A Reasonable Request to Dog Owners
 

I realize dogs need to be walked for excercise and maybe just to get them out of the house
so they can do their pooping. A reasonable request to dog owners!! Take your dog outside and walk your dog around your yard, front yard, back yard, side yard where ever you like on your property until the dog poops. After the dog is done pooping make sure you pick up the poop and then take your dog for a walk on YOUR BLOCK. Recently I noticed a owner who lives in the Village of Ashland on Haretison Ave walk his medium to large dog several houses down his block and make a turn onto Crawford Court walk several houses down and now his dog is pooping on my neighbors lawn. I mean really don't you feel bad your walking your dog and your dog is pooping on other peoples property. Why not allow your dog to poop on your next door neighbors lawn or the people that live accross the street from you. Please don't walk your dog 2 blocks away from your house and allow your dog to poop on someone elses lawn. We the Homeowners, Your Neighbors who live in The Villages pay to maintain our lawns. Watering, Cutting, fertilzing, etc. etc. just like you do. We really don't want your dog pooping on our lawns. THIS MESSAGE GOES OUT TO ALL DOG OWNERS.
Like I said earlier WAlK YOUR DOG ON YOUR PROPERTY TO DO IT'S POOPING!!!!
NOT YOUR NEIGHBORS LAWN!!! Thank You in Advance.

Good luck with that one. Dog owner just don't get it. They think its just their little fur baby. What's not to like?- not!

Walk your dog on YOUR property is a very reasonable request, but there is a good chance that NONE of the people in your Village who are walking their dogs, read TOTV. Try making a sign and put it out on your front yard and hope that Community Watch leaves it there.

This has been a long standing thread. Those who don’t want someone else’s dog on their lawn, even if they own a dog.

Those who own dogs, feel they have rights to walk their dog on your easement, because one doesn’t own it. One has to mow, weed, fertilize that easement, but it does not belong to you.

This post results will always be the same. I can walk my dog on your lawn, and I don’t care what you think. Neither urine or feces will harm your lawn.

While we are up north, our corner lot, we have neighbors who park their car, that leaks oil, in our driveway. Two neighbors who walks their dogs from their lawn across the street to our lot, instead of walking across the street to a mowed open area. None has permission, cameras clearly show them, and they deny its them, when they see their car, in our drive, or using our lawn as a dog park, along with the other 20 plus dogs that use our lawn everyday.

When we return we pay hundreds of dollars to remove the oil, and our dog remains leashed, until deposits are clean up. Because just like any dog park, I don’t know what is in your dog’s waste.

Sorry OP, your request will not be taken well

Why "...all dog owners..."?
Your message is for the minority that do not do the right thing yet you want to emphasize ALL DOG OWNERS!!!!

Sounds like an axe to grind.

From one of the 95% plus of us dog owners that do what is right .

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Be Advised
 

If an animal that walks and whatever else on a lawn recently treated with pesticides, herbicides, and/or fertilizers that are not necessarily animal friendly gets sick, or worse, due to absorption of chemicals through paws and skin it is on the owner of the animal not the home owner.

Community Watch will not remove any signs that are on private property. It is a violation of your deed restrictions. Community Standards might.

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95% plus….now that is really a stretch!
That is only your opinion…
My opinion is that there is a reason
for repeated dog poop threads,
and is not just because of a few inconsiderate dog owners!

Dear neighbor and property owner.
Nice try with your very reasonable request. Sadly, most dog owners Think they are responsible and this request certainly could not apply to them since they "pick up" after their dog. That is, they "pick up" some of the urine or fecal matter their dog has deposited after the owners have allowed the dog to access your property for just this purpose. Dogs properly leashed can only go where it's owner allows it to go. If the dog is allowed to enter private property uninvited, then the owner is not a responsible owner.
Another bit of (intentional?) misunderstanding is regarding easements. Many suffer the misunderstanding that 1, you don't own that part of your yard, 2, they can trespass on it with impunity. Wrong! The property is yours. You paid for it and you pay taxes on it and maintain it. An easement is a designated portion of your property that, when necessary, utility workers or public safety (think fire or police) may access if/when necessary. This does Not include dog walkers.
Again, thank you for bringing this up again as it needs to be revisited due to the ongoing short term memory loss and misunderstanding of many of our, otherwise, nice neighbors.

We do own the property upon which the easement has been granted!

A home buyer's guide to easements and property rights | Trulia

An easement - usage - is granted - ownership is not granted. I sincerely doubt that any property owner in the Villages has granted an easement to anyone with the express purpose of allowing their dog to use any part of the property as their 'rest' area.

If I am not correct, I am sure someone with legal knowledge - not opinion - will come along and jump in.

For @#$%& sake, its ONLY grass!!!

The streets in TV are not private. Dogs can walk on any street

Yippee! A DOG POOP thread!

True but dogs can harm grass. Would you like it if your grass was harmed by inconsiderate dog owners?

But it is not YOUR grass.

My dogs have always urinated on my grass and there are not any yellow spots.

Good for you! And a big "Thank You" for keeping them on your grass.

Oh good, this should pass the time until the snowbirds get back:D

Yes. And it shows that you can't blame all bad behavior on the snowbirds, just most of it. (That last bit was just a joke)

Great….keep them there! :MOJE_whot:

Not funny

Dogs poop and pee in my front yard every day and not just once a day. As long as they pick it up I don't care. I don't know what kind of grass you have that dog poop and pee harms, our grass has no brown spots and it's beautiful and green. Maybe you need to feed and water it more to get it stronger. What really PO's me is smokers throwing their filtered cigarette butts in my lawn as the mowers don't pick it up and it ends up in pieces on my freshly mowed lawn. In closing, be glad you don't have Canada Geese hanging around your yard as they make a huge mess and they don't pick it up.

I'm surprised they don't allow at least a 1 or 2 foot plastic fence around folks lawn.

Glad I got rocks for some reason dogs don't poop on rocks.

Hoping to get some Canadian geese here as we have heard they taste great and low fat.

Sorry, OP, your typing time was probably wasted. There are some seriously rude Villagers, and there always will be. Not everybody, of course. It’s the luck of the draw — like so many other things.

Every time I see this common topic on TOTV, I have to laugh as I remember a very good, longtime friend of ours, back home. He is a really good guy, hilarious, and pretty big…..

I do not recommend what he did. Probably would not work in TV because dog walkers are constant and everywhere, and probably a few whackos, but, anyway, this worked in a different place and time……

In that Midwest subdivision, there was a dogwalker who was notorious for not picking up, always looking the other way.

Our friend grew tired of it, and one day, ran out into his yard, waving his arms, trying to look wild-eyed and crazy, and yelling, “Hey! You! Do I send my kids to your house to s#i+ all over your yard?!!”

It stopped.

Boomer

Well, it HAS been about a month since we've had a real good one, so...

Haven't you heard? They're already back! Or, al least some are bitching about them being back...

No, it definitely isn’t funny when inconsiderate dog owners, allow their pets to
pee and crap on others property!

Brings back memories of the lady next door who kept our baseball when it happened to land in her yard. Don't know why, just does.

Get over it. Peeing on a property is harmless. You should have moved to a community that does not allow dogs.

1 of many & certainly not the last. dead horse, anyone?

A Reasonable Request to Dog Owners
 

How about a dog owner who carries her dog from a block of $500,000 plus homes to a patio villa neighborhood each day and lets her dog pee and poop on our lawns. Sometimes picks up if she sees neighbors watching!

Inconsiderate Dog Owners allowing their dog to poop on other peoples property
 

Really No Harm that someones dog is pooping on someone else's property?????
What is wrong with you?? Why can't the dog owner have his dog poop on his own property?? And You don't understand?? Really then how about the owner walking his dog accross the street to his neighbors property and poop on his neighbors property. OH No he wouldnt do that because it wouldnt be nice right. DON'T WALK YOUR DOG DOWN THE BLOCK AND POOP ON SOMEONE ELSE's PROPERTY.

Huh?
 

I think dog owners can speak for themelves.

It’s not as reasonable a request as it might sound. Most dogs don’t go poo or pee on their owners demand. Walking them is for exercise primarily, most let their dogs out back of their own homes to pee and poop. But as life would have it, dogs poop and pee when the urge arises, similar to horses. What’s critical is that the owner picks up after the dog. Walking the dogs down the streets a responsible dog owner would typically allow the dog to walk on the furthest most points of the lawns away from the houses closest to the street so the dogs don’t get in the way of moving vehicles. Dogs naturally enjoy the scents they pickup along the walks and mark spots and go when the urges arise. If the poop is being picked up, and is not directly on your front walk, you are dealing with responsible dog owners. Also, note most responsible dog owners will not let a dog on someone’s lawn if a sign is present indicating keep dogs off my lawn or similar verbiage. It does point out that the owner of that particular home is not tolerant and not worth the confrontation. If you have dog walkers that ignore such signs then I would agree with the above that you are dealing with a much smaller percentage of dog owners and have some seriously bad luck in neighbors. I own multiple dogs and I too would not appreciate anyone allowing their dogs to poop on my yard without cleaning up after themselves. A dog peeing on my lawn doesn’t bother me as I don’t picnic out front and wouldn’t ever have to directly come in contact with it. My 2 cents… and worth about as much :)

Oh well then
 

If your dog gets sick or dies from poisonous chemicals on a lawn then, I guess, that is just too bad for your dog and you.

Let's see...

Another poop thread... Check

Same lame arguments... Check

No one's mind is changed... Check...

Carry on...

I’ve lived in many different communities over the years,
but until I lived here, I had not experienced so many entitled, inconsiderate dog owners
who had little or no respect for others property!
I’ve had dogs and they are not the problem!

Why should a homeowner have to put up a 'no pooping' sign? How about instead, dog owners use the properties that have 'let your dog relieve itself here' signs? Wonder how many of those you will find.....