How would you have dealt with this? Re:Neighbor and false accusation

[disykat]

I know who did it! It's all the people here claiming it's crazy to walk around the neighborhood with dog poop!

Every responsible dog owner I know has carried plenty of dog poop around the neighborhood.

 

[Luvstotravel]

<backs slowly out of the thread, making no sudden gestures, eyes down to avoid direct eye contact>

 

[emer95]

Let's not forgot who's the real victim here: That poor teenager who was minding his business one minute, the next minute opening the door to find the angry neighbor lady standing on his porch holding two handfuls of poop.

This post wins!! It made me laugh so hard, I had to go use the bathroom!

 

[CPanther95]

Never understood the practice of letting your dog crap on a neighbor's lawn - whether you pick it up or not. I've got 4 dogs and they go in my back yard - If I take them for a walk, not a chance I'd let them go on a neighbor's yard. If you can't afford a fence, you can't afford a dog. I had to ask one neighbor to stop letting his dog go to the end of his retractable leash up into the middle of my front yard. My dogs in the house go crazy - and I don't appreciate my grand kids (toddlers and younger) playing in the front yard and having to worry about dog poop residue.

I was at a homeowners association meeting and one of the neighbors complained that his grass was getting brown spots from all the dogs that are peeing on his lawn. A dog owner in the neighborhood said, "I don't want anyone upset about my dog going to the bathroom on their yard. Anyone that wants me to avoid their yard, let me know and I'll make a list and be sure to avoid those homes." Then another homeowner stood up (someone I now regard as a genius) and said, "Why don't you ask which homeowners want you to let your dog crap on their lawn and use that list instead?"

 

[Mizzoufan]

I know who did it! It's all the people here claiming it's crazy to walk around the neighborhood with dog poop!

Every responsible dog owner I know has carried plenty of dog poop around the neighborhood.

But do they compare it to other dog poop

 

[rigs32]

I haven't owned a dog in years, but if you're walking around the block and they indicate it's time to poop, wouldn't dragging them home mid act create more of a mess than picking it up once done?

 

[Disney Doll]

I'd avoid the house at this point.

 

[NHdisneylover]

I cannot say for sure how I would have dealt with it (and not being a dog person, I'll probably never be in a similar situation) but I am pretty positive that I would not go over to the person's house while still to angry to think straight and then involve a third party I found at the house--especially not a polite teenager (even older teen or college kid- obviously not someone in a position of authority over his parent).

Honestly, I think at this point you need to either avoid her and her yard altogether and hope it just blowsover, or be the bigger person and apologize to the son--I think you going over and involving him like that was even more out of line than your neighbor'S initial actions (and least she involved you, the person who does walk their dog near her lawn)

 

[anniemae]

Never understood the practice of letting your dog crap on a neighbor's lawn - whether you pick it up or not. I've got 4 dogs and they go in my back yard - If I take them for a walk, not a chance I'd let them go on a neighbor's yard. If you can't afford a fence, you can't afford a dog. I had to ask one neighbor to stop letting his dog go to the end of his retractable leash up into the middle of my front yard. My dogs in the house go crazy - and I don't appreciate my grand kids (toddlers and younger) playing in the front yard and having to worry about dog poop residue.

I was at a homeowners association meeting and one of the neighbors complained that his grass was getting brown spots from all the dogs that are peeing on his lawn. A dog owner in the neighborhood said, "I don't want anyone upset about my dog going to the bathroom on their yard. Anyone that wants me to avoid their yard, let me know and I'll make a list and be sure to avoid those homes." Then another homeowner stood up (someone I now regard as a genius) and said, "Why don't you ask which homeowners want you to let your dog crap on their lawn and use that list instead?"

Thank you! We have a lot of dog owners in our neighborhood and for the most part they are good about cleaning up messes. One thing I don't like is that after a dog poops, some owners drop the bad on the sidewalk and continue their walk and pick up the bag on the way back. There are some dogs that run off leash and at times poop in our yard. I also never understood just letting a dog poop in someones yard. I don't have a dog for many reasons, not wanting to pick up poop is one of them.

 

[cabanafrau]

Someone posted on a thread a while back that their apartment complex keeps DNA info on file on the dogs living there. That way they can fine the appropriate party when deposits are left.

They might have been pulling my leg, but it sounded pretty cool.

In major murder cases police make a best guess which evidence appears most promising in yielding DNA results and submit the most likely for DNA testing because it is an expensive proposition. No apartment building is going to go to the expense of creating a canine DNA database and then further incur charges for rogue dog waste.

OP, you may have been taken by surprise, but I think you might have saved yourself a lot of trouble by walking your dog down the block to demonstrate to her he's too large to leave the packages on her lawn. I can't begin to wrap my head around the logistics of your demonstration. Although I will say she showed a lot of cowardice not to come to her door when an angry woman bearing dog doo showed up after you showed her that courtesy.

 

[Kellykins1218]

If you can't afford a fence, you can't afford a dog.

What? How does not having a fence mean you can't afford a dog?. We are looking for a house closer to where my husband works but are having a really hard time because we can't find a nice house that doesn't have a home owner's association. Almost none of them allow any kind of fence. It's crazy!

 

[declansdad]

Great thread to start the day, thanks for the laugh!

 

[CandleontheWater]

This is exactly why I would love to live in a dog-free neighborhood. I am so tired of dog crap.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

"Call security?"

Your neighborhood has private security?

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Let's not forgot who's the real victim here: That poor teenager who was minding his business one minute, the next minute opening the door to find the angry neighbor lady standing on his porch holding two handfuls of poop.

"Johnny, get off the xbox and go open the door to the dog poop lady."
"Mooooooom, I'm in the middle of a game of Madden!"
"Now, Johnny!"

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I have heard that some apartment complexes are requiring samples for DNA testing... not joking.

 

[rajak73]

is grab some of my dog's poop from my yard, and pick up the poop she left on my door step and go to her front door.

So did you put it on maybe paper plates so she could clearly see which poop is which, or plastic bags with a scale, "See, my dogs crap is actually .5 lbs and what you left is clearly more than .75 lbs" You know, I drove school bus at one time for kindergarteners and this sounds just like them, "yeh, my dog don't crap as much as yours!" "oh yeah, well my dogs crap don't smell as bad as yours!" "Well my dogs crap...." and it just keeps going like this with kindergartens. Prefect response would have been, "Your poops rubber and my poops glue, so what you throw bounces off of me and sticks to you! Nana, Nana, Boo, Boo!"

 

[pocomom]

Well I didn't believe it so I had to look it up. Dozens of articles confirming apartments and condos dna testing dog poop.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...833fc8-8247-11e4-8882-03cf08410beb_story.html

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/dog-poop-dna-tests-nail-non-scoopers/

And here is one company that does it -http://www.pooprints.com/pooprints-faqs/?gclid=Cj0KEQjw8u23BRCg6YnzmJmPqYgBEiQALf_XzcWqvgV3ON-vX9eiUtxRhHVm8bvGIY8oOgSVqcFlryoaAjK48P8HAQ

 

[Hrhpd]

In major murder cases police make a best guess which evidence appears most promising in yielding DNA results and submit the most likely for DNA testing because it is an expensive proposition. No apartment building is going to go to the expense of creating a canine DNA database and then further incur charges for rogue dog waste.

OP, you may have been taken by surprise, but I think you might have saved yourself a lot of trouble by walking your dog down the block to demonstrate to her he's too large to leave the packages on her lawn. I can't begin to wrap my head around the logistics of your demonstration. Although I will say she showed a lot of cowardice not to come to her door when an angry woman bearing dog doo showed up after you showed her that courtesy.

Not true.

Perhaps crime scene DNA is more complex and more expensive, but a dog poop DNA test runs around $50. There are tons of companies that are popping up that specialize in testing dog poop: Mr. Dog Poop, PooPrints, DogPile ID, and many others.

Here is an apartment complex that does DNA test dogs. It costs the owner $25 to have the initial sample sent in and then if their dog is caught being the one that left poop, they have to pay the $50 test plus a fine.
http://kutv.com/news/local/dog-poop-dna-aims-to-track-down-lazy-owners

As for the OP, apparently she never was taught the saying Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right. I don't know who was crazier, the crazy lady who dumped the original poop or the OP who stormed over there with handfuls of poop to harass a teen and compare poop samples.

Personally, I would be laughing so hard if a neighbor came over with poop. If she forgot it on my porch, I might have quietly returned her property or more likely just put it in the trash. And I would just go the other way around the block and if I had to pass her house, cross the street.

In our neighborhood, if you see poop in your yard, most people assume a coyote or fox was there.

 

[georgina]

I'm not sure how I would have handled it, but I understand wanting to prove your innocence. It makes me mad to be accused of things I didn't do too! We don't have a dog, but many people around here do, and some of the people who walk regularly carry a big stick because of irresponsible pet owners. I used to watch my neighbor's dog (who was let out of the house to go regularly) poop in my yard, so I would scoop up it with a shovel and throw it back in their yard. Neighbor on the other side did too. So glad when they moved.