Dog pissing on a wall - yay or nay?

[JamesMiddletonsMarshmallows]

My friend is isolating at the moment due to her colleague contracting COVID so I've been walking her Collie everyday. I'm really not a dog person, at all (though I've grown a huge soft spot for this particular pooch) so don't know the etiquette around public dog behaviour. He's been a little star, he doesn't approach other dogs or people, so maybe I've got complacent with him. Because today he pissed on somebody's brick wall - even if I wanted to stop him, what was I supposed to do, kick him in the nuts? Anyway, a woman stormed out the house and had a real go at me, saying it's disgusting people let's their dogs do that and she's sick of it. I was and said I couldn't exactly stop him. She said he needs to be trained to not do it and if she catches me again she's taking a picture. I told my friend when I dropped the dog off, who just thought it was funny and has never heard of a dog being trained to not piss on a residential wall. I wondered what the MN consensus was - yay or nay to having your wall pissed on?

Bins, recycling, cars or gates, no. They get handled. An outside edge of a wall? Jesus, the wild urine that's already seen! 😂

Rain won't necessarily wash it off.

Other dogs, and foxes, will be attracted to urinating somewhere that another dog has already done so.

Just don't do it.

We have never had a male dog that actually does this, mostly they have squatted down like a bitch would. If they have to cock a leg to wee suggest walking them alongside hedges, raised grass banks at the roadside or fences to industrial premises.

Someone’s dog has taken to pissing against our gatepost. No clue who it is or which dog but it stinks to high heaven in summer. I imagine it is the same inconsiderate dog owner who let their dog crap on our recycling bag that was just inside our gate post recently waiting to be collected

Of curse you could stop him by pulling him away from the wall?

I sont let my dog wee on anyone's property. I notice she's looking to wee somewhere say no and pull her along to somewhere suitable

I wouldn’t want a dog pissing on my wall any more than I would like a human. The fact is, it is not a wild animal. It only exists because the owner has chosen to have it as a pet and therefore they should control it to fit in with societal norms.

@StoneofDestiny

Who wants urine over their house? It stinks and seeps into the brickwork. Would you like a man pissing on the wall of your house? No? Then why let a dog do it on someone's property.

I doubt the dog's pissing on the house!

they can be trained, just tug on the lead and call them and move to a more acceptable area - grass verge or whatever, walk them somewhere where its more acceptable to wee until they wee - sometimes it is territory marking as well so watch for that if they are weeing everywhere. I have trouble with gravelled areas as that is where she is allowed to go at home...

My house gets peed on. It's on the street, no garden. The edge of the house, steps and a spot in the middle of the wall. All get peed on.

As do many if the houses up and down the road. It's no real problem.

If it seeps into your bricks you have a brick problem!

When did people become so intolerant?

This is one of those things that only exists on Mumsnet.

Afterall, plenty of wildlife will be weeing and pooing on walls and gardens. Why do we think it's HORRIFIC when it's a dog?

If anyone has ever succeeded in preventing a dog from pissing exactly where it chooses, I’d love to know how they did it. Dogs leave pee mail, it’s just what they do.

I don't let my dog do it, but it wouldn't bother me in the slightest if a dog piddled on my gatepost.

@VinylDetective

If anyone has ever succeeded in preventing a dog from pissing exactly where it chooses, I’d love to know how they did it. Dogs leave pee mail, it’s just what they do.

It's really not that difficult if the dog is on a lead

I was thinking it through.

My house is really, really old. Over the centuries I imagine thousands of dogs, horses, people, foxes, other animals have pissed on it!

It doesn't smell of pee. No bricks harbour urine odours.

Why would I jerk my dog off a peemail? That would strike me as punishment. He sniffs, he pees.

I see far too many dogs walked so politely on their leads. Noses never twitching, never sniffing, no meandering. Just trotting at heel in a perfectly human idea of a walk. That's cruel.

I discourage our own dogs from peeing on the gatepost when we go out. I walk them in the fields where they can pee without bothering anyone. Repeated boundary marking gets very smelly; the way to stop it is by shortening the lead when the dog is likely to do it.

Is the dog actually doing a long, proper pee, or just scent marking ? That's what dogs do isn't it? Find where the other dogs have been, have a sniff and add their own?
I agree it's a bit gross if your house actually comes down to the pavement and certainly not actually on someone's property.

@Babyroobs

My boy pisses up everything, car tyres, wheelie bins, walls, posts. I try to pull him away from things but sometimes it happens. He peed up the Papa John delivery guys motorbike a while ago and we had to make a quick getaway.

Your dog has style

Not the biggest issue in the world - poo is a way bigger one but I do think its bad manners.
If all the dogs that walk the street are allowed to piss, they usually want to do it on the same spot and you do sometimes see piss stains and may get whiffy at certain times of the year if there's no rain to wash it all away.
On a lead it shouldn't be too hard to keep the dog away...

It wouldn't bother me if an unaccompanied dog came up the street and stopped to piss on my wall. But if a dog-walker stopped and allowed their dog to piss on my wall, I'd consider it a deliberate insult.

Yes, YABU.

You're better than me I would've swore at her tbh

when did people become so intolerant?
Shortly after people became so rude?

Oh sod off another flaming loony gone mental in lockdown, dogs wee up everything the rain washes it away re is no issue unless they do it on your front door.. what a load of rubbish my dog does the walk of a 1000 wees daily and has probably pissed up every single persons wall gate fence tree and lamp post no one cares no one has ever commented it is normal life unless it's poo then it's a different story

@Boiledpotatowitch

Oh sod off another flaming loony gone mental in lockdown, dogs wee up everything the rain washes it away re is no issue unless they do it on your front door.. what a load of rubbish my dog does the walk of a 1000 wees daily and has probably pissed up every single persons wall gate fence tree and lamp post no one cares no one has ever commented it is normal life unless it's poo then it's a different story

Congratulations! You’re proud of being a selfish, lazy dog owner who won’t train their mutt.