Dog wee (sorry!!)

[samthepigeon]

Am I the only person who thinks that dogs weeing everywhere is really horrid. I know people pick up poo after their pets, but dog wee up lamp posts, gateposts, walls, hedges, fences, trees, even just on the grass seems really nasty too, especially if you have children who like to run and roll on the grass, or to poke about in tree roots etc. And there are so many dogs everywhere these days!

I think that in Spain dog owners have to carry a water bottle with you to wash or dilute the dog wee. Does anyone know if that is true?

The rain might wash it away on the pavement, but doesn’t wash it off the wall. Plus, in Spain I never saw one person carrying a bottle of water and disinfectant to wash it away!

the crafty shit the UberEats guy has in the bushes in the park........

SURELY NOT 😳

I mean not a main road. I live in a city and realize a dog can't safely squat in a busy city highway. There is a big difference between a dog peeing on someones gatepost/front lawn, and peeing in the gutter in the adjacent road, even if the actual distance is only a few feet.

For those with pee on their walls etc.

Dogs have super sensitive noses and they hate strong smells like olbas oil or chilli power.

If you put a strong scent around the peeing area, it will stop them peeing there and natural scents like above won't harm the dog.

It's a pain having to keep applying the smell, especially in wet weather, but it does work.

A woman let her dog piss against the wheel of my car as I was unloading the boot last week. She looked a tiny bit embarrassed, but kept her eyes down when I said that it was gross. I didn't want to get into a confrontation right outside my house.

I do agree, but on the whole, more dogs piss in public than men.

Although all these things are disgusting, it doesn't make dog wee less disgusting.

Yes, wild animals do. But wild animals have loads more places to do it. Dogs do it in the exact same spaces that humans use regularly ie pavements and parks. The areas are very concentrated.

So, at the moment 46% of posters think it’s ok for dogs to continually piss up the walls of their property?

I'd rather focus on stopping men pissing outside first. I don't understand why they piss in stairs wells and lifts for example. Why not go at least in a drain?

Except that I’d need an industrial sized container of the stuff!

But revolting though they are, they’re not pissing on my wall, unless they are very,very tiny!

I hate the smell of cat piss too. Do worms even wee? And spiders? Flies? Dogs pee in the same concentrated places, over and over. Wild animals excrement etc is part of the ecosystem, and dog excrement etc is not. Wild animals do not have owners, and dogs do, which is why people are expected to pick up poo after them. It is about responsibility, not about biology.

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And while it does rain in Britain, we also do get long spells when it does not rain, which is exactly the time kids are out and about in parks.

We are not talking about wild animals. Dog owners are expected to pick up poo. Why not deal with the urine too? It is meat eating animals that have particularly offensive, smelly, nitrogen-rich, corrosive and plant-burning urine. That is obviously not the case with cattle, sheep, horses etc.

That's what I've had to do. I had bare patches on my hedge because so many dog owners walk past here on their way to allow their dogs to defecate in the football pitch up the hill from me.

I must admit, I find it really horrible. But I accept that it’s not a very reasonable stance. I suppose it’s because I don’t SEE all the wild animals taking a piss, whereas Tiddles and Fido repeatedly piss on my wheelie bin and car and I either see them do it or am left with the telltale wet rivulets.

There are long periods of time when it doesn't rain in Britain these days too. Do you think it would be a good idea if dog owners here do as they do in Spain, then?

I'll add that I'd underplanted my front hedge with pansies and they couldn't survive the dog urine. I tried just washing it all off, but that wasn't enough to deter the dogs, so I took to using a top dressing of chilli powder and that's done the trick. (I did try just using diluted Zoflora between plants, but that didn't work.)

Do you have a cat?

No. Do you?

I had a girl dog. She used to cock her leg. Busting those stereotypes.

They do do this in Spain - I’ve actually seen this first hand in Barcelona. It doesn’t stop some of the streets in Barceloneta or the Barri Gòtic being very stinky, but this has nothing to do with any lingering dog pee and everything to do with old and poorly maintained sewers. The stench of human effluence only gets worse when it rains and those drains overflow….

As a regular football match goer, dogs doing their business does not bother me. I’m far more concerned by the grown men who are apparently incapable of paying a visit to the bathroom before leaving the stadium, seemingly with a bladder the size of a gnat’s, who choose to wee against any nearby wall, fence, hedge in clear line of sight of other men, women and kids, with zero compunction.

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