Dog Mess
I am the owner of a house on a street that is quite literally covered in dog feces. It appears that NO ONE cleans up after their dog, leaving it to me – a non-dog owner – to clean up huge piles of mess on an almost every day basis. I am at my wit’s…
I am the owner of a house on a street that is quite literally covered in dog feces. It appears that NO ONE cleans up after their dog, leaving it to me – a non-dog owner – to clean up huge piles of mess on an almost every day basis. I am at my wit’s end. I called 311 several times to file complaints and asked for the Pooper Scooper signs to post, only to be told they no longer give them out. I love pets and take care to buy salt for my sidewalks that is safe for animals but this is simply disgusting and I don’t know how to fix this problem. Any advice brownstoners?
i was called a “f@ggot” once for picking up my dogs poop
:-/
*rob*
Gross. I noticed that all the snow increased the number of scofflaws… I saw one of my next door neighbors start walking away from her dog’s poop and I opened the window and yelled hey what do you think you’re doing…. then the idiot used one of my store tenants expensive full color brochures to scoop it up… What a creep.
Jaguar may have something more sinister in mind, but on our block- we find that most of the mess is from feral cats. They don’t listen to reason, yelling or signs, and they can leave surprisingly dog-like masses all about.
How do you know it is dog shit?
greenwoodgeneral is right on both observations.
I would love to confront people if I could catch them doing it. I never see anyone in the act.
Confront the people who do it. Bags and signage don’t suddenly make self involved people start being courteous. You’ll probably be surprised to find that it’s not a ton of people who do this, but one or two people.
Ikea sells plastic bag holders for 2 dollars. Lots of people in my hood put them on polls and neighbors fill them extra bags they have or those plastic bags that newspapers and sales papers come in. It seems to help.
Signs also help to an extent.
I have a dog and am fastidious about cleaning up after him. It really irks me when other people don’t. We have one neighbor on the block that lets their dogs out to poop where ever they want and never cleans up. I like to scoop it up and return it to their stoop. After a few “return to sender” poops, they got the message and stopped leaving their crap all over.
The downside is that you have to know who is leaving the poop behind. I started working from home a few days a week and it’s really helped me stalk my neighbors. Otherwise I’d never know who the offender was.