Dogs off leads

poppysarah

Our council has got a dog warden who writes people letters, and he'll come and lurk at the right times. He does take people to court for it and so he should. Dog mess is disgusting and can cause blindness.

Bootski

poppysarah wrote: »

Our council has got a dog warden who writes people letters, and he'll come and lurk at the right times. He does take people to court for it and so he should. Dog mess is disgusting and can cause blindness.

I MIGHT CONDRADICT MYSELF HERE BUT DON'T RELY ON THE COUNCIL NOR GOING THROUGH "PROPER CHANNELS" It will take you years!!

Have the courage to tell her it's unacceptable.... but don't get yourself hurt.

There is no easy way out of anti-social behaviour. Landlords and Env. Health don't give a toss. Just don't let it bring you down:rolleyes::rolleyes:

poppysarah

If you want to deal with it yourself then you could pick the dog mess up and leave it all on her doorstep.

Bootski

poppysarah wrote: »

If you want to deal with it yourself then you could pick the dog mess up and leave it all on her doorstep.

Why should she have to do that??:mad:

& risk reprisals??:rolleyes:

Cannot, these dog owners, take responsibility for them themselves, supposing she'd rather bake her cake or hoover???

HellsGranny

I once caught somebody letting his dog foul my garden, and asked him to clear it up. He refused, so I picked it up on a shovel and proceeded to follow him back to his home.

I rang the bell and when he came to the door, said 'Oi mate, you dropped this', and left it on his lawn. There were several oF his neighbours out in their gardens and they laughed at him.

He came round with a poop scoop afterwards. (this was in the days before Dog Wardens!)

I suggest you tip the cr*p back over in their garden. If they protest, tell them that you're only returning their dog's property.

Cheers, HG

Bootski

HellsGranny wrote: »

I once caught somebody letting his dog foul my garden, and asked him to clear it up. He refused, so I picked it up on a shovel and proceeded to follow him back to his home.

I rang the bell and when he came to the door, said 'Oi mate, you dropped this', and left it on his lawn. There were several oF his neighbours out in their gardens and they laughed at him.

He came round with a poop scoop afterwards. (this was in the days before Dog Wardens!)

I suggest you tip the cr*p back over in their garden. If they protest, tell them that you're only returning their dog's property.

Cheers, HG

Great! You have to be brave though. I had something similar. Only I knew she got her dog to crap outside my house on purpose. Behind my house is a big public field but she thought to let it have a crap right outside my back door!

They went off on their way and I called out to her to clean it up. She said, "alright love, darling - where is it!"

& I said "It's OK sweetheart, look, its still there - still "steaming"

Not seen neither hair nor hound since!!:T

lindos90

My mum has a similar problem, and the housing association dont seem to be interested.

She lives in a small set of flats, with a communal grassed area at the back. One neighbour has a large alsation who is never on a lead, and runs about, the owners encourage it to poo around the communal rotary washing line etc, there is usually someone out with it, but its quite unpredictable and does not go back to them when they shout it.

My mum has got to the point where she avoids going out as she has osteo perosis, if it ran up to her it could knock her over and break several of her bones easily.

She has asked for help from the council/housing association. they have sent the owners a letter telling them they can only take the dog out without a lead before 8am and after 8pm, any other time it needs to go out it must be on a lead, this should mean that neighbours should be able to go out shopping, or to the washingline/dustbins without the worry of the dog.

They have ignored this openly, swinging the lead round banging it on the washing line to show its not on the dog etc, and the council are unwilling/unable to do anything more.

The other neighbours are mostly elderly and afraid of the people with the dog, (they cause other anti social problems, such as roudy behaviour, intimidation,k nocking on the bedroom windows of the flats on the groundfloor etc)

Is the dog warden a separate thing to the housing !!!/council, or do they work for the council, wondering if this is worth persuing, or if they will have already been involved with the 'mediation and letter'.

Yorkie1

They are three different departments which will (should) act independently - housing, environmental health, and dog warden.

Always worth a punt with the dog warden and/or environmental health if it is fouling common land.

Edit: and as for the general antisocial behaviour, I don't see why further pressure can't be brought to bear on the housing section. Perhaps ask when they intend to enforce the tenancy (if it's a lease that is) provisions that say no nuisance to others in the area? There's also the police for antisocial behaviour too.

MissMoneypenny

poppysarah wrote: »

Dog mess is disgusting and can cause blindness.

It's cats mess that is the biggest danger for causing human blindness.

Our vet use to have leaflets for cat owners warning them that their cat could cause blindness in humans. It also listed how often they should have their cats wormed and asked cat owners to provide cat trays for their pets so they could dispose of their pets mess safely. Cats have a nasty habit of messing in places such as childrens sandpits and gardeners vegetable plots if their owners won't provided them with a clean cat tray. The leaflet also warned that pregnant mothers should not be the ones that cleaned out their cats tray, because of the danger to the unborn child. Scary stuff.

Someone on digitalspy pointed out that the NHS now has these warnings about cats on their site.

I have owned many cats and dogs over the years and always cleaned up their mess and disposed of it safely, as well as making sure they were all up to date with their worming. I'm not sure why some people get pets if they think it is ok to let their pet (dogs and cats) mess in someone elses garden Lazyness?

mathsmaster

Colliewobble wrote: »

COMEDY SUGGESTION...

Leave the poop in a paper bag near neighbour's door, set said bag alight. Watch in mirth as neighbour tries to stamp out flames.:A:D

:rotfl:I almost wish I was having this problem so I could try this out:rotfl: