[Lovey2]

hahaha!! You're right...we do have tiny driveways! My point simply was, she was not just walking her dog, she was letting him search for a toilet. Not MY lawn... PUHLEASE!

[sobell]

Originally Posted by nysnowbirds

i love dogs. However, when i watched a neighbor walk her two dogs and stop at my lawn this morning while her dog did his business on my lawn, i was shocked. She was not at the edge but well off the street with the dogs on a long leash in the middle of my lawn and waited a while until the dog decided to do his business on my lawn. Yes, she picked it up and yes, one has limited control over such things. But this behavior was rude, inconsiderate and selfish. Why not walk the dogs on your lawn? Or since we are a developing village (hillsborough) with many acres of vacent land, why walk your dogs on your new neighbors lawns? It is just rude!

what's the problem? The poop was picked up! Apparently you don't have a dog , so you don't understand how important it is for them to get exercise as well as poop! Get over it and get a dog. Then you will understand & probably be a much happier person.

[gomoho]

Patty - see you at the square with my two big "poopers".

[RedChariot]

Originally Posted by kittygilchrist

1. Your owning a dog does not mean you own the property rights of your neighbors, period, no excuses.
2. Your or your dog entering neighbor's yard to leave a deposit is a trespass violation with a fine up to $1000, whether picked up or just urine are immaterial.
3. Your picking up poop in the neighbor's yard subjects the neighbor to liability lawsuit if you slip and fall, etc.
4. Your walking your dog in neighbor's yards is not just rude, it's crude, self-centered and uncivilized.
5. You or your dog may be subjected to confrontation by the neighbor or the neighbor's dog, with ensuing legal action.

Solutions?
Walk to a common area, or transport the dog to a common area, or get an invisible fence. Or give the dog to someone who is responsible.
Doing the easiest thing on the neighbor's yard and rationalizing it away is using poor judgment splashed with self-pity.

thank you! Thank you!

[Patty55]

Originally Posted by gomoho

Patty - see you at the square with my two big "poopers".

Okey Dokey, I have six, all dressed alike to confuse people. When they run around on their retractable leashes you'd swear there wasn't more than four, I think it's called Trompe L'oeil.

All I know, is I'm happy. Is everyone happy?

[ilovetv]

Originally Posted by sobell

what's the problem? The poop was picked up! Apparently you don't have a dog , so you don't understand how important it is for them to get exercise as well as poop! Get over it and get a dog. Then you will understand & probably be a much happier person.

The problem is that it's not your (dog owner's) property!

What if a landscaper or construction worker walked up onto her front yard and took a dump there and picked it up, when there are open fields there in Hillsborough? It's a matter of respect for personal property!!

Nobody's "entitled" to use somebody else's property for ANYTHING!

[Barefoot]

I'd guess there might be one person in 5,000 who would find it acceptable to toilet their dog on someone's front lawn. And those few people probably aren't members of TOTV. Over 100 posts later, I'm astonished that people people persist in bashing all the dog owners who live in TV.
If someone trespasses on your property, ask them to stop. It's that simple.

[keithwand]

Originally Posted by Patty55

Halfway up the driveway would be what? Five feet? PUHLEASE....

Just for the record, I no longer walk my dogs, not because I care about lawns... don't care about mine or yours. I no longer do it because I care about the dogs. After hearing about the dried sludge fertilizer I don't want them exposed to E-coli, staph and strep. Instead I take them to the town squares and let them do their thing on the sidewalks.

I was thinking more like midway up which is 15-20 feet for my driveway and that's not right.

[ilovetv]

Originally Posted by Barefoot

I'd guess there might be one person in 5,000 who would find it acceptable to toilet their dog on someone's front lawn. And those few people probably aren't members of TOTV. Over 100 posts later, I'm astonished that people people persist in bashing all the dog owners who live in TV.
If someone trespasses on your property, ask them to stop. It's that simple.

Ah....but this is where I disagree. There are numerous people right here in this thread who who mock and condemn and label as "dog haters" the homeowners who expect respect for their property.

[Patty55]

Originally Posted by keithwand

I was thinking more like midway up which is 15-20 feet for my driveway and that's not right.

Whoa, you must live in THE HEIGHTS.

[graciegirl]

umm. I agree with all of you. I'd say MOST of the trillion dog owners in TV are nice and thoughtful and considerate and think of others. The rest are all from.................. fill in the blanks.

No one wants somebody acting like their lawn is someone elses to do with what they may.

I am one of possibly three homeowners in over 100K who have not had a dog poop on her lawn. (In the new house anyway) We had some neighbors who didn't give a rip in Hadley. When I called it to his attention, he picked it up with his BARE hands. sigh.

I love Patty's humor. I love Bare's kindness, sense of responsibility and love for her pets. I love people who say how they feel so others can take it to heart or ignore it completely.

But in the light of the fact we may be embarking on another war, I can't get too worked up about dog poop today.

[Patty55]

Originally Posted by ilovetv

Ah....but this is where I disagree. There are numerous people right here in this thread who who mock and condemn and label as "dog haters" the homeowners who expect respect for their property.

For the record, I don't think they are "dog haters". I do think they are control freaks who try to control what they think they can. I also think a lot of people are chronic complainers who if it's not one thing it's another.

I think this topic really has little to do with dogs.

I think some people were made to feel very special by the sales office and their picking marathons and people who maybe never felt special in their lives came away thinking they are special. It's a rude awakening to find out that you aren't special, maybe never were and never will be.

I think that as long as the dog owners pick up after their dogs it's all good.

[kittygilchrist]

Originally Posted by Barefoot

I'd guess there might be one person in 5,000 who would find it acceptable to toilet their dog on someone's front lawn. And those few people probably aren't members of TOTV. Over 100 posts later, I'm astonished that people people persist in bashing all the dog owners who live in TV.
If someone trespasses on your property, ask them to stop. It's that simple.

Barefoot, I enjoy reading your posts and feel nice when I do...you know I'm a big dog owner too...
Where I live most everyone walks their dog on the neighbor's grass from one yard to the next and not in the street. They stop when the dog wants to stop on the lawn to let their dog do whatever it wants to do. They walk the dog on the lawns instead of across the street where the lots are not yet built.

One person pm'd me to say thanks for starting a previous poop thread. She said it had never occurred to her until she read the posts that people might object to her dog toileting in their yard.

[TrudyM]

Originally Posted by ctuttle

I used to have 3 dogs when I lived up north, now I have one. When we moved here, she would not use our CYV area to do her business. We took up the rock and put down grass thinking that would do the trick. Nope. We invited our neighbors dog to do his business in our yard thinking she would smell it and get the hint. Nope. What other option do we have besides walking her? The public grassy area by our house is all the way down our street so when she has to poop, I have to walk her all the way down there. What do I do when she goes onto someone else's lawn to do her business because she can't wait, except pick it up? At least I do that. She can't walk totally on the hot pavement so I have to give her a little lead on the leash so she can get into the grass or rock before her pads burn. I'm sorry if my dog goes on someone else's lawn, but I do pick it up.

Some dogs won't poop were they live. The one I had as a kid would climb a snow drift rather than poop anywhere near the house.

[Lovey2]

My first time on here for a discussion, and I think it's a riot, quite frankly...especially the bully with the psychiatry degree. I did learn several things tho...1) people love their pets to the exclusion of common sense..fact, I do! 2) if I don't agree with you, I am a control freak and have bigger issues than a simple opinion and 3) the sidewalks in the square are a good place to dump my used kitty litter, as opposed to my neighbor's yard I had been using. I'll be sure to get on here in another year or so to see if I can pick up anymore enlightening life lessons. Ciao!!