I got yelled at. Like a 5 year old acting up in public whose mom yells, "Stop that!" Straight up yelled at. No, it didn't happen at work, although it wouldn't be anything new.
I was walking the dog the other morning, and she proceeds to pop a squat and do her bizness. An older lady opens her front door and YELLS "Ma'am! Don't let your dog poop on my yard!"
Bella keeps doing her thing and I answer with "I have a bag to pick it up."
She yells again. "Don't let your dog poop on my yard! Once they do it, they keep doing it! Don't let your poop on my yard! Don't let your dog poop on my yard!"
I'm getting annoyed cause she won't shut up. I get the point, lady. I answer again. "See, I have a bag. I'm picking it up."
She keeps yelling until we're on the next block. Holy mackerel.
I was beyond pissed. It's not like I'm one of those dog walkers who lets their dog pop a squat and leave it. There are PLENTY of those in the neighborhood. Dog poop is everywhere. Sidewalk, yards, everywhere. It's gross. I have a little baggy attachment that hooks onto the leash. It's a fire hydrant that holds the poop bags, so they're always accessible. It's cute. Other dog walkers have even asked where I got it, cause they want one. Cute and functional.
I was doing my dog owner duty of picking up poop. And I got yelled out cause my dog wants to drop it. She's a dog, lady. That's what dogs do. This is a dog filled neighborhood. Accept it. So I guess she's going to sit by her front door and yell at every person whose dog stops in her yard.
A few blocks over, another house took a more tactful approach. They posted a sign on the back of their mailbox asking people to pick up their dog poop. It rhymed and was funny and made me laugh. That's fine.
But ole lady yelling like the character on Saturday Night Live (remember that?) was not cool.
I like my dad's response when I relayed the story to him. Go all old school and put a flaming bag of poo on her doorstep. Tempting.
7 hours ago
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I hate old women with a passion!!! I can't believe that I'm actually going to have to be one someday.
You know what you have to do right? Go back and take a shit in her yard.
I live in a pretty considerate neighborhood. Everyone owns dogs, or borrows them to walk around with. I even was backing out the driveway one morning for an early (or late) nosh at 2 AM, and this woman was walking with a Great Pyrannes, and probably (I didn't see it because it was too dark) her little terrier. Anyway, there are a lot of retired university widows, and it's part of their health and well-being to have canine companionship, to socialize with other dog-walkers, and great exercise. But, there's the odd one about that WILL yell at a dog owner who's dog goes natural. I remember the woman who yelled at me with the very same line of reasoning, the first and last time I walked past her house. She yelled out the upper window that she had just gotten the rose bush growing near her mailbox to bloom and that my dog's urine was going to kill it for sure. Ha! Ha! My dog is less than 25 lbs, she had nearly finished her walk and didn't have much more than the 'scent marker', and for sure, the woman with the rose bush could have put up a fence around it or a warning sign if she was so sure that a supposedly strongly acidic (at pH 6 not likely) liquid was going to kill her spindly rose plant. Besides, I was sure that woman was likely to become hoarse if she were to yell at everyone passing with a dog. On my cul-de-sac alone with 11 occupied homes, there are seven dogs that get walked at least three times daily.
Yea, I wonder what kind of things will happen to me to make me as crabby as that old woman.
Just curious, why can't your dog poop in your own yard?
Ha!! I totally agree with Phathead.
I agree with your Dad. Doesn't she know a little dog poop will make her grass greener? bahahahaha
im with guzzo, its your dog, let it poop at home..
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