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To accuse my neighbour’s dog or could this be fox poo?

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Reliablesource · 14/05/2025 12:32

Warning: poo image attached! We have an ongoing issue with a neighbour in our block who sometimes lets their dog in the communal garden despite a no dog rule. We previously complained when they let their dog poo there last year and they did clean it up and promised it wouldn’t happen again. However, the owner occasionally accompanies the dog for an early morning walk through the garden.

We spotted this poo on the lawn today, but we do live next to a forest area where there are foxes, etc. Does this look like fox or dog poo? We don’t want to have a go at the neighbour if it’s fox poo but I can’t tell the difference. Anyone know better?

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To accuse my neighbour’s dog or could this be fox poo?
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OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon · 19/05/2025 21:47

Amazing how fast a letter was written and posted by the Management Association, and then received by all the tenants

and then the tenant ' confessed

and

the Management Association has updated all the neighbours...

Deanthebean · 19/05/2025 21:58

Maybe you need to get a life rather than searching the garden for unidentified animal faeces.

Oh by the way - my dog can go in the garden he can poo in the garden as long as I clean it up which I do.
That is hardly disrespectful. Like I said in the past year I've lived here he's has used the garden less than 5 times and like I said it is my right legally as a shared user. The idea is in the word communal.

NewGoldFox · 19/05/2025 21:58

Cat poo

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Reliablesource · 19/05/2025 22:17

OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon · 19/05/2025 21:47

Amazing how fast a letter was written and posted by the Management Association, and then received by all the tenants

and then the tenant ' confessed

and

the Management Association has updated all the neighbours...

It was an email sent to all lessees. Emails are instant if you’re not familiar with them. The dog owner replied to the managing company to apologise but the management company only relayed this to the directors of the block (of which I am one) today. It hasn’t been disclosed to the other residents so as to not cause a row. So jog on, Miss Marple.

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Mumofyellows · 19/05/2025 22:19

Looks like fox to me, my classroom garden is always full of it as we have a fox den under our classroom. I have 2 dogs and to me that is much more foxy, it's exactly what I have to clear at school every day. My dogs is lighter.

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Reliablesource · 19/05/2025 22:23

Deanthebean · 19/05/2025 21:58

Maybe you need to get a life rather than searching the garden for unidentified animal faeces.

Oh by the way - my dog can go in the garden he can poo in the garden as long as I clean it up which I do.
That is hardly disrespectful. Like I said in the past year I've lived here he's has used the garden less than 5 times and like I said it is my right legally as a shared user. The idea is in the word communal.

Walking across the garden is not ‘searching’ it, wind your neck in. Allowing your animal to poo in a garden where children play and people sit on the grass is disgusting. Do you not realise it leaves a residue? No wonder your neighbour hates you. Typical selfish, entitled dog owner.

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Deanthebean · 19/05/2025 22:36

Sorry I didn't realise kids were licking the grass,
You must live near some strange kids.

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Reliablesource · 19/05/2025 22:42

Deanthebean · 19/05/2025 22:36

Sorry I didn't realise kids were licking the grass,
You must live near some strange kids.

Edited

You’re embarrassing yourself now with your ignorance.

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Deanthebean · 19/05/2025 22:46

I just don't appreciate the way you have spoken to me from the offset when I made a simple question when you have been nothing but insulting.
Just because you don't like dogs, doesn't mean I'm disgusting or disrespectful to my neighbours for letting my dog occasionally use the garden ( who by the way has luxating patella in both hind knees) and I DO clean it.
It's not grounds to be bullied for it and hated.
So no you are the ignorant embarrassing one.
Good evening to you

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Reliablesource · 19/05/2025 22:52

@Deanthebean I find it disgusting and disrespectful. Your dog’s health problems are of no concern to your neighbours. Clearly we are never going to agree on this but luckily we don’t live next to each other.

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OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon · 19/05/2025 22:54

' But we have raised it with the building management company and asked them to write to ALL residents '

You see if I was asked at work to write to someone, it would be a letter in an envelope and a stamp ( or franked ) and delivered a few days later by the postman...

Maybe you meant you asked the Management Company to ' contact ' all residents ?

tattychicken · 20/05/2025 06:18

So many entitled dog owners!! Shitting in a communal area is grim. March your dog through and wait for them to shit once you are outside.
Yes I am a dog owner and a dog lover but the attitudes here are typical of the new breed of dog owners that just amaze me. Children's rights to play and walk over dog shit free grass trumps your dogs rights to shit where it wants. And yes I know you pick it up but shit on grass always leaves bits behind, unless you also have a kettle of hot water and a scrubbing brush with you on your walks.

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Reliablesource · 21/05/2025 17:50

OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon · 19/05/2025 22:54

' But we have raised it with the building management company and asked them to write to ALL residents '

You see if I was asked at work to write to someone, it would be a letter in an envelope and a stamp ( or franked ) and delivered a few days later by the postman...

Maybe you meant you asked the Management Company to ' contact ' all residents ?

Pretty sure it’s common parlance to “write an email”. Maybe not to you 🤷🏻‍♀️

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OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon · 21/05/2025 20:30

If you meant that then that is what you should have written ' asked them to email all the residents '

CatsorDogsrule · 21/05/2025 21:03

OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon · 21/05/2025 20:30

If you meant that then that is what you should have written ' asked them to email all the residents '

So you disagree with how OP has "written" their post (online), but don't accept that management wrote to the residents (online) via email?

OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon · 21/05/2025 21:33

@CatsorDogsrule

Amazing how fast a letter was written and posted by the Management Association, and then received by all the tenants
and then the tenant ' confessed
and
the Management Association has updated all the neighbours...

does that help ?

CatsorDogsrule · 21/05/2025 21:42

OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon · 21/05/2025 21:33

@CatsorDogsrule

Amazing how fast a letter was written and posted by the Management Association, and then received by all the tenants
and then the tenant ' confessed
and
the Management Association has updated all the neighbours...

does that help ?

But it wasn't too fast for an email to be written, sent to all residents and responded to. OP already advised that they are a director of the block so were privy to the correspondence.

Does that help you understand this is a very normal timeline, considering that there were no letters posted?

Glitchymn1 · 21/05/2025 21:47

You’d have to smell it to be sure. I’d say fox poop. Can foxes access the garden if it’s fenced off?

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