There is a woman who walks her dog down the side street next to my house every day. She'll encourage the dog to do it's duty on my neighbors lawn, and she doesn't pick it up. This really irritates me as 1: it's a law here to clean up after your dog and 2: it's just bad manners.
Well yesterday she lets the dog go on my yard. My dogs started barking so I went to check it out, and there she is with her dog doing it's business on my yard. I call out to her "Are you planning on picking that up?" and she mumbles something about forgetting her bag and walked off. I knew she had no intention of coming back to pick it up because she's never picked it up and she never brings a bag along, and it just po'd me even more.
In this situation would you
1: pick up the crap and throw it on her front porch, maybe smear it in for good measure. (this is what I really want to do but my wife advises against it. Not quite in those words)
2:next time she walks by yell at her for being irresponsible and remind her that its' the law to clean up after your dog
3: the next time she walks by stand outside with a video camera and tell her I'm going to tape her breaking the law and turn her in.
4: follow her down the street with a bag in my hand and hand it to her when her dog does it's thing.
5: put up a no tresspassing sign, take Gunnar outside and have him do a "pas auf" for good measure.
I know this is really piddly stuff in today's world, but it angers me that someone can be so self centered that they think it's ok for me to clean up their dog crap because they are too lazy to do it themselves. Why can't she let the dog go in her own yard and then pick it up. It'd be one thing if she was just walking the dog, but she'll walk it down here and then stop and stand there waiting for it to go. The other neighbors whose lawns her dog are using for a toilet are very meticulous about their property and I'm sure they don't appreciate it either, but they don't know who it is because she walks the dog during the day when people are at work.
Well yesterday she lets the dog go on my yard. My dogs started barking so I went to check it out, and there she is with her dog doing it's business on my yard. I call out to her "Are you planning on picking that up?" and she mumbles something about forgetting her bag and walked off. I knew she had no intention of coming back to pick it up because she's never picked it up and she never brings a bag along, and it just po'd me even more.
In this situation would you
1: pick up the crap and throw it on her front porch, maybe smear it in for good measure. (this is what I really want to do but my wife advises against it. Not quite in those words)
2:next time she walks by yell at her for being irresponsible and remind her that its' the law to clean up after your dog
3: the next time she walks by stand outside with a video camera and tell her I'm going to tape her breaking the law and turn her in.
4: follow her down the street with a bag in my hand and hand it to her when her dog does it's thing.
5: put up a no tresspassing sign, take Gunnar outside and have him do a "pas auf" for good measure.
I know this is really piddly stuff in today's world, but it angers me that someone can be so self centered that they think it's ok for me to clean up their dog crap because they are too lazy to do it themselves. Why can't she let the dog go in her own yard and then pick it up. It'd be one thing if she was just walking the dog, but she'll walk it down here and then stop and stand there waiting for it to go. The other neighbors whose lawns her dog are using for a toilet are very meticulous about their property and I'm sure they don't appreciate it either, but they don't know who it is because she walks the dog during the day when people are at work.