Last year for the third time, I sat on the curb scraping down the lower two feet or so of my mail box pole to remove the rust and scale for painting back to black. And yes, I did it at the one of two times a day that a close neighbor comes by with his great dane. As if in a movie script, he comes by like clockwork and even stops to talk for a minute. I waited in hopes he would ask what I was doing, but since he did not ask, I slipped it into the conversation just what I was doing and added that I wish I could find out who's dog was using my mail box and yard as a toilet. I then said I can't do anything about the yellow dead grass, but I can revive my mail box post once in a while. Now that has been about five months ago and still to this day, he has to lean sideways going by my house in order to hold his dog in the middle of the street. The dog is like a horse and pulls on him hard trying to get to my mail box. Like I said, they just don't get it. Since he don't care if I have yellow spots on my grass or my mail box post turns to rust, why should I care. This did in fact work for me. I feel if I would have confronted him more direct, I would have been the jerk at least in his opinion.
I have read the argument that the county owns the first 8 feet of the property. Maybe so, and I would guess that most dogs in The Villages are small dogs; however, common sense should tell anyone above the age of reasoning that using the area in front of a neighbors home as a dog toilet is not the right thing to do.
Lou