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AIBU?

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Original poster

To tell this woman off for letting her dog sh!t on my lawn?

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MrsNuckyT · 10/02/2016 09:16

Was getting ready for work this morning when I glanced out of the bedroom window to see a small white dog (something like a shih tzu - oh the irony) squatting on my front lawn doing a poo. Its very well dressed owner was standing by with a poo-bag.

I knocked loudly on the window and gestured for her to move the dog. She didn't but did call up 'sorry'.

I then went down stairs and opened the door and called over to her that it was disgusting to let her dog do its business on someone else's front lawn. By this point she was picking up the poo. She replied that she was sorry but that she couldn't help it because the dog had just decided. I told her that she should be in charge of her dog and that I thought it was appalling behaviour to do this to someone else's property.

Honestly she looked at me as though I had lost the plot. Did I over-react and WIBU? Is this somehow OK on the basis that she picked it up???

For the record the dog looked obedient enough as they walked off and the poo was not runny so I have no reason to think the dog was ill.

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RidersOnTheStorm · 10/02/2016 12:24

I don't understand why people don't train dogs to shit in their own gardens. Weird that owners think it's ok for them to shit in the street, parks or other people's gardens

Thenightswatch · 10/02/2016 12:24

Blinded by dog shit that's been picked up? Really?

BramblePie · 10/02/2016 12:27

RidersOnTheStorm My dog has access to our back garden 24/7 and rarely poo's in it but will always, always poo within 2 minutes as soon as I take her on a walk. She just doesn't want to poo on her own turf I suppose.

And before anyone says it.. no I don't allow mine on other people's lawn and yes, I do pick it up.

ChipsandGuac · 10/02/2016 12:30

Pirate That's my 11yo's all time favorite joke!

Sanchar · 10/02/2016 12:34

Of course it was in her garden.

The dog squeezed the shit from its bumhole, gravity took hold and pulled the shit down onto her GARDEN! Ergo, in her garden. Quite simple.

And unless the woman had some dainty shears and clipped the grass that her dog shat on then there will be smears and traces left.

Hihohoho1 · 10/02/2016 12:36

Riders

Have you trained yourself to only shit in your own toilet?

Will noone think of the dozens of toddlers blinded by dog poo that has been picked up, bagged and binned.

LeaLeander · 10/02/2016 12:39

I have dogs and when we walk they stay on the pavement, period. I do not allow them in others' yards or lawns.

BramblePie · 10/02/2016 12:53

Sanchar We know that but then it was picked up. Is the op rolling around on the lawn just before she goes to work?
For all we know the dog could be shitting there each morning and the owner is picking it up and the OP doesn't have a clue. Has her life ended? Are all the kids running around shouting "my eyes! my eyes"

It was a shih Tzu for god's sake! How big do you thing the turd was? A fox could do a bigger dump and it wouldn't be picked up!

Also Op what's with the very well dressed owner? Would your reaction have changed if they looked "thuggish"?

Smittenkitten2015 · 10/02/2016 12:58

I wouldn't think it was an issue if they picked it up and left no trace. However, someone repeatedly let their dog piss up the back of our new car and the side of my house last year, so much so that it stained the render. I was fuming about it.

pilpiloni · 10/02/2016 12:59

My dog is an old boy and can't hold his poo in. I don't even get the sniffing and circling clues anymore. If you have an unfenced garden then sometimes leashed dogs being walked on the street will have access to the area bordering the street. She cleaned it up, end of.

peggyundercrackers · 10/02/2016 13:10

YANBU - the dog should not have been in your garden - the owner should not have let the dog into your garden.

too many entitled dog owners let their dogs shit everywhere and go everywhere - if I wanted a dog shitting in my garden I would have a dog myself but I don't - I certainly don't want your dog shitting in my garden even if you pick it up - fuck off and let your dog shit in your own garden.

Hihohoho1 · 10/02/2016 13:48

I hate these bloody badgers and foxes that shit in my garden. Lazy dirty fuckers.

Some of them well dressed too!

Thenightswatch · 10/02/2016 13:51

Hihohoho1

biscuitkumquat · 10/02/2016 13:57

OP, I don't think YWBU in any way shape or form.
Whether she picked it up or not, is really not the issue.
It is not reasonable to let your dog have a shit in someone elses garden.
I would have shouted, very loudly at her, so loudly that if the situation was ever threatening to happen again, she would rather have her dog shit in her hand than in my garden.

WhatALoadOfOldBollocks · 10/02/2016 13:59

Dogs do tend to put the anchors on when they decide to do a poo but it's not that hard to drag them a few feet to somewhere more suitable. Seriously, how big are PPs dogs if they can't move them?! Whenever my 43Kg dog tries to make his way onto someone's front lawn to toilet I can easily drag him away, and I'm only 55Kg!

YaySirNaySir · 10/02/2016 15:28

When we walk our dogs we don't let them stray onto people's grass/driveways etc or wee up their bins/cars etc. Mostly we're in fields and woods though.
At least she picked it up and it wasn't a cat otherwise the owner wouldn't be picking up, would they?

RidersOnTheStorm · 10/02/2016 15:40

I don't understand why some dog owners appear on these threads and think that it's a huge laugh and try to take the piss. And have a joke about toxocara canis, which can blind children, rare though it is. There are 120 cases a year in the UK.

Defensive much? Most people really don't want dog shit on the pavements and in their gardens where their DCs walk and play. They nearly always leave smears but that's ok, apparently.

Sanchar · 10/02/2016 15:47

Yy Peggy and biscuit.

If dogs shit is so great and packed full of healthy herbs and vitamins then dog owners should let their dogs shit all over their own lawns and driveways before heading off out for a walk.

God I hate dog shit with a passion, I've even taken to buying the special turd sacks to hand out to "forgetful" owners I see trying to leave it and I don't even own a dog!

Summerwood1 · 10/02/2016 15:52

Seeing as she picked it up,I think there are more important things in life to worry about.

BlackeyedShepherdsbringsheep · 10/02/2016 16:07

yanbu. should not have been inthe garden in the first place. get better control of the dog.

Fluffy40 · 10/02/2016 16:13

Haha , well dressed badgers!

Ameliablue · 10/02/2016 16:33

No not unreasonable I keep my dogs lead short passing open gardens so she can't go on the grass.

BlackberryandNettle · 10/02/2016 16:33

Going against the grain I think ywbu.

How far onto the grass was the dog? I imagine part of your garden is open onto the pavement and a passing dog squatted down towards the edge of it? Sorry if have missed this information, not read whole thread. Dogs tend to pick a grassy area rather than pavement to go in my experience! Seeing as the owner was hovering with a poo bag and apologized I think you should have let it go, no big deal, she probably just wasn't quite quick enough to move it. OTT imo to come out of door and argue about it. Personally I'd rather a dog poo on my grass then have it cleared up than have it smeared on the pavement.

jevoudrais · 10/02/2016 17:01

When you say your lawn. Is it the verge outside, or did it come into your garden?

My dog has inflammatory bowel disease. His poo is nearly always fully formed. There is often very little warning that he needs to go, and I'm not about to push him off balance so he has to stop and start elsewhere (that would be the only way he would stop).

He has never shat on anyone's lawn, but if he did, I can assure you it wouldn't be a deliberate and recurrent act. Dogs don't toilet on paved areas by choice usually, they will always aim for something like grass, just as most of them turn in circles before they lie down, it's just what they do.

OOAOML · 10/02/2016 17:06

Go peggy!

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