Dog wee (sorry!!)

That's what happens up the hill from me. There's a football pitch place there because it's in the middle of a housing estate and equidistant from two primary schools.

We actually get people driving here from other parts of town. (I have a parking bay outside the terrace where I live, so I see them coming and going when I'm out front.)

An added problem is that some owners inexplicably remove their dogs' leads while they're still adjacent to the road and my driveway. (I have a dropped kerb which is at the end of the parking bay - all legal, organised by a previous owner.)

I go very slowly indeed when I exit my driveway, because if someone lets their dog off the lead, and I'm nosing out it's sometimes not possible to see them until the last minute. I was once berated by an owner who complained that I'd 'nearly killed [his] dog'.

I pointed out that I'd seen the dog in time because I was going at a trickle and that it was his fault for not having the dog on a lead - it wasn't even walking to heel. The owner only appeared after I'd stopped: I originally thought that it was a stray. (Not an emergency stop, by the way - I genuinely do go extremely slowly when I exit.)

Also my experience. If the owners see me, they pull away the animals.

I've taken to putting a line of chilli powder across the bottom of my driveway in order to stop the parcels of excrement that I was getting. (Some dog owners removed them, but not all.)

What, the dog?😆

I squirt neat bleach on it.

Perhaps they do! I’m not saying anyone should HAVE to carry water around with them. But why not? Nobody else should be inconvenienced by your dog. They shouldn’t be the ones sorting out the aftermath of whatever bodily fluids Fido leaves behind. It’s about taking responsibility. If dog wee is causing a problem, then dog owners are the ones who need to solve it. It’s a fact that a dog cocking its leg on the same shrub or flowers every single day, could very well cause them to die. Of course a fox could do the same, but that doesn’t mean human beings shouldn’t be responsible for their pets’ behaviour.

I had the same thought the other day while waiting for my kid to come out of nursery. A guy walking his dog stopped right in front of the nursery wall, his dog did a wee and kept walking as if nothing had happened. Dogs are creatures of habits, I'm sure that dog weed there everyday. I thought the dog owner was uncivic and not giving the kind of example I want for my kid as a responsible adult.

Yes, in Spain people walking dogs carry a bottle of water (usually an empty fairy liquid one you can squirt easily) and dilute the wee. I don't know if it's by law but it's common practice. It doesn't take much IMO.

No matter what others have said about other animals weeing on property, it doesn’t mean it’s acceptable to foul there when it can, and should be avoided. How many trivialising this actually experience rivulets of pee constantly running down their own walls and gates that they try to keep clean and painted? No use talking to these ignorant and thoughtless people when you catch them allowing their dogs to do this, as you will only get stupid replies! The results say a lot!

Dogs wee multiple times on a walk. To wash the wee away with a bottle of water, some people would need to take a lot of water on their dog walks.
Dog owners already take poo bags, lead, maybe a ball, ball thrower, treats, and now you want them to cart a huge bottle of water around too?
Along with their house keys, mobile phone, maybe a pair of gloves if it's cold?

Maybe dog owners need to invest in a small suitcase on wheels in order to take their dogs on a walk?

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.

You realise that boy dogs are required to produce those perfectly behaved girl dogs though?

Oh, you want to see what the seagulls do to your car where I live. The car across the road hasn’t moved in months because the old man died. It looks like a plasterer’s radio.

We have a boy dog and he marks. I don’t let him do it on private property. He will mark every lamp post, or try. He will only ever poo on our yard.

What really bugs me is people taking their dogs on the playing field outside my children’s school. There’s another equally large piece of parkland adjacent, but they insist on taking them there, don’t always clean up the poo and let them wee everywhere, knowing the kids do sports on there everyday. It’s rank. And a lot of these are the parents. Mind boggling.

You may have a point about washing streets, especially in built up areas.

You are taking the piss literally if you think it would be reasonable for people to wash grassy verges and bramble patches.

People have been living alongside dogs for tens of thousands of years. A bit of dog wee on a blade of grass along a green lane is what we're used to and will do no harm.

Pigs eat fish meal on UK farms.
Pig manure is spread on land used to grow crops in the UK.

As a gardener you must get fed up with other peoples' cats weeing, pooing and digging up your borders. Really grim in a veg patch.

I’m currently cleaning spider shit off my blinds. I leave the little fecker live rent-free in my bathroom as he scoffs the little flies that come in whilst I’m airing the room.

Massively unimpressed with the large splats of spider piss and shit on my nice white blinds though. Think I’ll have to evict him.

There's a place near Bristol Suspension Bridge the UberEats guys use as a toilet. I used to walk my dog along to the park there and would regularly see guys park their moped/bike and hop over the fence into the woodland.

Nowhere to wash your hands. One of the reasons I don't order UberEats.

Dog wee is much less disgusting compared.

Humans eat meat and wash their sewage into our rivers and the sea. Millions of gallons of it almost every day.

Much worse than dog wee.

I don’t know where you live but that’s not the case here. I wouldn’t let a dog wee up someone’s belongings. But other than that I can’t get worked up about it.

I don't allow my dog to pee on fences, walls, benches, wheelie bins, cars, in gardens, near play parks or on pavements.

He does pee against trees and on grass as I don't have the skills to insert a catheter into him.

Also, he's trained not to pee in the garden as I don't want my grass to burn. Funnily enough, the areas I walk him the grass is fine! Must be stronger with all the fox, cat and badger pee!

How is that different from rain washing it away?