Neighbours can be a PITA

[brass monkey]

Bit of a follow-on from Adams post (which is a hoot).

Our pooch (who sticks her paws up to us) ran over the road and piddled on a front lawn. As I collected the pooch the 'lady' of the house (35'ish) came out muttering something. I said sorry or pardon (I forget which), she burst forth (in upper case) with "YOU HEARD WHAT I SAID", I kinda lost interest after that. I'm just hoping that she'll need some help sometime, I doubt it'll ever happen, sadly (it never does). Yet again I must have 'walk all over me' written on my brow. I would have said 'I hope you don't mind me asking but would you try to keep your dog off our front lawn please'. Yes I know, I'm the pillock.

[Bruce]

I bet the lady across the road agrees 100% with your subject line:

"Neighbours can be a PITA."

[Mungo "Two Sheds" Toadfoot]

Just to get this straight... a dog peed on your lawn? No bricks through the window, car lights smashed, garage/house broken into, physical assault, gang of youths shouting and screaming? Ok, just checking.

Si

[Arfa Daily]

I had to read it a few times to get it as well, but I think he's saying that

*his* dog pissed on the lady across the road's lawn, and she was a bit offensive about it. He is then putting himself in her shoes, and saying what *he* would have said if the situation were reversed, and it was *his* lawn that had been pissed on by *her* dog ... I think ... :-)

If I were the OP though, I think I might have been a bit more worried about the dog taking off on its own across the road, because if it did it in front of me as I drove my car down there, he would probably get similar 'upper case' verbals from me, but with a whole lot more expletives thrown in for good measure !

Arfa

[Matty F]

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In NZ, a dog in a street or park or beach is required to be on a lead, and the owner is required to pick up its turds. Otherwise the dog will be impounded and/or the owner fined. I think that works well.

[Tim Lamb]

In message , brass monkey writes

Oh! Dog wars:-)

Try owning urban fringe farmland.

A point targeted at dog owners in general is that *damage* caused by an individual dog is slight (brown patches from bitch piddle on lawns excepted) however, even slight damage accumulates. During the course of a day something approaching 100 pets are exercised on routes passing through my crops.

Various access Acts require dogs to be kept under *close control* but strong words with the owner usually get a response of *he/she does enjoy it so* as if this overrides any conscience regarding private property.

Dog leads are only intended for protecting pets from road traffic after all.

Rights of way have various widths in different parts of the country but IMV none wide enough to allow the use of Frisbees, ball throwers or other commonly brought implements to encourage the dog to run further than the owner is willing to walk.

I suspect I am in a minority here so rant over:-)

regards

[dennis]

So now you have pissed off your neighbour and let your dog cause a dead patch on her lawn what's the next step?

Sneaking over at night and digging holes in the lawn? Parking a car on the lawn? Registering the car to one of your other neighbours whom has had your dog pee on their lawn?

Or do what a sensible person would have done and took a watering can of water over to dilute the dogs pee before it sent the grass yellow and said sorry? Or are you ball less like some other posters in this group and can't actually do anything unless they are hiding behind some Pole that's gone home?

[Dave Liquorice]

Nope, I'm with you, provided the rights of way that do cross your land are signed and stiles, gates etc maintained. Both parties, the farmer and the public have a duty to respect each other. Unfortunately many of the great unwashed from the towns seem to think that the countryside is just a play park for them not a place of work and the source of someone lively hood.

We don't have crops around here just livestock but I fully support any farmer that gives any (unknown/uncontrolled) dog on the loose around their stock the "benefit" of the pointy end of a shotgun. If the owner is about certainly give warning to the owner to get their dog under control and back on a lead pronto or it will be shot.

[The Natural Philosopher]

How odd, my neighbourly farmer who sadly died earlier his year, couldn't give a hoot about the dogs..deer do far more damage as do the badgers and rabbits..except he didn't want them chasing his pheasants. But he accepted that that was inevitable where the footpaths lay.

[David in Normandy]

Sounds like a livelihood for a keen Mafia hitman "lively hood". :-)

[brass monkey]

Zactly, I have no prob at all about the complaint, just seems that civility has gone out the window these days.

It's an end of cul-de-sac, but yea, bloody dogs.

[brass monkey]

After her upper-case approach, "nothing" is the next step, I only get rubbed-up the wrong way once.

I hope you have safety nets below your pedestal, Dennis.

[Dave Liquorice]

their

Arable farmer rather than livestock? If you don't have livestock dogs don't frighten or kill your "crop", where as deer and rabbits do...

[John]

I once lived near the end of a cul-de-sac. Never again. It became a playground for kids who had no respect for cars, Had dogs lying in the road, etc. I prefer the constant passage of traffic - it leads to everyone understanding the rules of the road a bit better.

[ARWadsworth]

I suspect that you are in a minority. But that is due to people's ignorance rather than malicious intent. 100 dogs a day through the growing season is a lot of crops damaged. I'd rant if it was my crops.

Adam

[Clive George]

I live on what is now a cul-de-sac. It's great. People play on the road outside, cats lying in the road, etc. (shortage of dogs to lie in the road here).

It's more of a living space than a road - people learning the rules of the road can do that on the roads which get here, and rather than wasting all that space for the occasional car, it gets used.

[The Natural Philosopher]

very much arable here..only livestock apart from the few hobby sheep and pigs are horses..for racing.

[The Natural Philosopher]

My dogs are not interested in crops, and do zero damage to them, except when the terrier chases the deer across them, which does a bit more, deer being a bit bigger.

Dogs like places other animals are/have been. And that's the paths, and the woods and the hedges. Crop fields are boring, to dogs.

Mind you, its about 6 dogs a day max, on a sunday. On the average day, its me only.

[Invisible Man]

Likewise. Have to sleep in the back of the house and the drive fills up with cigarette ends but not as bad as sitting there guessing how much damage the car is taking or whether the next ball to hit the window will result in a shower of broken glass on us and the settee. We are responsible dog owners. Sadly many dog owners are not.

[Mungo "Two Sheds" Toadfoot]

Ah bugger. Not read properly. Seems obvious on second reading. Apologies to OP. As you were.

Si