Dog poo - again! This time I want to fight back...

We always accompany our dogs when they go outside to the garden. There are two reasons for this: 1. we need to see where they've 'been' so we can clear it up straight away and water any wet patches (thereby avoiding dead patches on the grass), 2. we don't allow them to annoy the neighbours by barking to come in. There's no way we'd leave their leavings in a public place or on someone else's garden or driveway! They walk on a lead so they can't disappear up someone's drive and virtually every pocket has a roll of bags in it. All my dog walking friends are equally responsible. The anti-social people must sneak around late at night or very early in the morning.

You should live in my house, quite often I find bird poo, lizard poo, frog poo and occasionally snake poo on my back deck.....yesterday I found possum poo.....a bit of dog poo on the lawn would be a change

Where I live if you have a video you can report it to the dog warden and they will fine the offender. They also give out notices to fix to the lamp posts that state people must clear up after their dogs or get fined. Once someone has received a fine in an area it often stops.
Ladymuck and Tedber so brave (so funny) don't think I could have done that.
Its so sad that some people don't clear up as most dog owners do. Always worst in winter, dark nights so some don't bother, I always take a torch.

I think if you followed luckygirl's suggestion you could well get done for attempted arson. Or arson itself if it went wrong.

Report it to your council. If you use spray make sure it will wash away with rain. You may enjoy this. www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/15096863.school-run-mum-reveals-she-is-battenhalls-dog-poo-fairy/

We have a local Councillor live near us and we saw them letting their dog mess outside our house. They didn't pick it up so on their return up the street my husband challenged them. He deighed it was them but after my dh cleaned it up he came back. He's very nice to us these days. When we had 3 dogs we never left it.

What size are the hedgehogs that live round your way Liz?!

If you can afford it, get a camera with infra red night vision. Set it up and hopefully it will spot the perpetrator and you'll know what sort of time they are walking their dog. You can then decide what to do about it. Challenge them yourself or report them to the local authority. A fine of £1000 for dog fouling might deter them!

It's not only dogs and cats that are responsible for pooh. Hedgehogs and urban foxes are as much to blame. So if you are finding pooh in the mornings they may be the cause.

My elderly aunt scooped dog poo up on a shovel and threw it in the garden of the dog owner!

I have had dogs for years and use poo bags only if there is no other way of clearing poo out of the way. If in the countryside my dog will almost always go off into a rough area as she has been trained to do and if she doesn’t then I kick it or use a stick to clear from the walkway.. The reason for this is that I am getting increasingly concerned about the insects that rely on poo for eating and breeding. They in turn provide food for the birds which are becoming fewer and fewer. Also I don’t like to use plastic if it can be avoided although I appreciate that biodegradable poo bags are becoming more widely available. However as long as it is not where people walk or children play then I don’t have a problem with it. If I see some that someone else’s dog has left some I kick it into the bushes - sorted! Obviously in the town there is no option but to pick up and bin it.

We live in a road frequented by dog walkers all day long as theres a park entrance at the end. Many times the dogs are on those extra long retractable leads & wander into gardens/drives to squat or, they are let off the lead because they're almost at the park. Some pick up, many don't. We're don't have walls or fences as its open plan estate. The local cats use my flower beds too have tried the thin green coloured cheap garden stakes broken in half and pushed into the earth to deter squatting. Intend buying a super soaker water gun but its catching the offenders. The bushes & paths of the park are festooned with bags of poo too despite warning signs from the council.

Are the dog poo bags biodegradable? Cos of course, dog poo itself is. If people won't pick it up, why can't they chuck it in the undergrowth where it will eventually be broken down...

One of my neighbour put the mess in a tin and gave it back to her neighbour who would not pick it up there was a awful row after that.

I know someone (no names, or identifing details!) who was so mad at a dog walker letting his dog foul outside their house on a regular basis, that they one day followed at a distance to see where the dog and owner lived. A few days later, with a carrier bag full of the dogs poo, (collected and stored!), at night unde darkness, went to the house (which was a good distance away, across main roads and down a couple of streets) and deposited the bag full of poo on the driveway, so that occupants would habe a nice surprise in the morning. Needless to say said owner and dog never walked by our house again, probably still trying to work out who from the row of houses had done this.....

I'm going to call down the wrath of the gods, but I'll say it anyway. I am sick to the teeth with dogs, and am starting to think that they should be banned. Yes, we had a lovely little terrier who lived for 16 years. No, she did not bark, she did not leave her poo all over the local area and she did not jump up at strangers when she'd been in the mud. Where I live there is a local 'Next Door' internet group for the neighbourhood, and it has been full lately of complaints about dog poo. 40 years ago we were driven out of our first house by a barking dog next door. Now we are lucky enough to live in a detached house - it is just as well because the dog next door barks all day long in the house, you can hear it when passing the front drive but thank goodness not in our house, otherwise the situation would again be intolerable. Can the planet any longer afford to feed these useless animals? Yes I know they can be very good company etc etc but they are overall a total nuisance, and I would ban them if I was in power. OK, retreating to my bunker now so you can all start shooting at me lol

jennilyn

On the main road to a seaside town near us, one house has a sign telling motorists not to p..s in their garden, but to go to the service station further up the road! Not just dogs are a problem it seems.

People on mobility scooters with little dogs trotting along at the side. Wonder how many of them get off and pick up the poo. Saw one letting her dog mess outside my neighbour’s hedge and scoot off speedily before I reached her (I was some distance away but could see what had happened).
If they’re not mobile enough to clean up, they shouldn’t have a dog.

Someone put a sign up near me saying NO MORE F...... DOG SHIT .. I think they had had enough I 'm not suggesting anything as crude as that, but it's so dangerous to children and extremely unpleasant for the rest of us.

I’ve noticed that in the winter/dark evenings there is more dog poo on our pavement. The street is very dark with few street lights so On the positive side I would suggest that owners can’t see what their dog has done! However being negative I would suggest that when nobody else can see its a good reason not to bother to pick it up!!

I took care of a friend's dog a little while ago and noticed that whilst most owners picked up after their dogs in the local park, several did not.

The park has a fenced off play area for children and one morning I saw a woman allowing her dog to poo right by the gate and then walked away without picking it up. I approached her and offered her a bag and pointed out that children could be stepping in it if she didn't pick it up. Her reply was that she never picked it up because it made her feel sick!

We all know it isn't a pleasant job but it has to be done (I actually picked it up and disposed of it in the nearby bin!)

We have a garden used by local cats who crap all over it.
I have tried bottles of water, sonic gadgets, chillipepper and other proprietary anti-cat products,a row of fishing wire on the top of fences etc but sadly they love it here.
One even climbs up and into my large pots and craps in the microscopic gap between plant and earth. I think that one must have "issues"!

My neighbourhood was completely free of poo until recently, when I have noticed a lot of mess on the pavements both around my house and in the town. The worst incident was two large deposits on the sloping area at the zebra crossing, left there about half past eight in the morning, for dozens of school children and mums with prams to negotiate. What a moron to leave that. We even had mess on our driveway one day - I so wish I had seen that happen.

So annoying when out and the plastic poo bags are left lying on paths or on branches. Out o, Sunday for a walk round a lake and the numbers of those bags was disgraceful. Don't have a dog now but I did notice there were bins scattered round the route. My problem is with cats. Poo on my front grass drives me mad and in the back garden grass and borders are both targets.

We have a public footpath running along a river bank on our land - I could go on for hours about dog pooh and fishermen!! But we buy bright yellow Line Marking Spray paint ( from Toolstation for under a fiver a can) and DH liberally sprays offending piles.

Many years ago when I did not have such a strong backbone the old mill next door was modernised into flats. The builder's boss from London (we are in rural Suffolk) delighted in letting his collie dog run eveywhere all day. Several times I asked him to keep his dog out of my garden as it perfomed regularly. One day I lost my composure and using a spade removed the offensive pile and marched onto the building site. The door to the old toilet was wide open and I aimed the **directly at the toilet.........from that day on the dog was always called back onto the site by the boss and the workmen.