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

[ThisBrickPombear]

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?

If you want to deter cats put down lemon & orange peel, garlic, ammonia, vinegar, coffee grinds, mustard, citronella or eucalyptus as they don't like any of those smells and will toilet elsewhere.

To deter dogs don't use Jeyes fluid as it apparently attracts them to pee in the area and then you're back to square one. Vinegar is a substance that dogs don't like the smell of either.

So I see a trip to your nearest supermarket and buying litres of the stuff to pour/dilute with water to get them to stop.

So weird I spotted this thread as this happened to me today.
I drove past my house to turn the car around and watched a lady standing at our gate with her dog. This isn’t unusual tbh as it’s an unusual property and people do stop and look but as I slowed to park at the gate she looked a bit frazzled.
Her dog was just finishing a big poo. I got out of the car as she started to walk off hurriedly I asked her to clear up the poo.
She then told me it wasn’t against the law and walked off. Of course she’s right I think as it was a few inches off the pavement on our grass path….dead centre!

Think I’ll have a try with the bleach as @DPotter suggests but I don’t want to use that on the grass.
Meanwhile I’ll be twitching the curtains tomorrow waiting for her to pass by to give her back her poo now I have had to bag it 🤢