Reply #41: Don't threaten people and they won't pull guns on you. It's reeelly very simple. I have 2 dogs...

[northernlights]

when I'm walking them, I don't let them pee or poop on the neighbor's lawns.

If one of them did and a neighbor complained I'd APOLOGIZE for my dog's behavior. I wouldn't yell abuse at him. The simple fact is nobody's dog, however much they may love them, has a right to indiscriminately crap on their neighbor's lawns.

Do they do it? Of course. They're dogs. You can't control them every instant and sometimes they do something they aren't supposed to. That does not justify treating the property owner like dirt.

A lawn may be a trifle to you. But you don't know what it means to the person who tends it. It might be his only bit of turf...something he worked for his whole fucking life.

None of us really appreciates being crapped on. And letting your dog crap on somebody else's property -- and then throwing a temper tantrum when they complain about it -- is effectively crapping on that person, by proxy.