Owners not picking up after dogs

Owners not picking up after dogs

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Mr Trophy

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6,808 posts

202 months

Tuesday 9th February 2016
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I don’t want to be “that guy” but dogs are stting outside the office and the owners are just leaving it there for me to clear up.

However, they clearly have noticed the CCTV that’s there. Is there anything I can do?

DS197

992 posts

105 months

Tuesday 9th February 2016
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Throw it at them out the window next time you see them?

pheasant

143 posts

105 months

Tuesday 9th February 2016
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Yes, easy, pick it up, follow them (in whatever order) - then a late night delivery through letter box.

dudleybloke

19,718 posts

185 months

Tuesday 9th February 2016
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Throw it at them.

FrankAbagnale

1,700 posts

111 months

Tuesday 9th February 2016
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Outside my office there seems to be a regular offender. It's a busy high street but he/she comes out early with the dog and it spreads it's cr*p over about a 30ft section of pavement. It must be a big dog! I can only assume they pull the dog on it's lead while it's doing it's business.

By 11am or so, it's been spread about by feet/prams etc. It's like a minefield! People look like they're performing Swan Lake as part of the State Ballet when they're negotiating the pavement.


Jasandjules

69,825 posts

228 months

Tuesday 9th February 2016
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Is it a council owned road? If so, ask them to send a warden?

Impasse

15,099 posts

240 months

Tuesday 9th February 2016
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If none of the above suggestions work, you could always try approaching the owners and asking them to pick up - maybe even be proactive and buy a pack of plastic bags (cheapo nappy sacks is fine) to offer the walker of each dog? Just don't be the usual PH aggressor as that never works.

Failing that, contact your council to request a poo bin to be sited nearby. We did this a few years ago when a much used cut-through to some fields became Dog Turd Alley.
After some months of asking, the council installed a poo bin and the alleyway became reasonably squelch free almost over night. However, as with everything there are cost constraints and the bin is not the expensive part, it's the emptying and maintenance that will eat into their budget. So if you're not near a poo bin lorry route you probably won't have much luck.

RobinOakapple

2,802 posts

111 months

Tuesday 9th February 2016
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Get one of these, you don't need to point it out of the window, you can be quite a long way away


toon10

6,140 posts

156 months

Tuesday 9th February 2016
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We're having this issue now. Just moved to a nice cul-de-sac, all 4, 5 and 6 bed houses so not a rough estate by any means and yet my other half had to dispose of 5 dog turds from our front lawm. We're on dog watch to try and identify the culprit. I was ready to visit the neighbour opposite but we've never seen them with a dog so don't think it's them. Selfish culture is a growing trend in the UK it seems.

mikal83

5,340 posts

251 months

Tuesday 9th February 2016
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here in the country there is one person who picks up their dog st, puts it in a bag and flings it into the hedge. FFS just leave it there and the rain will wash it away in a day or so....OR if your that worried flick it into the bottom of the hedge with your boot.

Mr Trophy

Original Poster:

6,808 posts

202 months

Tuesday 9th February 2016
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Impasse said:
If none of the above suggestions work, you could always try approaching the owners and asking them to pick up - maybe even be proactive and buy a pack of plastic bags (cheapo nappy sacks is fine) to offer the walker of each dog? Just don't be the usual PH aggressor as that never works.

Failing that, contact your council to request a poo bin to be sited nearby. We did this a few years ago when a much used cut-through to some fields became Dog Turd Alley.
After some months of asking, the council installed a poo bin and the alleyway became reasonably squelch free almost over night. However, as with everything there are cost constraints and the bin is not the expensive part, it's the emptying and maintenance that will eat into their budget. So if you're not near a poo bin lorry route you probably won't have much luck.
There is flats above us, so the rain will not wash it away as it's covered (we're on the bottom floor). There is a poo box literally over the road, a bin and a salt box which also gets used. It's just people being lazy. As for people saying "through it at them" it happens at night and I don't spend the day looking out the window waiting to catch someone!

Devil2575

13,400 posts

187 months

Tuesday 9th February 2016
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RobinOakapple said:
Get one of these, you don't need to point it out of the window, you can be quite a long way away

I'd go along with that. You only need to shoot one to deter the rest of them.

bigbob77

593 posts

165 months

Tuesday 9th February 2016
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Devil2575 said:
RobinOakapple said:
Get one of these, you don't need to point it out of the window, you can be quite a long way away

I'd go along with that. You only need to shoot one to deter the rest of them.
As an owner of two dogs, I would also go with this option - as long as you're aiming at the owner.

Walking my dogs in the dark is an absolute nightmare. I always need a decent torch with me, but even then it's not easy to navigate the dogs around all the st.

What I don't get is - there are so many "repeat offenders" where I live. They walk their dogs in the same place all the time and let their dogs st in the same place all the time... Don't they care that the next day their dog will step in its own st???
They obviously don't care... Their house must be covered in st. They must have stty carpets and stty walls and stty shoes.

stty people furious

HD Adam

5,144 posts

183 months

Tuesday 9th February 2016
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[PHanswer]Put it in a can of Red Bull, throw it at their lawn, hammer it in with a frozen sausage and then bum the dog to death[/PHanswer]

HTH

Slightly more serious, I've had this from dog walkers at the end of my drive and if I spot somebody new stopping at the trees, I just go out in the drive and give the patented "Paddington Bear hard Stare" which has never failed in the dog egg collection stakes.

s2kjock

1,677 posts

146 months

Tuesday 9th February 2016
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I have a similar problem just along the pavement and road/grassed (private) bank where I live.

There was always a bit of mess left now and again, but there seems to be something new in a different place everyday for the past month or two and it all looks fairly similar "style and content", so expect it is the same dug.

As above the problem is identifying the culprit as most folk I do see with dugs round and about generally seem to pick up.

Anyone have good suggestions for cheap CCTV camera I can set up in my window on motion detection? If I at least can work out who it is and when it normally happens I will stand a better chance of ensuring I am around to go and have a word with them.

loafer123

15,404 posts

214 months

Tuesday 9th February 2016
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Get a decent CCTV picture and then put up laminated "Wanted" posters on lamposts. They'll soon stop.

Crush

15,077 posts

168 months

Tuesday 9th February 2016
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We had similar from a neighbour at the top of the cul-de-sac.

I collected the poop in a bag, and made sure I was 100% sure of who was doing it before returning five weeks worth of dog st to their front door (obviously kept the bag seeing as they're a commodity nowadays)

StuTheGrouch

5,714 posts

161 months

Tuesday 9th February 2016
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I fking hate this problem. Taking my kids to the park and it's a fking minefield on the way there (fortunately the play area is fenced off and is fine).

If I had my way then punishment for this disgusting example of ignorance would be that the owner is aggressively force-fed the dog st. Dirty s.

Fane

1,308 posts

199 months

Tuesday 9th February 2016
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Just look for anyone under the age of 25 or over 75 walking a dog. It will be them, trust me (I have tested my hypothesis over 14 years, living next to a dog walking lane with a poo bin on it) Selfish tossers.

PorkInsider

5,877 posts

140 months

Tuesday 9th February 2016
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bigbob77 said:
Walking my dogs in the dark is an absolute nightmare. I always need a decent torch with me, but even then it's not easy to navigate the dogs around all the st.
Wouldn't have been so bad in the 70s when I was a nipper. You used to regularly see white dog st but that went out of fashion.

It's much harder to spot in the dark now.

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