Jane in Boston says this note appeared on Tomio’s bedroom door, at cat’s-eye level. “Given that I’m pretty sure cats can’t read, it’s the ultimate passive-aggressive sentiment,” Jane says, “but a cat shitting on your bed is pretty passive aggressive, too. What a tangled web we weave.”
Meanwhile, a submitter in Cornwall, England spotted this note (again, at pet’s-eye level) on the front door of a house. “It was unclear what the dog had done, how the notewriter expected the dog to read this, or how ‘Diane’ was filming the dog,” our submitter says. “There was no sign of a camera.”
And yet, it’s this commandment —posted by a neighbor of Marissa in San Francisco — that tickles me the most.
![Its [sic] Prohibited for dogs to poop](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4007/4529171628_1a78d35129.jpg "Its [sic] Prohibited for dogs to poop")
UPDATE: A bonus note (via Anthonio in Seattle), from…Dirt.
related: Excuse me, sir? I think you’ve dropped something.
(I hope, anyway. Brain is fried and I may not make any sense to anyone but myself.)
70 responses so far ↓
#1
zenvelo
oh the doggies won’t be able to understand that last one without the apostrophe!
Jun 28, 2010 at 8:28 pm rating: 16
#2
jinx
Marissa’s neighbor better be ready to clean up some dead dogs.
Jun 28, 2010 at 8:37 pm rating: 4
#3
J Smith
But dogs and cats can’t read.
Jun 28, 2010 at 8:38 pm rating: 5
#4
Zhuria
Becoming tired of my hamster getting stuck behind the toilet in her ball, I affixed a sign at hamster-eye level on the bottom of the bathroom door. “NO HAMSTERS”.
Like I thought she could open the door or something.
Jun 28, 2010 at 8:49 pm rating: 14
#5
mereubu
oh they know.
also i love that it’s “love” diane.
Jun 28, 2010 at 8:52 pm rating: 2
#6
gladystopia
Iin defense of the cat in the first one…it’s entirely possible that it was an unintentional deposit. I have a long-haired cat who occasionally gets…well, cling-ons, I guess you’d call them…and they tend to fall off in fairly inconvenient places. Now, if the note-writer had to clean up a gigantic, obviously-deliberate pile…yeah, then I’m Team Note-Writer. Otherwise, Team Cat.
After all, if you DON’T defend them, THEN they’ll poop in your shoes.
Jun 28, 2010 at 8:53 pm rating: 8
#7
shwonline
Note 1: When queefs go wrong.
Jun 28, 2010 at 9:03 pm rating: 0
#8
shwonline
Note 3: Triumph thinks your sign is great… FOR HIM TO POOP ON!
Jun 28, 2010 at 9:03 pm rating: 18
#9
shwonline
Notewriter 2 sounds like she’s actually stalking the dog…
Jun 28, 2010 at 9:05 pm rating: 4
#10
jinx
Are humans still allowed to piss and shit where ever they want?
Jun 28, 2010 at 9:05 pm rating: 1
#11
Aksi
It’s best for dogs to just slowly build up as much poop as they can. Reduces discomfort for humans, you know.
Jun 28, 2010 at 9:06 pm rating: 0
#12
Wendy
If you are a cat & you sh!t in a hooman’s bed, you deserve what you get.
Jun 28, 2010 at 9:46 pm rating: 1
#13
TippingCows
Its prohibited foredogged two poops.
But if it’s prohibited to poop, then is the dog allowed to explode instead? Because if you don’t allow either, you’ve put the dog in an unfair predicament.
Jun 28, 2010 at 10:49 pm rating: 2
#14
Canthz_B
Why do people with loose bowels always blame the damned cat?
It’s so much more believable to adopt a senior citizen and blame them.
Jun 28, 2010 at 10:50 pm rating: 7
#15
??
extra credit: Dear literate dog,
Jun 28, 2010 at 11:20 pm rating: 3
#16
1948goa
Can anybody suggest how can I tell my 17 year old blind and deaf cat that she must stop peeing and shitting on my bed ?
No aggressive suggestions, please !
Uccia
Jun 29, 2010 at 2:38 am rating: 0
#17
Rillion
I think I love Tomio. Between his (?) handwriting, his language, and his use of italics on the word “in” (would it be less egregious if the cats had shat on, around, or adjacent to his bed?), he sounds like a person I’d like to know. While the note might be a passive-aggressive statement to someone other than the cats, to me it reads like a simple venting of cat poop-inspired anger.
Jun 29, 2010 at 2:59 am rating: 4
#18
The Elf
I have been shat on by a kitten. It’s not as much fun as it sounds. If my cats could read, I would have left a passive-agressive note too. Maybe his cats are smarter than mine.
Jun 29, 2010 at 6:29 am rating: 1
#19
Natalie
This kinda reminds me of one time I was walking my dog, carrying a bag of her recently deposited poop. She was sniffing in a neighbor’s yard and the neighbor leaned out her door and called the equivalent of “hidy ho, neighbor!” I thought she was being friendly and said hello back. Then she said “I hope he’s not going to, um, go in my yard!” I waved the bag of poop at her and said no, she already went.
While I totally respect what she’s saying, I still felt slightly odd about the whole interaction.
Jun 29, 2010 at 11:46 am rating: 0
#20
Tiffany
Love the dog note!
Jun 29, 2010 at 1:31 pm rating: 0
#21
Jen
Did anyone else notice the extreme filth on Tomio’s door? Ew!
Jun 29, 2010 at 11:30 pm rating: 1
#22
April
My husband once left the most awesome passive aggressive note to someone over this type of stuff! He got some pic of George W Bush flipping the bird with a pissed off look on his face then typed under it “Thanks for letting your giant dog take a giant shit in our yard.”
He did this after the dog was running loose which is a big no no in our city and came into our yard and took a huge steaming stinky crap. Then my husband followed the dog back to their house and he was going to talk to her about it and she slammed the door in his face when she saw him coming. Then he knocked on the door for several minutes and she would not answer it.
So he made this note and taped it on her door. The funny part was her little boy might have seen it before she did. Good enough. Sure enough after that she never let her dogs run loose again! I about vomited cleaning up the dog poop. It was so nasty! I have twins and not once did their poop ever make me almost vomit like that dog’s did. So gross. I also called animal control on the bitch because not only did her dogs poop in our yard, they have also growled at us. Not cool.
Jul 2, 2010 at 8:38 pm rating: 1
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