[smokeybear]

I really do not understand why people allow this to happen, and when I moved to my present property I asked the dog owners where they lived so my dogs could go and do the same to their property.

Funny, how they were not keen for me to reciprocate.

When my dogs are on the lead, they do not empty themselves until and unless I tell them to.

Males are just marking, there is no physiological need for them to empty themselves unless you, as an owner, have not proved an alternative opportunity to do so.

When I exercise my dogs it is their their body, not their bladder or bowels I want moving.

Anyone who cannot or will not control where and when their dogs eliminate should only be in charge of a goldfish.

I also wonder if such ignorant owners would consider it acceptable for male to unzip his flies and urinate in the same way?

These owners may like their front garden smelling like a public urinal, I do not, strangely.

 

[redroses2106]

I couldn't care less if a dog had a wee up my fence/gate/hedge so long as it was on the outside and the owners hadn't brought them in to do it

my dog squats but yes there have been plenty of times she has decided to squat and pee outside someones gate or garden on the public path, I wouldn't let her be wandering in there garden ofc. I never even thought that it would be a problem I can't control when she is going to go

 

[smokeybear]

Well I can control where my dogs urinate and defecate, they do it on command.

It is very simple.

Even blind people can manage this with their dogs..........

 

[Sarah1983]

It can be hard to stop them though! One little ****er peed up my front door the other day!!
It was my own fault though.....I spent too long faffing about with my keys after our walk and Adam clearly felt he needed to make a point!LOL

Yeah it can be hard to stop it, especially if you have to walk past them to get anywhere suitable, but if my dog goes to pee up someones front door I literally drag him away, some people just stand there and wait for the dog to finish then walk off. Just seems out of order to me.

 

[SophieCyde]

I've never even thought about it offending people before , I must just be really unhygienic Murphy scentmarks every few minutes , I don't let him do it on gardens or cars but he does do it to fences etc.

 

[canine]

I wouldn't let Dino do it on someone's closed gate but if he urinates on the corner post I've never thought about people being offended to be honest. Sorry to all the people I've offended over the years but my wee dog used to get dragged when he pee'd or poo'd so he was terrified when he would do it in front of me. He ended up with muscle damage to the back of his neck and collapsing trachea. As a result I used to give him loads or praise and reward him when he would do it. I would never dream of letting him enter someone's driveway or garden and am shocked at anyone allowing their dog to pee up against someone's door. He is also not allowed to pee up against shops or shop sighs.

 

[Thorne]

I am totally against people allowing there dogs onto your property and wouldn't be impressed if a dog pooped or squatted on my front lawn, but for a male dog to cock his leg up the fence? I wouldn't bat an eyelid.

Couldn't have put it better myself!

 

[Thorne]

Anyone who cannot or will not control where and when their dogs eliminate should only be in charge of a goldfish.

Bit harsh...

My intact male dog has been scent marking for 10yrs so I must be an irresponsible owner. My bitch was slow to pick up toilet training after living in a kennel for 7 years so am I not worthy to keep her?
Perhaps parents with bedwetting children shouldn't have kids

For the record we've always discouraged scent marking on pavements and Scooter seldom pees up gates and fences but sometimes he can't resist and I'm not quick enough! Little sod did mark my bike last week so maybe I should admit defeat and rehome him... not.

And no, I wouldn't care if a dog scent-marked the fence in passing.

 

[emmaviolet]

Well it is a shame we all cant be as great and responsible owners as smokeybear!

My dogs have always toileted when they need to. I cant go on command so why would they?

I have never thought the mark of a 'responsible' owner being one where they tell their dogs where they can do their stuff.

I also do not care if dogs go against my gate, there are much bigger evils in the world.

 

[kat&molly]

I wouldn't like it. I dont let mine pee in the street or poo- its for off lead time.

 

[ginge2804]

I have never noticed any dogs doing it on my gate or anything.
As someone else has already said, I don't even let Molly walk on their property (grass, drive etc) let alone wee on their property.

 

[Dober]

It doesn’t really bother me when dogs go for a wee at the front of my garden as long as the owner doesn’t purposely take it there to urinate (If they do that, you must have upset someone!) Im not bothered about fences but flowers would annoy me a little.

I dont let my guys go other people's properly, but they have caught me off guard a few times, they've been trotting by my side then I feel the lead go tight and turned around to see that look of '....hold on a second' Dont think it makes me a horrible dog owner

 

[foxyrockmeister]

Well I can control where my dogs urinate and defecate, they do it on command.

It is very simple.

Even blind people can manage this with their dogs..........

Hmmm, patronising.

 

[foxyrockmeister]

Well I can control where my dogs urinate and defecate, they do it on command.

It is very simple.

Even blind people can manage this with their dogs..........

Do you do it on command too?!

Like I said before, my dogs do not urinate on other people's property but that is because I am lucky enough to have my own garden and lots of countryside to walk in, so they are never walked along the street.
However, some people do not have gardens and live in built up areas. First thing in the morning or coming home from work, taking your dog out is both for exercise and to toilet.

I personally hate to see a dog being dragged along by it's neck mid toileting because it's owner believes it to be in an inappropriate place.

 

[metaldog]

Do you do it on command too?!

Like I said before, my dogs do not urinate on other people's property but that is because I am lucky enough to have my own garden and lots of countryside to walk in, so they are never walked along the street.
However, some people do not have gardens and live in built up areas. First thing in the morning or coming home from work, taking your dog out is both for exercise and to toilet.

I personally hate to see a dog being dragged along by it's neck mid toileting because it's owner believes it to be in an inappropriate place.

don't bother wasting your bandwidth responding to smokeybear. Who is the perfect dog owner with perfect dogs who never do anything animal like at all and are trained to within an inch of their life.

I sometimes wonder if these oh so perfect dogs actually exist seeing as I don't recall ever seeing photos of them

 

[emmaviolet]

I'd like to know what smokeybears dogs would do if they happened to have a bad tummy?

Would they still wait for the command? Even as humans we can get caught out with a bad stomach. To say if you cant control this you can only own so much as a goldfish is frankly insulting!!

Alfie is capable of weeing when i tell him, but he also goes when he needs and marks when he wants to. To toilet sometimes it takes him a while sometimes he goes almost right away, how can i control that?

 

[sunshine80]

Sonny does not "go on command" as I have never taught him too as I see no need in this - he does the tiolet when he likes so I guess I am only suitable for keeping goldfish (although I keep tropical fish actually ).

That being said I do stop him peeing on peoples gates, paths,walls and fences. I do not really bother about hedges to be honest. But where I stay alot of the main streets do not have front gardens and so when I walk in the village I am walking beside sandstone houses and for that reason I learned Sonny early on not to pee on walls. I also can not stand people letting dogs run about or doing the tiolet in other peoples's gardens- I do not let Sonny even walk slightly into driveways (apart from when we are going past my sisters .

 

[Sheen and Eli]

Is this the place I drop off my dogs and collect my goldfish?

 

[Wiz201]

It's your job to control your dog!
My dog manages not to piss and crap everywhere!

Well, my younger goldie will go on grass verges if she really needs to go, but we make her walk past the gardens and she has a public footpath with bushes available if she needed to go there. Usually she waits til she gets to the field.

 

[WelshOneEmma]

personally, peeing up a gate doesn't bother me, however not picking poo up really does.

That said we do not allow Piper to go on peoples gardens as I realise not everyone likes dogs and its a little rude. horses for courses and all that. some people just don't think though.