or are you someone who is happy to give away property owned by others but if someone tries to take your land then you wouldn’t allow it.

Apparently female dog wee turns the grass brown. Male dog wee doesn't.
According to DH anyway not sure how he knows - we don't have a dog.

Because dog owners are meant to have control over their pets and do the right thing so their excretions are minimally offensive.

Obviously your dog is ‘allowed’ to wee there but I’d take it somewhere else if I were you.

She decided to plant geraniums on ground that isn't hers, most probably to deter people from taking their dogs to the loo. Unfortunately for her she won't stop the cats or local wildlife from using it. We have a similar patch of grass on the corner next to my house, it gets lots of dog walkers using it & cats Most of the owners pick up the poop , the wee sinks into the ground, we can't smell it and we're right next to it so she's talking bollocks. The geranium woman is being unreasonable. What you could do OP is take a bottle of water with you to pour over the dog wee and that will dilute the strength so it doesn't burn the grass. If she starts shouting at you, film her !

The council care for it. They mow it. If anything like the council around an area I used to live. Those geraniums will be mown down. The mower person has a job to do in a certain amount of time and they mow that patch of grass whether there are geraniums on it or not

Why would you when said piece of grass is probably used nightly by foxes and all other wild and domesticated animals

Only if the dog pees there every day is that true. Grow up.

Because they didn't. This is was an idea created by their imagination or to troll people. Dogs have always peed whereever they wanted. Its not something you can control.

This was never a thing. And where do you think all the wild animals pee?

This is ridiculous. Dogs pee on their walks, like they are supposed to. In the grass. It doesn't make anything smell, and it washes away the next time it rains or someone waters.

Why can't people train the dog to piss into the kerb near a drain? I wouldn't ever encourage my dog to piss on flowers that were clearly planted by someone to make the area pleasant.
Why is dog piss seen as acceptable all over the bloody place?

This. Plus the amount of rain we get in this country means it’s not going to stink of piss for very long. And it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that a human has pissed there on their way home from the pub.

Some here who have similar have planted thorny shrubs such as pyracantha, also called firethorn, which is a dense prickly evergreen, or berberis or hawthorn. Hawthorn loses its leaves in winter. You can keep them low with regular cutting or high if you want, depending on the layout. Pyracantha is fast growing. If you put gravel, they'll still use it as a toilet, no? Same with flowers.

This site is full of weirdos honestly half of them sit there bored with no life and get gobby on here cos it gives them a wide sense of excitement.

it’s your dog and it can pee where ever it likes so long as it’s legal, ignore anyone else! Foxes, cats, rats, mice, birds will all be peeling on it! Your dog isn’t making a difference. Maybe some people don’t want children playing on the grass because they may want to chill and not hear screaming and screeching or balls being bounced - but tough. Life happens. And so does dog pee!

Do to pee in a gutter yano😂😂😂. It’s a bloody dog. You do realise that rats, cats, mice, etc will all be peeing on it? U will also have birds peeing n pooping from the sky. A dog really isn’t going to make a difference

Yes, you are being unreasonable. Someone evidently cares for that small patch, and dog urine is toxic to grass and plants so your dogs urine will spoil it's appearance - causing yellow burn patches. Sounds like you are talking about a small patch so is it really so hard to keep your dog off it assuming it's on a lead?

OP I'm sure the thread has morphed into something else entirely now like should dogs pee on the moon or planting geraniums is a health hazard .
My head says she should not shout at you of course and you can't really help where dog goes to loo.

However on the other hand I think our environment plays a huge part in our emotional and mental health and this lady has made the effort to put time and work in to make this area look nicer and imagine if every road had someone like her getting scrappy unloved bits of land and turning them into something loved and pretty.
So my heart says ...as upsetting as it was...forgive her ,look at the higher picture and try and avoid that patch of grass.