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

I am another one who grew up with dogs being made to go in the gutter.
I think it is really bad that people let their dogs go to the toilet where children play. This woman is just trying to make her area nice.
OP YABU. Even if you are having building work done take your dog into your garden on a lead or use the gutter. Why can’t you just be considerate?

Cats are just as bad. Dogs pissing and shitting in the driveway, cats shitting all over the back garden. The actual wildlife (remember dogs are pets, not nature) is nowhere near as much of a problem!

Talk about batshittery on this thread. Dogs are fine, but they seem to make their owners crazy.

Dogs have to hold their wee and poo in for much longer than humans and go on demand because they can't just take themselves off to the lavatory when they need to. They're already managing their toileting, it just takes a responsible owner to play their part and find a suitable place and then clean up afterwards. If you have a dog you have a garden (if not you're unfit to be a dog owner) so you actually have somewhere to train your dog to go.

If you make sure your dog is toileted before you go out for walks and then it still needs to go, you clean up and take everthing home. It's really not that hard.

Dont be so selfish and use the gutter. When I was 13 I taught our dog to use the gutter. Im sure you can too.

How does the dog get onto the roof?

Aslong as it’s scooped up.

It’s a fact of life. I have a popular dog walking route directly opposite my house so for the poster who suggested it I’m sure I get my fair share of dog urine.

Someone let's their dog wee up our front wall. This encourages other dogs to wee there. It stinks. Then my stupid cat decides to roll in it. So I end up with a stinky wall and stinking cat.

Plus the wee destroys grass.

Dont be so selfish and use the gutter. When I was 13 I taught our dog to use the gutter. Im sure you can too.

Train yourself not to bother about something perfectly normal like a dog peeing in the street, that would be easier than training all the dogs just to please you.

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I wouldn't let the dog pee on the geraniums but you don't need to worry about grass. It's not an endangered species.

When was that? It's been in my children's lifetime that stray dogs stopped being a thing. Dogs used to wander. Men and boys would piss against walls etc.

No they shouldn't if it isn't exceptionally anti-social. We've just had an incident were paramedics were shouted at and had to put up with aggressive behaviour from men 60-75 because they think they are in charge of parking/road usage and the ambulance was blocking the road. It's been building up to this.

I think her husband let the dog poo in the same spot

At least this thread has taught me why our grass is so yellow - the foxes!

I have got a new fence now and they don’t come nearly as much but before they were practically living in our garden

What about the cats, foxes and other wildlife that pee on that patch of grass? The birds that shit on it? What about blokes that pee on it or small children?

Ooh, ooh, I know! Get all dogs DNA tested and supplied with an ID certificate. Do the same for cats and tag them. Ditto wildlife. Then go out twice a day, hands and knees job, and swab every grass blade, test it and see what is to blame. Sorted! That's nice and fair in the blame game.

Seriously, some of you on here are batshit when it comes to dogs. I bet you're all cat servants and let them crap all over the place!

Oh OP this is MN. That means just by owning a dog you’re in the wrong 🙄

you’re not doing anything wrong but I agree with the idea of bringing a milk carton with some water - shows an effort.

I used to walk a friend's dog in the days before poo bags and she was trained to pee in the gutter.

You'd think, being a dog-loving country, that we'd have more spaces for people and their pets. I can see why she was pissed off if the patch she looks after, stinks of dog piss, even though you didn't break the law.

It’s wee not shit. It’ll be fine. I’m sure we step on areas that dogs have weed on on a regular basis and have no idea.

Same. People think it’s just a bit of land a free for all. But I pay for its upkeep the plants, mow it, weed and feed it, treat it for leather jackets etc. all at great expense. I mentioned earlier that I did put up a sign saying private land please keep dogs off, and it got kicked down repeatedly. I can only assume people thought that was nonsense and that I was being aggressive and controlling.

Where would elsewhere be ?

You can’t use private land for obvious reasons and the parks pavements and grass areas you are calling someone lazy and entitled for using. So where exactly can a dog go for a pee?

My parents own a small strip of land that they aren’t allowed to fence off or have as part of their garden. They tried once and the council wouldn’t let them. But they make a fuss if it’s not maintained!

Could she? Are you incredibly rude and aggressive? It’s so weird that every person that lets their dog on your land is also dirty. Should make them easier to spot!

In all seriousness, if you can’t fence it in, put a little sign on saying private land no entry/no dogs. The vast majority of dog owners will not let their dogs wander onto people’s private gardens.

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And that’s great in your own garden, but we’re talking about a public place.

I sort of agree with this - except for the last bit which is OTT in my opinion.

You’re right that she has no legal right to stop you. And she could have gone about asking in a nicer way.

However, she has gone to effort to keep that bit of the street nice. It is a bit unkind/ antisocial to make it smell of piss. It’s her immediate environment and of course she doesn’t want it smelling in this way.

I think it’s not too big an ask to ask you to take the dog elsewhere to piss. And dogs should be trained to piss where it suits the humans not to choose wherever they like. A UTI isn’t going to be relieved in any way by pissing on grass rather than into a gutter.

Wow some of these answers are crazzzzy, of course she can't dictate what happens to a public bit of land and dogs piss outside!

This is very similar to an incident I had a few weeks ago. I was walking 2 dogs down a street towards a field and an elderly woman came up to me and said I shouldn't be walking anywhere near her house, that I was attracting other dogs to go near her house.

Her house was fenced off and I was walking down a public footpath, absolutely bat shit crazy to think she can say this to people!