<p>I realize that this could get ugly, but I’m curious as to the consensus of the cc crowd.</p>
<p>Friend of a friend said that he and a neighbor got into it because her dog peed on his car tire. Really? That wouldn’t bother me at all. A car tire is an inanimate object; it’s not like the dog peed on his leg.</p>
<p>Would that really bother you? What about if a dog pooped in your yard but the owner scooped it up?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t care about the car tire. I would care about the pooping if I had small children who played in the yard because the poop could be a source of disease-causing microorganisms. But since I don’t have small children, I don’t care much.</p>
<p>I do think, though, that poop-scooping laws are one of the great achievements of our time – right up there with the Internet, disposable diapers, and cell phones. Do you remember when we were children, and there was dog poop everywhere? How often did you face the almost impossible task of getting it off your shoes? I haven’t had to do that in at least 10 years.</p>
<p>What I hate about dogs is the barking. The dog that lives in the house behind us sometimes barks for hours. That’s when I wish I owned a shotgun.</p>
<p>Agree with you; if it were my dog i would volunteer to clean the car but really, nbd…</p>
<p>ThT tire goes thru rain prob has hit road kill rements, and gets peed on all the time</p>
<p>As the owner of dogs, I try my best to not have my dogs pee on neighbors pretty flowers. But rubber indestructible tires,please, men and their cars</p>
<p>As the owner of a male dog who seems to have a never-ending supply…I really try not to let him lift his leg on anything man-made. I am not 100 percent successful.</p>
<p>Let’s make a deal. You control your dog and prevent him from peeing on my tire, and I will control my car and avoid running over your dog. Fair? </p>
<p>It’s not a question of whether dog pee on a car tire damages it or is detectable. It shows a lack of respect for someone else’s property. Maybe the car owner just spent an hour washing his car and scrubbing the tires.</p>
<p>Neither of these would bother me, but I am a dog owner. Dogs have to be walked and you can’t guarantee they won’t need to poop, so it just isn’t reasonable to expect it. My feeling is that unless we live in a vacuum, we should be able to put up with some minor annoyances from our neighbors from time to time, whether it be a dog peeing or something else.</p>
<p>It’d bother me to have the dog pee on my tire but it’d bother me even more that the owner of the dog let him do it and even more if the owner stood there on the other end of the leash while the dog did it. It’s rude on the part of the owner either by deliberately allowing his dog to do it or by not controlling his dog enough.</p>
<p>On the other question - I guess it depends somewhat on the neighborhood layout but I wouldn’t be happy about the dog doing his mess on my yard even if the owner scoops it up. I, or a kid, might want to walk around in the yard barefooted and we shouldn’t need to contend with it. The owner should make the dog do that business in a wild area or his own yard or at least someplace outside of someone else’s yard. Dogs can usually be controlled as to ‘when’ and where they go. If my dog does body language indicating he’d like to ‘go’ then I don’t let him go in the wrong spot and have him go to a wild area instead. It works.</p>
<p>I say all of this as a dog owner/lover. I walk my dog a lot but I’d never let him mark territory on someone’s car and don’t let him do his other business anywhere other than a more wild area or my own yard.</p>
<p>As an owner of 2 dogs, i would be mortified if either of them urinated on a neighbors car tire…i think it is disrespectful, where was the owner of the dog during this? Was the dog not on a leash? I had a woman years ago always have her dog poop on my lawn, she never picked it up…i followed her to find out where she lived…</p>
<p>Then i picked up the poop,packed it neatly in a box and sent it via UPS to her…along with the ‘gift’ was a note, explaing her dog left this behind. ;)</p>
<p>^^
Agree w/GladGradDad</p>
<p>Curb your dog and have him eliminate somewhere other than on someone’s property or yard.</p>
<p>A big pet peeve of my husband’s is neighbors who let their dog pee or poop on our grass whether they pick it up or not. He spends a lot of time on our yard and dog pee leaves brown spots on the grass.</p>
<p>qdogpa - thanks for the laugh. I’m going to tell my husband about that move!</p>
<p>Small dog owner/lover (between dogs- ours died) here. I would be very upset, especially if the car was parked on my driveway. The dog owner should have rinsed off the tire and driveway ASAP, or at least offered/asked to get some water to take care of it, regardless of the amount. Urine smells and could damage/stain objects. I have been talking with neighbors while walking the dog while he did his thing, I always picked up a mess even if they said it didn’t matter because their dog’s messes were still all over.</p>
<p>Require DNA tests to get a dog license.</p>
<p>I have dogs. Fortunately our neighborhood is about 80% wild area, and there are no complaints about our pets’ bathroom habits. But we have a neighbor whose dog pees on an old car we keep parked at the curb. I never have figured out why this happens, since the dog is walked on a leash. And we have neighbors who won’t walk their lap warmers by our house. (Our dogs are larger, but very friendly.) And we have neighbors who don’t walk their dogs, but let them outside (in a fenced area) to bark for hours on end. I don’t understand any of those behaviors either.</p>
<p>I guess I’m saying that dog ownership is never a 50-50 deal when it comes to interactions with neighbors … which is why I think it’s the dog owner’s responsibility to be the “bigger person” in virtually every situation. Will a little pee ruin a rubber tire? Of course not. Train the dog not to do it anyway.</p>
<p>PS, As qdogpa points out, it’s sometimes necessary for aggrieved innocents to communicate their displeasure regarding offensive pet habits.</p>
<p>I have a female dog. She often tries to pee on upright objects like a male dog would, but she fails. She would hit the ground next to the tire. So car tires are safe with her, but I still pull her away when it looks like she is about to even attempt to pee on anybody’s private property, be it yard, car, or anything else. And I do carry bags and collect all poop.</p>
<p>As the owner of a male dog (dachshund) with rather low transmission, I am very careful to make sure he is either in our yard or walked in the greenbelts of our neighborhood. Otherwise he would pee on ANYTHING he could. </p>
<p>If a dog came into our yard and took a wiz on a tire of one of my husband’s “toys” I think he would completely flip out. He spends so much time polishing and “dressing” the tires he would go nuts.</p>
<p>^ collegeshopping - Feel free to walk you dachshund by my house … though I would appreciate it if he avoided the Audi.</p>
<p>We’re dog owners and lovers. I can sort of see both sides.</p>
<p>We live in the city, like all of our neighbors. Our dogs need 2-3 walks a day, our yard is tiny and there is no wild area. Our dogs- like many- can only do their number two business after walking a lot (and would never go in their own ‘space’). I’d prefer I had a wild area but its unrealistic for us or anyone else who lives as we do. </p>
<p>I try to ensure our dogs go in the most innocuous of places, and we always pick up their poop, but it can’t always be controlled. If our dog wanted to pee on something other than grass or a bush on the shared boulevard, I’d try to steer them away. If my dog did manage to pee on a tire or fence, and I saw the owner, I’d apologize and offer to clean it up. </p>
<p>I don’t mind other dogs going in our yard, or peeing on my tires or whatever, but I would get angry if they didn’t clean up the poop! </p>
<p>I think most people living in a city lighten up and learn to adapt to each other- be it crying kids, barking dogs, speeding cars, obnoxious bike riders. I’m sure we all get frustrated from time to time, but I can’t recall a single dirty look about our dogs in 10 years and I’m sure they’ve peed on inanimate objects from time to time. I think if this kind of thing drove you nuts, though, you’d end up gravitating to a suburb with a giant yard and no sidewalks, or out in the country side …so you don’t have to rub elbows with people so much.</p>
<p>Or live in a HOA that doesn’t allow pets.</p>
<p>Just to be purposefully provocative…I’d like to say that I’d actually rather be surrounded by neighbors that love dogs, than neighbors that spend their spare time cleaning the tires of their prestigious looking car :)</p>
<p>I have to wonder what people do when they run over something icky in the road. Do they come home and wash their tires? To me a car is just a piece of machinery and if your dog peed on it, I would probably think it was rather amusing. Life to me is too short to worry about this kind of stuff, but then I think I am a throw back to earlier times. As for walking my dog, I do clean up after him but if he pees in the frontage area, oh well, it is an easement and really, unless it is concentrated in an area it does no real harm.
We get horses down our street sometimes and people who have moved here from the city think the horse owners should clean up after them. The country people roll their eyes, to them it is just reprocessed grass.</p>