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

Lots of places are "council owned". You wouldn't take your dog to piss on the registry office or a museum would you? Just because it's public doesn't mean dogs must piss on it.
Plenty of places that aren't nicely maintained or children's play areas to choose from.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. A concept that seems to elude dog owners...

But that’s the whole point. The dog is peeing on council owned land. Not a privately owned flowerbed or gate etc.

If it’s not illegal, no one’s wishes trump someone else’s on public land.

I am aware. (Although I'm not entirely convinced the geraniums were unscathed). I did say "for example"...

But OP's dog isn't peeing on 'Flower beds, park benches, peoples gates'.

I doubt utOur council don't mow the nice flowers people plant on the grass outside their property. In fact it's hard enough to get them to do much mowing or weeding anywhere these days until residents have all sent in complaints

All manner, it’s not the fucking zoo 🙄

really? What you don’t find streams of piss revolting? Really? Oh come on. I’m sure you’d welcome a dog pissing on your front step, or your car wheel. I find it weird that dog owners don’t feel embarrassed to let their dogs piss anywhere and everywhere.

Exactly!!

Not the drug dealers, rapists, groomers, abusers, racists, homophobes, antisemitics, Islamophobes, tax evaders, freeloaders or criminals.

No.

OP is everything wrong with this country. Because she walks her dog and lets it wee on land owned by the Council.

You couldn’t make it up 😂

We get regular complaints about an area that stinks. It turned out to be a plant growing there. Very unassuming looking shrub, but it really does stink of dirt.

I’m going to ask if you can shed any light on why some people decorate bushes with bags of dog poo? Or if anyone else can. Particularly when there’s a bin there for that purpose.

Near me there are some woods and there is a path through them.

As people walk their dogs into the woods at the first point of entry the dogs basically unload and the whole area stinks of dogshit and piss because a lot of owners don't clean it up because the dogs do it off track and in the woods and therefore it's "OK to leave it".

There is even a disposal bin with bags outside that particular point.

Fortunately no one really lives near that bit, it's across the road from where anyone lives.

This!

Unfortunately some unknown person may come along in the dead of night and cut down the precious geraniums ...

Where do you all live that smells like dog piss all the time? I have literally never been to a park/walked past a patch of grass and thought “wow that smells like dog piss”.

Good idea.

They don't need to collect the wee. Just walk their dogs in appropriate places when it's toilet time. Flower beds, park benches, peoples gates are examples of places dogs shouldn't be allowed to wee. It's not difficult. Just a little consideration needed.

How ridiculous 😂

There must be so many places the dog could piss that wouldn't annoy anyone?
I think we're just going to continue to disagree on this one. Which is fair enough.

Dog pee does smell on public footpaths, rots wooden and metal gate posts and often food crops can't be planted in fields next to public footpaths due to the high nitrate content in soil. It is disgusting how many owners allow dogs to cock their legs or squat where they like. Imagine if 15 million people peed and pooed in parks and on paths and verges. Yet so many dog owners allow it, or can’t cater for their pets’ basic needs on their own property so we all have to subsidise them.I have come to the conclusion that the poor training and care of innocent dogs is perfect example of declining standards of respect for others and society.

Nasty case of 'can't be bothered to read the original post or the original poster's updatesitis here today.

Dog owners certainly should have a responsibility to collect their dogs' poo when out walking them. They can't be expected to collect the dogs' wee.

Responsible dog owners know that their animals need exercise, and in residential areas this means taking them for walks along the public thoroughfares, which are open to all members of the public including dog walkers.

The idea being put about in this thread - that the public thoroughfare somehow "belongs" to the people who happen to live on the street in question - is laughable nonsense. Any member of the public can walk along any normal public street, and take their dog with them on a lead for exercise, and that doesn't mean they're being "nasty" or "thoughtless" (unless their dog is a vicious type who shouldn't be out and about, even on a lead).

I'm not a dog owner and often find dogs annoying. But the ones I find annoying are the mindless barkers, who are often neglected, neurotic animals who are not given any exercise (or even companionship) by their owners.

I thought she said her dog gets UTIs? Poor thing let it do its wee mails in peace 😂😂

What happens if OP walks to the next patch of public grass and a neighbour who lives near that also tells her that her dog can't pee there because the children play on it?

Personally, I'm not a dog fan and couldn't care less if they were banned entirely. However, I also see how much joy some people get from them, so wouldn't campaign for a ban either. As such they need to pee somewhere, and if that somewhere is public land then so be it.

Op says her dog can differentiate...