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?

We have a boy dog and he marks. I don’t let him do it on private property. He will mark every lamp post, or try. He will only ever poo on our yard.

What really bugs me is people taking their dogs on the playing field outside my children’s school. There’s another equally large piece of parkland adjacent, but they insist on taking them there, don’t always clean up the poo and let them wee everywhere, knowing the kids do sports on there everyday. It’s rank. And a lot of these are the parents. Mind boggling.

Oh, you want to see what the seagulls do to your car where I live. The car across the road hasn’t moved in months because the old man died. It looks like a plasterer’s radio.

You realise that boy dogs are required to produce those perfectly behaved girl dogs though?

Once you make peace with the fact pretty much everything you touch has human fecal matter on it, you don’t really worry about stuff like this.

Dogs wee multiple times on a walk. To wash the wee away with a bottle of water, some people would need to take a lot of water on their dog walks.
Dog owners already take poo bags, lead, maybe a ball, ball thrower, treats, and now you want them to cart a huge bottle of water around too?
Along with their house keys, mobile phone, maybe a pair of gloves if it's cold?

Maybe dog owners need to invest in a small suitcase on wheels in order to take their dogs on a walk?

No matter what others have said about other animals weeing on property, it doesn’t mean it’s acceptable to foul there when it can, and should be avoided. How many trivialising this actually experience rivulets of pee constantly running down their own walls and gates that they try to keep clean and painted? No use talking to these ignorant and thoughtless people when you catch them allowing their dogs to do this, as you will only get stupid replies! The results say a lot!

I had the same thought the other day while waiting for my kid to come out of nursery. A guy walking his dog stopped right in front of the nursery wall, his dog did a wee and kept walking as if nothing had happened. Dogs are creatures of habits, I'm sure that dog weed there everyday. I thought the dog owner was uncivic and not giving the kind of example I want for my kid as a responsible adult.

Yes, in Spain people walking dogs carry a bottle of water (usually an empty fairy liquid one you can squirt easily) and dilute the wee. I don't know if it's by law but it's common practice. It doesn't take much IMO.

Perhaps they do! I’m not saying anyone should HAVE to carry water around with them. But why not? Nobody else should be inconvenienced by your dog. They shouldn’t be the ones sorting out the aftermath of whatever bodily fluids Fido leaves behind. It’s about taking responsibility. If dog wee is causing a problem, then dog owners are the ones who need to solve it. It’s a fact that a dog cocking its leg on the same shrub or flowers every single day, could very well cause them to die. Of course a fox could do the same, but that doesn’t mean human beings shouldn’t be responsible for their pets’ behaviour.

I squirt neat bleach on it.

Wow! So you won't let your own dog pee in your own garden! But are happy for it to pee in public spaces!

What, the dog?😆

Why not? It has become acceptable to pick up dog poo, when in the past it was ok to let it lie in the street.

Also my experience. If the owners see me, they pull away the animals.

I've taken to putting a line of chilli powder across the bottom of my driveway in order to stop the parcels of excrement that I was getting. (Some dog owners removed them, but not all.)

That's what happens up the hill from me. There's a football pitch place there because it's in the middle of a housing estate and equidistant from two primary schools.

We actually get people driving here from other parts of town. (I have a parking bay outside the terrace where I live, so I see them coming and going when I'm out front.)

An added problem is that some owners inexplicably remove their dogs' leads while they're still adjacent to the road and my driveway. (I have a dropped kerb which is at the end of the parking bay - all legal, organised by a previous owner.)

I go very slowly indeed when I exit my driveway, because if someone lets their dog off the lead, and I'm nosing out it's sometimes not possible to see them until the last minute. I was once berated by an owner who complained that I'd 'nearly killed [his] dog'.

I pointed out that I'd seen the dog in time because I was going at a trickle and that it was his fault for not having the dog on a lead - it wasn't even walking to heel. The owner only appeared after I'd stopped: I originally thought that it was a stray. (Not an emergency stop, by the way - I genuinely do go extremely slowly when I exit.)

I'm sure my neighbours prefer it that way than the alternative of spending their summers with the smell if dog pee wafting though their gardens.

You are seriously naive to think your veggie food is not contaminated by meat eaters poo

Seen too many grown adults of both sexes do this (now I realise some people have genuine medical issues, but lots of them don't). Women squatting down, men just leaving both sorts of waste. A group of people did this on a local children's play area, and left all sorts of rubbish, too. Yes police came, but our kids couldn't use the play area.
I don't have a problem with dogs weeing, as they are only animals.

Wow.

I don't think that is what I was saying.

I meant to make the point that the urine of animals that live on a meat diet have more unpleasant urine than those that are herbivores. I apologise if that wasn't clear.

You've had kids. The environmental impact of additional humans is exponentially greater than animal wee.

Rain washes it and foxes, hedgehogs, squirrels, birds, rabbits, insects shit and pee all over grass as well this is so strange it annoys you

Exactly this

And yet dog owners, mostly, think it is highly reasonable to pick up their dog poo, despite the poo of wild animals being around.

I am not really arguing that the key reason I hate dog piss is for its environmental impact, although I do think it is an issue, as concentrated numbers of dogs access particular areas and piss in the same places to mark, which does upset the balance. I am arguing that it is deeply unpleasant, due to its stink, and its nitrogen-rich quality, and that I don't want to sit on grass where they have pissed, or for my kids to be poking around tree roots where they piss, or for them to get it on their clothes. Yes, it may rain, but we all know we get prolonged periods when it does not rain. If it rained daily, I don't think it would be an issue. If it doesn't rain for three or four weeks, it is a problem.

There are a significant number of people who do agree with me, if you look at the AIBU. I have, currently and by default, to be considerate of dog owners. Perhaps dog owners need also to be considerate, especially as there are quite a lot of people who feel the same as me.

I agree with you OP. It’s not about other animas weeing it’s about dog wee specifically. Something about it, I’m not sure if it’s acidity or something, seems far more damaging than a cat/fox/rabbit. That’s how you end up with these large stains and why dog owners often have patches of dead grass in their garden in the summer.

Its also a problem because if one has weed their once, it will encourage more to try and use it as a wee spot because they can smell it even if we can’t. So people like the OP end up with a semi constant stream of dog piss against their wall which is unsightly (because of the staining) and smells.

Dog owners should be pulling their dog away from private property but they don’t because they can’t be bothered. All the more reason why you should only have dogs if you have a reasonable amount of your own private land on which they can piss and shit to their hearts content.