New neighbour's dogs

[merrymelodies]

We're moving into a split level home which has been divided into two flats. Our future neighbour, who lives on the ground floor, has two very large dogs who have the run of a small enclosed back garden.

Looking out of our living-room window earlier, I noticed that there are large piles of dog poo everywhere in his "garden", some fresh, some old. The sight of all that mess turns my stomach. I want to complain to our future landlord and demand that the neighbour cleans up after his dogs. AIBU?

Before you go diving in..

Whose garden is it? Theirs, yours, shared?

Take note of how often it's cleaned up, and trying to judge how old poo is when you don't know the dogs is a silly road to go down, I've four dogs, one of them can produce a turd that looks old within hours, some of the others will look fresh for several days!

Our yard is poo picked at least once a day, often twice if I have to go out via the back gate (I don't want shit all over my wheels!), however if several dogs have a shit after poo pick time, that might sit there til the next day.

If you go in making demands before you have actual facts, you're going to make the landlord think you're hard work and possibly piss off the neighbour before you've discovered if there really is a problem.

If there really IS a problem then having hard evidence will be more useful in resolving it than just a snap judgement.

Shit isn't nice to look at, but if its the neighbours yard and not shared with your property, is picked up regularly etc, then that might literally be, tough shit.

Surely you knew this about your neighbour having dogs before you signed your tenancy agreement?

If it’s the ground floor house garden, what could your LL do?

So before moving in you want to complain to your landlord about dog poo in a neighbours garden? If I was your landlord you wouldn't be moving in.

Is it a shared garden? If not, then really it's not your business.

You don't own the view. And have you approached the tenants at all? Rather than tattling to the landlord, maybe have a conversation with the actual dog owners. You might find one is recovering from an operation, or has had an unusual stress this week and picking up the poo isn't their top priority this week.

And ultimately if you're the one feeling upset by it, maybe you could ask permission to access the garden and bag it up yourself. I know it's their dogs and most owners would collect poos regularly, but if it's their garden and they aren't bothered then no-one is going to be able to make them do it.

I’d be thinking twice about moving in, personally. Had a similar problem in a previous property and it was disgusting. Smell, flies - horrible. And dogs barking, even worse. Antisocial fuckers.

It's the flies that bother me most, tbh. There truly is dogshit everywhere. We did know about the dogs but we didn't know that our new neighbour is a lazy, miserable bugger. We've signed the lease and paid the first month's rent but aren't moving in until next week.

Dont move in, same problem here, poo never cleared of mess, flies,smell, plus garden full of other rubbish its horrendous.LL doesnt care as long as rent paid