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?
Some of you people are some real assholes! Dog piss destroying this man’s property is totally unacceptable. Good thing some people were kind enough to offer some useful suggestions.
You can try applying vinegar or other deterrents, such as No-Go (http://www.1800petmeds.com/Pet+Organics+NO+GO!-prod10576.html) but those have to be reapplied often, especially after it rains.
If you have a place to put it, you can also try a pee post: http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/Prod_Display.cfm?pcatid=11109&c=3307+32
You should paint your fence/gate once in a while…
Do wash the gate with water at least once a week and there is a spray made with a peppery scent that bothers animal nostrils, safe, sold in garden stores, that you should try. Don’t use bleach. Dog urine absolutely does corrode the iron gates. There’s a spot on a bridge in our neighborhood where we watch the trains at an iron gate and the gate is literally rusting off its hinges where all the dogs (and some humans) pee.
You are being a bit nutty- dogs will pee on your gate and trees and fire hydrants and that’s just how it is. This is Brooklyn, if it bothers you, sell your corner townhouse and buy a condo… I’m sure a million people will happily trade with you…
And if you are really so concerned about your gate (rather than just being a total control freak with poop in your coffee) then rinse your gate off with soapy warm water every once in a while to stop the corrosion that may or may not come from dog pee.
Unfortunately, the dogs are attracted by the scent left of other dogs – and their territorial instinct demands that they cover this up with their own scent. It’s also a way of communicating – Oh, I smell Sparky passed here about an hour ago… The best thing you can do, in addition to the sign mentioned above, would be to wash it down to remove the scent (is bleach safe on iron?). It’s kind of the same with graffiti, isn’t it?
I’d agree it’s a fact of life and thankfully it’s just your gate. But once one dog pees there, every dog will pee there, cause that’s how dogs roll.
Still, you might try and interrupt the cycle with a VERY thorough bleaching of the area, or something else to try and eliminate the scent that is bringing them back again and again. Remember it only takes a few molecules of scent for the dogs to pick it up, so be thorough.
Actually, it’s a bit more of a concern than you might think. In my neighborhood, there are a lot of small iron fences, and the dogs constantly pee on the same spot, where it turns the corner. In those spots, on nearly every one of these fences, the bottom of the iron post has completely corroded.
Now you might say that’s because of other conditions like salting when it snows, but most of these fences are on top of 6″ curbs, so they don’t get salted. And it doesn’t happen at the other, non-corner posts. I’ve lived in this neighborhood for nearly 10 years now, and the dogs are remarkably consistent in their preference for corner posts.
I can see no other reason why they would be deteriorating so.
If I were you, I might try putting up a little, polite sign, asking people not to allow their dogs to pee on your gates. Perhaps just a little picture with a picture of a dog lifting its leg, inside one of those circle-with-a-line-through-it crossouts.
who pooped in your coffee this morning? it’s a damn dog and they have to pee somewhere. it’s not damaging your property and really not a big deal. ‘curb your dog’ doesn’t apply to urine.