to have given the old lady a mouthful when she let her dog crap in my front garden?

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I was just walking up to my front door and I don't think she saw me approaching but still. She said she'd been making him wait, he was desperate and she'd clean it up. I feel angry and pointed out that my kids play there. Surely this isn't normal behaviour for dog owners?

Jeez I must be the only thinking that as long as she picked it up why does it matter

Some woman nutter had a go when mine pooped on the grass on the street corner - just because it's outside her house she thinks it's hers (it's not) - it was picked up & in the bin before we'd finished arguing over it.....

my next door neighbour but one takes their dog out twice a day on a long lead, it runs across our open front lawns and pees up the bushes in the middle of my grass, not really a problem but it does for some reason annoy me. I seethe and mutter 'let it pee on your own grass' to myself whenever I am here to witness it.

I took my dog out into the field by our house last night in the pouring rain and howling wind..... he walked back down our drive and did his business right in front of our house. I was far from impressed.

No excuse. I take poop sacs and water to wash away residual. I choose to have the dog. My responsibility.

I take poop sacs and water to wash away residual.

Poop sacks yes, water - never crossed my mind TBH. Never seen anyone washing up after their dog in RL.

I'm in the UK & any "residual" will go in the next rain...

no exscuse to let her dog do that

i wouldnt blame you if you were aggressive

she sounds the type that takes them out when dark and dont clear up after them,we have one that lets their dog crap on the pavement near the school gates (obviously when its getting dark)

what pisses me of as the owner would know that the pavement is right outside the school knowing full well many many children would be walking on the same pavement

Carrying water / disenfectant is a good idea, tbh. I've also seen some owners who see their dog assume the postion and manage to catch the poo before it reaches the pavement. Impressive, but I imagine practicing that technique is a bit grim...

My mum once caught a dog owner putting their dog over the fence into our front garden, so it could do its business! My mother loves her garden probably more than she loves dsis and me, and has a sharp and cutting tongue, when roused. The dog owner never tried to use our garden as their dog's loo again.

YABVVU! I disagree with most MNers on here! Who do you think you are really??

"She did pick it up, but that little bit remains doesn't it?" - well, excuse her for leaving microbes lying around!

I walk my dog twice a day and don't just stick to my own road - I am allowed to walk up other people's cul-de-sacs and if my dog pulls off to one side and into someone's property to have a crap, why should I drag him back whilst he is in the act of crapping, so that he dumps it all on a properly paved pavement. He doesn't know that the wall is a boundary that must not be crossed and I am quite sure you would much rather she let the dog crap and then walked into your property momentarily to pick it up, than walk away leaving his calling card on your land!

I admit it's not ideal but sometimes if a dog decides it needs to go you can't do anything to stop it. My dog for example will not go on the road / pavement, only grass. If I had her lead on "long" and she decided to take a crap on a patch of grass (albeit someone's garden), then there wouldn't be anything I could do to stop her. Yes I maybe should have been paying more attention as to where she was wandering but these things happen, and the lady picked it up.

justgoandgetalife yabvvvu and selfish

seriously who lets their dog wander into other peoples front garden

would you let your dog wander into a childs playground,local shop

the dog that wanders into others properties is not under control by the owner

mind you it sounds as if the owner needs training also

justgoandgetalife who do you think you are?! Your dog may not understand boundaries of properties but humans usually have a bit more intelligence

Oh - get a grip everyone - I don't "let" my dog run off all over the place - sometimes, he dodges off to one side and starts crapping before I can yank the poor sod back again! How dare you all assume that I go around letting my dog do what he damn well pleases! I pick it up if he does it in the wrong place; I pull him away if I have a chance before the poo starts poking out of his arse. I have dragged him along, whilst he's crapping before now and been berated for being a cruel owner by some interfering non-dog-owning busy body.

FFS she picked it up - what IS the problem?!

Before you all respond - he is on a f'g lead!

If your property is yours, as in land registry owned, or even rented, then it's private property not public and who the bloody bastard hell would LET their dog shit on someone's private property. Sorry but she's encouraged the dog to walk on your grass, to crap. Not the pavement. Old or not, that's poor form. I never let mine walk on someone else's garden. If I see they've wandered they're straight off. I wouldn't let my kids play on someone's front lawn...

...actually I pick it up no matter where he dumps it! before anyone jumps on that phrase!

Wombat87 - quite.

Typical aggressive, defensive dog owner. If you really can't see the problem with your animal shitting in somebody's garden - regardless of whether you pick it up or not - then you really shouldn't be allowed to have a dog. Get something that stays in the house.

Good grief - I'm off to walk my dog. Heaven knows what will happen if he puts a tiny toe nail across someone's drive - I might get lynched!

"Typical aggressive, defensive dog owner" - don't tar all dog owners as aggressive - defensive yes, aggressive - well that's what you get for blowing a non-issue into the most ridiculous waste of MN time ever. See ya!

We live on a corner plot with open lawn to front and side(new estate covenant says no walls ) there are a lot of dog walkers. Our kitchen table is there with two big windows so we have a good view. Majority seem to let their dogs walk on our grass. On Sunday a dog got entangled in his long lead around our tree a meter on our land. I've put bushes in pots at top and people let dogs wee on those even when I've been gardening right there. We are just before the open land so not like nowhere else. No one apologises even if they see us seems to be seen as acceptable. A woman also was emptying her dogs water bowls onto our garden and was bemused when dh said what are you doing.

YANBU. At all.

I am a dog owner and dog lover and dog poop picker-upper.
I am also a garden owner and would be appalled if somebody else's dog was allowed to crap in my garden.

I have never ever seen anybody carry water to wash poop remains away

We live in a street which lots of dog owners use to get to a very popular river walk and the pavements are frequently covered in poo. I know for a fact it's not my dogs, nor can it possibly be from the other 3 resident dogs.
I have scraped other people's dogs' poo out of shoes/pram wheels and memorably once out from under DS3's finger nails (he liked picking things up and showing them to me) and I have zero tolerance for dog owners not picking up after their charges

Is allowing your dog to poo into a drain really okay?

It's probably better than letting your dog poo in a stranger's garden.

Disclaimer- I have a small dog who does tiny poos. Large dog owners might have a different opinion.