Georgia Gardening: dog poo, 0 by soulgardenlove

soulgardenlove wrote:
Yikes!! I just read through this thread and was wondering if you had done anything as I read through........ I'm so sorry that happened to you.. At least now the POLICE have told him to stay off your property.. You are much to proper and polite.. You need a good old dose of southern crazy woman in you!! :)

I now take Sterlings aproach.

I have 400 feet to one side of streetside woods and pine straw that I maintain since the absentee owner does not.. that's a whole nother story... and on the other side I have another absentee builder/invester empty lot property owner, but of course he has weeds and junipers and those doggies wont go on a juniper......And past that yard is a property where the landlord has already told the renter he was keeping the security deposit for the yard and property clean up he paid to have done last year and now it is just right back where it was........I have absolutely beautiful, cared for zoysia. Behind the first 13 feet of grass I have a ten foot wide bed divided by an 180 foot long picket fence and the entire front bed is planted. It looks like someone who cares lives there!!!!!!!! Cars slow to see it! My OWN dog is trained to go in the back yard and pine isle sides and not on the zoysia!! THIS DRIVES ME NUTS when dog walkers have so much wide open space to use and their dogs prefer the soft feel of my grass and they let them go there... Last year I called a neighbor and asked her to please stop letting her dog go in my yard as my kids were stepping in poo and I'd had about enough of cleaning it off their shoes... She was hugely insulted and insisted that she bagged it (NOT!!) and then I said well the pee burns my grass... Silence....., and she let me know that OTHER dog walkers were just as responsible, to which I told her I would address them, but could she please stop adding to the situation...as I personally know of no other local mother of a 3 & 5 year old that works her tail off as much trying to make a home paradise as beautiful.

Just recently, I had to come out and call to two women that ALWAYS let their leashed dogs on my grass and up to my beds... I had given them home grown watermelons the year before, so I remembered their names and knew where they lived. I politely yelled from the front door if they wouldn't mind taking their dogs to the woods to go since my kids step in it and it drives me nuts having to clean it off and she held up that famous bag and said, "oh we pick up".. to which I told her the urine burns my grass and she just looked at me and said "yea??" like whats the big deal and I said "YEA" Like I CARE!! Well, I haven't seen them walking on my street lately, but I did take a drive by their homes and it dawned on me........... everyone has different standards and levels of what is important to them and they are clueless about others cares and concerns!!!! Both of them live in million dollar + homes that have been built in the last 10 years and both of them have the worst peed on, dead spotty lawns and no gardens!!!!!!! it all made sense... They don't care about theirs, so they figure nobody else should either............... My home is 36 years old, but the garden says I care!!

Spider... I know you have already sent the note and I'm sorry he's crazy... I too had an old man neighbor come yell at me when I cleaned poison ivy and kudzu off MY fence that was coming off his property... He's got a hefty trash sack that's been stuck to his front door for the last 10 years and he got mad at me for as he put it "distroying the birds habitat" I'm convinced his using leg traps to catch cats and we had a possum die in our pool that had chewed it's own foot off and we have had many neighborhood cats go missing..

Spider, as I get older I realize it's not the most important thing in the world for everyone else to like you.... Those people are usually doormats. You need to be comfortable with yourself and you certainly had the backbone to speak your mind about your own property and I'm proud of you. :) My motto of late is if I'm going away mad, I'm sure as heck going to do my best to let you know about it and have you "feel me"!!

Also, for future reference, you can print out the "not here" signs and laminate them and put them up much more economically. I have mine laminated... Just not put out yet.. This screaming thing is still kinda fun for me... Like Sterling :) Not really!! I just haven't put them out yet..

Sorry for my long rants and testimonials too! I just had to get it off my mind after reading this!!!!!!!!!!!!

:)
Susan