The dog poop saga
 

Here's the prelude:

This is true/real world stuff, cut and pasted verbatim! Welcome to where Sandy and I reside in OH!! :) The names have been changed to protect the comedians.......

Our neighborhood here in OH has a directory we maintain which contains everyone's contact info - name, address, phone #s, and e-mail addresses - in case there would be a reason to disseminate any relevant info to the whole group. The following is a string of e-mails from last evening that starts out with one from a lady, we'll call her Sue Smith, who decided the time had come to voice her concern. She sent this to everyone:

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Hi everyone!

I just felt I needed to send out a little reminder about dog poop!!!! First off let me start by saying, my husband and I are dog loving people with 2 dogs ourselves! That being said, my husband wasn't very happy about stepping in another dogs poop at the bottom of our yard close to the street while mowing the yard yesterday. We know it isn't our dogs because we have an electric fence and they can't get down there :). I am asking that if you have a dog that has to use the potty in our yard (or any other yard) please be courteous and clean it up! We pick up enough dog poop of our own and would never be so RUDE as to leave a pile in someone else yard.

Your courteous neighbor,
Sue Smith
9999 Bailey Ct!

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Fair enough, I reckon. But it's obvious she's not real happy.

Here's a reply to Sue (and everyone else as well) from a neighbor who owns a vacant/yet-to-build parcel:

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we don't have a house on our property. the search for the poopers goes on.....

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Funny!

Here's the next 'Reply All':

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Sue - we have had a small dog (I know what dog poop looks like) poop right on top of the large rock by our mailbox at times. This has me scratching my head as how on earth could a small dog get his tiny butt up high enough to evacuate so purposefully on top of that rock?? The rock is not large enough for a dog to stand on the rock and hit the rock with his bm unless the dog is some sort of contortionist. I am sorry about your poop issue as it is irritating. Can anyone solve our puzzle here? I do not think a raccoon or any animal could have aimed and fired so succinctly.

We have also seen near misses.

By the way, was yours a large, medium or small job?

Beth Jones
The House with the Target Practice Rock by the Mailbox

Sorry- I am just tired of it too.


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By now, I had tears streaming down my face from laughing so hard!!

Another "Reply All":

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Sue

I have 2 large dogs that poop (a lot) in my yard, so I understand and sympathize with your concerns. I don't believe that my dogs are able to escape our electric fence but want to help solve this mystery, I would like to compare your mystery poop to my dogs'. So could you please supply a photo (with a reference scale: quarter or ruler would work) and maybe a texture description so that I can compare with my dogs.
Good Luck with the mystery!

At your disposal...
Tom "Scooby Doo" Johnson, in the Mystery Van.

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His closing was a scream!!!

Yet another "Reply All". This fellow previously lived in the neighborhood and has since moved out of state. He still owns a vacant/yet-to-build parcel:

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Sue et al.,

Although we do have a small dog that is quite the contortionist, I have to believe the distance between her normal resting ground in Mukilteo Washington and Granville Ohio would provide us adequate exemption.

That said, we face a similar issue here and have the Mutt Mitt ( www.muttmitt.com ) at the park up the road from us. We have also investigated using this in our development for this purpose. There are various cost options all of which are reasonable. If strategically placed, a few of these dispensers cover quite a bit of ground.

It is also quite possible that the offenders' owners are not from the neighborhood. Mary and I used to call it the home show - people wanting to be around the nicer homes and constantly driving up and down, biking, walking their dogs around, and enjoying the neighborhood without actually living there. Not sure if this is indeed the case (see paragraph 1), but just a thought to consider as a station or sign might attempt to address someone not on this distribution.

Regardless of the poop, we enjoying hearing the scoop and wish you all well. Best wishes.

Joe Jones

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At least he offered some helpful info!

Finally, here's Sue's reply to "Scooby Doo":

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Well Tom.... I would love to be able to send out a photo of the "pile" but it seemed to get squished in mikes shoes, so the appearance is completely different now! :) We do know however that it is a BIG dog. I sure hope it gets resolved quickly so that I don't have to listen to Mike complain about stepping in more :)

~Sue~

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At least Sue seems to have a good sense of humor about it all!! And I'll bet you thought it was only TV that had such issues!!!

Hope you got a chuckle out of it -

Bill :)

That was a Hooooooot!
 

When visiting the Paradise Dog Park, It tickles me that conversation at the park will invariably revert to the texture and color of POOP!!....tee hee

.....I always thought that solving the "Poop Dilemma" would be solved if all dog walks were limited to the dog-walkers OWN yard or community areas, such as post office or rec. centers with the tell-tale "bag of crap" always ready for use!

Oh no, not another dog poop thread, here we go again. :boom::boom::boom:

I was thinking of setting up a small dedicated area on my lawn for our little buddies, but the deed restrictions prevented me from doing it!
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Good one, Bill....

Now I sit back and watch the flurry or poop posts....:popcorn:

LOL regarding the first post above. In our former neighborhood up north, every single issue of the homeowner association "news"letter began with scolding about "a certain" dog whose owners let it run freely, poopin' on their lawns. Every issue having this complaining "above the fold" is why when we'd get it, we said, "Oh, here's the latest Dog Poop Herald". The newsletter became a big joke because those who complained would not confront the dog owner directly...they kept reporting in the newsletter about "a certain dog", and everyone knew whose it was.

We have a small dog and she uses our CYV yard to do her doooooty. If a person has a hunting dog that's big and needs running exercise often throughout the day--on acreage, not a leash--I think it is really unfair to the dog to keep it cooped up in a small house (worse yet, an apartment), taking it for walks on a leash as its only chance to poop......on OTHER people's property.

Many large dog owners really should not have such a big dog that craves an open field in the great outdoors, IMHO.

It's good to get a hoot about the scoop over the poop. :1rotfl:

It takes not a Betty Boop,
To be "****ed" about dog poop
"Wags" rail near and far,
Fur flies like a Great Fumar
'tis as common as Alphabet Soup

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Is this thread all pooped out? :D

Not yet.... I haven't pooped on it yet! :D

I think I can also squeese out one more grunts or two!

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Another reason it's not over...
 

No one has said, "oh crap" yet.
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Oh Crap! Someone has now!

Can I get a "holy crap" ??? :D

Oh sh**. You're right. :D

I think this post has gone to the crapper!!!

And that is why dog parks work so very, very well!

Did they ever catch the "poopetrators?

I think they've been out looking for more evidence to pickup, and working fevorishly to find the "poopetrator" before "poopomania" develops and gets "out of hand!"
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The scuttlebutt I get from one of our neighbors (after the flurry of e-mails came out - the ones I posted to start this thread) is that the originator actually knows who's dog it is that's causing her the heartburn..............but they don't want to initiate the discussion with the pet's owner to try to resolve the issue. Sheesh. I hope they get it squared away somehow.

But in the meantime.........I liked the humor in the e-mail replies she got! :pepper2:

Bill :)

You mean the skuttle "BUTT," right? :D

No and's, ifs, but butts is allowed in dealing with the pooperatrators. :D

I hope that the pooperatrators repent soon, else they risk going to poopatory before going on to their heavenly reward!
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:rotfl:

I hope that the pooperatrators don't lose their poopalarity. :D

I have got to be TOTV'rs best fan!
 

I think you all are a hooooot! or is that a Poooop!....

the thread is not pooped out! i was laughing my butt off at those e-mails! hahaha

Love the avatar..

The slippery slope of the stoop is covered by the poop. :)

New to this thread? Let me clue ya
It's a scandal about... dog poop. ha!
Read it and weep,
Tears of laughter complete
Please come see what is all this hoopla!

Welcome to you new person, four by four,
I hope your avatar won't hang on your door.
Cause, no matter which way you lean
The Republicans here are the dominant scene.

So entitled you are to a political bent
And Freedom of Speech will allow you to vent
but the better place to do it my dear
is over in the political and not this place here.

You will like us all and we will like you.
You will make good friends here and true.
And many will like that avatar friend.
But not the majority, I think, in the end.

Welcome to you. I couldn't resist a little rhyming this morning.

OH...I just hijacked another thead. I will get us back on track by singing.

Poo poop e doo!!

:welcome: to TOTV. I am happy to hear you were laughing at the witty responses to this thread. I will try to keep it going and not get pooped out.

Keep on posting!!!!!!!

Poop Joke:

Don't forget rule number 1 but don't step in number 2.

Paraphrase of Rodney Dangerfield.

Are those that don't remember the rule party-poopers?
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To tie in with the poop post that has been popping up the last few days... I thought I would resurrect this post so the newbies could add their poop to it!

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You do realize that resurrecting this thread makes you a poopatator don't you? http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...t/2a46b576.gif

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I can never get enough of these poop threads!!! :a040:

This is a very very