<p>I don’t think I would have a freak out if a dog peed on my tire but as an owner of two dogs (female) I try to be very cognizant of were the go when we on are walks - especially the big dog who likes to mark like a male. </p>
<p>Fortunately, almost everyone on my street (and in my neighbor) has a dog(s) so no one is overly critical of doggie behavior. When the mailman is walking down the street you would think you were at a kennel. First one dog barks and all the other dogs follow.</p>
<p>As a fellow member if the OCD club, i have trained both dogs to run to the grass between curb and sidewalk next to our driveway, at street…no need to even walk them to the spot 100 ft from our garage,they just go and come back…never run off unless they spot a deer or wild turkey in the cul de sac, and usually sulk back knowing they did wrong!!!</p>
<p>I ALWAYS pick up after my dog if she goes on a walk outside our yard. I discouraged my male dogs from peeing on people’s plantings or decorative items, such as fences or posts. I would not stand by and let my dog pee on someone’s car…well, unless they were parked in my driveway. :)</p>
<p>I have a friend who allows his dog to go farther up onto someone’s lawn to relieve herself than I feel comfortable with, although he does always pick up. I instinctively try to impinge as little as possible on other people’s property. I always feel uncomfortable when walking with him for this reason.</p>
<p>BTW, if dogs are fed a high-quality kibble, their poops are firm and easy to pick up, leaving no trace behind. :)</p>
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<p>We put a special kind of grass in our back yard, which is a very beautiful, soft and thick variety. It was expensive. Our landscaper did not tell us that this grass is especially vulnerable to dog urine. Everywhere the dogs peed, it would “bleach” the color right out of the grass, leaving spots everywhere. </p>
<p>We have had to train our 12 year old and 5 year old dog to go in a certain part of the shrubbery bed which seems pretty impervious to their urine. Very annoyed with our landscaper, though, because they still need prompting and reminders from time to time, which is not what I want to be doing early in the morning, late at night, or in extreme weather.</p>
<p>We don’t have a fenced in yard and are not a fan of invisible fences - instead we choose to walk our dog an average of 4 times a day - good exercise and those are his chances to “do” his business. He is our first pet we have had him one year. I actually have been thinking lately more about this “etiquette”. My rules: always carry doggie bags (pick any coat in my closet and it will have a few doggie bags in each pocket, ready to receive), no peeing on any live plants except tree trunks (so no peeing on neighbors ground cover around the tree), and try to have him do his stuff on the lower (between the sidewalk and curb) part of the lawn. I also will pull him away from a house that has people out and about in the yard so they don’t have to “observe” him doing any business.</p>
<p>We live on a boulevard and some people seem to think that the boulevard is an ok place to let doggie deposit without picking it up - THAT ticks me off! </p>
<p>Our dog a,male, spends most of his walk with his nose to the ground and given the chance would be lifting his leg every 10 feet to leave a drop - and often after the first couple leg lifts, that’s all he has left - drops!</p>
<p>I think whether or not dog pee kills grass depends on how much rain you get. It’s certainly not a problem here!</p>
<p>My rule for where my dogs pee is: if it’s made by humans and might have to be moved, don’t pee on it. So sidewalks and street signs are okay, trash cans and cars are not. I don’t allow my dogs to poop on lawns (other than mine) but I do allow them to poop on the grass between the sidewalk and the street. I pick up. I even pick up other dog’s poop if I find it in my neighborhood when I’m walking my dogs. I don’t want my neighbors to be grumpy about any dogs.</p>
<p>So I had a situation where I was watching my D warm her horse up at a show before going into the ring and an unleashed small dog (not allowed off leashes at horse shows) came up to me and before I knew what was happening he peed on my leg. The owner’s only response to me was “he’s never done that before.” No apology, nothing. I was shocked by her rude behavior.</p>
<p>I went and rinsed off the leg of my jeans as best as I could and then went to the horseshow office and told them there was a dog off a leash. If they caught her with the dog off the leash she would be fined $100. I wouldn’t have done this if the woman would have just said sorry.</p>
<p>And I am a great lover of dogs!</p>
<p>Starbright:
I went back and re-read your post and can see that you said you’d try to steer your dog away from doing the business on someone else’s property. It was probably the following statement that prompted me to include you in my earlier post - “I don’t mind other dogs going in our yard, or peeing on my tires or whatever” but I can see that you mean this for yourself personally and not for others. Sorry.</p>
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<p>Obviously both of these posters (coureur and Onward) are ■■■■■■■■, which I’m pretty sure is against the terms of service for using this website.</p>
<p>Or they are just stupid.</p>
<p>Soccerguy, lighten up, they are just joking. :)</p>
<p>I told my H about qdogpa’s solution. H thinks it is brilliant and certainly beats delivering the goods on a shovel.</p>
<p>My dog is only allowed to pee on Hummer tires. </p>
<p>My dog is also required to take off his little shoes when he comes into the house.</p>
<p>Oh boy …as a three dog owner , I can see both sides to this. My dogs are corgis, so they can’t reach anything that high 
My alpha female is marker with all of her elimination , but I walk them all prepared for the inevitable intestinal sculpture.
I am aware of areas that are potential targets, such as curbs outside of other dog homes</p>
<p>We have two neighbors that seem to take on the role of fecal police and are known to bag up poop and assume whose dog it came from. I watched one of them drop a bag and a note in my next door neighbor’s yard once. The poor woman ( recipient ) was so upset because she hadn’t even walked her dog as their dog was literally on her last legs.</p>
<p>One is far more aggressive about it and I had a run in with her when my now deceased golden retriever accidentally escaped thru one of our gates ( friend came over to pick something up and didn’t latch it ) Our girl went over to visit hostile neighbor 's dogs and pooped right on their lawn…it was an accident of course but she came at me screaming and ranting as if it was the end of the world
This same woman and her husband walk their dogs , also three, multiple times a day and INTENTIONALLY let them on everyone else’s lawns
I leave for work early in the morning and witnessed the creepy husband standing in the middle of one of the lawns , allowing all of their dogs to do their business</p>
<p>Sometime accidents happen , even from a responsible pet owner , but it’s another story when someone does nothing to see to it that their dogs are " going " on someone’s property</p>
<p>If they do it at the edge of my property, it doesn’t bother me. I assume we give up a strip of a foot or two of the property to public use.</p>
<p>I walk my dog multiple time a day. She is always leashed so I am able to control where she does business. I keep her off of peoples lawns and direct her to the common grounds or the area between the sidewalk and the street. And I ALWAYS pick up. It’s not hard.</p>
<p>I do have a neighbor who has complained about dogs (not mine) leaving messes, but lets his cats roam all night. Seems as if the cats must be leaving messes somewhere.</p>
<p>I had one time late this past fall where I was walking my dog and when he was doing his business on some grass between the sidewalk and street, I realized I didn’t have a bag. I searched for a stick and a large-ish couple of leaves, put the debris on the leaf and set in on the street near the curb - it was a moment of panic!</p>
<p>My male cat pees on our cars. :o</p>
<p>I’m with those who wouldn’t care if a dog peed on my tires, but wouldn’t allow my dog to pee on someone else’s car – if I could stop him. I had a male dog who wanted to pee on everything, and it could be quite embarrassing. I seemed to be always dragging him away mid-stream from something. Now I have a girl dog and walking her is a much more pleasant experience. We lived in the city when I had my last dog. One day I was walking him and a neighbor across the street started shouting at me, “Curb your dog!” The dog was doing nothing but walking at the time. I showed her that I had a bag for the poop, and she said, “No! Walk your dog in the street!” Well, it was a narrow city street with cars parked and double-parked on both sides, and there was really no safe way to walk a dog in the street. So I explained to her that I didn’t want to be hit by a car, and we left it at that. I did see her point, because the streets of my neighborhood were absolutely filthy, but there was no reasonable way for people to curb their dogs.</p>
<p>Dogs who pee on people are the most obnoxious. I had a dog try to pee on me at the dog park – luckily I saw what he was about to do and jumped out of the way – and the owner just laughed, which was quite infuriating.</p>
<p>My dog is now twelve and has slowed down quite a bit. He, however, has been one of the most obnoxious animals throughout his life. Total alpha dog and smart enough to perform for a trainer, but not for the rest of us. For the first half of his life, he was such a Houdini dog that his major goal in life was to escape whenever someone came to the door. The adults in the house were mostly successful in preventing the escapes, but it happened. Once he was out, NO ONE COULD CATCH HIM. We tried the electric fence. Like the children, he was in the top ten percent and ran through it though never back through it. His escapes rarely happen now and DS can catch him now. Fortunately, we are fairly well liked in our neighborhood and catching the dog was almost a sport there for a while. Not all dogs are created equally, and what I have learned about bird dogs is that they are total pains for seven years, but by the time they die at 13 or 14 years, they have become quite lovable. Then you buy another one and the terror starts.</p>
<p>Cartera, you forgot to mention your dogs Facebook page. I assume he has one which is updated by his personal assistant?</p>
<p>My dog is a serial marker as well, and is easily distracted, peeing while looking elsewhere. He liftednhis leg on what he thought was a tree, but it was a really ugly dress!!! I pulled him away but frankly the dress did look like a tree trunk</p>
<p>I do my best to make sure no elimination on pretty lawns, gardens, etc, but come on, a tire? Tires go thrombin mud, road kill, spilled milkshakes, vomit, all kinds of ice every day. Imhate people who value things over living creatures</p>
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<p>Please don’t make people who have a terrible congested cough laugh. I thought I was about to have to call 911. My color has finally returned to normal.</p>