Neighbour’s dogs poo outside our house every day Wwyd?

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We have a footpath that runs down the side of our house. Our kitchen window looks straight onto it and my DC use it every day to walk to school. We live on an estate and the footpath goes all the way round in a loop. It’s very popular with dog walkers who are mostly very respectful. We have a dog ourselves so no issues with dogs.

I have is an elderly neighbour who has two very aggressive terrier type dogs. He walks past at least twice a day and his dogs poo on the path right outside my house in the same spot every single day. And he doesn’t pick it up. I know it’s him as I’ve seen him on my security camera.

The problem is that this man has dementia, lives on his own and has very poor eyesight. My cleaner also cleans for him and tells me the dogs regularly poo inside his house and wee on his bed and he doesn’t notice. I can’t talk to him about the poo as I can’t get close when I see him as his dogs go mental and I’m genuinely scared of them. I wonder if he just can’t see the poo to pick it up? On the other hand My neighbours have seen him kick it into the gutter rather than picking it up.

I really sympathise with him but equally I’m heartily fed up of picking up dog shit every day and me and my DC stepping in it frequently. I don’t want to look out of my kitchen window onto a pile of stinking dog crap every day.

What should I do?

Dog shit where children are - also harmful

I really hope you and no one you care about ever has dementia. This is such an awful thing to say you'd do.

Pick it up inside a tissue and pop it on his doorstep.

What a delightful way to treat someone with dementia.

@JollyViper(not myself caught wrong name ) @Jabbabong you are aware ppl can see what you wrote before you edited it?
Awful .

If he's not able to care for his pets to the extent they aren't always being toiletted outside, and they are pooing and weeing inside the house - I would contact your local authority and log a safeguarding concern as he is at risk of self neglect and possibly needs care / help. I would also contact the RSPCA to see whether they can check on whether the dogs are looked after ok, and if he can't look after them properly potentially they may help get them rehomed?

In the meantime I would do as pp suggested and pour bleach and water over the pavement daily or use some other deterrent to prevent them pooing on your patch.

I am not a dog owner and don't particularly like dogs so would absolutely not be committing to picking up someone else's dog shit for the foreseeable tbh. I'd complain to the council and see if they can take any other action that may help (someone mentioned a sort of spray deterrent above).

I actually cannot believe how many people are saying something like this. The man has dementia. Do you understand at all what that means?

It’s gross but not exactly harmful, unless they’re rubbing their face in it. I’m not insinuating that people shouldn’t pick up after their dog…because they should. But people shouldn’t be putting household chemicals outside their homes as it doesn’t actually achieve anything except damage wildlife - that’s literally a fact.

Bag it up and put it through the letterbox.

You'd do this to an elderly man suffering from dementia?

If I was the cleaner I would say "no thank you if you have a problem you sort it".

I didn’t read the updates

I agree with covering the area in bleach.

For all the people saying they'd put it on his doorstep / letterbox.
Hopefully, one day, you'll get dementia. You can live in a prison of your own mind. You can watch on, upset and not understanding as one by one all your appliances are removed to stop you burning yourself or starting an electrical fire. You can hand over control of your finances and hope your relatives don't fleece you blind. You can suffer multiple UTIs because you can't wipe yourself properly after the toilet. You can have all your precious valuables removed to protect them after an unidentified agency carer nicks your engagement ring. You can live frightened out of your wits because you don't know what decade it is and you don't recognise the people who call you "Mum". Wait till it happens to you, you lousy excuses for human beings.

Since he has dementia, I think the best option is for you to keep picking it up unfortunately. Religiously a couple of times a day. I would buy massive 5L bottles of vinegar from Amazon and douse the path in it to discourage the dogs from going on the path.

@StormingNorman it clearly says in the original post that he has dementia. You didn't have to read the updates.

Some absolutely disgusting attitudes on here to people with dementia. Depressing to see how many posters it is, too. I used to think that the kind of shitty people who abused vulnerable people in care homes and stole from them were an outlier, but clearly having these kinds of nasty behaviours and attitudes is almost commonplace.

I think I would make a report to adult social care if the cleaner has reported they do this in the house and wee in the bed. He may not have capacity and needs support, they can professionally assess that

This. All the peopld saying "pick it up for him" - are you dog owners very used to this? To a non dog owner this is an absolutely vile vomit inducing task and a key reason many of us choose to never have a dog. OP should not be forced to pick up after a dog she does not own.

The most likely reality is he is no longer fit to have a dog as he isn't able to care for it properly, its very sad but the dog probably needs to be rehomed.

Very difficult situation 😕

Given the circumstances, maybe report to the dog warden and the environmental health department.

Are they exempted? There was a case local to me a few years ago where a person using a mobility scooter was prosecuted by the local council for allowing their dog to foul on a regular basis. They were fined and lost their appeal (their defence was that thry were disabled). It featured heavily in the local paper at the time. Frustratingly I can't find details to check...

The cleaner's info about conditions inside the house would make me report this as an adult safeguarding concern.

I think it's just people who are registered as blind who are exempt. And I suspect that's because having a dog is a necessity for many of them.

It means he is not competent to look after his dogs and should not have them.

I’m afraid if he has dementia then he is unlikely to remember a conversation about picking it up whether it be from you or the council.
If he isn’t noticing it in the home then he is unlikely to be registering that it can be a nuisance for people outside.
I don’t think there is much you can expect him to do.
My Dad had early onset Alzheimer’s. It makes me really sad that this man is living this way. Thank goodness he has a cleaner.

Assuming the dogs aren’t neglected then they are probably the only things keeping him going at the moment. It’s so very sad.