Writes Jenny in San Diego: “There are four of these identical laminated signs posted at face height around the tiny front lawn of a house in my neighborhood. The lawn actually would look fine if it weren’t for the rude signs.”
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DO YOU KNOW THESE DOGS??
79 responses so far ↓
#1
Ely North
Bitches didn’t pee on that lawn.
I did.
Nov 1, 2012 at 9:39 pm rating: 34
#2
SirenS
Truly, “lawn” and “grass” each deserve their own
line.
Nov 1, 2012 at 9:46 pm rating: 16
#3
joshua
The world is my urinal.
Nov 1, 2012 at 9:59 pm rating: 7
#4
shwo!
Notewriter has 100 problems.
Nov 1, 2012 at 9:59 pm rating: 90
#5
Trekkie Gal
I don’t think the signs are rude. Big dead spots in the grass look like crap. I’d be pissed if I was the homeowner too!
Nov 1, 2012 at 10:09 pm rating: 27
#6
juju-skittles
Looks more like astro turf. Or perhaps it’s lawn grubs. Or UFO markings. Or remnants from a gypsy campsite. Perhaps he made the markings himself, inadvertently, by leaving rocks on his lawn, then rolling them away. Or a million other things that are more interesting. Where’s your imagination?
Nov 1, 2012 at 11:48 pm rating: 4
#7
SeeYouInTea
I don’t know much about dogs (never had a pet besides a fish), but is their piss that acidic to “bleach” the grass?
Nov 1, 2012 at 11:50 pm rating: 1
#8
Sandy
Female dog urine will definitely burn up the lawn…I only learned this when I got my first female dog…I don’t think the signs are rude at all…I think people who allow their dogs to poop and pee on other people’s lawns are rude.
Nov 2, 2012 at 1:23 am rating: 45
#9
Polergeist
I especially like how the notewriter felt that everybody reading the sign would be too stupid to take a peak at the lawn themselves to observe the evidence, so they took pictures of the lawn and placed them around the lawn.
Nov 2, 2012 at 2:46 am rating: 7
#10
Stan Brown
My sympathies are with the homeowner.
Dog owners seem to feel that the world should be rearranged to suit their pets, with no need for the owner to take any responsibility. Why don’t they take their dogs to destroy their own damn lawns?
Nov 2, 2012 at 7:53 am rating: 14
#11
havingfitz
Somewhere in CA, a pimp has noticed this sign and is currently berating his employees for their unhygienic actions.
Nov 2, 2012 at 8:12 am rating: 23
#12
Alice
Whether it “looked fine” to you or not, it obviously didn’t to him. Hopefully the signs have attracted some attention from careless dog owners– piddle spots are HORRIBLE.
Nov 2, 2012 at 10:50 am rating: 6
#13
raichu
I understand the note writer’s upset, but they really just made their lawn look worse. Also, calling every one else’s dog a “bitch” was not a good move and personally it would not make me very inclined to cooperate (I love my dog something fierce. She prefers to use the bathroom in our own yard, though)
Nov 2, 2012 at 11:56 am rating: 2
#14
Adriana
I live in a high rise that only allows cats. The one next door allows dogs, too, though. Even though the building set up designated enclosed spaces with a baggy dispenser, I am still walking through piles of smashed dog crap and puddles of dog piss whenever I go past on the sidewalk. I should also mention that there’s a big park less than a block away. Dog owners, I know your dogs can’t help themselves, but you can. Don’t let them walk onto another’s lawn in the first place. If they shit on the sidewalk, PICK IT UP.
Nov 2, 2012 at 12:10 pm rating: 16
#15
Ace of Space
My dog is an outdoor dog.
Nov 2, 2012 at 5:01 pm rating: 3
#16
Dane Zeller
My dog regularly pees in other peoples’ lawns. Wait, we live by a wheat field. Mysterious crop designs have been sighted there. You don’t suppose…no…it couldn’t be…Ralph, my yellow lab!
Nov 2, 2012 at 5:32 pm rating: 7
#17
Vulpis
My solution to the whole cat/dog problem? Buy a snake. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of one of them ruining a lawn, or keeping the neghborhood up at night by yowling, barking, and/or f***ing. A Boa or a Burmese Python, while lovely are probably a poor choice since they grow to a size that requires you to keep mice and/or rabbits as well (then again, if they get loose they could ‘solve’ the problem of that really noisy chihuahua next door…), but something like the Hognose would be great– they don’t grow too large, have an adorable little upturned nose, hood like a cobra despite being a constrictor, and have this amusing inability to properly ‘play dead’ (it will flip on it’s back…and if you turn it right-side up, it’ll promptly turn right over again). Spending an afternoon with a smaller snake curled up quietly around your arm using it as a tree branch, half-dozing while you read is surprisingly relaxing.
Nov 3, 2012 at 9:31 am rating: 4
#18
t-rex
If the owner didn’t treat his lawn too so many chemicals, a little dog urine wouldn’t hurt it. Seriously, owner, you need to stop using so much fertilizer. That is why the urine is killing your grass.
Nov 3, 2012 at 12:11 pm rating: 2
#19
t-rex
My dog never left a single spot, neither do the neighbor hood cats hunting mice between the raised garden beds. (Those cats have left other fecal presents as well.)
I still think it’s up to the owner to see how they are treating the grass, and determine what kind of grass was planted. Some grasses are just weaklings that deserve to die. Darwinism at its finest in the grass world.
Nov 3, 2012 at 3:25 pm rating: 3
#20
anotherfool
I’ve read that if you feed your dog tomato juice, its pee won’t be that acidic. While this makes no sense to me, I thought I’d pass it along.
I’m all for pet owner responsibility, and off-leash dogs in town drive me bonkers, but lawns are an ecological scourge. Down with lawns! Don’t make me drink your carcinogenic lawn chemicals; don’t run your noisy mower all the time, put in native and interesting plants, and let the poor leaves sit there all winter–they’re trying to fertilize your lawn, so leave them be.
Nov 3, 2012 at 8:58 pm rating: 6
#21
bramka
I thought only male dogs urine destroys lawns…
Nov 4, 2012 at 7:25 am rating: 0
#22
Lunatyx
I don’t think the signs are rude. I think it’s alot more rude for a dog to pee on someone’s lawn besides their owners.
Nov 5, 2012 at 2:16 am rating: 6
#23
dani
I have to say, I’ve had two dogs over the past 18 years, male and female (though both were spayed/neutered) who peed on our lawn, and around the neighbourhood (in a neighbourhood where there are a lot of dogs) and I have to say that I have never had a problem with burn spots, on my lawn or any of the neighbours. (with the exception of the neighbours who cut their lawns too short during heatwaves which burns huge patches). Maybe the grass up in Canada is just hardier, or it rains more, but I think there’s got to be more at play here than just dog urine.
Still, my dogs are only allowed to do their business on the tiny strip between the road and the sidewalk anyway. Letting a animals wander all across someone’s lawn is rather rude.
Nov 6, 2012 at 8:50 pm rating: 1
#24
StrangerInTheNight
I’m impressed, does not look like anyone here, know that when a dog pisses on the lawn, then why the grass looks dead out, that there is so much fertilizer to pee, that grass is “burned” by over fertilization.
Nov 21, 2012 at 1:52 am rating: 0
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