Dog Urinating on Front Gate
People are constantly letting there dogs relief themselves on my iron gates that surround the front of my property and its driving me crazy. Aren’t you supposed to curb your dog? Does anybody else have this problem? Am I being overly sensitive? Anything I can do to stop it?
People are constantly letting there dogs relief themselves on my iron gates that surround the front of my property and its driving me crazy. Aren’t you supposed to curb your dog? Does anybody else have this problem? Am I being overly sensitive? Anything I can do to stop it?
Count me in the camp of dog lovers who can’t stand how some dog owners are oblivious and inconsiderate when walking their pets. Has nothing to do with the dog.
If I can redirect my dog curbside, so can anyone else. They just have to pay attention and not be yakking on the phone or whatever.
I keep a bottle of vinegar near the door and use just a few drops at a time to keep the dogs away. Works if you remember to do it often enough. I also think some people are truly unaware of how annoying it is when they let their dog pee on others’ property – asking nicely if you catch them will sometimes work (not always, but it’s worth a shot).
i’ll make my dog stop peeing on the sidewalk when parents quit letting their kids pee in the street.
Sympathize completely. Yes dogs pee. But coming out of your door every day to see and smell piss is unacceptable and extremely selfish of the dog owner. I’ll try bleach on my stoop and see if it helps.
You are giving yuppies a really bad name. Dog owners are hardly as bad as parents; spend 9 months not eating anything with pesticides, and then the second the little creature is out, stick that 900 dollar stroller in front of cars and bikers and, gasp, dogs.
I have been guilty of my dogs doing this, but try to keep them from doing so.
As a dog owner and dog lover, i agree with Petebklyn: “don’t expect much from dog owners. They are selfish individuals.” It true, but alas, they are just a subset of selfish new yorkers in general. Not all, of course, but a sufficient majority to make the generalization.
Not quite as selfish as drivers, livery cabs and taxi and bus drivers who mow down people consistently even with the right of way at a traffic signal. As a witness to a handful of these, i can confidently give you my not-so-humble opinion that only a complete idiot would curb their dog in nyc. No way, no how. I love me and my dogs.
Although with street parking bumper to bumper i should gladly accommodate the next asswipe who parks in the crosswalk, maybe right in front of the drivers door.
Juno 106: I’d start fresh by scrubbing sidewalk and bottom of gate with strong solution of vinegar and soap (heavy of the vinegar) with a deck scrubber, rinse and apply spray like this liberally, and then every time you sweep or take the garbage out:
http://bk.ly/wCL
“I remember walking down one of the most beautiful streets in Brooklyn Heights when suddenly was hit with this stench and realized that it was weeks and weeks of countless dogs peeing all over the place. Why should anyone be subjected to that?”
You might not have been. Certain trees have a strong urine odor in the spring. I know American Elms were one (not many of them around here now though. Their common name up north was “Pissy Elms”. Some others smell the same although I can’t name them.
“I have always wondered why do humans get ticketed for public urination, while dog owners do not??”
You’re crazy. They don’t get ticketed for peeing in public because they’re dogs, and that’s what dogs do. Much as they don’t get ticketed for not wearing pants. Or shitting on the sidewalk and then having it picked up afterward. And why they can’t go into the restaurant. It’s because they’re dogs. Dogs. Not people.
Yes, the owners should definitely try to keep them from pissing on people’s stuff, and you can bitch at someone who is totally un-caring about their dog pissing on your wrought iron/plants (I’m sympathetic to the original post) But dog owners are (obviously) not all selfish (pete) and SoBklyn… overreacting doesn’t begin to describe that post.
I remember as a kid people would put plastic jugs of water out at the edges of their lawn, in the belief that this would somehow prevent dogs from pissing there (aversion to peeing in their water supply?). Seemed a bit crazy to me, anybody tried it?
We have this problem and it’s not limited to the gate — dogs are constantly peeing on the brownstone wall in front of our house. (There’s a metal fence above that.) I once asked a dog owner to please not let his dog pee on my house and he got irate and told me it was public property!! (Of course, public funds do not pay for me to re-do the brownstone front that all the dog pee has worn away!) My husband bought (from the internet) a sampler of animal (think coyote) urine that supposedly repels dogs. I don’t think it worked.
And it’s not like I don’t like dogs; we were dog owners until ours died last year.
Yes, I just found out only a year ago that the term “curb your dog” (I always wondered what a strange term it was) actually means that legally you are required to take your dog into the street, just outside the curb (I don’t remember if it was 12 inches or so from the curb?) to do all their business. you’d be surprised how few people know this. I NEVER have seem anyone follow this law. Except for 2 weeks ago and when I commended the man for doing it, he got into this long argument with me about it. Saying the sun’s ultraviolet rays kill all the germs from the dog pee and crap. Ok so what if your dog craps at 6pm and a little baby falls into the crap smear at 7pm before the sun had a chance to kill the germs? Look at all the babies just learning how to walk, that fall onto their hands that could land in a smear of dogcrap that was left behind when the owner, while nice enough to clean the crap up, left the smear behind. Or the puddles and wet spots of pee everywhere. Little kids and babies are constantly falling down and dropping their blankies and toys etc and who knows what filth was on that sidewalk at that exact spot? There needs to be a campaign to educate all dog walkers and dog owners that they are breaking the law each time their dog sprinkles anywhere but in the street outside the curb, or on your own property. Hopefully that will work so they won’t have to resort to issuing summonses to each person each time they catch them. Quite a potential revenue producer, not sure why they don’t do that instead of catching us 2 seconds after out parking meter expired….
also, bear in mind that when you do it the legal way, the street cleaners can clean up the residue so there will only be a few days’ accumulation of dried dog pee on the street before it washes away as opposed to however long it takes for it to rain! I remember walking down one of the most beautiful streets in Brooklyn Heights when suddenly was hit with this stench and realized that it was weeks and weeks of countless dogs peeing all over the place. Why should anyone be subjected to that?
Please to whomever walks dogs, please have your dog do their business in the street instead of the sidewalk!
The comment by Randolph was spot-on, I have always wondered why do humans get ticketed for public urination, while dog owners do not?? How many times have you been out where there was no public restroom and suffered holding it in or fearfully went ahead and relieved yourself feeling like a criminal, or allowed your barely potty trained son to pee in the bushes or on the sidewalk at Prospect Park scared you’d get a ticket and think to yourself, “wow, if my son were a dog, he would be granted more rights than he has now!”