Sorry for the title.  I have just returned from our morning walk to find a poo on our drive for the second day running.  I have cleared them up but this is obviously not going to be a one off and I am quite annoyed that someone is allowing their dog to do this and want to stop it before it happens everyday.  It is actually on our property, not on the pavement next to it.  I don't want to 'upset' the owner too much obviously, I don't like confrontation, and wondered whether anyone has any ideas on how to deal with this.  Short of keeping a look out I won't know who it is but thought I could put a note on the wall, would that be a good idea?  I thought something like 'To the person who is allowing their dog to mess in our drive, could you please be a responsible owner and either prevent this or clear the mess up, take it home and bin it -poo bags attached'.
Grateful for any suggestions.
Best wishes
Alex

I had the same with someone letting their dog foul on my drive. I put a big notice up suggesting that I would be keeping watch on where they live then inviting my Great Dane to go and do the same on their doorstep. Never happened again :D

You could also get a big sign that says beware of the dogs!  It is annoying and irresponsible though of the other person to do that.

put a sighn up saying cctv in operation.should stop it

The CCTV idea is a good one, I will try that.  I just wish I knew who it was, I thought we knew everyone with dogs who walks down our road.  It's not a very big road and not very well used.  I just can't keep watching out all day.  Oh well I suppose there are worse things to worry about and I shouldn't get so worked up :)  Actually Chloe, friends just nearby have got their second Great Dane so I could actually use your idea although she's only 8 weeks so her poo won't be very impressive yet.  Khan's will though, he's enormous!

You could just put up a sign saying 'please clear up after your dog'. It's slightly less accusational towards just the one person and you could leave it up long term to discourage any would be messers. (you could leave some bags there for the first couple of days until the person in question gets the idea of carrying their own around with them).

:-)

Thanks Nitody, I like that very much.  Will try that first and hope for the best.

We have a problem a bit similar in that every so often a dog deposits huge poos just outside our gate on the pavement and i am a little concerned that people will think it is our dog (although she would never produce poo that size ). I also feel really cross because i know this same dog (has rather yellow poos, very recognisable) leaves deposits in the road near the school. I feel it gives the anti dog brigade more ammunition wherever it is.

I rather like Chloe's idea :D but dont know any Great Danes and have yet to discover who the person is. I reckon ours occurs late at night.

Lindsay
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I would use Nitody's idea but add a bit
'Clean up after your dog, I do, so can you!'

hee hee :-D That should do the trick!

p.s treacle you said Oh well I suppose there are worse things to worry about and I shouldn't get so worked up  but I disagree. It's bad enough people don't clean up after their dogs in public places, but on someone's private land is just totally unacceptable. If dogs are caught fouling council land there's a fine, but I don't know if this would work on someone else's private property. Why should you have to clear up after someone else? You may have little children (either visiting or your own) and you shouldn't have to worry about them falling in it on your own drive. I know you said you don't like confrontation, but if the 'polite' sign doesn't work, I really would be tempted to shame them (assuming you caught them). Good luck, and keep up the fight! We're all behind you  :-)

My neighbour - who did not like dogs-regularly found " little piles" on a load sand he had at the top of his drive- the lenght of four cars- for an extension he was building. He accused our dog but we assured him she was not allowed to go in anyone's garden, never mind foul it.

One night at 11pm he was  locking up when he saw a woman, who lived further along the road, come up his drive with her poodle on an lead. She stood and waited while it performed on the sand then went off down his drive and away.

I believe the air turned  blue!

We had a similar issue with the playing field in the middle of our estate. One of the owners of the houses surrounding it used to open their front door, let their dog out to perform without even going with it, then call it back in. The kids who play on the field were sick of it, and took matters into their own hands  - along the lines of nitody's suggestion - made leaflets on and posted them through all the doors on the estate so as not to be seen to be targeting one person,  "We might only be children, but we're responsible dog owners and pick up after our dogs. Surely it's not too much to ask adults to do the same?" They even found out the prices of nappy sacks at all the local supermarkets and listed them, along with info on the health issues surrounding dog mess. Cheeky perhaps, but hopefully it will shame the guilty party!

It would be soooooo coincidental if it was you, but driving to my mums today I saw a slate sign a couple of doors up with writing on it! It was propped up against the entrance to the driveway and had painted on it "Please clean up behind you dog" or something very similar! I, as a dog owner who cleans up after my dog was NOT offended. The sign was not offensive in any way and really got the point across, so go for it and put a notice up outside. With 2 small children and a daily school run, the dog mess is a daily obstacle course for us! I do not understand why people cannot clean up after their dogs? When you have children, you change their nappies and dispose of them; dogs are just like children and we have the same responsibility to them, so where is the problem? Will stop now, because this really winds me up.

>When you have children, you change their nappies and dispose of them;

Except for the disgusting oik who carefully tucked a dirty nappy on one of the shelves at the pet shop ... :insert retching emoticon here:

Some people at the end of my Dad's road used to let their OES's out to roam in the evenings and one of them always used to poo on my Dad's front lawn.

My Dad used to do a 'return to sender' by scooping the poo up on a spade, marching up the street with it and throwing it on the people's drive by their car!

No help to you as you don't know who is responsible, but it still makes me smile and cringe to myself when I think about my Dad walking up our road holding a shovel full of poo in front of him!