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Any chemical for lawn to discourage pets from shitting on it?
Hello people,
Everytime i mow my yard, i find poop from some neighbor's dog. I don't know which neighbor since alot of neighbors have pets(dogs and cats). I've written a letter to the HOA about it, but they only can send letters to residents about this. First off, the crap is still in plain view, so i'm thinking it is a dog that did it since cats bury their crap. Is there a chemical i can treat on my grass that will scare off pets? Maybe something toxic that won't kill the grass also? Thanks. |
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wrote in message oups.com... Hello people, Everytime i mow my yard, i find poop from some neighbor's dog. I don't know which neighbor since alot of neighbors have pets(dogs and cats). I've written a letter to the HOA about it, but they only can send letters to residents about this. First off, the crap is still in plain view, so i'm thinking it is a dog that did it since cats bury their crap. Is there a chemical i can treat on my grass that will scare off pets? Maybe something toxic that won't kill the grass also? Thanks. Reminds me of a barber's story years ago where he had seen the offending dog but neighbor denied it was his. Barber put Exlax out on his own lawn. Next day, neighbor was bringing out and hosing off rugs. Barber asked him why and he said, "Damn dog had diarrhea." Barber said, "Well, if you let your dog run loose, you don't know what he might eat." |
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"Frank Logullo" wrote in message
.. . wrote in message oups.com... Hello people, Everytime i mow my yard, i find poop from some neighbor's dog. I don't know which neighbor since alot of neighbors have pets(dogs and cats). I've written a letter to the HOA about it, but they only can send letters to residents about this. First off, the crap is still in plain view, so i'm thinking it is a dog that did it since cats bury their crap. Is there a chemical i can treat on my grass that will scare off pets? Maybe something toxic that won't kill the grass also? Thanks. Reminds me of a barber's story years ago where he had seen the offending dog but neighbor denied it was his. Barber put Exlax out on his own lawn. Next day, neighbor was bringing out and hosing off rugs. Barber asked him why and he said, "Damn dog had diarrhea." Barber said, "Well, if you let your dog run loose, you don't know what he might eat." I love this idea, but I'm evil that way. I wonder what flavor ExLax works best. |
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The problem is that i might see diarrhea in my yard. Can you get Exlax
at Walmart? Hope it doesn't kill grass. |
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Aw, why punish the dog? I say watch for the dog & owner -- dog walkers
usually are out on a pretty regular schedule -- and then bag the stuff and return to owner with, "Hey, I think you forgot something on my lawn." Maybe once he/she knows you know the source .... well, one can hope! Suzy, Zone 5, Wisconsin wrote in message oups.com... The problem is that i might see diarrhea in my yard. Can you get Exlax at Walmart? Hope it doesn't kill grass. |
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"Suzy O" wrote in message ... Aw, why punish the dog? I say watch for the dog & owner -- dog walkers usually are out on a pretty regular schedule -- and then bag the stuff and return to owner with, "Hey, I think you forgot something on my lawn." Maybe once he/she knows you know the source .... well, one can hope! Suzy, Zone 5, Wisconsin wrote in message oups.com... The problem is that i might see diarrhea in my yard. Can you get Exlax at Walmart? Hope it doesn't kill grass. That's silly! The dog is doing the deed. If a teenager kills someone, do you throw a dart at the phone book, and punish the person whose phone number you hit? |
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Silly? The owner is either letting the dog run loose -- illegal in most
places -- or walking the dog and not picking up after it. What does the dog know but don't crap in the house -- maybe. Suzy O "Doug Kanter" wrote in message ... "Suzy O" wrote in message ... Aw, why punish the dog? I say watch for the dog & owner -- dog walkers usually are out on a pretty regular schedule -- and then bag the stuff and return to owner with, "Hey, I think you forgot something on my lawn." Maybe once he/she knows you know the source .... well, one can hope! Suzy, Zone 5, Wisconsin wrote in message oups.com... The problem is that i might see diarrhea in my yard. Can you get Exlax at Walmart? Hope it doesn't kill grass. That's silly! The dog is doing the deed. If a teenager kills someone, do you throw a dart at the phone book, and punish the person whose phone number you hit? |
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Well, you're right, as far as this information goes. But, then there's the
vague part of the dog-human thing. I have a theory that dogs train their owners to permit certain types of behavior which, when explained (to the owners) with the right words, are obviously antisocial. For example, what if you decided to have a cookout - a big one, with a rented tent and everything, and invite maybe 50 people. But, you realize that the whole affair will probably wreak havoc on your lawn, and people who've had a few too many cocktails may wander out in the dark and step on your flowers, and heaven knows you wouldn't want THAT to happen. So, you have the tent set up on your neighbor's property. You're thinking that only a lunatic would do such a thing, and you're right. The cops would agree when they arrived, although they are often trained to be tactful when dealing with nut cases. But, they would still explain to you that you had taken your business onto another person's property, which was entirely unacceptable. Now, try saying this to someone who lets their dog stop on your property: "Excuse me, would you mind doing that somewhere else? This is my property. Why not have your dog do that at YOUR house?" They will look at you like YOU are out of your mind, as if they are somehow above the concept of property ownership. This is what dogs do to their owners. Not much different than parents who say their kids are "usually such angels" after they spray paint someone's car. "Suzy O" wrote in message ... Silly? The owner is either letting the dog run loose -- illegal in most places -- or walking the dog and not picking up after it. What does the dog know but don't crap in the house -- maybe. Suzy O "Doug Kanter" wrote in message ... "Suzy O" wrote in message ... Aw, why punish the dog? I say watch for the dog & owner -- dog walkers usually are out on a pretty regular schedule -- and then bag the stuff and return to owner with, "Hey, I think you forgot something on my lawn." Maybe once he/she knows you know the source .... well, one can hope! Suzy, Zone 5, Wisconsin wrote in message oups.com... The problem is that i might see diarrhea in my yard. Can you get Exlax at Walmart? Hope it doesn't kill grass. That's silly! The dog is doing the deed. If a teenager kills someone, do you throw a dart at the phone book, and punish the person whose phone number you hit? |
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When I lived 'downtown', I had a very small front yard much taken up
with a magnolia tree. The tree would drop these big 'plastic' leaves that never seemed to disintegrate. I raked all the time. I had to rake with rubber gloves on as the dog poop would stick to the leaves and make a real mess. My grass strip was always half yellow and dead. There was a very nice, big park at the end of the street with a wooded area for the dogs 'to go'. And I took my dog there, not allowing her to use a neighbor's lawn. I was furious about the stinky mess outside my door, with the park only a block farther down. I decided I had had enough. Every morning and evening I lurked by the front door and just as Fido would go into a squat, I ran out the front door yelling "no! no! no! no! no!" and waving my arms and looking like a mad woman. The dog and owner would freeze in position. Then the owner would say 'oh, he/she just ..." feebly justifying it like it was the first and only time. And I would say 'I have to rake all these leaves with this very smelly mess. Take him/her to the park!" There was a certain timing to it - before work time and after work time - and I had to get the timing right. But I never had to do the same act twice to the same person. I did notice they regularly crossed the street when they came to my house. Doug Kanter wrote: Well, you're right, as far as this information goes. But, then there's the vague part of the dog-human thing. I have a theory that dogs train their owners to permit certain types of behavior which, when explained (to the owners) with the right words, are obviously antisocial. For example, what if you decided to have a cookout - a big one, with a rented tent and everything, and invite maybe 50 people. But, you realize that the whole affair will probably wreak havoc on your lawn, and people who've had a few too many cocktails may wander out in the dark and step on your flowers, and heaven knows you wouldn't want THAT to happen. So, you have the tent set up on your neighbor's property. You're thinking that only a lunatic would do such a thing, and you're right. The cops would agree when they arrived, although they are often trained to be tactful when dealing with nut cases. But, they would still explain to you that you had taken your business onto another person's property, which was entirely unacceptable. Now, try saying this to someone who lets their dog stop on your property: "Excuse me, would you mind doing that somewhere else? This is my property. Why not have your dog do that at YOUR house?" They will look at you like YOU are out of your mind, as if they are somehow above the concept of property ownership. This is what dogs do to their owners. Not much different than parents who say their kids are "usually such angels" after they spray paint someone's car. "Suzy O" wrote in message ... Silly? The owner is either letting the dog run loose -- illegal in most places -- or walking the dog and not picking up after it. What does the dog know but don't crap in the house -- maybe. Suzy O "Doug Kanter" wrote in message ... "Suzy O" wrote in message ... Aw, why punish the dog? I say watch for the dog & owner -- dog walkers usually are out on a pretty regular schedule -- and then bag the stuff and return to owner with, "Hey, I think you forgot something on my lawn." Maybe once he/she knows you know the source .... well, one can hope! Suzy, Zone 5, Wisconsin wrote in message legroups.com... The problem is that i might see diarrhea in my yard. Can you get Exlax at Walmart? Hope it doesn't kill grass. That's silly! The dog is doing the deed. If a teenager kills someone, do you throw a dart at the phone book, and punish the person whose phone number you hit? |
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Love it, especially the waving your arms like a mad woman! Wish I could
have been there! Suzy "Sterling" wrote in message ... When I lived 'downtown', I had a very small front yard much taken up with a magnolia tree. The tree would drop these big 'plastic' leaves that never seemed to disintegrate. I raked all the time. I had to rake with rubber gloves on as the dog poop would stick to the leaves and make a real mess. My grass strip was always half yellow and dead. There was a very nice, big park at the end of the street with a wooded area for the dogs 'to go'. And I took my dog there, not allowing her to use a neighbor's lawn. I was furious about the stinky mess outside my door, with the park only a block farther down. I decided I had had enough. Every morning and evening I lurked by the front door and just as Fido would go into a squat, I ran out the front door yelling "no! no! no! no! no!" and waving my arms and looking like a mad woman. The dog and owner would freeze in position. Then the owner would say 'oh, he/she just ..." feebly justifying it like it was the first and only time. And I would say 'I have to rake all these leaves with this very smelly mess. Take him/her to the park!" There was a certain timing to it - before work time and after work time - and I had to get the timing right. But I never had to do the same act twice to the same person. I did notice they regularly crossed the street when they came to my house. |
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