The smell of dog shit

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I have lovely neighbours. Really really lovely. And they work very hard and long hours. But they are a young couple with a very big dog (I have a dog so I know how hard dogs are). Their garden is 90% fake grass.

Their dog shits. A lot. And they only pick it up once a day, in the evening when they get in from work. There are currently about ten heaps of dog shit sitting on fake grass in this heat and the smell is wafting over into my garden and making it impossible to sit out in.

Do I tell them? Do I scale the walls and clear up the shit myself? Or shall I just wait for cooler wet weather to sort the problem out?

I have a real lawn and pick up assiduously after my dog, because I don't want to a) step in it or b) have to smell it drying out in the 30 degree heat.

Their dog has shat ten times since yesterday evening?!

So the dog is on its own all day? Does it have shade?

The dog goes to work with them. He's not on his own.

He shits when they let him out first thing in the morning before they go to work for an hour and then in the evening/night when they are home. They seem to pick up once, early evening.

And I suspect some evenings go by when they don't pick up at all (if they get home and then go out again and not back until dark). Dog always goes with them though, he's never left. He's a big dog and he just shits a lot!

I think you would be in order to raise it with them.

Just talk to them, it probably doesn’t even occur to them it’s an issue and I’m sure they’ll be mortified and you need to give them a chance.

I was thinking of offering to pick it up for them. It honestly doesn't bother me picking up poo and it would help them not to have to do it, but I don't want to set a precedent in case they are lining up to get half a dozen Great Danes or something (I doubt they are, but you get the idea).