to not want to smell dog piss when I'm in my back garden?

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1. Neighbours dogs use his garden as toilet, and neighbour clears up poo fairly regularly. The problem is the smell of urine. There are a number of tyres stacked up against the dividing fence and when the dogs piss it collects in the tyres and then sits there. (I don't know why he has 10-plus tyres in his garden).

We mentioned the smell to him last year and he said he couldn't smell it. To be fair he then went out with a watering can of Jeyes fluid but that smell wasn't much better. The smell today, a cold day, is pretty bad but it's even worse on a hot day. Last summer it was often rainy then sunny and the resulting steamy-piss smell was overpowering.

We only have tiny gardens at the back of terraces so I can't stay away from the area nearest his garden. I also want to go out and enjoy garden with DD this year.

1. DH says that as I'm the one who doesn't like it I should talk to him about it. DH says he can't often smell it and when he can smell it, he doesn't let it bother him. (thanks DH) How can I raise this issue with a neighbour who isn't my greatest fan. (A couple of years ago we asked him to do something about the constant overnight howling of the one dog he had at the time, a problem he solved by getting two more dogs, he now ignores us in street).

Thing is, I'm not very good at these conversations and I want to remain calm and rational, and I want him to listen. I don't think it's unreasonable to want him to get rid of the tyres and wash down the garden on a regular basis??? Is it?

god my dog pissed against my flower pots all the time and I cant smell a thing. Even when she relieved herself on our bed and I didnt notice until I got in it I didnt smell it and initially thought it was water.

Have you thought of using your nose for snuffling truffles?

YANBU btw if it is minging, just keep it really polite like "god I am so sorry to bring this up again but could you just hose down the tyres from time to time? For some reason I can really smell the dog pee, must have been a bloodhound in a past life eh?" type thing?

Its his garden and thats the problem, if your the only one smelling it then more than likely nothing can be done about it. Would you allow someone to tell you what to do in your garden? Have you perhaps thought cats are coming into your garden and having a wee as theirs smell much worse than dogs.

My dog pisses just as he goes out for a walk, my little porch stinks so I squirt it with bleach cleaner from time to time.

"oi, mate. I can smell yer mutt's piss. Sort it out you filthy ticket"

Over the garden fence should do the trick.

can you squirt down the tires with the hosepipe?

I have a real problem keeping on top of our dogs' wee smells.
Apparently Borax is good. I'm giving it a try.

I'd rinse area myself with hose, not with Jeyes Fluid though - I think that's the worst smell ever!

we have neighbours that have two boxers the only smell we get in the summer is all the different cleaning fluids they mix together to clean their garden and its disgusting i reported them to the council the smell invades your house and gets on your chest its suffocating and my other neighbours have also complaind many a sunday afternoon on the summer a bbq has ended up in the bin and we have ended up indoors with all windows closed

It sounds like you dislike this guy. You mention that you raised a concern about noise nuisance which you say the guy solved and then go on to say that he did this by taking on two more dogs - it's as if you don't like him or dogs or maybe both or otherwise why mention how he resolved the problem? This might be affecting your perception of what should be a perfectly normal and adult conversation.

Next time you see the guy just tell him that the dog pee's troubling you and ask him to resolve it - if you think the hosing of the tyres is the best way then suggest that. Polite, confident, respectful, positive. It's that simple. If he agrees, great, if he doesn't you will either have to accept it or refer your complaint to Environmental Health and let them decide if you have reasonable grounds for action.

My dogs' wee doesn't smell in the garden, but I guess your neighbour's dog's wee is collecting and sitting in a pool. I would mention it again to him. Point out that it is collecting in the tyres.

The urine likely collects in the tires and sits there getting rank. Hosing down a garden is not necessary but neighbor should get rid of tires. My DH also can't smell as well as I can. He smoked in our shop in basement and when we went to sell house there were many negative comments about the smell. Our realtor got something to spray to mask it, and I had granulated charcoal sent to him to absorb smell. We lived on other side of country at the time.

The tires filled with water are good sites for breeding mosquitos so could be reported to environmental health officers.

DH says my sense of smell is the bane of his life. It is pretty sensitive.

GrahamTribe - I don't particularly like the guy anymore, he's bearing a grudge against us, despite the fact that we have tried very hard to be friendly. He said that we should have helped him with his dog when he left it on its own and not complained. He said he felt let down by us. So the past does have an effect on how I feel about saying something, and makes me nervous of approaching him. It is why I mentioned it. I don't hate dogs but I'm not a dog lover either.

I hate the smell of piss though. :o

He said you should have "helped" him when his dog howled at night? Fuck a duck, that's a good one! Sure, if you'd have complained to the council instead of him directly I'd say he was justified in feeling let down but it doesn't appear to me that that's the case.

What, just what, did he expect you to do to help his dog? (This comes from a doglover, btw, who would probably have offered to have the dog in her own home while he was out and whose only concern about howling would be for the dog's welfare. But that doesn't mean that there's any reason at all that you should feel like me. What the hell is the guy on to have gotten it into his head that his dog is your responsibility? imho The only thing you can do is approach him as I suggested while pissing yourself laughing underneath a calm exterior at his sense of entitlement.

I know it is not ideal, but I would bring him round some of this stuff

mistralie.co.uk/catalogue/product/215/ODOURFRESH-PLUS-PET-DISINFECTANT---Premium

It's only a tenner for 5L and lasts forever, big range of fragrances including bubblegum, pear drops, lemon, mint etc. Jeyes fluid is horrible mixed with urine, smells worse than the original problem and is poisonous to animals, and pretty expensive!

This stuff is available on ebay too. Wouldn't be without it :)

I have a condition that makes me over-sensitive to noise, smell and light and am a total nightmare to live with because of it :-(

The tyres are a problem, though. I used to work in the school hols for a garage and the council were always around checking how many old tyres were on the premises. They are a very real fire hazard and also, as someone else has remarked, a mozzie attraction (I'm also sensitive to insect bites!).

Because of my PITA sensitivities, I'm a bit of a nazi neighbour, but I'm also old-fashioned and am of the school of thought that everyone has a right to consideration. Surely your neighbour knows the problem is going to be ongoing, as will your complaint? Why on earth didn't he just get rid or store his tyres properly? It's beyond me how unthinking/pig ignorant some people can be.

Ask him again and if there's no joy, get the council around.