Help regarding straying dog.

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Hi there, I don't usually post in here as I don't have a dog but I thought you might be able to help me with this.

A neighbour (about three houses away) keeps letting their dog out to take itself for a walk and it seems to have decided that our lawn is its own private toilet. This is driving my husband mental as he is quite proud of his garden and makes a point of keeping it nice. We don't have much grass but what we do have is now covered in dead yellow patches where this dog has peed, and we find a steaming pile pretty much every day.

It is a small terrier type of thing, but more of a lap dog type than a working terrier. I couldn't tell you the precise breed, but it is a little bigger than a Yorkshire Terrier and predominantly grey.

So I'm looking for ideas on how to keep it off our garden without damaging either the dog or the garden, before hubby starts a row with the neighbours!

Due to the layout of our property it is not possible to securely fence all of our garden.

I should also point out that we live just a couple of hundred yards from a busy A-road and our street can be used as a rat run by fast moving vehicles, so it is totally inappropriate to let the dog loose. Our next door neighbours don't even let their cat out unsupervised!

The dogs owners aren't the sort of neighbours who are likely to respond well to a friendly chat either.....

Thanks for your help!
 
It is illegal to allow your dog to stray, a dog in public must be 'under control' whether that means on a lead or off but with owner present. Therefore I would report it to your local council, under the clean neighbourhoods act I believe it falls, also public health.
 
A, You yourself have a quiet word to the neighbour

B, use a deterrant, water pistol/alarm:rolleyes:

C, Buy yourself a slip lead and get some tasty treats, catch it, take it to the pound and put an anonyomous letter through her door YOUR DOG IS AT THE POUND, she will shapp get sick of A, having to collect the dog B, Having to pay for it to be collected.

D, Take a picci of it crapping/video footage and grass her for her dog fouling, she will then be fined:rolleyes:

E, Get yourself a huge dog;)
 
CAYLA said:
A, You yourself have a quiet word to the neighbour

B, use a deterrant, water pistol/alarm:rolleyes:

C, Buy yourself a slip lead and get some tasty treats, catch it, take it to the pound and put an anonyomous letter through her door YOUR DOG IS AT THE POUND, she will shapp get sick of A, having to collect the dog B, Having to pay for it to be collected.

D, Take a picci of it crapping/video footage and grass her for her dog fouling, she will then be fined:rolleyes:

E, Get yourself a huge dog;)
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Hubby likes the water pistol option!

Though option E has a certain appeal too, we've been wondering about getting a dog for a while..... what varieties eat small terriers for lunch?

Will check out where the nearest pound is too, I'm not sure having a word will work. Is the pound operated by the police still or is it the council or the rspca?
 
Put all the poop in their garden, just use a shovel rather than bags so they can just pick it up and pop it in the bin. If they catch you doing it tell them you are returning their property.
 
littlemisslauren said:
Put all the poop in their garden, just use a shovel rather than bags so they can just pick it up and pop it in the bin. If they catch you doing it tell them you are returning their property.
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Love this one :D but a friend has used a water pistol to good effect with cats before, i'm sure the same applies to dogs
 
Not sure I want to risk getting caught putting dog poo in their garden..... they aren't the nicest of neighbours......
 
Dog eating dog..not an option ,as the beast needs to be fenced in to be fair ;could get some fox / cat droppings..so that it rolls in those before going home.Could transport it to a dog pound..or anywhere really ,it`ll cost them to get it out. Cannot abide dog owners who let their bloody dogs be a nuisance to others ! However,with any luck ,the poor wee beastie will get itself squashed before too long anyway. :eek:
 
Argh can't manage to catch the little bu99er at it! Once again it has managed to leave a deposit without being seen actually doing it.

So that makes option B impossible and that had been the favourite! Makes D difficult too!

Is there anything we can put on the grass to discourage it from going on there, like cat repellant but for dogs? Hubby is threatening broken glass, but it is only talk, he wouldn't hurt an animal.

If not we'll have to go with option C just on the basis that it is straying irrespective of the fouling issues.
 
I would take it to the pound, as then its anonymous and if they're not very nice people thats better than doing something more direct.
 
Is there not stuff you can spray on the garden to prevent the dog from coming in. It's like a deterrant or something.

Katt I am in the opposite position, I am the bad dog owner and I feel really bad and want to fix the situation. I can't believe the owners of the dog in your situation won't even acknowledge their dog is causing problems. I think bringing it to the pound is a bit extreme but I suppose if you explain to the people in the pound the situation then let the owners know where their dog is then maybe it will get through their thick skulls.
 
I'm assuming that you have seen said dog "in action"..?! if you keep missing the dog, then maybe he is let out at night - in which case, how about putting on sensor lights so you get warning when he comes (and its a good security idea anyway) - that way, your husband can have fun with his water pistol! or if you can catch it, then I would then call the local dog warden and give it to him.

But also, might just be worth contacting your local council to see what their views are on dogs straying regularly - particularly if in all likelihood, yours won't be the only place its fouling. I also thought that is was illegal to allow a dog out without a dog tag with its address details on it?

You have my sympathy - local cats were using the large gravel outside my house as their local kitty tray and yelling/throwing did nothing. So lost my cool calm collected self and let my dogs out one day! bit hairy, aged said cat - a lot, but it never came back again..! (although I now have to always have the younger dog on a lead to and from the car as he now thinks he should always be cat hunting..doh!)
 
Luci07 said:
I'm assuming that you have seen said dog "in action"..?! if you keep missing the dog, then maybe he is let out at night - in which case, how about putting on sensor lights so you get warning when he comes (and its a good security idea anyway) - that way, your husband can have fun with his water pistol! or if you can catch it, then I would then call the local dog warden and give it to him.
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We see the dog out and about unaccompanied, pretty regularly and at all sorts of times of day. In fact we've only seen it on the lead once! For ages we weren't sure who it belonged to.

We just haven't actually seen it poo on the garden.

The other day I heard it outside, looked out of the window and saw it walk off down the road, from our garden, hubby was gardening in the back, he went out the front, literally second later and there was a steaming pile.

It has also frightened me a couple of times when I've been leaving for work in a morning, it has come running up barking loudly while I've been going out to the car. I'm not nervous about dogs normally, but an unaccompanied loose dog barking aggressively isn't nice to encounter, even if it is only small.
 
Hmm tricky situation if neighbours aren't easy to talk to, but it's not really the dogs fault that they can't be arsed to walk it or keep an eye on it.

for that reason i'd be loathed to use a water pistol - he's not aware he can't mess there. Also taking him to the pound will be a bit distressing for him. Arghh i'm sounding really soft here I know but the poor chap is not to blame - the ***** that 'own' him are :mad:

I'd put a note through their door saying what is happening (anonymously) stating that if it happens again you will be returning it to them (the **** not the dog :rolleyes:) and you will report them for straying.

TBH he would be better off elsewhere by the sounds of it :(
 
Could you not borrow a dog dor a few days, and pretend its yours, also is it in the habit now, if its been doing it for several months it may well be its habit.
 
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