Dog poo-ing on our garden every morning and evening. AIBU to say something?

[LucyLime]

We live in a quiet area with just three houses in a sort of cul de sac. We are part of a small estate but at the bottom of it. Nobody comes down here unless they live here or are delivering something really.

However there is a cut through at the top and every morning and evening for the past week, a woman has started appearing from this cut through and walking past our house with her large dog. And every morning and evening, this dog is doing a poo on my front garden.

It cocks it's leg on my bushes and had a wee and then settles down for a poo. And yes - she does stand there watching and picks it up

The reason I know? We have security cameras. The reason I've not said anything to her yet? I have annoyingly either been asleep/ in the shower/ in the garage/ out shopping. Nearly managed it this morning but by the time I'd opened my front door, she was turning the corner and I wasn't about to screech!

So ... onto my AIBU. My DH thinks that as she's picking it up then meh, not a massive deal. I think differently - I don't want my front lawn used as a dog toilet and I think it's bad manners to allow your dog to do this. Once I sort of get - but this is now becoming a pattern.

AIBU to literally stake out my camera notifications today and ensure I can get to my front door and ask her to stop immediately? Or just ignore it?

Put a mini sign up on your lawn: 'this is not a dog toilet!'

Another dog owner here who thinks that this is entirely unacceptable behaviour. My dog only goes on grass, so I organise my route according to whether he has been or not. Once they get into the habit of going in a certain place they will continue to use it, and the fact that she picks it up is neither here nor there. The dog should never have been allowed to toilet on your garden in the first place. Without wanting to sound disgusting not all dog poo can successfully be picked up, ie if they have a dodgy tum...

ask her to stop immediately? Or just ignore it?

I'm a dog owner - I wouldn't let my dog poo in someone's garden every single time like that. Yes, you can pick it up, but TMI here - even a good scrape with a plastic bag-gloved hand doesn't get all the stuff off the grass etc.

Ask her politely not to walk across your garden.

@CheetasOnFajitas

You do promise to update OP? Please don’t be one of those OPs who takes all the advice and then never comes back!

Please don't be one of those posters who pesters for updates as though this is a soap opera.

@MilesJuppIsMyBitch ha yes you're right. And it's a bit of a daft AIBU anyway as clearly I don't think I am and it shows that the vast majority of posters feel the same

My husband however is in two minds as she's picking it up. But I don't want our garden used as a regular toilet stop for a dog. He thinks it's hilarious I'm going to keep watch and go and talk to her

You need a sign..
Ddog toilet area is £25 per week payable in advance..
Owner is a cf. Put up a sprinkler system op and hopefully wet them both..

@Santaiscovidfree maybe i DO need to open the door with a super soaker in my hand?! She won't think I'm at all deranged

Nowt as deranged as allowing you ddog to shit on someone's property..
I did mean a sensored garden sprinkler system not you dressed as Rambo carrying a water gun...

@Santaiscovidfree lockdown is clearly getting to me

It would make me angry. The dog shouldn't be in your garden, I'd be horrified if my dog did that. UADNBU.

Looks like a Golden Retriever - not mine I promise!

Bucket of water isn't a bad idea....

@Hoppinggreen yes it's a rather large Goldie!

I walked past a house yesterday that had a written sign in the window and CCTV image!

It was shaming a dog walker who keeps letting his dog poo infront of this households front door (No garden so straight onto the pavement) and he doesn't pick the poo up. They had put his picture on display basically asking him to not do it
Perhaps you should do that.

I would politely ask her to stop her dog pooing on my lawn every day and tell her that we have her repeatedly on camera, allowing this.

Unless she is utterly apologetic and agrees to stop I'd be telling her that I will be reporting her to the council for dog fouling and that I have photographic evidence of her allowing her dog to foul on my property.

It's rude, and if you have grass it will go yellow because of the wee.
I don't let my dog go on other peoples gardens or drives. She has gone on the dropped kerb section, but that's more of a public highway, though I have had someone complain at me about her doing it when she was a puppy. I just smiled and walked on. I had cleared up after her as well.
You could put up some signs saying please don't allow your dog to foul on my garden if you can't get out to say anything to her.
At our previous house, when we first moved in, someone used to let their dog go to the loo in our garden. We had walls and a space where a gate should have been. We put the gate back and it stopped it happening.

At our old house a dog kept coming onto our drive and shitting under the kitchen window, just where the DCs would walk to get into the car.

I went a bit mad, bought a catering size bottle of chilli sauce and covered the entrance to the drive and the edges every night. He never came again but I must have looked deranged.

Your situation is just horrible, what kind of arsehole let's their dog use your lawn as a toilet? It does look like a nice dog though!

I think you're absolutely right to same something @LucyLime.

I have a dog and I would never let her use someone's garden as her toilet.

I’d wait until the deed is happening, come outside and watch. Then ask the owner where they live and tell them I’ll be round later to “repay” them.

Personally I don't think people should be letting their dogs wander into your garden and defecate. Once as an accident fine. Every day, no. Dog poo can contain Toxocara canis eggs which can be very dangerous to small children and survive in the soil for a very long time. She can't guarantee she's removing every trace if faeces and you don't know the dog's worming schedule. If it were me, I'd say something. It's quite rude.

I would be tempted to put a big drop sheet on the lawn and write on it “My lawn is not your dog’s toilet. Fuck off somewhere else please!”

Wow as a dog owner myself I say that is absolutely rude! To actually let her dog run on your garden in the first place but to then continue to let it use your lawn and hedges as its personal toilet!! Even if she does clean it up, I wouldn't want dog poo traces on my garden. I would absolutely confront her. We have the problem of living on a public footpath and people constantly their dogs foul alongside my garden fence and don't clean it up. I can't believe her cheek!

Pepper is your answer.
Chuck loads of the cheap stuff just where the pavement meets your garden.
The dog will sniff it and not like it

Dogowner here - quite unacceptable. I am mortified if my dog does it very occasionally outside someone's gate, when I have been unable to drag her out of the way in time - I would never let her go on someone's garden.

I see there is talk of a supersoaker (haven't RTFT) - make sure it is the owner you get it with, not the dog because poor dog doesn't know it is doing the wrong thing.

Perhaps a small sign on a stick that says 'To the lady with the alsatian that walks by every day at 7am and 8pm: Please do not allow your dog to continue fouling this lawn.'

That should shame her. It might be quite fun to watch the cctv of her reading it too.