Neighbours complaining about my dog peeing in MY garden

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Our back garden is extremely muddy right now due to all the rain. It means letting my dog out for a wee involves a major clean up job.

In order to avoid mucking up my cream carpets, it's a lot easier just to take my dog to the front garden (where it isn't muddy at all as the grass is extremely thick) in order for her to relieve herself.

This morning I got a letter from next door asking me to stop using my front garden as a toilet. I'm gobsmacked! In no way does her wee running onto their property. There's no smell or discolouration so not sure why they care. My dog does not disturb anyone (ie no barking) imo.

It's only number 1's we're talking about, she only poops at the park!

AIBU to ignore them completely?

I knocked on the door earlier as I was intrigued to know their reasoning. No answer.

(I've included a generic pic of a house with very similar garden and house proportions for context - sorry for random squares but have use photo from google and don't want to invade privacy of owners)

Tell her to bollocks.

The cheek of some people! It would possibly annoy me to see this every day too as I’m not keen on dogs but that’s my problem - to send a letter? Wow.

Nobody wants to see a dog pee.

Nobody wants to see a dog pee Then don't look

@mrsemcgregor
A girl dog???????? Are you Hyacinth Bucket?

Tell them to fuck off

Just reply with ‘my dog, my garden’ and add a patronising :) at the end.

Nobody wants to see a dog pee.

😂

I didn’t realise that female dogs squatted to pee until I was 35. Never owned a dog, never had much to do with dogs, thought there were many many filthy owners not cleaning up after their dogs!

I didn’t realise that female dogs squatted to pee until I was 35.

My dog squats and he's a male.

One of my dogs (female) squats but lifts one of her back legs up at the same time. A sort of 'squat cock'. Another (male) insists on cocking his leg but wobbles so much since he had his cruciate ligament done he often falls over.

@Medievalist

My neighbours must hate me. At night I just open the front door, and my dog pees on the gravel down the side of the house. I can’t be bothered taking her to the garden and hoping she doesn’t find any cat shit to eat (I hate fecking cats!).

Too be fair it's a bit minging in a front garden. Front gardens are not the same as back gardens. You wouldn't hang out your washing or sunbathe topless either so having your dog cocking itself about the place is not a good look dear

If your dog is just peeing in your very own garden and shitting where the foxes and badgers shit, then nobody has anything to complain about!

She's clearly a little unhinged!

jeeze what a batshit neighbour , its your garden the bloody dog could have a party on there never mind a wee, ignore the silly cow not worth the argument

Your neighbour is bat shit

Has your neighbour also wrote to the foxes (fox poo is minging) or the birds who might fly over and drop shit in your garden?

Honestly it’s a bit of pee that will soon be washed away

Maybe it's my ex neighbours. Amongst other things, such as farming noise, sights, smells etc they complained about horses shitting near their boundary. The obvious solution of not moving to the countryside and not buying a house that shares a boundary with a field of horses didn't occur to them.

Although maybe not, they would have been very open about the fact they didn't pay £x for their house to put up with the sight of a dog weeing in its own garden.

Another vote for large plastic dog shit replicas decorating your lawn. Preferably with mini flags in bearing the message 'now urinating at the back, be careful what you wish for'