Dog Fouling!!!!!!

[rovers90]

My front garden and driveway is open and for about the last four months a dog has been fouling on two gravel areas and a border right in front of the door!!! Usually happens overnight and about four times a week. Been nothing for about three weeks and then he's been back last two nights.

 

I have tried - cayenne pepper, branches off rose bushes and thorn trees, variuos pepper sprays and granules, plastic mats with plastic pins sticking up and senses that emit a high pitched sounds only audible to dogs. None of it has stopped it - even sits and craps a foot infront of the sensors!!!

 

I know it's not a dog from our street, there are flats and houses out the back and I'm sure somebody is just letting it out at night by itself. One of the main reasons I have not got a dog even though I love them is I cannot stand dog poo!! And when I come out the house and see it it makes me seeth!!!

 

I've just put mouse traps out with cheese on tonight!!

 

Has anybody got any ideas that work?????

[gary112]

Shotgun

[felixthelogchopper]

A gate?

[Haironyourchest]

I feel your pain. I too have a phantom shitter that befouls the parking area (neighbour's dog, she's a sweetie really but damn its annoying). I think the only option is to catch the animal in the act and give it a blast of airsoft pellets, high pressure hose, fire extinguisher or some other less-than-lethal projectile.

[Yournamehere]

 

Make friends with the dog; send long messages to owner by tying them to the dog's collar.

Send turds back to owner by putting in a bag and tying to collar.

Adopt dog, train it and take it for walks until it takes you home to meet it's owner: encourage dog to crap on owner's lawn.

Don't punish the dog for being a dog.

It seems to like you: be nice.

[Toad]

We had someone who used to shit all over the toilets at work. Even took to hiding turds in the spare bog rolls and in the paper towel dispenser.

 

Paper towel, paper towel, paper towel, poo.

[WesD]

Plant Berberis. 

[Rough Hewn]

 
Make friends with the dog; send long messages to owner by tying them to the dog's collar.
Send turds back to owner by putting in a bag and tying to collar.
Adopt dog, train it and take it for walks until it takes you home to meet it's owner: encourage dog to crap on owner's lawn.
Don't punish the dog for being a dog.
It seems to like you: be nice.

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Make friends with dog using bits of dried sausage.
Then as above.
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[Bunzena]

I can understand you're frustration!

 

As a dog has an amazing sense of smell - we used that as the basis of our strategy to stop a similar problem. We liberally sprayed the area with a mixture of citrus and creosote.  We covered the area that was being fouled - and then sprayed a 'barrier' line  across the drive.  This did seem to work.  The smell has to be very strong and long lasting.  A chemical smell is important too.

 

It needed repeating - but not for too long.  The dog moved on and did it's business elsewhere.  Dogs are creatures of habit.

 

I had heard another story.  It revolves around a couple who regularly left their dog in a car in a street while they went shopping.  The poor dog would bark and drive the neighbours mad.  So one enterprising guy fed the dog a sausage laced with laxative through the partly open car window.  They never left the dog there again. 

 

Not fair on the dog - so I'm not suggesting you adapt this approach...but...

 

As several people have already said - it's not the dog - it's the owner who is to blame. 

[Stubby]

I used to be just getting ready for work when I looked out the front to see a collie curling one down on my front lawn .  I knew the dog and was on nodding/hi terms with its owner .  I used to get it up with a shovel and loose it in the brambles in a field next to me . It became a regular habit , so one day I posted it through his letter box . Never happened again .  We still nodded hello  ....?