Dogs pooping on your lawn
 

We are currently renting a home in TV and are looking to buy at some point. One thing that we have noticed is folks walking by with their dogs and setting them up to poop on our lawn and then cleaning it up.
We are not dog haters and have recently lost our dog.
Why can't folks have the dog poop on their own lawn and then go for walk.
We had a poop place in our backyard for our dog to poop.
I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on this.

Search this site for poop posts................there are hundreds.

pooping on your lawn
 

They do not want to ruin their lawns. There are a lot of inconsiderate pet owners that pick up their pet waste and throw the poop bags on the ground only to be washed into the storm drains that flow into the ponds.

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Obviously your favorite topic.

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I don't mind if dogs poop in my yard, as long as the owner cleans it up. I don't have a dog, but I don't think you can just command your dog to poop anywhere you want it to.

I once had a dog named "Stay". I would say "come here, Stay". But, that dog was impossible to train.

OOOH! We haven't had a good poop thread in weeks!

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Finally…a new topic!! :D

Just wait, someone will be along shortly to insist they can...

I also don't mind if the occasional dog out on a walk decides to take a dump on my lawn--as long as the owner picks up after the dog.

A big problem however is that a dog needing to take a dump will dump on a spot where he has done it before, even if his droppings are picked up by the owner. Had that problem before we moved here. Our neighbor's dog (a beautiful boxer) that ordinarily did her business faithfully in the neighbor's yard, one day strayed over into my yard and let fly. I scooped it up and dropped it back in the neighbor's yard, however the dog returned to that spot several more times. The only thing that got her to stop was a spray can of a particularly malodorous dog repellent which I sprayed liberally on the spot.

My neighbor takes his 2 dogs on his lawn and they do their business. The worst offenders are the sneaks who walk dogs behind the pools and rec centers and don't pick up afterwards.

Dogs are not the problem. It's the owners. Too many are irresponsible, disrespectful, self-centered, self-indulgent jerks, basically? There is absolutely no legitimate reason for their trespassing, but they do it anyway.

"America's Friendliest Hometown"? :oops:

Pickup
 

We (my wife and I) always pick up, had one crazy neighbor came out one day and yelled, My husband is sick, keep your dog off my lawn, also one crazy lady would sit in her birdcage (corner house) and if anyone with a dog came by she would turn on the sprinklers zone by zone until you passed by. They both moved out of TV, the one with the sprinklers has a another long story that I won’t get into now.

It seems that most dog owners have not been "trained" on how to take care of their pets. Many have problems figuring out which food to feed the animals and when to feed them, let alone how to manage/control them. If these folks can't be taught to use turn signals and stop at stop signs in their golf carts, how can you expect them to do something complicated like caring for a dog? Yes, a dog can be trained to relieve itself in designated spots, but it seems that dogs train their owners rather than their owners training them. It would be interesting to find out how many of Villagers have owned pets before or are just now obtaining pets in their twilight years. Like dogs, their owners do not consider it disrespectful or inconsiderate to disregard boundaries.

Wish my dogs would poop on command. Alas they do not. But I always clean up after my dogs.

Hmmmm .... this subject never comes up.

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If the dog owners were truly friendly enough to earn that phrase, they'd have their pets do their business on their own property first, and THEN take them for a walk.

Most of my neighbors, including pet owners, agree that this seems to be mostly a Villages phenomenon. Where we all came from, in different parts of the country and a few from other countries, dogs /usually/ did their thing on their owner's lawn and THEN went for walks. A dog pooping on a neighbor's lawn was considered an accident, and cleaned up. No one took their dogs for walk -specifically- to get them to poop on someone else's lawn. It just didn't happen.

Did the "crazies" only react when dogs or their owners trespasses on their lawns? If so, maybe they weren't crazy, just angry at having their yard used repeatedly as a public toilet for dogs.

You may not be able to choose the time, but you can choose the spot. If you keep the dog off the neighbors lawn, the dog will never poop there.

Agree with you. Some of those dog owners that disrespect their neighbors aren't being friendly.

It all comes down to routine. My sister takes her 2 little dogs to her property side of the house and they usually go then. If your routine is to walk your dog to go poop on some neighbor's lawn then that's what they're used to. Poop schedule and routine go together. My pops used to take the newspaper into the bathroom with him every morning. That was his routine. Mine became having to hold my breath and get the sports section out as fast as I could. Thank god for the interwebz.

Hmmm… I wonder why these dogs don’t poop and pee in the house whenever they feel the need?

Various dogs poop and pee on our yard. Usually the same ones. Our dog does not poop and pee on demand so he does crap and **** on various places. Usually different places according to where we go on these walks.

:icon_wink: I Named My Dog 5 Miles So I Can Tell People I Walk 5 Miles Every Day.

Opening a can of worms…

It is easy to keep your dog in the street while you walk until you get to an area where you can get into common areas. If the dog can’t make it then they poop in the street. As the OP said though, we start in our own yard.

Outstanding! 😂

Scent marks are the neon signs for doggie restrooms. Picking up after your dog leaves the scent mark behind to attract those who come after to add their own scents.

Oh, no! Some don't want to see this because it doesn't fit their narrative.

True. If my dog poops there and I clean it up there will still be some scent there. Probably why so many dogs poop and pee in our yard but they almost always pick it up. Our pooch pees in his yard on his other outings unless we go to the dog park and he pees a great deal on many things. Sometimes only a drop or so but he does feel the need to pee on any other places other pooches have peddled.

Buy somewhere else.

I have owned dogs since I was 8 years old and owned a dog business later in life. My dogs have always urinated on command but pooping no. I walk my dogs on our lawn to urinate. Walked down the middle of the street to poop, and I immediately pick it up. I did have someone tell me the dogs should not poop in the street. I explained they need to get moving to poop. Kind of like a cup of coffee.

😜 here we go......

I've had pets my entire life. Yes we walk them around the yard PRIOR to taking them for a walk, and they often "do their business"...

But quite often, mid walk, they do it again...

I guess you're just better at training your pets than than just about everyone else in the world...

Read my previous post...

You're delusional if you think this is isolated to TV...

Nor are those who have such contempt for their neighbors...

Because my dog has been "bell trained" to let us know when she has to go...

And she also lets us know when she has to go during a walk (which can take an hour or more...)

It’s not so much the poop and clean up (which is appreciated) as it is the urine left behind if the dog continuously returns to that spot.

Asked my brother awhile back what he named his new dog.

He grinned and said "dammit".

As a dog owner, I can’t see anything wrong with dogs pooping on the street when you pick up. That is so much more considerate than letting them on other people’s lawn. I’m under the impression that it has to do with manners in general. Those “entitled” owners and those who can’t keep a dog off lawns need to live among like minded people.