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Originally Posted by Happinow
Hello nysnowbirds. Couldn't agree with your post more, however, if you do a search on this website you will find many, many threads on dog poop. It seems to be a major problem here in TV. Just a heads up.....be ready for a lot of belittling of your complaint.....people putting up the popcorn icon......and the smart responses to your complaint because that's what dog poop threads get. People don't realize how annoying it is to have dog owners walk their dogs on your property. I believe there is a product on the market called "dog be gone"? That you can put down and the dogs will not go near your property. Also, a mixture of ammonia and water sprayed around the parimeter of your lawn, not on the grass, will discourage any animals from entering your property. I expect if you ask the dog owners not to walk their dogs on your property you will encounter a nasty, hostile response from the owner. Just my take on this whole dog poop thing.
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I will not belittle the OPs post. I don't have a dog, so I don't have a dog in this fight.
To say that there have been MANY, many, many threads on this subject is an understatement. In summary you will hear from dog owners who care deeply about the responsible behavior of their pets, you will not hear at all from those who don't care what you think about their dogs coming into your lawn and pooping and you will have a lot of very intense posts on this thread about every spectrum of this problem.
There are those who move here and quite frankly do NOT like dogs of any kind and may be afraid of them and do not want them around and use the dog poop issue to be "anti-dog". There are those who used to have children that they didn't control or curtail and now they have dogs who they are equally as irresponsible about. There are the majority of folks who do their best to carry a plastic bag, try to get their pooch to poop in "acceptable" places......although there is a HUGE debate on where that is.
There are people like us who have an end lot and never have had any dog or their owner poop on our property, nor did we when we had an interior lot in Hadley. I know the names of all dogs in our 54 home village except the new folks who haven't ventured down this way yet. I think the dogs know my name too.
Other people are not so fortunate and many peoply frankly feel pooped on, because they are. You will have folks tell you to turn the sprinklers on, put pepper spray down and to march right our there and tell the owner what you think. Some people think old Gary Morse should have been smart enough to ban dogs (Boo!) or have dog free villages.I think all of those things might work. But it is what it is.
How will you handle it?
It is a problem for some but not all.