I am WFH today and I see this lady walking her dog. The dog took a dump on my lawn and she picked it up. Nice.

But she let the dog come in about 8-10 feet inside my lawn. Most other people have their dog poop just on the side of the lawn, maybe 1-2 feet inside. What's the acceptable limit for you?

I think that distance is mostly up to the dog. He/she has to have the right feeling about where to go. At least the stuff was picked up.

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I think that distance is mostly up to the dog. He/she has to have the right feeling about where to go. At least the stuff was picked up.

I suppose if one never had a dog they might not be aware of that.

Marty,

Definitely no. The distance is not up to the dog under any circumstances. It's 100% up to the owner. An owner who allows a dog to go anywhere on someone's property isn't controlling his/her pooch. I'll go as far to say a dog on a leash doesn't equate a dog under control. You'd be amazed at how many cases I've seen on People's court where an owner had his/her dog on a leash but wasn't keeping the pooch under control. If a owner doesn't want his/her pooch to go to X location, he/she can make sure the it doesn't go there.

Robert

So my question was (and still is) how deep inside your lawn do you allow someone to let their dog poop assuming they pick it up.

2-3 feet? no problem with me.

8-10 or more? yeah, I don't like that. Does not bother me enough to go out and tell them to stop. But say they came in 20-30 feet, then I would definitely open the door and tell them to walk away.

Out of courtesy I don’t let our dog walk into any neighbor’s yard. We are fortunate that we have a small park in our neighborhood. So that is where we take her to take care of business.

I have 4' outside of my fence line. The acceptable distance is zero if they don't pick it up. Twice in the last year I have had it inside my fence line, 50' from my driveway entrance. If that happens again, I am hooking my sprinklers up to a motion activated circuit.

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What about peeing on the lawn resulting in dead spots?

If they pick it up, I really don't care. Of course, I have around 150' between the house and the street. So 10'-15' is no big deal. I've trained my son's dogs to go to the undeveloped and wooded portions of our property. I just say "woods" and he trots over to it.

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What about peeing on the lawn resulting in dead spots?

Yes, it’s a problem and why I don’t do it anymore. Fortunately we’ve never had any pets but we used to let our kids have the run of the yard which was a big mistake.

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This is interesting. I saw this post earlier, and it was in my mind as I was walking my dogs this evening. I live in a neighborhood where it feels like there is a high concentration of dogs. While walking mine, we try to avoid confrontation with other dogs, and it feels like I have to cross to the other side of the street nearly every block of a one hour jaunt.

I'm always anal about picking up as much debris as I possibly can. And while I can't say I don't occasionally find some droppings in the parkway in my own yard, it is rare. Especially considering how many dogs must be walked past my house every single day.

If someone was negligent enough to let their dog creep 10 feet off the sidewalk, that doesn't seem right. As a dog walker, I think my unofficial goal is never to have to step off the sidewalk. I keep 4-5 feet in the slack of the leash, but the dogs will pull and sniff and sometimes you find yourself a couple of steps off the sidewalk. Not ideal, but the alternative is to just leave it? But yeah, if someone has a flexi lead and the dogs ae doing their stuff 10 feet onto your property, that's not cool,

There was an older lady that walked her happy little dog on my street . She would let it poop on anybodies lawn . Even thou the other side of the street was mowed next to pastures . I caught her and dog 7 feet in my lawn one day . Told her to get her dog off my lawn .. She said she would pick up the poop . I asked her if she was going to lick the excess off my grass with her tongue . Saw her afterward she was on the other side of road by my place . Watching her go up the street her dog pooped in other people's lawns . Never saw her pick it up . Now I wouldn't even bother so many deer in town lawn looks like a flock now sheep use it for bathroom .

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There was an older lady that walked her happy little dog on my street . She would let it poop on anybodies lawn . Even thou the other side of the street was mowed next to pastures . I caught her and dog 7 feet in my lawn one day . Told her to get her dog off my lawn .. She said she would pick up the poop . I asked her if she was going to lick the excess off my grass with her tongue . Saw her afterward she was on the other side of road by my place . Watching her go up the street her dog pooped in other people's lawns . Never saw her pick it up . Now I wouldn't even bother so many deer in town lawn looks like a flock now sheep use it for bathroom .

Rough neighborhood …

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....usually go about 4 inches into bathroom.....before pooping.....

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