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Neighbours dog keeps pooing in our front garden

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celebrate30 · 05/03/2018 09:15

We have moved into a new estate & our neighbours dog 2 doors up poohs in our front garden every morning & in another neighbours. We havn't said anything to the dog owners but another huge pile left in our garden this morning & we have had enough. They leave him out the front at 7am on their way to work for a run for about 10 mins, the other neighbours have caught him in the act.
The other neighbours have contacted the residents comittee who are going to put clean up after your dog signs on our road & my husband wants to pop in to them tonight. It is definitely there dog as he's the only one on the road. What would you do?

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Liz38 · 05/03/2018 13:31

I had this years ago and spoke to the owner. I focused more on the risk to her dog's safety through being free to roam the street unrestricted but i did also mention the poo. She apologised profusely and iit's only very occasionally been a problem since. I get on perfectly pleasantly with her now so it's not soured neighbourly relations! Good luck this evening.

Wellfuckmeinbothears · 05/03/2018 13:31

Definitely address this. It’s disgusting, people who cannot be arsed to clean up after their dog do not deserve to have one. We have a husky who often poos on the green out the front of the surrounding houses (ours included) so not technically in anyone’s garden but we wouldn’t dream of leaving it. And he is never out there unsupervised.

They sound like awful, lazy owners. I’m on my soap box now as owners like them give the rest of us a bad name!

SoupDragon · 05/03/2018 13:33

As you’re all new I would just go and talk to them. Introduce yourself, say you’ve seen them leaving their dog in the front and ask if they are aware he’s pooing in other people’s gardens. Where you go from there depends on their response.

TemptressofWaikiki · 05/03/2018 14:05

I have dogs and love dogs BUT this is not on and made even more shocking by the fact that these people actually have a secured and fenced back garden. They should get up earlier and properly walk the dogs. Personally, I would contact a dog warden to let them know about dogs roaming around and being a nuisance. A small part of me, be tempted to actually catch the dogs and bring them to a police station and tell them you found them wandering around. It might shake the owners up enough to be more responsible and there also be a record of them being this anti-social. It will probably escalate neighbourly relations but then again, the kind of people who just let their dogs wander around might probably be pretty brazen anyway. Either way, it needs to be nipped in the bud. A note is pretty ineffectual, they know their dogs will shit elsewhere and they don’t care!

TemptressofWaikiki · 05/03/2018 14:08

More responses while I posted. Yep, taking them to the pound might actually be a good idea to really make them think about how wrong it is to just let dogs out on the streets.

pigsDOfly · 05/03/2018 14:20

Another one saying contact the dog warden. It's an offence to allow a dog to wander around like that and they can be find for not cleaning up after it. Meanwhile there are sprays you can buy to deter dogs, not sure how effective they are though.

If the dog caused an accident they would be liable so not very sensible for them even their own point of view.

If they're the sort of people who send their dog out to poo on other people's gardens I very much doubt a neighbourly chat is going to cut much ice with them unfortunately.

SoupDragon · 05/03/2018 14:28

If they're the sort of people who send their dog out to poo on other people's gardens I very much doubt a neighbourly chat is going to cut much ice with them unfortunately.

Until you try you have no idea though. There’s no need to go in full guns blazing right at the start. This is a new neighbourhood so it’s worth at least starting out in a neighbourly fashion. Most people respond better to reasonableness and, if these people don’t, there are always the other options suggested on the thread.

FlouncyDoves · 05/03/2018 14:33

Turn the hose on them (dog and owner)

puddleduckmummy · 05/03/2018 14:38

You can report them to the council too, we've had a problem with this and we've had to report them. The owner is a very aggressive, unpleasant man so didn't want to speak to him about it

abigailsnan · 05/03/2018 14:47

Just another thought on this if the owners of said dog are not going to clean up the neighbours gardens they will certainly not clean their own back gardens and I can assure you the smell will drift to other gardens during the summer weather so the owners need telling in no uncertain terms.

Wellfuckmeinbothears · 06/03/2018 13:44

How did it go op?

ConstantReminder · 07/03/2018 00:42

Gross ~ they clearly know their dog is shitting around, but just don’t care where.

Catkins0877 · 07/03/2018 00:58

Unfortunately we d a similar story years ago in a house we owned.We ended up putting up a fence.Even if one dog moves on to another house another dog will replace original.Know it's hard but quieter life some times way to go in my opinion.Even if you talk to neighbor your still going to be watching out for dog too come back :( then what I'm afraid.

BrassMonk · 07/03/2018 01:02

Until you said you live in a new estate, I thought you might be my neighbour! I just caught our neighbour letting his dog poo in our front garden two weeks ago. At the time I banged on the window and he apologetically cleaned it up. 2 days later- giant poo in garden. Spoke with him and said it wasn't on and he was not happy! Storm Emma has prevented any further pooings since, so we will see if he stops letting it go there.

tumblrpigeon · 07/03/2018 01:08

Why are so many dog owners idiots?

tararabumdeay · 07/03/2018 01:12

My neighbour used to let her decrepit dog poo frequently on my front garden but denied it completely to the extent the old mutt was doing it in front of us while we were discussing the issue.

SoupDragon · 07/03/2018 08:53

Why are so many dog owners idiots?

I imagine it is exactly the same proportion as non-dog owners who are idiots. So, why do you think so many people are idiots...?

BitOutOfPractice · 07/03/2018 08:57

Oh how did it go? It's so disgusting

ShatnersWig · 07/03/2018 09:04

I post an update tonight

That was Monday morning. It's now Wednesday morning. OP, you are a despicable liar. I haven't slept for two nights now wondering what's happened.

Oh God. Maybe she went round and complained and has never been seen again and they've buried her under a huge pile of poo?

This may become added to the many unsolved mystery/conspiracy theories threads on MN. "Whatever happened to the woman who complained about the poo who disappeared?"

Laiste · 07/03/2018 09:07

I wonder how it went too.
While we're waiting:

We had a bit of a problem at our last house when a neighbor's Springer Spaniel kept ''accidentally getting out''. I'd see them letting it off the bloody lead in the fields out the back of our house and let it just run through the gaps in the hedges FGS. No recall.

It would then literally rampage through the back gardens and up the sides of houses and into the road out front. Soaked in mud, barking at other pets and knocking garden pots over. Even rushing into houses through open doors (summer time) and jumping up at kids ect.

Twice i took it home with a bit of rope through it's collar (and had to wait for the owner to get back) and once shouted down the street at the owner to come and get it out of our garden. They were all wide eyed innocence This was happening a couple of times a week.

In the end i contacted councils dog warden and wrote it all down in an email. Dog warden called round to them next day to say neighbors had complained (didn't name me - it could have been anyone in the street) and we never had a problem again. All good. They walked it on a lead after that.

Wellfuckmeinbothears · 07/03/2018 09:17

It drives me insane when people let they’d dogs off lead knowing full well their dog has no recall. We can’t let our husky off lead, he has zero recall and the energy levels of a husky on speed, so we simply don’t! We get all sorts of dogs bounding up to him, owner meekly calling them back, off lead dog gives zero fucks and proceeds to zoom towards us then the owner of zero-fucks-dog has the bloody cheek to have a go at us for our boy reacting! Drives me mad.

LemonMuffin837 · 07/03/2018 09:20

Urgh! This is disgusting. No excuse for it. A dog pooed outside our house the other day, the owner knocked on our door and apologised and asked for a bag as he'd forgotten to take some with him. I was more than happy to hand him one and was grateful he thought to knock on and ask.

KermitsLoveChild · 07/03/2018 09:22

We're going through something very similar.

Neighbour across the road is notorious for just letting her dog and her mother's dog (lives next door) out to roam. Dog 1 is a springer and the other a shitzu and they wander at will.

When first let out the springer zooms over here and does laps of the garden and the bit of grass under our living room window is churned up in a perfect semi-circle where he runs.

Next door spoke to her and asked her to stop it and she did for about 6 months but is back to 'normal' now. Drives us up the wall! Churned grass and piles of shit, just lovely.

ScattyCharly · 07/03/2018 09:26

You could try and take a photo of the dog in the act, write down every occasion your garden has been fouled. If you have no luck speaking to the owner, you can send the evidence to the council.

This is the huge downside of new estates. I live on one and you are not allowed to our put gates/fences up at the front. It’s all open plan. Which would be fine if people didn’t behave like animals. Sadly they do.

Laiste · 07/03/2018 09:29

Same here well.

I'm a dog lover (Great Danes) and know full well about the importance of recall and appropriate times/places to let them off lead. Half hearted attempts to control dogs are infuriating.

We are lucky to live rurally and i'd only let them off away from civilisation but i still trained my boys to return to me and sit down instantly. I'd have them do it anytime i saw anyone on the horizon as i know just the sight of them was enough to frighten some people !

I honestly didn't expect great things from the council dog warden for the Springer scenario above but they were brilliant.

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