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?

We have this. Some dog walkers around us let their dogs walk across the first meter of all the front lawns and do their business where ever they feel like it. Even when we are outside they still allow the dogs who walk over the lawn ! They just do not care !

I bet they would hate it if another dog do that on their lawn though.

It’s Laziness and bad manners and for some people on here who think is okay as they pick it up, you are mad !

Years ago when I was young, people used to drag their dog to poo in the gutter, if there was no where else before picking it up, which is still revolting but at least it was not someone’s property.you do not see that now, ever.

I always challenge people who I see not picking up elsewhere and definitely would do if I witnessed it on my lawn. It’s disgusting

Just read your updates, brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

Brilliant! 👏

Well done OP!

Hooray! Love it when a thread gets a good outcome.

Someone started doing this in front garden and, as we didn’t have cameras, it took us a while to figure out why a particular patch of grass had just died and refused to revive. I am sick of entitled dog owners who can’t have even basic manners about other people’s property. My front garden, the result of my hard work, is not your dog’s toilet FFS!

I'd tell her straight to take her dog to shit and piss on her own garden.
Can't believe anybody thinks this is OK.

A great update op - did she collect her poo bags as she left?

And there's a few comments from people on the estate about her .... I'll copy and paste ..

'Nice one! It pi$$ed on one of the planters next to our front door this morning'

'Thank you for this. It did a poo on our gravel yesterday, fingers crossed she won't come back again.'

So it looks like she just doesn't give a toss about where her dog relieves itself

Well done! You shut that shit down promptly

@StoneofDestiny now that I can't see! The green is on the other side of the estate. She said that wasn't her and she was offended by the suggestion it might be! But it's pretty odd that there are two women in their 50s with green Barbour coats and head torches with golden retriever wandering around this very small estate

Fantastic op! 🏆

We have a dog and I dont let him poop or wee on another front garden Public grass only and I always pick up and never hang on bushes dump somewhere. Dog poo bin or take home

Id have to say something or make your presence very obvious when she comes

OP you are a

YES!

Ooh just seen update. Well done op

Well done! I had a moment a few years ago and made a sign, which I tied to our gatepost with my washing line, threatening wrath being visited on whoever was letting their dog poo at the end of our drive or on the pavement either side and never picking up. If I had caught them I would have followed them home, then shovelled it up and put it outside their house. They stopped straight away.

I wish we could do this to cat owners, they don't care where their animal shits, even let them out to shit in others gardens.
Far worse than this selfish entitled woman.

Dear god, how often is her dog shitting ?

I'd have followed her, so I'd know where to post the bags if she didn't collect them.
She wont.

Dear god, how often is her dog shitting ?

Dogs shit a lot, unfortunately! Transit time through doggy gut is about 3 hours (as revealed when DPuppy ate a blue pencil recently).

However those of us who are decent owners train them not to go in other people's gardens/driveways/entrances, pick up after them, carry bottles of water and kitchen roll if we know they've got the squits (DPuppy, I'm looking at you!) so we can do a decent job of cleaning up.

[quote sadeyes21]@LucyLime
Do what you like. I don't see a problem if it gets picked up but I can see other people fell differently. It doesn't matter if 99% of people on her agree with you, that won't make this women change her behaviour. Passive aggressive bullshit won't work either and could make it worse.. She might get annoyed and come round even more frequently with her dog now. Good luck. [/quote]
So your logic is basically never to challenge cuntish behaviour, in case the person decides to be even cuntier?
Basically just let the cunts have free rein? Nice.

YANBU. I am a dog owner and I would be very embarrassed if my dog did this even once. If you can't train your dog not to poo on other people's property, then it should be kept on a short lead until you are past people's properties. If the walk never takes the dog away from properties that is still the dog owner's problem. We have random cats doing this on our property and it is very annoying. There is no excuse with a dog, out with humans who should be controlling it.

@GypsyLee - I’ll be sure to follow my cats around all day tomorrow! 👌🏻😂

@GypsyLee

I wish we could do this to cat owners, they don't care where their animal shits, even let them out to shit in others gardens. Far worse than this selfish entitled woman.

I agree. People use the ‘you can’t follow a cat around’ thing as an excuse, but it’s no less vile having shit on your lawn every day because it comes out of a cat and not a dog.

Fab outcome. Our front garden is also fenceless and right beside a public footpath - but we've lived here 4 years and in that time I've seen a couple of rogue poos which were probably cats, and ONCE a woman's dog unexpectedly squatted and crimped one off just as we were getting out of our car. You could see she was absolutely mortified and feared reprisals, I laughed and assured her that as a one-off, we understood. The arseholery around here is fairly minimal, I'm happy to say!

Speaking as a dog owner - dogs like to mark where other dogs have marked, and sometimes mine cocks a leg and sprinkles somebody's hardy fuchsia before I've realised. But I promise you, I do my very best to only let him pee on harmless, plantless gateposts and walls on the short walk out to public areas, not prize bushes and certainly not a lawn (I've seen what it's done to ours).

As for pooing on someone's garden? Holy fuck man, no that's just not on. I'm embarrassed if my dog downloads onto a public verge ten feet away from someone's lawn, it's best done somewhere a very long way from any private garden.

My old terrier once got away from me, ran up the lane and onto the neighbour's impeccable front lawn. It was mown as neat and perfect as a golfing green, and she crapped proudly right in the middle of it. I thought I would die of shame as I crept after her with my poo bag.