Would you report a neighbour who didn't pick up dog poo?

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I live in a terraced house, quiet road, no gardens just path then road with an open area at the top where everyone parks/kids play.

We have a neighbour who will regularly let their dog out alone, and doesn't supervise it. The dog will then wander around the road and poo. As it's unsupervised the owner doesn't know it's pooed and so it's not picked up.

We regularly have to pick up poo on the open area, and this morning I woke up to 2 piles outside our house.
We have CCTV and a quick check saw the neighbours dog, alone, doing its business.

I have had enough and have reported them to the council dog warden for not picking up after a dog.

DH thinks I shouldn't have because they're a neighbour and doesn't want to cause trouble.

Wibu to report it??

Have you tried calling over to the neighbour? 'Hi, Rex has left us a present, can you come and get it please?'. That might be all that's needed.

Fair enough.

I’d defo report it, and I’m not usually one for reporting anything. It’s disgusting and potentially dangerous to children who may come into contact with it. We’ve all heard of children who have been blinded by the parasites in dog crap. I saw someone letting their dog crap outside my children’s school a few months ago. She went to walk away until I shouted at her ‘you’d better be picking that up you scruffy twat!!’ I stood there until she ended up knocking on someone’s door to ask for a bag, didn’t even have one with her. Drives me mad 😡

YANBU. They shouldn’t be letting their dog roam unsupervised.

We've mentioned a few times... Nothing has changed, dog is still let out alone, dog still poos all over, poo is not picked up.

Yes, disgusting

I’d definitely report. My kid stands in dog shit all the time, and I’d be delighted if I could do something about it but I never see people leaving it.

Why don't you have a word with them first instead ?

I’d report the crap and also phone the dog warden the next time you see it loose. You’ll be doing the dog a favour, it could get hit by a car/stolen/could end up biting someone or being hurt by someone (probably someone else sick of it shitting everywhere). They’ll think twice about letting it loose again when they have to pay the fine to get it back

i would ask them about it one last time, if nothing changed, it would be going through their letterbox ! but if you're not bolshy like me [when needs must and all other avenues fail] i'd call the council.

Report to the dog warden. If the dog is picked up they will have to pay to reclaim. May make them more responsible...

RL op said she's mentioned it several times to the neighbours.

Personally I would leave it on his door step. My Dsis has neighbour like this always in her verge.
DS walked right into it, I wanted to go smear it down his front door, I didn't but I really wanted to.

Absolutely right to report it.

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My neighbour used to throw his dog’s poo over the fence into our vegetable patch. Strangely, he stopped when someone chucked it back and it stuck to his white house wall.

I’d not only report it... I’d report it every single time they do it. Every time. I’d also consider bagging it up and leaving it on their doorstep tbh. Disgusting people who don’t pick up.

Are you allowed to let dogs lose on their own?? Like a cat? That seems pretty odd in itself. Seems like they obviously do it to let it go out and do a shit somewhere, I think that’s worth reporting.

Dog owner here. Yes I would report someone for not picking their dog crap up. It's owners like this that give responsible dog owners a bad name.

Report it OP, especially if you have CVTV evidence.

Dogs must be under control in public so they can’t just let it roam. Someone near us got fined for exactly that. Think it was £1000.

Absolutely I would , and have done so . I would also report the dog to the dog warden when I next saw it out alone .

Are you allowed to let dogs lose on their own?? Like a cat

I can't see why you used "like a cat" as an anology? Should cats be allowed to crap where they like? Or should cat owners take responsibility for the pets they chose to have and subject their neighbours to? Many cat owners are responsible for their pets, and their crap.

I would report to dog warden when it's alone, but it's usually middle of the night like this morning it was 1am, and I'm not sure a dog warden works that late.

I haven't seen it unattended during the day...but he seems to have acquired a new dog too which has weed up my door/frame/step!!!! He was stood at top of the road watching, it's really peed me off (no pun intended lol) that I had to rinse it all away.

I'd be mortified if my dog weed on someone's door ... And would have rinsed it off at the least.

I can’t see why you used ‘like a cat’ as an analogy. Should cats be allowed to crap where they like?

Well no in an ideal world not - cats crap in our front garden all the time and it’s incredibly gross and irritating, it would be great if you could teach them not to but what can you do about it? Cats roaming out on their own is common place I mean, I can’t think of any other pet you just let lose so that’s the most obvious analogy to me 🤷‍♀️ You don’t usually see a dog roaming on its own - if I did I would presume the owner has lost it while out walking or it had got out the garden.

I would report it and wouldn't think twice about doing so, I'd also go out in the middle of the night, catch the loose dog and take it to the stray kennels in the morning. I've no idea where you are but its £70 odd council fee for collecting a dog from kennels here plus kennel fees, plus more if it's not microchipped, a few times of having to collect it from the kennels and it hitting them in their pocket they might just stop letting it roam.