OK I like dogs, cats too, all animals for that matter. I'm totally mushy about most of em.

But man, it really burns me up when people walk their dogs and do not clean up after the dog poo, and leave in in MY yard! Grrrr!

Man it sucked today, I apparently stepped into some poo on my front lawn while walking to my car to go to work, didn't know it though. Until about halfway to work and I'm gaggin at the smell and freaking out trying to find the "source." Well found the source, right on my frikken shoe. Bastaids. I managed to clean it all off my shoe in the bathroom at work, but I must have tracked a bit of it in on the carpet at work, I still got whiffs of it at my desk all day, but could not pinpoint where it was, did not see any marks anywhere on the carpet. Again... Bastaids! When I got home I finally saw the offending pile, right next to our front walkway, exactly where I cut across to get to my car. I walk my neighbors dog (cause they never do) now and then and I would Never, Ever, let her poo on someone else's lawn and not clean it up, I'd be horrified to even think about doing so, what are these people like who don't give a crap (no pun intended LOL). And again, grr! Now tomorrow I gotta go buy new shoes, cause no way am I wearing those again after all that, it was caked all inside the treads, was f*&^^^ disgusting.

Bastaids.

Anyone else relate? If you are a dog owner, do you clean up after your dog when you walk it? If you don't, do you realize how you could be totally making someone miserable?

That's really sh$tty! :D

As a repsonsible dog owner, I clean up after my dogs when we go for a walk, and it upsets me when other dog owners don't do the same.

I just wish cat owners would do the same.

ROTFL Animal! It IS very sh$$ty LOL. Man my day just sucked all day because of it, grrr, bastaids. Glad you are not one of those irresponsible pet owners. I have a cat, but never let it outside, in a city neighborhood it is really unsafe anyway, it could get run over by cars, abused by punks, or scratched or bitten by another animal or another cat, which may have a fatal virus.

Yeah, had a little kid that had a miniature horse for a dog in a neighborhood I once lived in, and he just let her crap in everybody's yard and get away with it of course, since his parents had money.

Thats the good thing about living in an apartment complex, there is a designated for animals to relieve themselves, so if you go over there, its at your own risk, every place else is clean.

We always clean up after Bubbles when she's walking. Although I usually try to stop her from doing her business at all on a walk because it's so embarrassing standing there while she does it, let alone having to carry the bag home. We see people all the time waiting while their dogs go and then just walking on and leaving it there. It is actually an offence here, but not really enforced, much like all minor offences. The mentality is changing though, you see a lot more people with bags than you used to.

Part of the problem is really irresponsible people who don't keep their dogs in their yards and let them go roaming around the neighbourhood by themselves. They obviously can't pick up after them if the dog is out by themselves, without the other obvious problem of the dogs terrorising people and other dogs when they're walking in the streets.

When I walk the pug (who I swear decides to do her business in the most embarrasing places) I walk her on the big empty blocks behind my house so that there is very little chance of anyone stepping in it. But now they have started building on it (damn it I dont want more neighbours) so I will have to find somewhere else.

They let their dog crap on someone else's front lawn?

We here don't walk our dogs, Dogs overhere just roam freely as their please. However if the nieghbour's dog come and shit at my compound I just lastic at their dogs. They also will do the same to mine. There was once the neighbour pour acid into my dog. The wound was very deep ( can see inside the bones ). I just take the dog to the vet and put it to sleep.

I clean up after my dog when I walk him. He usually does his business right at the end of the walk, which is very annoying. Also my mom bought 'scented poo bags' for our dog. She really babies him!

Couldn't it have been a stray? We have a bunch of them, here.

I'm so far out in the country here that another 1/2 mile and you'd fall off the earth. It doesn't matter here where dogs poop. For that matter we have deer poop, coyote poop, coon poop, skunk poop and a bunch more.

As a matter of fact in some of the city parks you have to worry more about people poop than dog poop. Don't believe me...go into the city parks of SF.

[ 10-16-2004, 12:31 PM: Message edited by: Arvon ]

<font color=cccccc>LadyZ, either you have made a very shatay realtionship with a neighbor, or there's a 'loose dog' in your hood. More than likely loose, as most people (unless, see openeing line) would not get that far in your yard to allow the dog to emplace the land mines.

OT, if the person did allow it with malicious intent, is this person still *good*?</font>

LMAO @ Arvons post. I live in a small community way out in the country and we have alot of that too, I usually pick up our dogs poop, but we don't take them for walks much, cause it's a handful to take all 3 of them [img]tongue.gif[/img] .

What the hell? Isn't there some law against that? :eek:

God Kakero that's a bit much re the "dog wars" LOL. I mean, really, if it's a dog owner walking his dog, it is really his fault, not the dogs, because he takes them to your yard, so not really right to punish the dog.

Attalus, not a stray dog, there are none here. A stray cat or two maybe, but that's it. BUT, this neighborhood I live in is just filled with people with dogs, I can't think of one hour that can go by where somebody isn't walking a dog around here. Most of them carry bags for the poo, but obviously there is someone who does not in my neighborhood. I'd so love to know who this person is and where they lived, cause if I did I'd give them their crap right back, oh yeah!

I also do not think it is some vendetta thing, we don't know but a few of our neighbors, the ones closest to us, and they do not have dogs, and one has a dog but never walks it. I am thinking it might be this one family that lives on our street, I've seen their 13 year old walking their dog in the morning before, and he never has a bag (probably hates having to do the walking that early before school), and I've seen him let his dog off the leash to run into my front yard to chase the stray cat that I feed. I could be wrong of course. Just thinkin. Oh and today I noticed there is not one pile, but three, all along my front walkway. My question tonight now is, will there be four when I go out tomorrow? Tempted to set my camera on if so.

I just think its F-ing rude, had to spend money on new shoes today. And I'm gonna have to hose the stuff off somehow before Halloween, when tons of children will be walking on my lawn and walkway, don't want them to experience the horror that is this particular dog poo, not kidding man, it's frikken toxic, who knows what they are feeding the thing.

Once again, bastaids!

When i still had a dog, i lived by the rules, but it kinda left me unsatisfied. So i started picking them up on a stick, and shoved them through my neighbour's mailboxes.

I mean, what else are these things for ? :D

[ 10-17-2004, 12:06 AM: Message edited by: johnny ]

Oh Johnny you have it all wrong, you gotta stick it, and smear it on door handles, you gotta return the love and return it good. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

I think i love you. :D

How is it I just happen to be eating when I read this Lady Z? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Door handles? Honestly, what happened to the flaming bags of dog crap, is that prank just outdated now? :rolleyes:

ROTFL Johnny! :D ;)

Oh Gangrell, the flaming bags are so outdated, everyone knows about that by now, and most people usually don't try to stomp out fire anymore either, at least I would never do it. If I saw a fire on my steps, it wouldn't burn very long as the steps are concrete, I'd just go grab a pitcher of water and put it out that way. Nah you gotta get the offender unawares, as they got you. Tit for Tat. Or crap for crap.

Man I need to go to bed LOL.

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Why cant you wash the darn shoes? then you dont have to buy new ones and it must be annoying to have all that poo in your walkway to the car but i would look up the guy who have the dog and tell him to take the poo with him or else i would trow a "poo" in his face next time i see him LOL :D

What if your water doesn't happen to be working that day (or if you had wooden steps)? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Mega, I tried to wash the shoes by hand (just cannot fathom putting them in the washing machine, ewww), but still got whiffs of it. Not to mention while washing my shoes I noticed a crack forming across it, and the crap got in their too. So basically, time for new shoes LOL! [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] When buying sneakers, check out the tread people, if the tread is in lines going across the width of the shoe, eventually it will crack in one of those lines, usually right under the balls of your feet, from the constant bending. Sneakers with an overlarge heel also will wear at the heel and crack above the two inch chunk of heel. Blah, I just keep buying more shoes, have given up on finding one at a decent price that will last an entire year.

Gangrell, well even with a wooden porch/stairs, I'd still use water to douse the flames rather than put my own foot and leg on the fire, or I'd take a broom or something and knock it into the yard. Just would never stomp on a fire and potentially burn myself. ;)

I think I might have found my target, I mean culprit. This neighbor's biga$$ poodle was just freely roaming their lawn earlier today, nobody watching it, was just out there. It mostly stayed in its yard, but of course maybe because it saw me (was returning from the store when I saw it). That would make sense, i.e., not someone walking their dog on a leash and letting it do a major crapfest in my yard, but someone just deciding their dog won't run off, so they are now just letting it out, and it's been roaming and crapping randomly, but mostly in my yard because I feed a stray cat which it would probably like to eat, and if it can't eat the cat, maybe it can get a few licks on the cat's plate remains on my steps.

Uh huh, it may all be coming together now! :D