To allow my dog pooping on the green space in front of our house

[Sunnydunnybunny]

We recently got a 7 months old dog and try to get into the new routine now. And we have an issue with the garden which I am trying to sort out, but it's going to take another month, or even two in a worst-case scenario.

We walk 2 h a day in local parks, but as a newish nervous dog, he sometimes brings his "business" closer to home.

I was wondering if that's ok to use the green space in front of our house ( we have like 15 houses in a circle and green space in a centre) to let him poop at night and if he needs to go between our walks. Of course, I clean up everything.
But still. For some reason, it's not comfortable for me, and I don't know if I am right in my feelings. I find someone else's dog poo there, and clean it up 😠, maybe that's why. Sometimes older kids use the space to kick the ball when the weather is better, and one of them has a dog.
I still hope to sort out the garden sooner..
What do you think/feel?

Please don't. If you didnt have provision for your dog to shit on your own property you should not have got a dog.

Yes there is wildlife poo (eg foxes are the biggest near houses) but people can and do put out deterrents to minimise that where children play. You dont need to add to it by openly allowing your dog to desecrate a shared space.

Victorious
My street is full of cats and I have literally never seen shit anywhere. Most cats are litter trained.

If your garden is such a state that your dog can’t even use it to shit in, I imagine your neighbours are already miffed with you.

@ViciousJackdaw oh bejeezus! Not this old chestnut. This thread is about a dog crapping on a public space. Not a cat (for a bloody change).

People calm down :). In my second post, I said thank you and that we will use the bigger space which is used for the dog walking.

Absolutely. Lots of cats making their business outside. Quite a few of my neighbours have cat deterrent devices because cats regularly shit on their flowerbeds.

So you may think your cat is trained, but you have no idea what they are doing, you are not supervising them, as opposed to dog owners.

That a different thread. Well done for trying to deflect though!

I may be confused as it was a long time ago but I seem to remember a next door neighbour seemed to have had trained their corgi to go on their patio, which was then disinfected after the poop removed. Is it actually possible to train a dog to do this as if I am ever lucky to own a dog I'd like to try this

Family member has a dog that will not go to the toilet on the pavement at all. Always goes on grass preferably under a tree. If walked all on pavements she’ll wait until their home to go to the toilet. My fm has a patio at the top of the garden then a grassed bit without fail stands and waits to go on the grassed bit.

If it’s cleaned up I think it’s fine to let the dog where it wants to go.

Porthesia the most reasonable option. I hope I will be able to do similar thing very soon.

I knew people (loooog time ago) who trained a doberman to go on a regular toilet inside, I don't know though how or where he peed.

Our pup won't go on pavement either. Coming home, then begs to go outside again. I was even thinking installing something in toilet for him that I could wash afterwards, but could not find any ready-made solution.

As a dog owner , the rule of thumb seems to be if your dog poops clean it up.
It only takes a minute .

The difference between cats and dogs is there's no excuse for a dog pooping in an unacceptable place (like a communal grass area).

The difference between cats and wild animals is that there are steps you can take to reduce the likelihood of cats pooping in unacceptable areas .... don't take them away from mother until trained, provide a litter tray, provide an easily dug over earth patch in your garden, neuter males.
The vast majority of cats will poop in a hole they've dug though they're not always efficient at covering it up.

You can train dogs to wee on command. Pooping is a bit harder but dogs will often have a routine. My dog always poops about 10 minutes into the first walk of the day and it's easy to get that in an acceptable place.

MiddlesexGirl, sounds good in theory, but in last 10 years I lived at 3 addresses, and there was a problem of cat poop everywhere. Excrements in all plant pots, digged up plants and so on.

Actually one cat was bringing stuff into our garden, half-dead rat, snake.

At current address the neighbors cat got into our house, and we have a parrot.

Following this thread logics I should hate their owners for all these issues.