Stopping a dog urinating on my land
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My house has a brick gatepost which fronts directly onto the pavement outside.
Everyone morning without fail, it is covered in dog wee. Well, I am assuming it's dog wee as it's positioned at the right height and the spray area and pattern is about right for a medium sized hound.
This is obviously a creature of habit and the owner is I am assuming blase about it. It's happening very early in the morning so short of staking out the sunrise I'm unlikely to catch the miscreant owner & dog. Even if I did, I expect the owner would just let it carry on.
I'm not a dog owner, but I believe that dogs mark territory habitually. I'm probably unlucky that it's also the dog's first wee of the day and it's unloading 12 hours of pent up doggy drizzle.
Any ideas on anything I can treat the brickwork with to repel the dog and make it go somewhere else? Is there a scent e.g. very strong lemon, disinfectant etc that dogs just don't like?
I need to break the habit this mutt has formed because it's getting really quite unpleasant. There's also the occasional solid present left behind as well, though I can't say it's the same dog in that instance.
Cheers for any advice.
Everyone morning without fail, it is covered in dog wee. Well, I am assuming it's dog wee as it's positioned at the right height and the spray area and pattern is about right for a medium sized hound.
This is obviously a creature of habit and the owner is I am assuming blase about it. It's happening very early in the morning so short of staking out the sunrise I'm unlikely to catch the miscreant owner & dog. Even if I did, I expect the owner would just let it carry on.
I'm not a dog owner, but I believe that dogs mark territory habitually. I'm probably unlucky that it's also the dog's first wee of the day and it's unloading 12 hours of pent up doggy drizzle.
Any ideas on anything I can treat the brickwork with to repel the dog and make it go somewhere else? Is there a scent e.g. very strong lemon, disinfectant etc that dogs just don't like?
I need to break the habit this mutt has formed because it's getting really quite unpleasant. There's also the occasional solid present left behind as well, though I can't say it's the same dog in that instance.
Cheers for any advice.
Stevenj214 said:
Very good. Really. That's one of the most humourous things ever written on the Internet. Well done - it's never been done before, and even if it had I'm sure that the quality of your posting would elevate it above all other instances.Stressed I'm not and hobbies I have. I also have somone's dog pissing on my property every day, which unsurprisingly I'd rather they didn't.
If cost is no object (we're talking abut your sanity here), I'd try getting the cheapest electric fence kit from any farm suppliers, and wrapping some cable around the post.
Pissing on a cattle fence is not an experience you want to repeat (trust me on this), although a dog may take longer to learn.
Pissing on a cattle fence is not an experience you want to repeat (trust me on this), although a dog may take longer to learn.
Is the smell, from a post on the corner of your property, really bothering you so much?Mr Gearchange said:
Christ - I wish my life was so easy and stress free that a dog weeing on a brick post was reason enough to start a topic on ways to stop it....
Why on earth does this annoy you so much?
How annoyed do you think I am? Really? Try reading my post again and let me know exactly which parts suggest annoyance to you.Why on earth does this annoy you so much?
Maybe you have a really low threshold for annoyance, I don't know. This is more of an irritation to me. And like many things, if it can be easily prevented, why not do it.
Maybe you like the smell of dog urine and it doesn't bother you, or you don't mind your child stepping through canine effluent when they leave your house, I don't know. Maybe I just place my standards slightly higher.
PhilboSE said:
Very good. Really. That's one of the most humourous things ever written on the Internet. Well done - it's never been done before, and even if it had I'm sure that the quality of your posting would elevate it above all other instances.
Stressed I'm not and hobbies I have. I also have somone's dog pissing on my property every day, which unsurprisingly I'd rather they didn't.
You really are a funny little man.Stressed I'm not and hobbies I have. I also have somone's dog pissing on my property every day, which unsurprisingly I'd rather they didn't.
davepoth said:
I would say it's nearly 100% likely that said dog is attached to a lead, which is held by a person. It'd be much easier to get up early one day and stand on the driveway, arms folded, and staring at them when they walk by. You won't have a problem again.
Thanks, it might come to this.PhilboSE said:
davepoth said:
I would say it's nearly 100% likely that said dog is attached to a lead, which is held by a person. It'd be much easier to get up early one day and stand on the driveway, arms folded, and staring at them when they walk by. You won't have a problem again.
Thanks, it might come to this.To dogs, it is a message box and they will all be leaving messages there.
(!)PhilboSE said:
Maybe you like the smell of dog urine and it doesn't bother you, or you don't mind your child stepping through canine effluent when they leave your house, I don't know. Maybe I just place my standards slightly higher.
The first problem can be avoided by simply not going out and sniffing your gatepost. Unless the smell is wafting in through open windows - which I can be pretty sure it's not. If you are going out and sniffing dog piss then you have far bigger problems to deal with than dogs peeing on your gatepost.Secondly who on earth says canine effluent - even Barbara Woodhouse wouldn't say 'Canine Effluent' FFS.
I think you are more than a little weird to be honest.
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