Neighbours don't care... Garden disgusting full of dog poo

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Live in detached house, next door neighbour who I never see and her older son garden is right next to ours.... We share a fence and you can see right into their garden from any of our windows upstairs. They Have large dogs.. Not sure how many as don't really see them maybe 3-4. Dogs arent a bother really... Bark occasionally but not excessively. Issue I have is the amount of dog poo all over their garden .... Its disgusting!!!! What can I do about it? They aren't approachable neighbours and don't want to create an issue. Am not talking 3/4 turds but around 40-50. I actually can't eat sometimes thinking about it... And when I open curtains upstairs first thing I see is the poo mountain

How horrible. If you can smell it, or if it’s causing other problems, definitely contact your local council as it must be a hygiene issue? There seems to be a big increase in the amount of dog poo left on streets where I live, selfish dog owners make me so furious. If you don’t want to pick up dog poo, don’t have a dog.

Thanks guys, I think I might catch one of the neighbours when they are out and about and maybe say that am worried about vermin/infestations and smell. I know there's not a lot I can do. If that doesn't work ill go down environmental health route........ Although might start getting poos sent through letterbox if I did that 😂

@Blinkblank id hardly call simply opening my bedroom curtains-curtain twitching!

😂no just don't like neighbours with shit all over their garden which probably stinks and have flies all over.

Well actually you can. If the garden is overgrown there is legislation in place whereby they will be forced to take action or the council will do it and fine them.
As for the poo- is it rented? Speak to the landlord/agent of known or the council. It’s a health hazard. It will smell too, especially in summer.

The only thing is, they’re bound to know it’s you.

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But you don’t like the neighbours over the road either? 😆😆😆😆

Always one of you in every neighbourhood!

So much cleaner than others….. yeah right!

Why are you sticking up for the neighbours? Is your garden full of dog shit,?

I had this with previous neighbours and it definitely did smell and I had visitors comment on it. It was embarrassing but I never had the confidence to tell them (they and their dogs were a bit scary.)

They did move out eventually but I don’t know if you can rely on that.

Nope just normal clean.

And checking up on everyone else! Sticky beaking!!

I can't imagine how it wouldn't pong. I back onto a field that has a dog poo bin. In the height of summer when the wind blows the right way, it stinks! I'd assume most are bagged and the bin has a lid too.

I'd also lie and say it smells but approach them really tactfully, basically kill them with kindness. Hopefully this will result in them being reasonable, rather than getting their backs up.

Has this thread hit a nerve?

No, is your nose stuck to the window? Sticky beaking?

What about dog shit, no?

about nasty interfering neighbours who think they’re better than others? Yeah maybe!

@Blinkblank@Blinkblank are you OK?

I haven't said anything to my neighbours.

In going to judge people who clean up after their oers though. My nose is not stuck to the window but I'm not blind and I have to look out of windows especially when cleaning my dogs slavour off of the windows.

Don't clean up after their pets

Report it to your local environmental health department.

That much faeces is a biohazard. Definitely report it to the council. Whether you can smell it or not, that amount of it increases the risk of the spread of disease so much that it's a concern for any neighbour.

I feel sorry for the dogs, it can't be nice for them having to run around in it.

I bet their grass is nice and green once it has got through the initial die off.

Get some of that privacy film, the stuff that looks like etched glass, pop it on your window so that the light still comes in but it blocks the view of next door's garden.

Carry on with your life without bothering about what may or may not be happening next door.

Our window cleaner was asked to clean at a house like this and she moaned because he couldn't do some of the windows because of the dog mess. I think he told her to get a different window cleaner.

Nothing you can do about how other people choose to live, OP.