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

[MrsNuckyT]

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.

"Have you ever tried to move a dog mid poo?"

Mine spends ages sniffing the ground before elaborately pirouetting several times before pooping. He often continues spiralling whilst he does his thing. It's annoying, because he leaves a poop spiral instead of a tidy pile, but it does mean we have plenty of notice.

He's never allowed in other people's gardens, even momentarily though. That's just weird!

I would have been furious too if some random dog had pooed on my garden.

When I'm walking my dog in the street I don't let her wander wherever she wants. I control her and she is not allowed onto people's front gardens.

I'm wondering if some of the pps who think the OP is over reacting would be okay if someone opened their (pps') garden gate to let their (dog owner's) dog walk into the garden to do a poo?

Well, apparently they would, as long as it's cleared up.

Wouldn't bother me although the situation in the op above is slightly different. :) xxx