The Effects of Dog Piss on Iron Gates
A Park Slope-based Brownstoner reader has a problem with the dogs that pee on the iron fence in front of his co-op. The urine not only accelerates the deterioration of the base of the fencing, but also discolors the ground and causes a nasty odor to waft into apartment windows. They’ve hung up signs and…
A Park Slope-based Brownstoner reader has a problem with the dogs that pee on the iron fence in front of his co-op. The urine not only accelerates the deterioration of the base of the fencing, but also discolors the ground and causes a nasty odor to waft into apartment windows. They’ve hung up signs and asked dog walkers to curb their dogs on the curb, rather than on the fence, but apparently, “Several of these folks appeared to take offense to our politely delivered request and then suggested that we were ‘harassing them.'” Commenters have suggested hosing down the sidewalk at key dog-walking times, sprinking dog repellent, and scrubbing the fence area with vinegar. Any other ideas?
Exterior Dog Urination [Brownstoner Forum]
Photo by swissmiss
The light pole on our street is about to fall over due to the 50 or so dogs that piss on it each day. The entire base of it is eroded away due to the acid in the dog urine.
You cannot argue with people who have a pet fetish. They never ever think that they might be in the wrong by even a little bit, as these comments show.
wonder how offended people would be if someone put up a sign, no stroller loitering outside my house, it blocks human traffic and the baby crying distracts me from my liberal blogging.
Park Slope is perhaps the most annoying place outside of Woodstock for this faux political correctness. Your life is crap, you get annoyed at people so you take it out on dogs. No iron fence is going to tumble solely from dog piss, perhaps you should try painting it once a year. Or if rover checking his pee mail really annoys you that much that you can smell the odor ( give me a break, are people feeding the dogs asparagus in the Slope) that maybe you should call your damn therapist and up your dose.
Besides the sign is actually illegal. the dog pissing isn’t.
most likely, a dog pees where he chooses because one has already peed there. if you can’t stop every single dog from peeing in a specific location, then just drop it. find someothing else to be angry about. i’m sure you have a very long list.
When I knocked on the door and asked you nicely to warm my dog’s bottle in your microwave you refused. That’s why I pissed on your gate.
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Christ almighty, New York City is full of more sniveling whiners than any suburb in America!
Dog piss won’t kill an old growth tree. It won’t. Will not. Not in the quantity that it encounters on a New York street – show me one tree that was flourishing and died as the result of dog piss and I’ll eat my words. It’s not gonna happen. Animals mark trees with urine all the time in the wild- yes they do. And both trees and animals continue to co-exist.hmmm….
Nice try anon 3:15. Dog urine is poisonous to a tree. NYC loses too many street trees every year and you can control where your dog goes. Please reconsider and aim for the metal utility poles. Thanks.