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Do you let your dog piss up someone else’s bin?

218 replies

peonysinthesunshine · 11/05/2026 22:30

Every week when we put the bin out ready for collection, our ring doorbell picks up the same neighbour who lives round the corner, let their big ass dog piss up our bin. Would this bother you and would you say something?

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BeardySchnauzer · 12/05/2026 13:35

I don’t let my dogs wee on anything that might be picked up or touched (or gates as no one wants to see a trail of wee as they are leaving their house) as I think it’s rude to the binmen or whoever will be picking the item up.

I think once the dog has wee’d on it once it becomes part of their marking routine though so you could try scrubbing it down with whatever the substance is to get rid of the smell at dog level

Harhar · 12/05/2026 13:35

Oh, here comes the voice of reason.

MandingoAteMyBaby · 12/05/2026 13:34

It’s utterly disgusting. If a man was going round pissing on bins he’d be arrested.

You can’t even sit under a tree in a park and lean on the trunk because you just know the grass and bark is saturated with grim shitehound piss.

muddyford · 12/05/2026 13:30

Only when the bin owner can't be arsed to put it back on their land several days after being emptied and it's still on the pavement. Been tempted to put the poo bags in it but have so far resisted.

Havesomefaith · 12/05/2026 13:29

peonysinthesunshine · 11/05/2026 22:42

I agree it’s the smell of it that also bothers me and the complete lack of consideration for others property? Just seems so rude to me

I hate people putting their bins out on narrow pavements when I am trying to walk past with a dog and a pram. You leave your property on the public street then that’s your issue

Allseeingallknowing · 12/05/2026 13:27

MrFluffyDogIsMyBestFriend · 12/05/2026 11:30

What's wrong with mongrels? I have a pedigree Bichon but he doesn't realise there's a dog hierarchy and wees everywhere. Even on your car wheels when you're not looking.

Then you should be ashamed of yourself. You are supposed to be in control of your dog.

Allseeingallknowing · 12/05/2026 13:24

rwalker · 12/05/2026 12:10

Not letting dogs piss on people’s things will stop it too

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WhereHasMyPlanetGone · 12/05/2026 13:24

WhereHasMyPlanetGone · 12/05/2026 13:16

I wouldn’t allow my dog to do it, but equally I wouldn’t care if someone let their dog piss up my bin. It’s a bin, it’s dirty and it lives outside.
The person who allows their dog to do a massive pee on my front lawn bothers me, because I now have a big dead patch. Equally the cat that shits on my back garden every morning bothers me because I have to go and pick it up before one of my kids steps in it. All part and parcel of living alongside animals though I guess.

The cat bothers me more to be honest.

Allseeingallknowing · 12/05/2026 13:23

WhereHasMyPlanetGone · 12/05/2026 13:16

I wouldn’t allow my dog to do it, but equally I wouldn’t care if someone let their dog piss up my bin. It’s a bin, it’s dirty and it lives outside.
The person who allows their dog to do a massive pee on my front lawn bothers me, because I now have a big dead patch. Equally the cat that shits on my back garden every morning bothers me because I have to go and pick it up before one of my kids steps in it. All part and parcel of living alongside animals though I guess.

The dog owner is disgusting. Why do you put up with it?

WhereHasMyPlanetGone · 12/05/2026 13:16

I wouldn’t allow my dog to do it, but equally I wouldn’t care if someone let their dog piss up my bin. It’s a bin, it’s dirty and it lives outside.
The person who allows their dog to do a massive pee on my front lawn bothers me, because I now have a big dead patch. Equally the cat that shits on my back garden every morning bothers me because I have to go and pick it up before one of my kids steps in it. All part and parcel of living alongside animals though I guess.

Allseeingallknowing · 12/05/2026 13:13

Whether it’s a bin, wall or fence, owners should have the decency to steer their dogs away from them. There’s plenty of other places to take their dogs, yet the owners happily stand there while Fido pees away on someone’s wall as if it’s nothing to do with them. They think their dogs are entitled to foul others’ properties. Once a dog has peed in one area the others will follow. Often the surface deteriorates, discolours and smells. If metal it goes rusty. Can’t be on constant duty squirting it every time, with sprays which are mostly useless. Yes other creatures pee and poo everywhere but I don’t see many foxes, squirrels or rats doing it around here!

2dogsandabudgie · 12/05/2026 13:08

peonysinthesunshine · 11/05/2026 22:30

Every week when we put the bin out ready for collection, our ring doorbell picks up the same neighbour who lives round the corner, let their big ass dog piss up our bin. Would this bother you and would you say something?

Yes that would bother me. As a dog owner I would never let my dogs do that. I would have to say something.

Allseeingallknowing · 12/05/2026 13:05

CitizenZ · 12/05/2026 12:50

If only there was some sort of liquid that could come out of the sky at regular intervals and wash it all away. 🤔

Yes ,there’s plenty of it but it doesn’t wash it off, unfortunately, unless torrential.

Sweetpeasaremadeforbees · 12/05/2026 12:58

I don't think it's the dogs that are the problem, it's their owners. Letting your dog piss over somebody else's property just about sums up bad dog owners. I've helped on a friend's craft stall and had dogs piss on cushions near the ground/against tablecloths and the owners are most indignant about paying for the damage.

Just because you don't mind dogs pissing on your stuff don't assume that others will be fine with it.

FinallyMovingHouse · 12/05/2026 12:52

Nope, I don't let mine pee on bins, but I do have to let him pee on the occasional front wall or fence, as we're very urban and if I didn't he'd never get to pee anywhere. I also NEVER put poo bags in other people's bins, as I used to live on a marked walk and the number of poo bags in our bin was out of this world. We ended up moving the bin to stop it.

CitizenZ · 12/05/2026 12:50

If only there was some sort of liquid that could come out of the sky at regular intervals and wash it all away. 🤔

Pickledonion1999 · 12/05/2026 12:49

No I always try to steer mine away from anything he could pee up unless a fence etc, so don't like letting him pee up car tyres or bins.
I once let my guard down for a second and he peed up a battered old suitcase outside a charity shop. I went inside, offered to pay etc and they binned it. I felt awful.

Harhar · 12/05/2026 12:47

NightCzar · 12/05/2026 12:43

I’m confused at all the outrage, but am not in the UK. Do you have to touch the bottom or sides of your bins? Mine are above waist height, have wheels and have a handle at the top, on the side, to drag it around by.
Would you care if a dog weed on a bin like that? I can’t bring myself to worry about it, but perhaps you have to touch your bins’ nether regions?!

Same bins here - where I am at least. The outrage is because it’s a thread about dogs. There’s all manner of creatures on and around bins and all sorts of shit going inside them. It’s just dogs people lose their minds over.

NightCzar · 12/05/2026 12:43

I’m confused at all the outrage, but am not in the UK. Do you have to touch the bottom or sides of your bins? Mine are above waist height, have wheels and have a handle at the top, on the side, to drag it around by.
Would you care if a dog weed on a bin like that? I can’t bring myself to worry about it, but perhaps you have to touch your bins’ nether regions?!

rwalker · 12/05/2026 12:39

Harhar · 12/05/2026 12:21

Well it may stop it smelling of dog pee but it’ll still stink.

I said on my first post I wouldn’t let my dog do this. Just don’t understand the levels of anger from some. It’s a bin.

Big difference is I happily clean my bin because I put rubbish in it rather than having to clean it as some twat has let there dog piss on it
tbh our bin doesn’t smell can’t remember last time I washed it due to us having separate food waste collection

Skinkytoilet · 12/05/2026 12:38

I live in a busy road on the way to a park one way and a nature reserve the other, I am sure that some of the many dogs who walk by each day piss on my bin.

I don’t bring it inside, why would it bother me?

RocketPanda · 12/05/2026 12:37

I hate to tell you but more than dogs are pissing on your bin. Rats, Tom cats, foxes.

Strangly all my male dogs have crouched to pee.

Velvian · 12/05/2026 12:35

Lomonald · 11/05/2026 23:38

It is the council's property isn't it and can't you just pour a bucket of soapy water over it ?

Not here, we had to pay for our bins.

Jibaka · 12/05/2026 12:33

Our bin lives in the garage so yes, I’d be fucked off if some moronic twat did this. It would stick and stink.

Secretseverywhere · 12/05/2026 12:31

I don’t think this would bother me, it’s a bin and won’t the pee just wash off in rain? You could spray it down with cheap vinegar and water ( half and half in an old spray bottle ) and that’ll put the pooch off.