AIBU to not want dogs pissing on my new wall?

[uptheauntie]

I'll caveat this by saying I am not a dog owner.

We have had a lovely white rendered wall built in our front garden. I cannot tell you how many dog owners I have seen pause at our wall to all their dogs to cock a leg and piss down it. Which is leaving marks! It is not rocket science that if you pour yellow piss down a white wall it will stain.

AIBU for this to piss me off? I'm not blaming the dogs, but couldn't the owners tug them on! It's getting to the stage I thinking of putting up a sign or banging on the window when I see it!

Not sure why so many people hate animals. We are animals too you know, often nasty, smelly, noisy and sometimes flea-ridden. Why can't people be a bit more tolerant

@ thatbloodywoman

Well naturally, I should have prefaced by post by saying I know how lucky I am to have a wall/house/garden and have nothing more important to get stressed about. And also dog piss is nothing, imagine my house was in a war zone etc. FFS.

Bleach and shit loads of it.. It kills all smells .

Oh I'm really glad that's worked out do you then OP. I was just posting as I see the state of the new builds on my way to work, less than a year old and the render is awful - the white is hardly there anymore, mostly a shitty brown colour with gray patches from the floor to windows.

Yours must be better quality. I'd never buy a rendered house now, white or any other colour.

Well, sorry, but to most people it IS nothing

I'm a dog lover/owner and I'd be annoyed by this, yes.

I have female dogs but if I had males I'd walk far enough away from some ones wall that my dog couldn't pee up it.

Lamp posts etc are fair game but walls/fences attached to gardens....they're the property of a homeowner and I'd avoid. Especially if I could see it was newly painted! That's just courtesy surely?!

YANBU.

Lteve, ours is 1950s house, and the render seems to be holding up great. Perhaps the new build render isn't such good quality.

Why are lamp posts fair game though? We pay for their upkeep via our local taxes, surely?

And OP - what about fumes from cars? We live on a main road. Our building, which was once white (excellent choice there, by the way, building company) is now a delightful dirty grey due to the traffic fumes.
I do think you have to accept there is going to be a certain amount of wear and tear due to not living isolated in the middle of a big field - yes, kids may sit on your wall, there may be some rubbish or leaves, water stains, dog piss, birds may well shit on it etc etc.

Yes - you have to wonder what dogs think lamp-posts are.

And when a dog chases motor-bikes - what would it do with one if it caught it?

There was a poodle recently who took a pee up a lamppost and received a massive electric shock.
I would think a wall would be much safer.

I'd walk far enough away from some ones wall that my dog couldn't pee up it.

Your pavements must be really wide!

I don't let my dog pee on walls, bins or private bushes/grass etc BUT I still think you're being very PFW (precious first wall). What happens if a bird shits on it?!

Well there's your solution op. Your wall needs an electric current.

I'm joking of course, but I would be annoyed too. I am aware that is probably irrational, but if I had a nice new wall, I would want it to stay nice as long as possible. I also wouldn't relish the idea of cleaning up dog piss on a daily basis to keep it from staining.

A bird (I presume) is a wild animal that won't have an owner with it. A bird knows no different. Not comparable

I have two male dogs and one female. The female, naturally is very well behaved and ladylike in where she pees. The male ones - hmm, well, they're male. They pee where they want to pee and there's bugger all anyone can do about it. One is relatively civilised and prefers grass, the other has an unhealthy interest in cars.... I'm sorry, but what next? This is pathetic.

it's quite difficult and fairly cruel to pull a day away by the collar half way through a wee

Pathetic is right.

It's the exhaust fumes and rain that'll spoil your lovely white wall I'm afraid.

This is a wind up, right? No one is this anal about a wall, are they?

I have to say that it wouldn't even cross my mind that people could be so precious over a wall.

I would seriously stop getting chewed up over it -it's really not worth the stress, because the situation isn't going to change.

If you banged on the window at me I wouldn't have a clue why.

yabu , no point putting a sign up dogs cant read :) if my dogs stop for a piss i dont tug them on they can piss where they want it all gets washed away .

Aww the poor dogs are only checking their text messages!

According to my kids

Ilovexmastime There is no limit to anality about homes and property and that includes the garden wall!