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Livid with neighbour over dog pee

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annoyedbydogpee · 01/12/2019 23:09

A couple of weeks ago, very late at night I saw my neighbour walk over to our garden and let his dog pee on our grass. I then set up my baby monitor camera to face our garden and as expected, the neighbours have been bringing their dog into our garden to pee every night. I am livid with them, not only has our grass started to die in the area where the dog has been peeing (clearly they have been doing this for some time), we also have a 5 and 2 year old who play on the grass. I’m so angry that I’m actually considering getting a lawyer to write to them and threaten them with legal action. AIBU to take it as far as getting a lawyer involved? WIBU to ask them to get our grass treated so the grass will grow back? I’m fcuking tempted to go and pee all over their brand new Mercedes !

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septembersunshine · 02/12/2019 08:37

I would ask them to stop but if it persists I would put up a waist high picket fence. I wouldn't like this either op. Its rude.

cherryblossomgin · 02/12/2019 08:44

www.google.com/amp/s/m.wikihow.com/Keep-Dogs-off-Your-Lawn%3famp=1

This might help.

SerenDippitty · 02/12/2019 08:50

Remember dogs pee as a communications method, and when they go on walks they tend to dart to the same places to see what message was left by other dogs, and re-mark the area again.

So it’s sort of like Mumsnet for dogs....

I would speak to them first, OP, as pps have suggested.

Yetanotherwinter · 02/12/2019 08:55

I have a neighbour who does similar he has trained his dog to pee on the telegraph pole at the front of his neighbour’s house. He does it because he doesn’t like them and they fell out years ago. They go bananas about it. Have you had a falling out. It seems a strange thing to do and totally out of order, especially given your kids play on the grass. I’d would definitely speak to them. I can’t see how a solicitors letter would help and could antagonise.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 02/12/2019 09:30

Someone round here put a photo on of a man emptying his dog regularly outside their house after they put up a sign asking people to pick up, and he did pick up but he stuck the shit to the poster. It made the press

I hate to admit it, but I have a degree of reluctant admiration for someone who is prepared to carry his twattishness to this degree.

Ated · 02/12/2019 09:33

You need to buy an electric water pump that pushes out 250 gallons a minute and connect it to a 1000 litre tank. Aim the nozzle right at the spot where your neighbour and dog stand. As soon as the dog starts, hit the button from inside the house.

ShiveringCoyote · 02/12/2019 10:01

Get some pig wee. It absolutely stinks and put it all over their front door and spray their grass with weed killer.

Or go talk to them.

Your call.

MrsFoxPlus4Again · 02/12/2019 10:40

The dog isn’t remarking though if the OP is recording the area and only seeing one dog lol.

ThighThighOfthigh · 02/12/2019 11:11

Do you have a gate?

OnceUponAMidnightBeery · 02/12/2019 17:53

Since your DC play out there I'm guessing you have an enclosed garden? If so, that's really cheeky. If not, might be an idea.

If, like us, you're on a council estate, the open front gardens are still technically the responsibility/property of the council (here at any rate) and they still mow it etc. Even the privately owned ones. Definitely have a word with them though!

OnceUponAMidnightBeery · 02/12/2019 18:07

The neighbours, not the council, sorry! Trying to multi task, never works

Wintersleep · 02/12/2019 18:13

When they're out there doing it could you go out and calmly ask them what they're doing and why they think it's okay to do so? That way you don't have to admit you've been filming them and you can ask them firmly but reasonably to not do it again, as you'd been wondering why your grass was dying in that spot and now you know

VisionQuest · 02/12/2019 18:24

I would be tempted to retrieve a turd from your 2 yr olds potty/nappy and deposit on their lawn.

If they want to be dirty, cheeky fuckers then game on.

DontCallMeShitley · 02/12/2019 18:51

*Someone round here put a photo on of a man emptying his dog regularly outside their house after they put up a sign asking people to pick up, and he did pick up but he stuck the shit to the poster. It made the press

I hate to admit it, but I have a degree of reluctant admiration for someone who is prepared to carry his twattishness to this degree.*

Well, everyone knew what a twat he was once it got in the local news .

TrainspottingWelsh · 02/12/2019 21:28

messolini yes, silly me. And we've neglected to enquire whether they rent so we can advise op to 'have a word' with the landlord. Which word doesn't need to be specified, any will do. Personally I'd recommend one that's on trend, such as gaslighting.

Adeno yabu to trivialise dog wee with the none emergency number. It's so clearly a 999 job.

messolini9 · 02/12/2019 22:47

We HAVE been silly @TrainspottingWelsh.
We forgot to urge the OP to go NC with the dog, while - confusingly - gettting her ducks in a row.

TrainspottingWelsh · 02/12/2019 23:08

Oh yes, tinkly laugh messolini but we shouldn't be so hard on ourselves, it's understandable we can't remember everything with the mental load of life admin draining us.

Maybe it's baby monitors the op should get in a row, or Ally McBeal DVD's. But unmunsnetty kudos to remember the necessity of getting something in a row.

Hopefully, in the interests of infection control, op is out there now with a few barrels of zoflora and hand sanitiser cleaning the lawn. Under a forensics tent as a cryptic threat to the neighbour.

messolini9 · 03/12/2019 12:22

Under a forensics tent as a cryptic threat to the neighbour.

am loving this image @TrainspottingWelsh.

All the better for leaping out of, to strike fear & awe into the NDN.
Perhaps we could put a crack squad together. Although I have been re-thinking the whole catsuit idea - a catsuit is NOT conducive to the excellent suggestion upthread of Retaliatory Peeing. Unless some kind of opening (a Catflap???) could be constructed to allow power-peeing, things could become undignified. But a Catflap would ruin the clean lines & powerful silhouette of the catsuit, & that would just look ridiculous. And the LAST thing this thread needs is anyone being ridiculous ... or derailing ... ;)

TrainspottingWelsh · 03/12/2019 23:32

messolini

I'm positive op is eternally grateful for our helpful suggestions, and for keeping her thread on track when others are taking the piss. Or indeed, leaving the piss behind.

The catflap is such a conundrum. For starters, should one refer to it as a cat flap because it's on a catsuit, or a dog flap to stay on topic?

Perhaps the answer is a generic 'aibu to ask...' title for a thread seeking recommendations for where to purchase a swat suit with suitably subtle access flaps.

Any mumsnetter that finds one on an extortionately expensive clothing website, complete with lies words to the effect of 'My entire wardrobe comes from this rip off site' gets garden side seats for this years blockbuster, 'mission onpissable'

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annoyedbydogpee · 04/12/2019 01:47

Lol...ok so I have had time to calm down and actually think rationally and agree, getting a lawyer involved was rather ott! Point taken.

So back to the saga, i went to speak to the neighbour as suggested. The fuckers denied it completely. I told them I have it on camera and they said they have no idea what I’m talking about and it’s not them in the video. It’s so obvious it’s them (she wears a very distinctive coat, you can see them walking down from there garden and you can clearly see its there dog) but you can’t see their face so they are sticking to there story.

So tonight I was all set to catch them in the act if they continued however, they walked straight past our garden (😊) and into another persons garden and let the dog pee there! Now do I leave it or warn the new target?!?!?

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WiddlinDiddlin · 04/12/2019 02:18

I think I'dh ave stuck my head out the door/window and shouted 'OI! THATS NOT APPROPRIATE EITHER!'...

Way back in the mists of time I lived in a property with a front garden and my gate fell off/broke/was nicked by someone down the street (pointless aside, later on I nicked a much nicer one from elsewhere)...

I had three dogs at the time and spent a LOT of time picking up poo and hosing down wee as one of my dogs was incredibly fussy about where she went and would not go within five feet of where anyone ELSE had been... and as I had no gate and was standing out there with her on a long line freezing my wossnames off, I didn't need her to be any fussier than she already was.

So I started to find more poo than my dogs could be outputting and, well its gross but you get to know what your own dogs poo is like and my dogs ate raw meat and bones and did small poos... What I was picking up was five times the size and luminous fecking orange! Not my dogs poo!

One day walking back from the shop opposite my house I noticed a GSD and a labrador trotting down the road off lead, I was talking to my friend and spotted the dogs owner behind them.. the dogs veered into my front garden and proceeded to toilet there, huge great dumps...

As the owner got level with me I said 'don't you think the person who lives there might be a bit annoyed by that...'

'Oh... she's got loads of dogs, she won't notice...'

'I think she will love.. you are talking to her... here's a bag....'

SHe did actually pick it up, and did not punch me which for those parts was nothing short of a miracle!

legalseagull · 04/12/2019 02:18

Leave it!

Honeybee85 · 04/12/2019 02:25

I would be livid too!
I definitely would throw water over the dog when he was peeing on your property and keep a second bucket ready in case you get a mouthful of abuse. Cheeky fuckers.

Honeybee85 · 04/12/2019 02:26

Just saw your update!

I would warn the new target!!

JolieOBrien · 04/12/2019 02:31

@annoyedbydogpee

I would tell the new target ... this woman is a nuisance not her dog btw

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