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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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?

 

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 .

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

Mylo has got into the habit... or he's a very smart dog and has worked it out but he will no longer go for a wee in our garden unless i stand their and tell him to go 'wee wees' about 10million times but the first thing he does when i take him out is go for a long wee and its always up against this building wall (unopened shop) but he's never allowed on people grass or into their gardens. Plus he's always kept on the left hand side which is always away from housing but Mylo will wee whilst he's walking it's not because he needs a wee he's just has a need to mark. I had kids behind us last week and you could hear them giggling and saying 'did you see that dog, he just wee whilst he was walking' ... thats my boy

 

I try to avoid letting Throp pee up gate posts, car wheels etc, but sometimes i'm distracted and he's mid-wee before i've noticed. Walks on bin day is a right pain as he wants to mark them all.

There's a house we pass where the owners stare out the window as if i've let the dog crap in the middle of their lawn when he's actually going on the verge & i've a bag in my hand. One of the dogs always seems to want to go just at that point too.

 

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.

Same here! Personally I wouldn't let either of the dogs if we ever did walk past anyone house (our walks are quite isolated so not really a problem yet!) but if people walk past my house & their dog did I wouldn't be too bothered, we have foxes marking/pooing round here lately so it hardly smells lovely at times

It's dog owners not picking up their dogs poo that really annoys me aswell

 

I'd better go and get my goldfish... Scooter isn't well and had his first housetraining accident last night in over 9 years, poor boy. He's miserable but seen the vet (who shockingly didn't scold us for not having full control of when he goes! ) and hopefully is on the mend.

 

I find it disrespectful to allow your dog to pee up or poo on other peoples property - be that a fence, gatepost, bush or car tyre. To all those people who say they cannot stop their dogs or "when a dogs gotta go, it's gotta go" then how about simply not allowing your dog to sniff and pee whilst it is on a lead, only allowing this when you specifically take it to a grass verge or something to do it's business.

I have 3 dogs and when they are on lead, I do not stop and allow them to sniff or toilet, any attempt and they are simply pulled along whilst I continue to walk. I understand that they may need the loo at the beginning of a walk therefore I bear that in mind and take them to the nearest public spot so they may do this. Then after that, it's tough luck i'm afraid.

I came back to my car today and found dog wee up the door. Had I seen somebody allowing their dog to do this then they would've felt the sharp end of my tongue (like they do when I catch folk allowing their dog to toilet on our lawn).

 

then how about simply not allowing your dog to sniff and pee whilst it is on a lead, only allowing this when you specifically take it to a grass verge or something to do it's business.

if my dog needs to pee when on the lead she dosn't stop to sniff for a spot she will just squat and pee.

anyone who needs a goldfish I have a pond full of em

 

if my dog needs to pee when on the lead she dosn't stop to sniff for a spot she will just squat and pee.

anyone who needs a goldfish I have a pond full of em

It's dogs who are the main culprit and the majority of the time, they will stop and sniff before peeing, thus giving the owner enough warning and time to pull them away. Lets face it, most of the time when a dog is weeing, whatever the sex, it's purely scent marking and therefore something we can control by not allowing the sniffing behaviour which preceeds it.

If we are talking about private lawns, driveways etc then the dog should not be on these in the first place.

 

I'd be a bit fed up if a dog cocked his leg over my gate because it's set back off the pavement, the hedge isn't so much of a problem except the bit i've had to replant, repeatedly.

I really really really boil when a certain neighbours allows their dog (on flexi) walk up my drive and pee on my car, that is just rude and yes, I did say something.

 

It's not so bad if a dog just pees once up the gatepost or bush, but that then becomes a marker for every other dog who walks past so you end up with countless dogs pissing up your property.

I was once at gundog training and a lady just stood there and watched her male dog blatantly pee up my car tyre whilst I was stood there also (she knew it was my car as I was attending to my own dogs in the back). I said "Errr, excuse me, I dont appreciate that", she just walked off whilst I stood there shaking my head in total disbelief.

But, like many people on here, she obviously thought it was ok to allow her dog to do that

 

What if the end of the driveway is near the pavement and your dog turns their bottom and back paws are over the driveway and the front paws are on the public pavement?

Sadie did this and poop went on the drive. Of course I cleared it away but she couldn't help it and I wasn't willing to drag her away with poo coming out her bum while she was walking.

The houses front gardens and walls where I live are very close to the pavement so sometimes its unavoidable - but its never done on purpose and its always cleared up if its a poop.

 

I personally don't have an issue with it. I have no reason but have imagined a strange dog weeing on the gate posts and on the wheelie bin and it doesn't bother me.

But then I don't let my dogs toilet where they like if I can help it.

 

I really don't see an issue, it dries almost immediately and if dogs are walking on the street then they will go on it!

TBH we should be grateful we have homes with gates and fences and walls etc and roofs over our heads as many in the world live in landfill so i doubt they would have these sort of concerns.

 

TBH we should be grateful we have homes with gates and fences and walls etc and roofs over our heads as many in the world live in landfill so i doubt they would have these sort of concerns.

I really do appreciate them that's why I maintain and take care of them and have washed my gate and posts with bio washing liquid more than once to get rid of the dried pee stink. There's a lampost a few feet away that they can mark to their hearts content.

 

Just looking out my window and thought about this - I probably don't see this as a big issue because I don't have a path directly outside my house so rarely have a peed-on fence. A dog would have to come about 15' into the drive to pee on the door. None of the houses around here are set directly onto the road and the close ones all have fences.

It still wouldn't bother me about a bit of pee up the gatepost and I'd only find it disrespectful if a dog was deliberately led to our house to pee or actually entered the property.
Our cars are fairly scruffy but I'd still be irritated if they got peed on.

What I find more disrespectful is the local numpty who takes his DA dog for walks behind our fence. There's no footpath here and the dog will put its feet up on our fence and scream at S+B. Would much prefer him pissing up the fence!

 

It's not something I encounter personally, as we don't have people walking past our house - however if we did live in a more built up area, it probably wouldn't bother me unless it was happening constantly, by several different dogs everyday, and it caused my front gate to stink of dog pee!

I don't allow my dogs to do it - but that's purely because we don't walk on the streets, we're fortunate to be able to do all their exercise in the countryside, where we needn't worry about where they toilet - with three entire males who like to have peeing contests, repeatedly peeing over one anothers scents, street walks would be a nightmare!

Two of my dogs will toilet on command - but not exclusively. If the poor mites need to go they can bloody well go, they don't need to wait until I say they can!

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.

Same. Sure the owners who do this wouldn't like to be dragged off the toilet midway themselves!

 

I find it disrespectful to allow your dog to pee up or poo on other peoples property - be that a fence, gatepost, bush or car tyre. To all those people who say they cannot stop their dogs or "when a dogs gotta go, it's gotta go" then how about simply not allowing your dog to sniff and pee whilst it is on a lead, only allowing this when you specifically take it to a grass verge or something to do it's business.

I have 3 dogs and when they are on lead, I do not stop and allow them to sniff or toilet, any attempt and they are simply pulled along whilst I continue to walk. I understand that they may need the loo at the beginning of a walk therefore I bear that in mind and take them to the nearest public spot so they may do this. Then after that, it's tough luck i'm afraid.

I came back to my car today and found dog wee up the door. Had I seen somebody allowing their dog to do this then they would've felt the sharp end of my tongue (like they do when I catch folk allowing their dog to toilet on our lawn).

You're lucky Leanne because where you live you have easy access to verges, the fields along the river bank and the canal. Not to mention the miles of public footpaths. So you can easily avoid your dogs peeing on houses boundaries.

But where I live it is in the city & there are no verges, there's a couple of play areas for children that are no dogs allowed nearby. All the pavement for miles is bordered by houses boundaries of fences, hedges and gates. Even the big park where dogs are allowed is surrounded by the rear boundary hedges, fences and gates of houses. I have to walk for 50 minutes before I come to an area where they can toilet on a verge.

Where I live everyone's dog toilets in the street because there is no alternative, no one minds and it never occurred to me that it would bother anyone. I always clean up the poop and I even pick up after other people's dogs when it's next to where my dog has pooped in case anyone thinks it was my dogs.

I respect your opinion and I understand where you're coming from. But I still think the world's gone mad if a dog can't cock his leg and have a pee in an urban area without offending someone. :lol:

My neighbour's Yorkie gets through the fence and poos in my front garden most days. I just clean it up and put it in the bin, because for me it's just not a big deal. Maybe it's because I grew up on a dairy farm with a sewage plant next door so was surrounded by excrement so I am de-sensitised to it.

Life's too short to fall out over a bit of pee