Gah! I'm so fed up with the neighbors! So this morning I walked out to my front yard to talk to my dad who stopped by and there were two massive piles RIGHT in front of my steps.

Right next to my house is a large storage shed with a driveway and a small strip of grass that a gentleman down the street owns, then the idiot neighbors with the dog right by it. Every day the neighbor lets her dogs out by opening the door, the dogs come out, door shuts. She sits inside watching tv or something while they walk right over into my yard and into the old mans grass and do their thing. There's three of them, medium sized dogs.

I know the old man and he's very nice, but likes to keep his place neat and he's made remarks about the TONS of urine burns ( her yard is perfect while ours are just littered with yellow spots, some of them really big ) and poop all over the place and I tell him it's not mine. I have two dogs and I hate to have him think mine are doing it. Her dogs also tend to poop out garbage bits like plastic bags and other nasty things-Ew.

This woman who does this also has her mom come and let them out and one day I lost it because not only do they come over here to poop if I am outside with either of my dogs they charge over barking and crowding my dog. Her mom was standing there on her cell phone ignoring me as I'm yelling at her to get the dogs out of my yard NOW..As they're barking and crowding me...I couldn't believe it. She just turned around.

They've been told to keep them away from my yard. They're only out for 10 minutes or so, and the lady at the pound never seems to be there. I just love how her yard is flawless too, not a single burn mark or a pile in sight.

What would you do? I'm at a loss.

Collect some of the poop and smear it into the neighbors mailbox. There was a guy in my neighborhood who let his dog poop and pee all over the place including the children's playground. It took me a while to get him and after a couple of talks to no avail I informed him about next possible steps. No more poop in my backyard nor where I walk my dogs.
Well you have to be careful how evil they are. ARGH neighbors with poor dogs.

"They're only out for 10 minutes or so, and the lady at the pound never seems to be there. "

My choice:

Camera.

Stand there with your camera, in plain sight of the neighbor, and take picture after picture of both poop AND where the dogs are in relation to your property line. Make this obvious, like going and sighting down the property line before snapping pictures, etc. (One use for the pictures is for the older man who may thing it's your dogs, but mainly I mean to both document document document, with dates, and to clearly demonstrate to the idiots that you are doing it.)

Escalating does not sound like a sensible or safe idea at all. I hope that escalation suggestions are just venting.

Years ago we had a neighbor that would walk his ST. BERNHARD down the street (he lived 3 houses away)& let his dog walk across the front of our yard(no sidewalks) & let his dog poop there everyday. We would watch this & had made a couple of requests that he not do this, to no avail. I didn't even allow my own dog to poop in the front yard & still don't let my dogs do that. Finally after another week of this, my husband scooped up the poop into 2 bags & took it to the neighbors. He knocked on the door & when they answered, he handed them one bag & placed a 2nd one on the step outside of the door, & told them that next time it was coming without the bag. After this he started walking his dog on the other side of the street. if that didn't work, I would have called animal control everytime the dogs were in my yard. They would get sick of your calls & hopefully would do something about it. IF not, take a picture of the dogs in your yard & call the police. Next would be a letter from my attorney.

I would definitely be bugging the hell out of animal control about this, call and leave messages every time your neighbors dogs come and crap/pee in your yard and the old mans yard too.

I like what Anne's husband did-I might do something similar in that situation. I also agree with Connie. If you can take pictures or even get it on video, let the people know why you're doing it and tell them that if it doesn't stop that you'll report them with evidence. Write down times, dates, etc. like Connie said. It's definitely one way to get them to stop.

And don't forget to mention your fear for the safety of your small children (or yourself, or anyone).



ETA: Picture-taking can even be non-confrontational (sort of). Calmly snapping away with no comment -- what they will construe and also imagine may be better than any verbiage from you.



Edited by Connie Sutherland (09/17/2009 05:17 PM)
Edit reason: eta

I have the same problem with my tenants:-( Do you know how big a 130 lb Ridgeback pile is? Easy 2 lbs
I thought of billing them by the bag.

Linda, you will be sure to write it into the lease next time, won't you? No picking up poop, no dog! Good greif, that's like a pony not a dog!

 Quote: Linda Henning

I have the same problem with my tenants:-( Do you know how big a 130 lb Ridgeback pile is? Easy 2 lbs
I thought of billing them by the bag.

OMG! I would bill them in lbs of poop. I'm sure you've told them to pick up after their dog, if not make it a point that if they don't they'll have to either find a new place or get rid of the dog. Most people won't give up a dog, and if it's as hard to find a place to live where you are as it is in the cities here, then they'll comply and pick up after the dog. That's what I'd do at least :shrug:
I'd also add it to the lease next time, like what Anne said.

I had been looking for an apt. for my mother in law here in town and one of the places I went to look at, the renter said that he would have had the place rented a month ago, if it had not been for the pet messes left behind by the tenant-also told me that if my mother in law had any pets that it would be $300 deposit per pet. She has no pets, but that's by far the most I've ever heard of for a pet deposit, even in ND.

A have heard that a number of the newer appartment complexes(Alvalon in particular that has a number of new appt. complexes in a number of towns around here) will allow pets but there is an additional fee EACH MONTH for each pet of $100. This is what a friend told me that was looking for a place & has 3 cats. But at least you can find a place that will allow them, if you can afford the extra $s.