So the neighbor's dog just pooped in my yard.

[Blue-Jay]

Poll question: So the neighbor's dog just pooped in my yard.

What should I do?

[VelmaD]

1. It depends on whether this is the first time...

it's happened. If it is...then just ask nicely. If not...flaming shitsack!!!!

[Midlodemocrat]

2. I don't know, but your sig line

makes me laugh out loud every time I see it.

[ronnykmarshall]

3. Go poop in their yard!

[BrklynLiberal]

12. ROTFLMAO!!!! Best suggestion yet.

But if you are too shy to do that..throw it on their car.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

4. Other: who cares?

It's just grass. Last I checked, that's where dogs are supposed to poo.

[Blue-Jay]

8. I don't have a dog anymore.

I don't think that it's too much to hope that I can walk in my OWN yard without stepping in shit. When I did have a dog, I carried poop-baggies with me if we were taking a walk. That was the polite thing to do.

[blondeatlast]

25. I have the same problem in my neighborhood and I've politley nagged

the owners enough that they show some responsibility. I've even mentioned it to them when the dogs have pooped in my neighbors' yards.

As I say, I'm polite, but the've certainly gotten the message, even the new ones.

Be polite, but make sure they know you know.

There's a reason non-pet owners (actually, I do own a cockatiel) are non-pet owners. No way am I willing to clean up after someone else's dog.

[progmom]

5. If you catch them out there when it happens

Them being the neighbors - I am assuming the dog was on a leash?

Anyway - if you catch them in the act, you might think of walking out and handing them a plastic bag, saying "Wasn't sure if you had any of these with you!" If that doesn't get the message across, then it's time to spell it out a little more clearly.

[Blue-Jay]

11. No leash.

they let the little bastard out the front door. He sauntered over to my yard and stacked some mud. I saw it happen.

[tridim]

13. In my neighborhood only the Repukes are bitchy about dog poo

I talked to my other (Liberal) neighbors and asked if they want me to pick up the poop every time, or if it can wait a few days. I live in a townhouse complex with shared yards and leaving the poop on the grass is the only way to teach a pup where to poop. Dogs are all about smelling to determine where to do their business. 90% of my neighbors were cool about it. All the Repukes seem to want every dog in the neighborhood killed. They're that militant about it. One even puts out garlic cloves hoping it'll keep the dogs away.

[sui generis]

33. Well, I rake the one of the neighbor's yards and bag leaves

as well as rescue their cats out of the trees, and I actually pay a lawn service to do the other neighbor's (they're all really old and fixed income), and they're pretty darn near blind anyway. My Chihuahua has little bitsy dainty turds anyway, it's not like she was a Great Dane or anything. . . but I suppose if I were walking a bigger dog and it dumped all the time I'd just pick it up.

Enough regular animal crap piling up in people's yards is unsanitary, especially if you have kids romping around too, but I probably wouldn't throw a hissy fit if someone let their dog take a crap in my yard occasionally - if it bothered me I'd just go say something.

Also in Dallas, animal control will issue a ticket post facto if you take a picture of the owner and offending animal and resulting pile.

[NoPasaran]

39. Garlic?

I think that only works on vampires.

[tridim]

40. Yea.. I don't get it either

Sounds like something she read on the Internets. My dogs kept trying to eat it.

[Speck Tater]

6. Send him a thank you card for the free fertilizer. (nt)

[demnan]

7. Start feeding the birds

You'll hear lot's of pretty tweetering and they will go shit on your neighbors car.

[Blue-Jay]

17. iiinteresting solution....

You, my friend, are able to think "out of the box". (I hate that phrase, but it certainly applies)

[hippiechick]

9. Depends on a few things ...

1. How close is it to a door, window or walkway ?
2. How 'much' is there ?
3. Is it going to rain there within the next 48 hours ?

If you can tolerate it for a couple days (not close enough to a door or window to cause a smell issue or get stuck on someone's shoe), just wait for the rain to take dissolve it.

NEXT TIME, however ... go outside WHILE the dog is doing its business - if you see them - and hand them a plastic baggie with which to remove the lawn ornament while gently reminding them that their dog should do its business on THEIR property.

:hi:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

10. Go pull down your pants and crap on the neighbor's lawn

not to turn this into a thread about body functions or anything

[Radical Activist]

19. best suggestion yet. n/t

[WI_DEM]

14. pick it up and put it in a nice plastic baggie

and put it in their mail box.

[JohnKleeb]

16. thats a fine idea I must say

[blondeatlast]

26. I'd like to do that, but we have community boxes, dammit.

We have one neighbor that just hasn't gotten it yet.That's a damn good idea, though!

[LibDemAlways]

15. Not long ago the little dog across the

street, which frequently manages to escape and run loose around the neighborhood, took a big dump on my lawn while the owner watched and did nothing. Without saying a word, my husband picked up a shovel, scooped it up, and deposited back on said neighbor's lawn. He watched from his garage, but didn't say a word.

I say if you saw the dog do it, put it back on the owner's lawn where it belongs. People should not have to put up with neighbor's dog shit.

[Blue-Jay]

22. Here's the whole scenario:

I was on the front porch having a smoke (I don't smoke in the house). The next-door neighbor let her dog out the front door to do his business, but watched as he dumped a load in my yard. She saw that I was outside watching the travesty, made eye contact, and still did nothing.

I realize that dogs will do what they will, but that's no excuse for being rude to your neighbor. If she didn't want to come over and clean it up, she should have at LEAST apologized.

[LibDemAlways]

34. Since she's aware you saw the dog do it,

you are well within your rights to give it back to her on a shovel. I would not hesitate.

[Radical Activist]

18. Return their property to them

in whatever manner you find most entertaining and/or enjoyable.

[Hobarticus]

20. I pick up my dog's poop in my neighbor's yards...

If not the same day, then at least once a week. I'd expect the same courtesy.

Do they clean up their OWN yard? If they don't, then don't expect anything different. Some folks don't mind a yard full of turd-mines, and don't think that anyone else would either.

Hand them a Baggie next time.

[madison2000]

21. My neighbor walked her dog in my yard to take a shit

When confronted she told me she only had time to pick up poop on weekends. I picked up 6 piles of shit and hung the plastic bag on her garage door. She thought that was offensive. I thought walking her dog in my yard to take a shit was offensive.

She doesn't walk her dog in my yard any more, but we haven't spoken in 4 years.

[bleedingheart]

23. wow....she only has time to do it on weekends....

then how does she have time for a pet?

[JitterbugPerfume]

30. on occasional dog poop

is no big deal

but if it becomes a habit I say

do what you gotta do

[Blue-Jay]

24. You win!

Very ballsy, yet appropriate.

[Hobarticus]

27. See, that gives dog owners a bad name...

It's one thing if her pooch wanders over, unaccompanied, into her yard and takes a dump. My dogs do that, but I try and keep an eye on them and call them back over if they wander. Sometimes though, we don't catch them, and we do a 'poop patrol' to pick up the turds they left behind.

If she has time to walk her dog, she has time to pick up after her pooch. It takes two seconds to scoop up a turd.

[hfojvt]

28. so who won?

When I walked my dog in a certain town, I noticed that some spots in the median were greener and the grass was taller than other spots. Why get so upset about a little free fertilizer?

[BrklynLiberal]

44. It is fertilizer only if the dumper is a vegetarian, like sheep or cows.

Dogs are not vegetarians, ergo dog poop is NOT fertilizer.
One does not put meat into a compost heap.

[hfojvt]

56. the label on my dry dog food says:

ground yellow corn; meat and bone meal; soybean meal;...
Looks like mostly vegeterian to me.

[blondeatlast]

29. What a good neighbor you are, willing to help a time-stressed neighbor!

Best solution yet. :evilgrin:

[sui generis]

31. that wasn't no dog!

that was whoisalhedges.

[Blue-Jay]

32. If it was hedges, it would have smelled a lot worse.

Trust me. I know.

[Beaverhausen]

35. I can't believe no one had copycatted this thread yet

I guess it's cause of the new rules?

[Moms Baby Democrat]

36. This Is Why You Make Some Poo Flags!!!!!!!

Never again will you have to scoop poop and be mad or even if you transfer it back to the rightful owner, laugh with glee!!! Poo flags rule!!!

~Only as recommended by me and my insane family~

[BrklynLiberal]

45. How about a flag with the dog owner's name on it?

[jswordy]

37. Let it decompose.

[radwriter0555]

38. Cayenne Pepper in the grass (when dry, and repeated) makes a GREAT

deterent.

Doggies get a snoot-ful of cayenne and associate it with the unpleasant adventure into your yard.

Works well on cats as well, in garages and the dry areas kitties like to use as litter boxes.

[Ariana Celeste]

41. I have a similar problem

In my apartment complex.

There is a woman that recently moved into the building next to ours. Between that building, and the next, is a small, maybe 20 ft by 20 ft area of grass. She takes her large dog into this area, where people walk (faster than going all the way around, and considering the store is next to the complex, a lot of us just walk to the store) and has him do his business there. There is plenty of room in front of her apt.'s back door- but no, she goes to the area people walk through and has him do it there.
This is a large dog. Which naturally equates to large piles of excrement. She doesn't clean it up- and it's been a few days since we had some decent rain, so there are numerous piles of shit all over.
This is an apartment complex, for crying out loud. I don't know what to do. I certainly am not cleaning it up, if I wanted to do that I would have my own pet. (In fact, that is why I have Sea Monkeys. So easy to care for.) I am scared of talking to people, and even more scared of confronting people. But it is just so disgusting to me. And to think, there are so many children that could be playing in that grass.

:: sighs ::

Maybe I should complain to the manager or something.

[BrklynLiberal]

49. You should call the health department. It is a health hazard

[B Calm]

42. You city folks crack me up!

I would think you should have more to worry about than a little dog poop. Egads, hell man it's free fertlizer. Your neighbor should be sending you a bill..

[BrklynLiberal]

46. Dog poop is not fertilizer. It carries diseases for humans and other dogs

Good poop, bad poop

What is good for the goose, is not always good for the gander. There are a few manures that should not be used, primarily those of meat eaters. According to Cornell University, "Homeowners should not use any manure from dogs, cats, or other meat-eating animals, since there is risk of parasites or disease organisms that can be transmitted to humans."

The most common sources of manure are horses, cattle, goats, sheep, rabbits and poultry. Below is a guide showing how manures measure up, nutrient-wise. While all animal manures are good sources of organic matter and nutrients, it's impossible to make a precise analysis, mostly because bedding materials vary so much. For example, manure with straw or sawdust will have a different nitrogen composition than pure manure. But it's useful to know whether the manure you're using is rich or poor in a particular nutrient such as nitrogen.

http://www.plantea.com/manure.htm

[Blue-Jay]

47. I don't need free fertilizer on the bottom of my shoe.

And what makes you think that I'm "city folks"? I only recently moved to Chicago from rural Ohio. My parents are as "country" as a plate of hominy with a side order of pickled pigs feet.

[BrklynLiberal]

48. Hey Blue-Jay. I just PMd you about this. I agree with you 100%.

You have every right to be annoyed. Your neighbor is wrong! That dog poop should be put back in her yard and she needs to learn how to be a responsible dog owner and a responsible neighbor.

[Blue Diadem]

43. I chose pick it up myself...but I don't agree that it isn't a big deal

I no longer have a dog. When we had him, we did not let him roam or poop in other yards. When he was walked, we carried bags to pick up and it was always in the area by the street or out by the ditch, never in someone's front yard.

My 1/2 acre is not a dog park but several neighbors seem to think it is. Not only do we end up mowing over poop, we also run over those green tennis balls they tend to throw to their dogs as well. It's not fun trying to clean shoes or lawn tractor tires because some irresponsible dog owner doesn't want to deal with their own dog's poop.

I'll never forget the two neighbors arguing over dog poop in the dog less neighbor's yard. Even though the neighbor had seen the dog do it, the dog's owner squatted down, examined the poop and declared that it didn't look like a product of what her dog eats and was a little too big to be his.

[Kire]

50. do the helicopter

put in a plastic bag, swing it around your head and into their yard

[Modem Butterfly]

51. Get a little paper flag and write their name on it

Then stick it in the poop.

[BrklynLiberal]

52. That is a great solution for post #41 Ariana Celeste

[tsakshaug]

53. Fling it back with shovel

do that now, in the tree border between yards
Had some neighbors who swore their dog never went into my yard, but it was his most used bathroom. One day they were in their yard and the dog came over to poop, I had my starter's pistol out to clean. When I saw him coming in the yard, I loaded it up with .32 blanks (that is all it can shoot) went outside, and unloaded on the cur. They came running over, upset, I told them their dog was not in my yard and I was just working on my gun. That was the last time that dog showed up.

[pinniped]

54. Build a trebuchet and aim it in their direction.

[Allenberg]

55. Seems like a good option, really.