Comments on: When anti-poop signs go overboard

By: Carolyn & Margaret

Carolyn & Margaret — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:50:00 +0000

We are about to run this Dog doo article in our neighborhood newsletter…
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Dear Dog Lovers…

It’s very nice that you take out the pooches for a walk/run around the neighborhood.
Now be nice to your neighbors as well and clean up after them!

1. Please take a bag on your walk or run. If your dog(s) likes to “go” more than once, take several bags.
2. Pick up the dog waste with the bag: put your hand in the bag, pick up the waste then turn the back inside out, rolling it off your hand and capturing the dog waste inside.
3. Take the waste bag(s) home. If you don’t want to carry used waste bags in your hand, bring another little bag with handles to put it in. I have several nice ones I will donate to the cause.
4. Throw it in your garbage can or empty your carry bag in your garbage can.

We don’t have dogs. We don’t want to clean up after your dog. Please do not leave your dog waste/waste bags in our yards, thrown toward our garbage cans, in our driveways, in the gutters by our house and so forth.

We are avid gardeners. We don’t want to be stepping in your dog’s waste or cleaning up after an animal that is not even ours. Nor do we want to put up big NO DOG WASTE signs (kind of a no brainer, don’t you think?) or install dog waste disposal units in each and every front yard. Some of us have cats: we already clean the litterbox and pay the vet bills for them.

If you are not prepared to pick up your dog’s waste, we suggest you:

1. Fence your backyard.
2. Make the entire thing a dog waste area.
3. Confine your dog(s) to it.

Or get rid of the dog entirely if you don’t want barking, cleaning up dog waste and the other down sides of being a dog owner. But you want to keep your “best friend” right? Fine with us! Just don’t expect us to happily clean up.

We will be visiting dog owners that we see out walking with no bag. When the dog/bitch has to go, he/she has to go! If you don’t have a bag “on you,” we know you plan to leave it for us to clean up : ( We will offer a neighborly reminder plus our leftover shopping bags and carrier bags with handles for your convenient recycling as dog poop carriers.

And if you notice someone leaving dog waste in your or a neighbor’s yard or see someone out walking without a bag, call us (yes, it can be anonymously!) and we will go visit that person with a friendly reminder and bags.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 07 May 2008 02:04:02 +0000

It is amazing how many pet owners don’t pick up after their dog. This is a huge national problem that many people are not aware of. We sell more no dog pooping signs than actual dog signs. Pet owners should always remember, “If your dog poops, please scoop”.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:41:23 +0000

The best dog poo sign I ever saw:

“Please don’t let your dog SH** here.”

(The word was spelled out, obviously.)

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:00:54 +0000

I have a Toy Poodle, and yes, she leaves tiny poops, but NO, they are not cute.
I have a poop bag holder attached to her leash so any time she poops I always have baggies handy.
Sometimes large piles of poop mysteriously appear on our lawn. My dad wants to make a sign that reads, “My dog weighs 8 pounds. Where did this 9 pound pile of s*** come from?”

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:03:59 +0000

Our neighbors have a mini Yorkie who they never clean up after. (Anything tiny is cute, right?) More than once, he has left a pile of poo on our welcome mat. Yes, tiny dog poo on our welcome mat!

By: Kelly J

Kelly J — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:26:44 +0000

When I was younger, my dad bought us this gadget pooper-scooper that was black plastic, and when you squeezed the handle it opened. It was a few feet long, so you’d just place over the poop while open, close, and it would scoop up the poop. Well besides getting quite grimy, we were pretty young, and once while walking home I was swinging it around, and accidentally flung the contents onto my neighbor’s door. He was a super nice reverend. I felt pretty horrible. But besides that one instance, I always have and always will pick up my dog’s poo- one way or another.

By: frumpiefox

frumpiefox — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:03:11 +0000

There’s a house near where I live that has a “tombstone” made out of plywood with the lettering: “Here lies the last dog who pooped on my lawn.”

This is a cousin to the non-poo sign I saw that reads: “Here lies the last S. O. B. who left the gate open” (this was at a farm.)

By: Molly W.

Molly W. — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:32:47 +0000

Along the same lines as what Kathy said, my (passive-agressive) brother-in-law will scoop up the poop, place it in the middle of the sidewalk, and write a note in sidewalk chalk saying “Thank you for this present. Here’s one for you.”

I’m not sure if it’s had any effect yet, but I think it’s pretty funny.

By: JP

JP — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:39:33 +0000

I had a woman neighbor who would walk her large German Shephard at 6:30-7:00 in the morning thinking no one was awake to see her and leave large mounds under my roses everyday. I had small children at the time that did not need exposed to that. I mailed her a copy of our city code and a photo of her pilings and she carried a bag with her after that.

By: Skeletorinyourcloset

Skeletorinyourcloset — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:32:42 +0000

Read as: “Warning! Idiot holding dog to crap here: Well, if I catch idiot,
(they will) have choice of eating crap, (or) of having idiots head shot off. I suggest you check Sarasota County dog nuisance law. Brandy”