Dog weeing on our path

[SinkGirl]

We live in a small terrace, there’s a thin hedge between our house and our neighbours on one side.

Every morning a guy walks his dog past our house, and every morning his dog cocks leg at the hedge and pees all over our path. This is about 10 minutes before we have to take our twins to nursery - they’re nearly 3, both autistic, one is visually impaired and so sitting down on the path, picking up stones etc and trying to eat them are not uncommon occurrences. We spend each morning they go to nursery having to wrangle them around a big patch of fresh dog pee.

What’s even more annoying is that less than 20m up the road is a big patch of overgrown grass where the dog could stop and pee.

The owner clearly doesn’t see anything wrong with it - DH once made eye contact with him while his dog was peeing on our path and the guy just said good morning. He was carrying one of the twins at the time so didn’t want a confrontation.

I’ve never had a dog so I don’t know if this is just what happens when walking a dog. DH has dogs growing up and reckons its out of order - he wants to go out and say something next time but I don’t want there to be any aggression (DH isn’t aggressive but this guy might be, who knows). We’ve had dog poos at the end of the path too but I don’t think it was this guy as I’ve seen him carrying bags of poo.

So AIBU to think that you shouldn’t let your dog wee on random paths like this?

We will talk to him - like I said, I wasn’t sure if this was just seen as normal dog owning behaviour, I have no experience with dogs.

I’ll get some spray - actually I have some stuff for cats to allegedly stop them from peeing somewhere, I’ll dig it out and see if it’s also suitable for dogs.

Will at least stop the cats pooping in your garden! a great deterrent

Most dog owners tend to be quite reasonable if approached in a civilised way. I’d advise you not to take Naturalbornwoman’s stance - being told not to be so disgusting is liable to be fairly counterproductive.

Well clearly someone who would habitually allow their animal to urinate all over someone else's garden path isn't one of the reasonable ones. It is disgusting and anti social.

I've never understood why people let their dogs poo and wee outside people's houses

I know I have no control over where my adult male dog pees-he doesn't even pee in the same place regularly. He does pee alot and its generally scent marking.
But if someone spoke to me in a reasonable tone I would totally try change his behaviour.

@sillysmiles, same here. I take my hat off to anyone who can train a male dog not to cock his leg wherever he chooses. That’s why I’d walk my dog on another route if OP asked me nicely to stop him weeing on her path.