Dog wee (sorry!!)

It doesn't wash off the pavement either. It stains and gets stinky in summer. The other day, I had to pour disinfectant all over two massive streams of piss at the end of my garden path, because that's the only way to get the pushchair out of my house and into the car. I can't let my toddlers walk on our front garden ever, because dogs piss there all the time. I'm constantly pouring stuff on so more dogs don't competitively piss in the same spot, making things worse. I bang on the window or open the front door to tell selfish dog owners to stop letting them wee on my garden. Some owners are sheepish, some apologise, some (usually the men) get aggressive.

I’ve got a pale wall, though! There must be something else, colourless but potent, and of course Harlestone to the dogs. Just want to deter them. Citrus stuff is useless. In my imagination I’d like to soak the dog owners with a giant water pistol filled with ice cold water!

Honestly, it doesn't - mind you, it's only going on earth and on plants. It gradually disappears, courtesy of the rain and then I top it up again. It's the only thing that's worked for me.

Actually, I've also trickled some along the edge of my driveway - gravel and paving stones - and it's not stained that either.

(I think that turmeric might stain, but I'm using pure chilli powder ordered in a catering size from Amazon.)

ETA And yes, the owners can stop it: if they see me in the garden, then they pull their animals away from my hedge and driveway.

Surely the chilli powder stains the area? What we need is a chilli infused colourless spray!
I pity my neighbour opposite. She’s in an end of terrace house and her wall has been stained, crumbling from being constantly used as a dog’s urinal. So unpleasant. Can’t understand why it is tolerated by some on here, whom no doubt would hate it on their walls! To those who gaily let your dogs foul property, Pull your dog away from the wall, put dog on the street side, or walk away from the houses , if there is a path . Don’t say you can’t stop your dog doing this. It You are just lazy and inconsiderate, not to mention dirty!

I live in an end-terraced house with a fairly large garden. Most of my problems have come from dog-walkers - stick fences* knocked down as walkers have gone after stray dogs, dog excrement in the back garden, the driveway, along the edge of the hedge...(I'm assuming worms or the like...)

However, I've also had a used nappy dumped in my garden (along with all the dog excrement bags). Some people are just revolting.

So far as the dogs are concerned, I blame the owners. I now use chilli powder as top dressing for the plants adjacent to my driveway. It's the only thing that seems to deter dogs and cats.

Yes, roaming cats are a bit of a problem when it comes to newly dug flower beds, but it's only dogs that are defecating on the pavements, presumably at when it's darker and no one is around to catch the owners.

[ETA Dog urine killed off the leaves on my lonicera nitida hedge adjacent to the pavement until I sprinkled the bare area with chilli powder.]

*Council 'gardeners' butchered the council side of a hawthorn hedge. I've since added a spiky fence [from bits and pieces in the garage during lockdown] and have encouraged the hawthorn to weave itself in and out of said fence.

No human, as far as I know, has peed up my wall, but plenty of dog owners are happy to allow their dogs to. They think it’s perfectly normal.

And stop getting their dicks out to pee in my park, they're shameless. Lazy dirty ar*eholes

Like you've genuinely never seen fox poo?

Its everywhere here. It looks like dog poo but has a completely different smell.
I had 3 in my front garden over the last month!

Again, never seen a fox pee or poop. They run away from open public spaces. You're making excuses and reaching.

Again, never seen a fox pee or poop. They run away from open public spaces. You're making excuses and reaching.

When an animal is domesticated, people should take responsibility for it. They take responsibility for not leaving dog shit everywhere, even though wild animals do poo where they like. So that argument is already null and void.

There are badgers and deer in city parks. Bristol and Brighton have really high populations. Foxes are everywhere.

I think you're reaching now. Yes, of course other animals poop outside in their natural habitat. But I don't ever see badgers or deer in inner city public parks, and have never seen one taking a poop. In fact, I've only ever seen dogs and horses poop out public walking spaces.

Again, animals that are naturally out there tend to have their spaces. And the amount of times I've seen dogs pooping in public spaces, compared to other animals is almost 100% (horses). So I just don't think the argument holds any water.

Dogs use public parks as a toilet. Kids use it as a playground. Put the two together and it is obviously absurd.

And if you don't think it's absurd, please let me know if you're okay for my dog to come and poop in your little one's playroom and I'll be happy to oblige and eat my words. I will get a dog for this express purpose if anyone takes me up on it.

Otherwise, just be bold enough to admit, dog owners: you are being very selfish, a bit like the drunk glutton at the party grabbing everyone's food and drink, barging into them and vomiting and peeing everywhere.

Once you make peace with the fact pretty much everything you touch has human fecal matter on it, you don’t really worry about stuff like this.

I'd rather focus on stopping men pissing outside first. I don't understand why they piss in stairs wells and lifts for example. Why not go at least in a drain?

In the UK rain will wash it away. Female dogs tend to piss downwards not up things as they squat.

I find it more gross when fully grown adults feel the need ( mainly men!)to piss everywhere. Just use toilets you skanky gits, public, pubs, garages, shops..not a lay by, not the town centre, not walls outside shops.

I think you're reaching now. Yes, of course other animals poop outside in their natural habitat. But I don't ever see badgers or deer in inner city public parks, and have never seen one taking a poop. In fact, I've only ever seen dogs and horses poop out public walking spaces.

Again, animals that are naturally out there tend to have their spaces. And the amount of times I've seen dogs pooping in public spaces, compared to other animals is almost 100% (horses). So I just don't think the argument holds any water.

Dogs use public parks as a toilet. Kids use it as a playground. Put the two together and it is obviously absurd.

And if you don't think it's absurd, please let me know if you're okay for my dog to come and poop in your little one's playroom and I'll be happy to oblige and eat my words. I will get a dog for this express purpose if anyone takes me up on it.

Otherwise, just be bold enough to admit, dog owners: you are being very selfish, a bit like the drunk glutton at the party grabbing everyone's food and drink, barging into them and vomiting and peeing everywhere.

"They don't ecologically poop and pee outside in little discreet nooks, cover it up, etc (like other animals) they just poop and pee wherever like a hapless drunk."

Squirrels, rats and mice pee constantly as they move about. Trails of it everywhere they go.

Badgers, foxes, deer and otters make multiple pee and poo beacons in obvious places to mark their territory, often spraying especially pungent pee around liberally to mark territory. Hedgehogs wee and poo everywhere and anywhere as they move about.

Squirrels generally like to take a poo in high places, like on trees, so the reason you don't see it is that it's not on the ground, it's falling onto your hat.

Your idea that wild animals have' discreet nooks' is way off the mark. The world is literally their toilet.

Anyone who has ever tried giving a command to a dog that isn't theirs will know that dogs are independent minded creatures with an eye to the man chance. Slaves they are not.