Neighbours dog weeing on fence

[binkyblinky]

Hi all! Who is BU, me or my husband!

We moved into our new home in October.

Brick wall on right and end of the garden, shared wooden fence with concrete posts with neighbours.

The garden was newly turfed but I noticed a dead patch next to the fence. The developers came round for another issue, I mentioned the dead grass, and he showed me a stain on the fence where he said there's an animal weeing - it must be next door's dog.

I didn't like the turf right up against the fence anyway, so the developers dug in a small border for us.

I sent a picture to next door, who are a really lovely young couple in their 20s, and asked could they try to keep the dog from weeing on the fence, I said we'd had a border put in as he'd killed the grass, but that it wasn't a massive issue. They were really apologetic and said they'd try to stop him'

The dog is still peeing there, worse than ever. I won't be able to plant anything along that border!

My hubby is getting really cross about it, I don't want to fall out with my neighbours as it's a new estate and community so important! Hubby is telling me to go and speak to them or he will, and he won't be as nice about it as I am 🥺

How do I deal with this

I think maybe it seems more of an issue to you because the garden is so new and clear. I can't imagine ever noticing a damp patch at the bottom of a fence in ours! You're only noticing it because there is not much else in there. Once you get some planting in, it will be a non-issue.

Cement the gap. Put something in front of it.

Crikey, how big is this dog? It must be peeing pints of the stuff.

I am so glad i am not your neighbour op

Could you not buy grass seed that's ok with dog wee? We just planted some last week and even the dogs favorite piss spots are sprouting nicely.

Christ almighty! I think I need a break from mn

Anything they spray on the fence to put the dog off weeing there is likely to be far more damaging to the plants than dog wee.

Just mulch or gravel the border and put something hardy there, or pots perhaps, and water it frequently and it won't kill anything your side.

Im also in the 'blimey how big is their dog' camp... its not normal for dogs to do SO much wee it comes through a concrete/wooden fence and is still running far enough rather than soaking away, to damage your garden. If its coming under the fence then it sounds like the gravel boards are not sunk deep enough into the ground, there should be no gap there!

Just put a big pot in the spot on your side.

Honestly, you have two options. If it's worth falling out with your neighbours over it, then insist they control where their dog wees. I doubt this will be a simple ask.
Or, if you're keen to preserve cordial neighbourly relations, plant in pots on that side of the fence, which should also helpfully hide the stained fence.

In a previous house, my neighbours dogs used to pee all along the dividing fence. It was their fence so I was like whatever.

That was until the summer. Urine soaked wood baking in the sun is a disgusting stench.

I thought it was only bitches' wee that killed grass, not dogs? My dog pees on my allotment grass all the time and it has never turned yellow. My sister has a bitch and her grass has yellow patches from her wee.

There is no way a bitches wee can run under the fence onto your grass if she is weeing on grass her side of the fence? Is it concrete on their side? (therefore could be running under fence onto your grass)?

Can you put a planter there with some bushy plants so you don't notice it as much?

I think in the grand scheme of keeping friendly relations with your neighbours, I would just let this one go. And that's coming from a non-dog owner!

Could you borrow a cat and encourage it to shit in their garden?

@gannett

You kind of have to accept that animals will wee in public areas. What will you do if next door's dog stops but it turns out to be a fox or something?

OP garden fence is not a public area though?

OP dog owners will laugh at you but you are not wrong, it's ruined your grass already. The fence will end up rotten and stinking too. I would raise it again because I would not want a dog pissing at my fence/into my garden regularly. Equally, if I was the dog wonder and my dog was doing it, I would erect an inner fence or barrier of some sort to prevent it.

You are being massively unreasonable. Their dog is weeing in it's own garden! Leave your neighbours alone!

dogs wee hardly smells at all.....clutching at straws here....hose it down regularly, water disperses it

@BMW6

I thought it was only bitches' wee that killed grass, not dogs? My dog pees on my allotment grass all the time and it has never turned yellow. My sister has a bitch and her grass has yellow patches from her wee.

There is no way a bitches wee can run under the fence onto your grass if she is weeing on grass her side of the fence? Is it concrete on their side? (therefore could be running under fence onto your grass)?

This is ridiculous. Dog pee is dog pee. The reason bitches seem to kill grass and dogs don't is because the bitch will do all their wee in one go, on the same spot. Dogs will space theirs out. This dog however is repeatedly peeing in the same place so has killed the grass.

Honestly, if your husband goes round there he’s going to make an absolute show of himself.
‘Please stop your dog weeing on your fence as it may seep into my plantless border’
I mean what does your husband expect them to do?!

Tell your husband to pee on the fence from your side.

I could understand is it was hurdling the fence with an evil laugh but it isn't. It's pissing in its own garden. Stick a couple of pot plants on a couple of paving slabs and have your border.

Complain further and you're going to look deranged.

Your DH is lucky he doesn't live next door to me. I've caught one of my cats weeing right in the middle of next door's lawn several times. They have a cat and a dog so they aren't bothered but if they were, there's not much I could do about it.

You sound like absolute idiots I have to be honest. Dog pissing in its own garden and you are complaining? Is this actually for real!?

Is it not more likely that the concrete base and shallow soil is more likely the cause of dead grass? If dog pee could do this, you wouldn't get grass growing at the bottom of bollards on our local park.

3 dogs here and mine haven't managed to kill anything yet - grass or plants. (unlike me with my gardening skills)

My dogs main place to pee is on a fabulous camellia we have as it is near the back door. It is doing very well.

If the border is East facing (no morning sun) these will do fab - dog pee or not!

Bit annoying but I would value my good neighbourly relations over a small bit of border, and probably put a rockery or some garden ornaments there to disguise the “bald patch”.