People who have signs on their lawn “no peeing” or “no poo zone” and write on their garbage cans “no dog poop” are bad neighbors.
I understand having a nice garden and wanting to protect that, but my dog has to go somewhere, and I don’t want it to be the sidewalk!! The small strip between the road and sidewalk should be fair game, and maybe plant flowers a little back in your property. You may be a lucky homeowner with a yard, but we are not all so lucky.
And while I am walking, I do not want to hold bags and bags of shit when a perfectly useful trash can is right there. I would never walk onto your property, but when left along the sidewalk, why deny a neighbor that help? Is your trash so clean, and mine so terrible?
We lack a sense of community in Seattle in many ways, and to me, none are so obvious as when you won’t even let the cutest part of the neighborhood relieve themselves on some grass. And let’s be real, the bunnies, squirrels, and coyotes are doing this anyway.
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Oh man, get bent, IA, a dog is a choice and not at all like a wild animal. those lawns your pooch is pissing all over are private property not your public pet urinal. A little respect goes a long way.
Don’t worry, dogs don’t read signs! Also, the strip between the street and sidewalk is a public right-of-way and not private property.
Hey, I can get the garbage can thing. When you drop a poop bag into a freshly emptied garbage can, it tends to adhere to whatever drippy, goopy, stuff in congealed there. And when the trash can owner puts the big plastic bag of trash into the can, it squishes that poop bag against the bottom. No one should have to dumpster-dive their own garbage can to extract little poop bags. But the don’t pee/don’t poop — if that’s your attitude, don’t live in a community with dogs and build a moat around your property. Dogs go on walks to poop, and they love to leave p-mail for other dogs. If you don’t like it, build a wall or moat and quit acting like your property has a sacred quality that elevates it about everyone else. But you should expect dog walkers to pick up their furry friend’s fecal contributions. Just my thought as the owner of three dogs.
IA is giving dog owners a bad name with this entitled escalation.
You can let your dog pee on grass and bushes, this does no harm, but be respectful and limit this to the public easement.
And no, you must carry the poop sack(s) until you find a public waste receptical. Not enough of them in the neighbourhood? Take it up with your City Council.
People have to wheel their private containers back to their households, and if your dog is filling multiple sacks with poop on one walk, its diet may be out of whack. No one should have to deal with leakage from your pet’s intestines.
And as the summer weather approaches, it might be time Seattlites take a tip from people living in warmer cities: carry a bottle of tap water with you, so you can rinse off a piss puddle, or worse, from the baking pavement.
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till it’s rinsed into the ground
but you’re Correct:
just like the “Democratic” Party
says, where the Fuck ELSE
they gonna Go?
also:
Bingo, jpf.
&, yeah, I spose, GF.
Move your dog elsewhere or lose it.
Your dog can use your bed.
LOL. We have a Sarcococca on the corner of our driveway that is a popular messaging kiosk for every dog within 2 miles. It never smells, somehow. We have too many plants for dogs to find a place to pewp.
Glad I don’t have a tree lawn.
@2 actually it’s both private property and a public right of way, as evidenced by the responsibility to keep the right of way free of hazards like slippery ice or patches of smeared shit.
Pardon the pun but this IA contributor is a shit person.
If you aren’t going to take responsibility for you pets, don’t have them.
Please don’t put dog poop baggies in my garbage can. The local bears and racoons have to eat out of that.