I live in a house which has a driveway that someone else has the right to walk over to get to their front door. They don't have a garden. They do have a dog.
Now I like dogs (although not this one at this particular point in time!), but I don't have one, although I would like one if my job allowed. So I get particularly cross when I end up having to pick up dog poo which the owner has left there.
Technically I don't think the dog should even be let out to poo on the driveway, as it isn't the neighbours drive- she just has the right to walk on it to her door. I have pointed this out to her, and said that I didn't mind the dog being out, as long as the poo was picked up, because frankly I don't want it on the pushchair wheels.
I have asked her nicely several times to pick up the dog poo, and after having a hissy fit (where she announced that the dog had 'walking rights' to the front door too- but presumably not shitting rights), she agreed that she would. However, she then buggered off on holiday, leaving a pile of poo in my gateway. She came back for a day (when the dog woke me up early and barked for 3 hours), then buggered off for a weekend away, leaving another pile of poo.
So, dear reader, what would you do? Pick up the poo and say nothing? Pick up the poo and raise hell? Pick up the poo and insert into her letterbox (or up her backside, the mood I'm in right now!) Call environmental health (would they even care?) Consult a solicitor re. the access rights including walking but excluding shitting? Or some other approach that I haven't yet thought of in my angry state?
(Disclaimer, yes I know I seem irrationally angry, I am, partly because of sleep deprivation because of a combination of a small baby and the neighbours sodding dog barking for 3 hours straight from 6am yesterday! So give me constructive solutions or sod off :) thank you muchly!)