Dog mess on my lawn

Dustyblinds

We have a patch of grass outside of our back garden, someone from the bottom of our street kept letting her dog out, he would poop outside of ours or a neighbours house. We both reported this to the council, they came out, cleaned it up and put a few of the clean it up signs you see around parks etc. This stopped for a while, then it started again, my oh parks the car out the back sometimes and if we forget to check the grass when stepping out we sometimes stand in it, yuk. Infuriatingly, we've had some cheeky neighbours put unused poo bags under our windscreen wipers (we have 2 dogs of our own who we never allow to roam and always clean up after). People obviously think it's us that's allowing our dogs to poop outside. It's strange as the other neighbour who's complained about the dog mess also has dogs as well, I think this dog is deliberately targeting our houses, sort of a dominance thing. The council have said if it continues, they will be knocking on doors as it's unfair that they have to keep coming out to clean up after someone else's dog.

zaxdog

This annoys me for a few reasons:

1. We ALWAYS clean up after our dog (even when he got the runs and I ran to the shop for water to sluice away the matter

2. I have been to our local beach with the dog running and had a few women been very aggressive making sure we cleaned up (which we were doing anyway). Yet they left litter including soiled nappies :eek::eek:

3. The women who were so vocal (and rank manky) also said dogs should be banned from a beach where for the vast majority of the year only dog walker actually go

So really dog walkers should of course "scoop the poop" but conversely litter where we live is a MUCH bigger issue!

Kaye1

White pepper.

We used to work at a pub many years ago and the neighbour regularly let it poop on the front grass. Obviously as it was a pub, we couldn't put anything too toxic down, so we embarked on a pepper campaign.

Every day, we would sprinkle white pepper around the edge of the path and cayenne pepper on the actual poo spot. We noticed he liked to poo in roughly the same area. On the days it rained, we had to re-do it.

After about 10 days of pepper application, the dog gave up. It wasn't the nice place with lots of smells to have a lovely poop anymore, it was pepper city.

To be honest, it was a pain for those ten days- having to keep re-applying it if the rain washed it away etc, but it really did the job very well. We had some cheap and cheerful pepper and just kept putting it down.

System

i get dead things dropped in my garden from my neighbours cats. I get her to move them. Ive told her i dont like dead things and she accepts that.

Beckyy

Call your dog warden and advise. Ask if they can do a non-uniform walk around the area at the time it's been happening.

TBagpuss

I'd agree with Kaye1. Tyr to make the lawn less attractive to the dog, especially if the dog is unattended.
You can buy anti-fouling products such as 'get off my garden' - I think you might find that they don't have to be replaced quite as often as using pepper.

proffLucy

Thanks to everyone for responding. I could put a gate up but it would cost a lot which I cant afford at the moment. Plus it would be sods law that the dog would come in if I forgot to close the gate....

I will try the repellant idea, it seems to poop on my lawn less when I let my grass grown long too.

My DD is now scared to walk past their house as she overheard me telling my sister on the phone that the woman had been so aggressive. I told her to hold her head high and walk straight past!

Ive gone onto the website for the local council. They had a section for requesting no fouling stickers so Ive done that, but I really need to speak to a "real life" person to get some advice so I will do that when I get chance tomorrow. I doubt "no fouling" stickers would influence someone who is so rude/selfish. Its not a family that seems to walk anywhere so they probably wouldnt even notice the stickers.....

The dog itself is quite a sweet little thing, looks quite elderly, I would never let my pet just wander! Found out from my next door neighbour that it messes on another persons lawn a few doors up from me which annoys him too!