<p>i walk my dog 3-4 times every day. he isnot allowed to pee on cars, mailboxes, ornaments, solar lights…you get the idea.</p>
<p>he does get to pee on trees, fire hydrants, utility boxes, street sign posts, evergreens and grass. i always pick up his poop. always. i have a flashlight with me for night time deliveries…i try to be a good neighbor. </p>
<p>i have a new neighbor–they have not yet moved in, but they let their little dog run all around my yard when they are working on the new house. no leash. i am not going to be happy the first time i find a gift in my yard from this lovely dog. </p>
<p>i love dogs. i really do. but i hate finding bombs in my yard while mowing.</p>
<p>We had gifts on our lawn one week and I decided that I’d get up at 5:00 AM and work at the computer with a window to the front lawn where someone could also see me. A week of that took care of the problem.</p>
<p>If that didn’t work, I was next planning on setting up my laptop to record the front lawn from a second story window.</p>
<p>I have an SUV, an overpriced SUV and I refuse to treat it like anything special, it’s the dog car, the garden center car, the beach car, etc…however I would think it was a little weird and kind of rude for someone to stand by and let their dog pee on it. It just seems disrespectful. I do my absolute best to discourage my dog from pooping on his walks around our downtown, not always successfully. I had a woman yell at me while I tried to completely clean all the poop off the sidewalk when I was a relatively new dog owner, mortifying. My dog liked to try and poop in planters when we walk in town, he’d sit on them like a toilet bowl. Hilarious but horribly awkward at the same time. I wanted to offer him a magazine.</p>
<p>We live where we can take our dog for outings to a wild area and that is great, but I gained an appreciation for city dwellers when staying in a suburb and had to take the puppy for walks after dark. Learning to bring enough bags, spot poop in the dark, etc, there was a learning curve!</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>I hope its for the dog OWNER and not the dog! I get mad too when the neighbor dog barks and barks but then I think, I can’t get mad at the dog - the owner is the JA who doesnt pay any attention to them.</p>
<p>We had a neighbor who thought their dogs did great when they were gone, they had no idea the dogs barked at every person who went by, every leaf that blew, every excuse they could find to bark. When the family was home the dogs, still outside, were not so protective. I had to talk to them when we had company staying with us, which allowed me to have a soft approach, but it’s never easy.</p>
But you and Starbright need to consider that it’s not an either or situation. One can be a careless and rude dog owner and car hater and just permit the dog to go on the car, disregarding any private property rights or any desires the car owner may have, or the dog owner can ensure that the dog both ‘goes’ and yet doesn’t go on someone’s car and I think this is what the majority of dog owners would do. Whether you like it or not there are plenty of car owners who actually paid extra for the nicer looking wheel/tire option on the car and who even wash and wax their car occasionally and even wash their wheels and tires and probably wouldn’t be enamored of having a dog go all over them. Just because you have no care about a car doesn’t mean everyone feels that way and to project your in indifference on someone else is downright rude. (By ‘you’ I meant the inconsiderate dog owner - not you personally)</p>
<p>Would you let your kid pee on someone’s car tire? It’s rude to think that you can just let your pets pee wherever they want to.</p>
<p>Not everyone has the same values. Some people don’t care if your dog pees on their mailbox. But honestly, they are fully entitled to. It is their property that they pay to maintain. Just because someone values things differently, does not mean their values are wrong.</p>
<p>To me, it will all depend on the dog owner’s reaction. If s/he apologizes, I would simply say thanks and hose off the tire. If the dog owner begins the drama of how some people value their friggin’ property more than than they value living beings and their freedom to pee all over their yards, you bet I will not be as calm and friendly. The USPS will be busy delivering those flat rate priority boxes on the offender’s front porch (thanks, qdogpa!). As a responsible dog owner, I made sure he never roamed the neighborhood unattended. If he made an accidental deposit, clean up and apologies were very prompt. Our neighbors do the same thing.</p>
<p>Hey don’t implicate me in your rebuttal! Read my posts! I am not against your position at all Gladgraddad, if you read my first post. I merely stated that I would rather be around neighbors who love dogs than cars, is all. And that is true! But no need for anyone to be rude or disrespectful on either side.</p>
<p>I think it’s rude in the autumn when people allow their trees to just drop their leaves wherever the happen to be standing at the time. Irresponsible litter bugs.</p>
<p>I don’t walk my dog in the morning; she ‘goes’ at home. Her concentrated first-morning urine doesn’t seem to harm our lawn, so I can’t see that the weak stream that dogs tend to squeeze out every 5 minutes on a walk can really do damage.</p>
<p>As a female , mine doesn’t really ‘aim’ at things. But if she did target a personal property thing , I would pull her away from it, just out of consideration (but I bet many just dribble down and don’t even touch the car tire, but still.)</p>
<p>Some of our neighbors impinge on our space from time to time (not all noise is dogs!) but they are otherwise good neighbors and we can’t get that excited about it.</p>
<p>There are no “wild areas” in my neighborhood. I understand if dogs have to do their business in my yard. What I don’t understand is people who let their dogs do that and then just continue on their merry way without cleaning up after them. That is just unspeakably rude and drives my husband nuts. We do have a law requiring dog owners to clean up after their dogs, but as with all laws, some people don’t feel any need to respect them.</p>
<p>One of my dogs will poop on every walk. It doesn’t matter if he just went in our yard, by the end of our walk, he will have done it again. I always, always pick up after him. But that’s the best I can do.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, we no longer have a dog as ours died in November but my husband actually trained her to poop and pee in a particular spot in our yard. Maybe we were lucky she was so smart but I think most dogs are capable of learning. Yes, my husband can be slightly OCD. :)</p>
<p>Doschicos, I could have written your post. Yes, dog urine kills grass (like any very concentrated fertilizer) and many plants, and yes, dogs can be trained to go in a paricular spot of the yard. When we planned our landscaping, DH let our dog pick a favorite spot by the back fence, and encouraged him to do his doggie business there by rewarding the dog with treats. The dog quicklyl learned what the command “Go potty!” meant. That corner of the yard was landscaped with the dog’s business in mind - no fancy plants that could be killed by dog pee.</p>
When we planned our landscaping, DH let our dog pick a favorite spot by the back fence, and encouraged him to do his doggie business there by rewarding the dog with treats. The dog quicklyl learned what the command “Go potty!” meant. That corner of the yard was landscaped with the dog’s business in mind - no fancy plants that could be killed by dog pee.</p>