Owner/Pet Behavior (treatment, outside, walk, canines)

[Rowan123]

I don't have a problem with pee. I plant flowers near my mailbox and dogs pee on them all the time. My own dogs pee on the flowers in my backyard and they all manage to survive. I do try not to let them pee on people's flowers when I'm walking them but I'm not always successful. IMO what's much worse is cat urine, that stuff smells awful.

However, dog owners who don't pick up poop are the worst. My neighbor once let her dog come over and poop on my yard. I watched to dog do it and then go back across the street. I picked up the poop and rang her doorbell. When she answered, I handed it to her and said "I think this belongs to you." When I walk my dogs, I carry bags and pick up their poop.

[Ep-]

i have my dogs go before their walk, but they like to pee to leave their scent behind a few times on walks. i always make sure they go on a patch of grass and not flowers, mailbox, etc. most of the time since they have already gone before when they pee on their walks hardly anything comes out. but they feel like they are accomplishing something i guess.

it cant really be controlled. if your neighbor starts walking in the middle of your yard regularly to let the dog go then you have a problem. i never walk off the side walks myself.

[sj08054]

While this could become annoying, I wouldn't make a big deal out of it unless it becomes a habit. Habit meaning, is the dog consistently peeing in the same general area? If that is the case, I would confront the owner.

[pikabike]

Or get something that makes a noise like a shotgun. Then switch to other random, loud, startling sounds.

[cully]

I couldn't imagine walking a dog on someone's lawn. Can you try training the dog with something like deer b gone and eventually he won't return to your yard and you won't need to do it anymore?

[kab0906]

I never let my dog onto someone else's yard. The public grass, yes.

[HokieFan]

You can control where your dog pees. You keep them on a short leash and walk at a brisk pace. This prevents them from "marking". Dogs don't need to stop and pee a dozen times while walking. They mark instinctively to leave their scent behind.

This is what I do when our route takes us along people's property. For the first 1/3 of our walk, short leash, brisk walk, no stopping. During the middle of our walk, when we reach a common area, I'll lengthen the leash and slow down so he can stop, sniff, "mark", and poo. The last 1/3 of our walk, I shorten the leash and resume a brisk pace.

On the occasion when I see that he's about to pee on something that I don't want him to (like someone's garbage bin on the curb or someone's flowers), I'll tug his leash and he'll come along without peeing.

[dblackga]

OP, I understand your frustration, but I think you are overreacting a little. You probably haven't thought of all the stray dogs and cats that wander through your yard, not to mention many other animals that eliminate at will. I can almost guarantee you that the dog isn't eliminating "a pint" of urine on your flowers. If a dog was digging in your flowers, or leaving poop behind, then yes, I'd be angry. But a little pee? Nope.

A healthy husky weighing 60 lbs. (27 kilos) produces about 2 ml/kilo an hour. That's 27x2 - 54 ml per hour, and about 1,296 ml. per day. At 473 ml. per pint, that's about 2.7 pints in a 24 hour period. The average indoor dog goes out 3-4 times a day, which means that there's less than a pint for each walk or outing. Most of the urine is eliminated in the first leg lift, usually in the owners yard within 10-15 yards of the owners front door. :-) (For example, we let our 40 lb. dog out in the backyard for a few minutes before taking him on a walk, to give him a chance to eliminate.) Dogs mark their territories (which, in the dog's mind, extends far beyond their yard) with a small amount of pee and leave their "business card" in other areas. Often, the pee is to cover up other smells that they detect and assert their ownership. Other times, the pee gives a lot of information to other dogs, such as sex, age, rank, sexual availability, etc. Such marking is a small amount, usually 2-3 teaspoons at most.

I think it's fair to ask the dog's owner not to allow the dog to pee on your flowers. But I don't think a couple of teaspoons of urine on the grass is cause for distress.

[David A Stone]

Many dog owners say that their dogs are just as much a part of their family as their kids are.


Do they allow their kids to **** on other people's lawns, also ?

[animalcrazy]

I have two male dogs that pee all over my flowers in the back yard. They haven't killed anything yet in over ten years. We live in a village and I walk my dogs frequently. I do not let them pee in peoples flower beds. I certainly don't want them crushing plants and destroying some ones work. My boys know the routine. Pee on this tree, pee on this fire hydrant, pee on the curb. Head into someones flowers? They get a strong NO! I understand your frustration.

I don't understand the entitled mentality some dog owners have by letting their dogs defecate and leaving the mess behind for someone else to clean up. We were at a dog friendly hotel that supplied bags and a place to deposit the mess. I had to walk my dogs off of the property because we would have been stepping in mess after mess. I had no choice but to let them do their business on private property. Yes I cleaned it up, as should all of those other ignorant pet owners should have done on that hotel property.

I love my dogs and all dogs for that matter, but there has to be consideration on the part of the owners for those who don't like dogs. I know I didn't appreciate cleaning up pile after pile in my flower bed in the ally. If your dog heists it's leg on my fence back there? Whatever. The rain or watering will clean it up.