Neighbours complain about dog wee on YARD.

fibonarchie

w06 wrote: »

Fencing off a section, whilst it may seem a solution, won't address the problem at all and actually you can't as it's a shared yard.

This is what caused a lot of the problems with the tenant in our block. They wanted to have a part of the communal garden all to themselves for the purposes of their 'doggy toilet'. To say it ruffled a few feathers would be putting it mildly.

Rented flats are not suitable living spaces for dogs (though that doesn't seem to stop a lot of people..)

thorsoak

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batg

I am amazed that the OP doesn't think the stench of urine would irritate anyone.....

suki1964

When we had a dog in a flat with a shared garden, I never even thought about letting him use it as a toilet. even when I was toilet training and getting up at silly o'clock, on went a lead and we went for walkies

OP, its a shared yard, not your dogs toilet. Take your dog walkies and let it toilet elsewhere if you are not prepared to stay with it whilst its in the yard and to flush as soon as the deed is done

Savvy_Sue

Sarahkeillor wrote: »

It commercial property downstairs. The only thing they use the yard for is delivery as its the BACK yard. No customers or staff use it and our dog doesn't go out while the deliveries are taking place because she might run out of the gate. There are no potted plants and the landlord has given us permission to use it with the dog.

Someone's got to be walking through this yard to make the deliveries, and if it's to a deli I'd really rather they weren't walking through old dog wee in order to do so!

teddysmum

AylesburyDuck wrote: »

We have 3 dogs who wee on concrete daily, we own our own home and have never had 1 single complaint of smell.
We disinfect the area daily with
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00U68AYQG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Be a responsible pet owner and do the same, do you really want to upset your neighbours with stinky dog wee.

That's what we use (notice it has gone up since I bought the last lot at £25) and find it is a good kitchen floor cleaner, too(especially the floral scent).It removes smells, cleans and kills germs, at a very low price as dilution is only 90 to 1 with water.


However, we recently bought a caravan with artificial grass and non-dog owners could smell the wee from the previous owner's dogs (like we can smell their cats' wee),but the disinfectant didn't work well even at large concentration. However,the problem was solved by using Jeyes Fluid.

theoretica

I would expect another fuss if you fence off part of the yard. The whole thing is shared, not so much each, and you can't just claim part of it.

seven-day-weekend

I personally do not think the dog should be in the 'shared' yard at all without permission from everyone else who shares it.

Take it out for a walk instead.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Animal waste stinks.

My mother had a similar attitude (how dare people complain) when our garden was half grass and half concrete. I can't actually remember the stench, only that everybody else's places smelled 'nicer' and their houses weren't full of flies like ours was (the neighbours kept their windows shut, presumably because of the smell and flies). If somebody else had to share the garden, they would have had to avoid piles of crap, would still be walking on areas where there had been poo and urine, picking up the bacteria at least - it was bad enough for me not being able to play outside.


I'd be worried that with a communal yard, if you aren't out with your dog that it's going to be stolen. Being out there with it means a) it can't get stolen, escape, attack a visitor, scare a visitor who is scared of dogs, get attacked by a visitor's dog, greet a small child too enthusiastically and end up with the parent hurting the dog or claiming to the police that your dog attacked it and b) you're in the perfect position to clean up the moment anything lands on the concrete - which isn't just picking up the poo in a bag, it means sluicing the area with a bucket of Jeyes fluid to get rid of the bacteria.

In addition, the deli could lose their hygiene certificate if they are inspected when you haven't got around to picking up a pile. Or if somebody there treads in it, they're then bringing bacteria into a Food Preparation Area. I wouldn't fancy losing my livelihood because the upstairs tenant won't clean up after their dog immediately.



You need to be careful about upsetting your neighbours with this, as getting permission doesn't mean that permission can't be withdrawn - it was probably given on condition that you do not cause a nuisance - and if the neighbours complain, a landlord won't hesitate to say they've changed their mind, here's notice to leave - oh, and here's the bill for cleanup and disinfecting of the communal area.

LilTerryWhite

I also wash down every couple of days or sometimes every day to stop the smell even tho I have a private yard, and it's my property.