Dog keeps fouling on my front lawn

valk_scot

I had a problem with a neighbour allowing her two dogs to foul the area of public grass behind my garden, the area where the local kids...including my DD and hers...played. I and several other neighbours spoke to her, yes. She had every excuse under the sun...no bags, the baby was crying, she'd not noticed, her DD had taken the dogs etc. She was quite an aggressive woman and liable to get quite scarey too. I can deal with scarey but nothing seemed to make an impression, things would get picked up for a day or two and then go back to normal.

The final straw was when the snows that winter melted to expose no less than 37 seperate dog turds in an area not much bigger than the average garden. I took photos and fired off a lengthy email to the council dog warden. It must have made his day, it was in his in box the day he went back to work with dates, addresses and times.

Anyway to cut a long story short he came round to see the evidence, asked me if I was prepared to be a witness if it had to go to court (I was, I can see that grass perfectly from the window in front of this desk) and went round to see her. Unsurprisingly she got aggressive and started swearing and shouting at him.The DW, a youngish bloke built like a prop forward, was not impressed. He pointed out the fine was £40 per incident and with two dogs fouling twice a day that would add up fast especially since he could produce a cast iron witness. He said her face was a picture when she realised that meant £160 a day, every day......:eek:

We've not had a single incident since. Goodness knows where she's walking the dogs but it's not here. She's never talked to me since that day either, she knew it was me that reported her as there couldn't be anyone else with that good a vantage point. The family have moved to another part of mine since then but she still cuts me dead in Tesco....:rotfl:

missile

valk_scot wrote: »

... She's never talked to me since that day....she still cuts me dead in Tesco....:rotfl:

I bet you are really upset about that :j

sunflower_2

what about a wooded area?

i dont delve into the forest or long grass to pick up after my dog - but always wonder if I should?

GM43

I have a neighbour who opens their front door and lets their dog wander wherever it wants. I try to keep my gate shut but if I've been away for a few days I always find a dog turd on the grass. I would love to catch in the in act but I haven't yet - until I do that I'm loath to say anything as he's been in trouble with police for many things - don't want any trouble. I'm the only one with grass around here as we all have small gardens so I understand why the dog will come in but there's not need for it. Just very sick of people not taking responsibilty for their dogs - we have so much dog poo on the streets around here - mainly on the route to school and even just outside the school gates - I just don't understand the mentality.

zaksmum

sunflower wrote: »

what about a wooded area?

i dont delve into the forest or long grass to pick up after my dog - but always wonder if I should?

If I'm deep in the woods with the dogs and they foul, I'll pick it up if it's accessible, but I wouldn't put my hand into a clump of nettles or a spiky bush, or indeed if I couldn't see where the poo was.

Norma_Desmond

I've heard that pouring bacon fat on the turd makes it irresistable to the next dog that passes by - and they eat it.

Totally disgusting of course, but a great result if the 'offender' clears up after itself.

art_for_arts_sake

Wife's grandma, by then a good age but since gone, caught a dogwalker letting their dog repeatedly foul on the pavement outside her house and demanded they pick it up, offering them a dustpan and brush.

I'm in what seems like constant correspondence with a neighbourhood warden which seemed to help but FWIW things seem to have taken a backwards turn with the nights drawing in and bad weather. Why people think the hours of darkness excuses not picking up baffles me, I do it 24/7.

tyllwyd

Maybe you could change from grass to some other kind of planting that would put the dog off more.