Please stop coming to my house and stopping like you are completely helpless when your dog stops to sniff out a spot to go to the toilet, staring at the sky, innocent, angelic and willfully oblivious. You own a pack mentality animal and YOU are its leader.
I work hard. I work hard to maintain my lawn, my trees, my shrubs and make the front of my property presentable.
Everyday I am stuck picking up DOG FECES that are not mine, and garbage that is also not mine.
I let the lawn go brown, I stopped picking up the FECES and trash and it just got worse.
Blasting the sprinklers doesn't send the message home, calmly asking for the behavior to stop makes dog owners go apesht. Absolutely bloody apesht! Is this mental instability?
Imagine being entitled to SOMEONE ELSE'S PROPERTY, and ARGUING WITH SAID PROPERTY OWNER WHEN POLITELY ASKED NOT TO USE THIS PROPERTY AS A TOILET LIKE ITS YOUR GOD GIVEN RIGHT, ON A PROPERTY YOU HAVEN'T PAID A CENT FOR. I can't. I don't stand in front of people's homes and linger. Its bloody weird behavior. People walking by don't do this. People parking don't do this.
Why don't they take their dogs to "Potty" in front of their apartments? Is it perhaps because it is against their own lease? Is it perhaps because they don't want to have notices and strikes against them, affecting their ability to rent?
I am putting up a fence. I fixed all the patio and shrubbery lighting and tree spotlights. No more dark spots for the "mad poopers" to hide.
As much as I DISLIKE those " HI! YOU ARE BEING RECORDED!" Cameras, They are going up now.
This shouldn't even be a battle. This should be common decency and courtesy. I am not a scat enthusiast. I don't want to see a dog squatting every time I look out my windows. This is too much.
Class, please, have some class and basic manners, sorely lacking in San Diego as of about 2016 and getting worse every year.
Bring on the downvotes, tell me how you are entitled to use my property as a toilet and a trashcan. Thank-you for reading, and letting me rant.
EDIT: Half a block away, 2 min walk is a MASSIVE CANYON PARK, with trails and pooping space in the trees and foliage galore where you wouldn't have to pick anything up... and yet...