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Originally Posted by zonerboy
The postal station and neighborhood pool nearest me is the one in Tamarind Grove. Behind the mailbox and pool areas is a large grassy area with several beautiful and mature oak trees. And the area backs up to privately owned pasture land. Many people walk their dogs there. I go there daily at various times to pick up my mail and it seems there is always some one there with a dog. The area is well landscaped with hedges and many azelias and other flowering shrubs.
Yet despite its apparent popularity with dog owners the grass is generally green and I have yet to notice in two years any dead or dying shrubs. I think the notion that dog pee kills landscape plants is greatly exaggerated.
I live in a courtyard villa and 99 percent of my dog's outdoor time in in my own fenced back yard. And the grass and shrubs there are doing just fine, thank you very much.
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I think it's not so much damage to the grass and shrubs as much as it is the
attitude of entitlement some of the culprits show....
entitled to do whatever they darn well please,
wherever they please.
That attitude is
arrogant and
condescending toward people who do not want manure left in their front yard or at the mail station, pool lawn etc.
I don't think anyone here would tolerate neighbors bagging their own human waste and bringing it to dump in another person's front yard, so why should
uncollected dog waste left in the yard be any more acceptable??