Someone is letting their dog shi* all over the neighborhood and I think its puposeful. St. Johns between Underhill and Washington has become on big brown skidmark. What can we do?? Those signs (No pooping) are up all over the block as are new "Curb you Dog" signs, but nothing seems to help. I have a dog, so I'm sympathetic to dog owners, but this crap has got to stop. What to do? What to do???
Drano Meow Wars Veteran
Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 1559
Thu Jan 04, 07 9:45 pm EST
All you can really do at this point is try to catch the jerk red-handed. Get a subtle cell-phone shot of pwner and dog, and make a bunch of copies in the style of a wanted poster to put all over the lamposts.
pensodyssey It's only springtime.
Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 593
Thu Jan 04, 07 10:17 pm EST
What could be the cause of this dog pop vendetta? _________________ Smacks of affectation.
All you can really do at this point is try to catch the jerk red-handed. Get a subtle cell-phone shot of pwner and dog, and make a bunch of copies in the style of a wanted poster to put all over the lamposts.
And post it here, of course.
armchair_warrior retsop cixelsyd
Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 5800 Location: boondocks
Fri Jan 05, 07 2:32 am EST
hehe that be great plaster his mug all over and hope to shame him to death! _________________ Fight white guilt and injustice by going to a Native American casino and gamble your money away.
Sterling betw. Wash and Underhill is really bad too. Not only is it all over the sidewalk from end to end, someone apparently lets a dog or dogs crap up and down the actual street so anyone getting into their car from the street side can step in it. I don't see what's so hard about picking up after a dog. Here's a resource:
"Dogs owners are required to pick up after their dogs (Health Code Section 161.03). To report dog owners who don't scoop their dogs' poop, call the City's Sanitation Action Center at 212-219-8090."
WhyFi Staid and Dull
Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 4389 Location: In the Groove
Fri Jan 05, 07 8:42 am EST
It seems to be bad all over, right about now. My suspicion - these are the same people that never pick up shit during the winter, but with an acute lack of snow this year, it's all the more noticeable. _________________ ...not that there's anything wrong with that.
pitu Fake Buddhist
Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 6489 Location: Utopian Park Slope
Fri Jan 05, 07 8:49 am EST
WhyFi wrote:
It seems to be bad all over, right about now. My suspicion - these are the same people that never pick up shit during the winter, but with an acute lack of snow this year, it's all the more noticeable.
weird that that phenomenon would kick in when it's not actually COLD out
Drano Meow Wars Veteran
Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 1559
Fri Jan 05, 07 9:34 am EST
WhyFi wrote:
It seems to be bad all over, right about now. My suspicion - these are the same people that never pick up shit during the winter, but with an acute lack of snow this year, it's all the more noticeable.
Not to go all semi off-topic, but why do people not pick up in the winter?
whereisscott Master of the Brooklynverse
Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: 8
Fri Jan 05, 07 3:29 pm EST
I live on Lincoln btwn Wash. and Underhill and it's just as bad. My roommate has called 311 multiple times, but they just blow sunshine up her ass with the usual "We'll send someone out to monitor". Yeah. Right.
I think we might have to start a Neighborhood Defecation Watch. Catch this Mad Pooper before he strikes again.
sje deleted by user
Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 954 Location: out of here
Fri Jan 05, 07 7:18 pm EST
As someone who's gotten verbal crap from people when they see me walking my own two small dogs down the street, I heartily encourage you to get a phonecam shot of the offender, if at all possible!! I ALWAYS pick it up, and jackasses like this are making it tough for the rest of us!
Mamacita Stuck in the middle with you
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 7603
Fri Jan 05, 07 11:09 pm EST
The WORST is when it's late at night and you're walking home, and you KNOW that there was, in the morning, literal crap-land-mines out there. Sooo, your walking home trying to remember which side and section they where at so you don't step in it! Urrrrrg!
On 4th st. (I know, not PH) It gets so bad it's like I'm freekin playing hopscotch just to walking down the street.
Anotherdayinbkln i am number one.
Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 200 Location: Washington Av @ Montgomery
Sat Jan 06, 07 1:16 am EST
its really bad on washington btwn Eastern Pkwy and Montgomery too!! its everywhere!! where are the poop police issues $350-1000 fines as the signs warn?!
I noticed this morning that this problem is everywhere. Sterling between butler and flatbush - the entire way down. I thought how I personally haven't seen it this bad since the 70s. _________________ I believe in peace, bitch.
vanilla Carneviento Devotee
Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 1434
Sat Jan 06, 07 1:33 pm EST
hhmmm... what if you know certian neighbors are doing it, you don't know their names but you know where they live?
RatBoy Newbie
Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Posts: 6
Sat Jan 06, 07 11:18 pm EST
I have seen one of the culprits in action repeatedly in the St Johns/Sterling/Washington area. I really think that he couldn't care less...
RBG Local
Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 286
Mon Jan 08, 07 12:55 pm EST
I have intelligence on who one of the culprits is, too. I've been told that its the guy who owns the unleashed pitbull (Angel) and a few other dogs. I also suspect its the people with all of the dogs in the old laundymat on the corner of St. Johns and Underhill. I think we should start a neighborhood defecation watch too. I'm serious. Get out your cameraphones....
Mamacita Stuck in the middle with you
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 7603
Mon Jan 08, 07 1:07 pm EST
Not to bring up the argument again on whether it is right or not to let dogs piss/crap in tree beds.... however I did see this young gal walking her little dog a while back. There was a small gate around a tree and someone had planted ivy inside. The dog owner let her dog climb inside the ivy bed and paw all around it before taking a dump in it. At least she scooped it up afterwards. But what about the piss and crap smeared behind? What if the apartment owner had decided to garden that day and finds a stinky surprise?
Rude if you think about it, obviously she didn't.
jayce Human Shield
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 459
Mon Jan 08, 07 1:40 pm EST
just a random thought... isn't part of the responsibility also with the owner of the building? I mean, it sucks that people aren't picking up after themselves. But if they don't doesnt it then fall to the landlord to take care of it or else get one of those dirty sidewalk violations from the dept of sanitation.
i agree that the person who is not picking up after their dog should be reprimanded and all, but just leaving it there for days and for people to step in is just as bad. and my guess is the person who owns the property there probably walks by it even more than all of us do.
Mamacita Stuck in the middle with you
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 7603
Mon Jan 08, 07 3:40 pm EST
If it's in front of my place, yeah, I clean it up. I'm personally too grossed out to leave it there and let it get stomped all over the street. I'd hope the other tenants or neighbors would feel the same, but from the state of the street I'd say no.
Funny, though, I think my side of the street has more stoop/street lights and then the other side. The other side ends up getting more dog crap.
As someone who's gotten verbal crap from people when they see me walking my own two small dogs down the street, I heartily encourage you to get a phonecam shot of the offender, if at all possible!! I ALWAYS pick it up, and jackasses like this are making it tough for the rest of us!
I'm sorry that you've gotten crap just for having dogs. It makes no sense.
rockhound LEASH YOU DOGS!
Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 129 Location: Lincoln & Underhill PH
Tue Jan 09, 07 6:22 pm EST
It always seems to be the Rottweiler owners who leave behind the crap. Those dogs shiat more than humans. You need a shovel and a truck to clean up after them.
It only takes one lazy moron with one dog pooping twice daily to turn a city block into a shiatpile.
The laundrymat dogs do not venture off their block except to go to the park. Imagine all the off leash dogs crapping in the park, at night when it's too dark to find the poo and pick it up, and the owners pretend they can't see what's going on. I think that's just as disgusting as dogs crapping on the sidewalk. Now that the city has awarded the offleash extremist carte blanche to use Prospect Park as a dog toilet, ain't no way I'm going to relax and lounge on the grass there again.
New York has all these wonderful pooper scooper and leash laws, but very little enforcement. Only one out of five dogs is licensed in NYC, and that's just one example of poor animal control policing. Then, when some idiot allows his nasty ill-trained nuisance dog to maul someone, you get lazy, stupid politicians like Vallone calling for breed bans. It drives me meshuga!
chrispy Newbie
Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Posts: 33
Wed Jan 10, 07 1:51 pm EST
I stepped in shit on Underhill between Lincoln and St. John's a few weeks ago and spent twenty minutes cleaning my shoes outside my building so as not to track it all over my apartment. All the while I harbored an elaborate fantasy of finding the asshole that's not scooping, following him (or her) and his dog, picking up the shit with some newspaper and rubbing it into his (or her) hair. I'm betting that would make an impression.
After a while the rage subsided and I decided it wouldn't be a good idea, but I'd love to see some posters around the neighborhood with pictures of non-scoopers. I'll have my cameraphone at the ready should he opportunity strike.
Drano Meow Wars Veteran
Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 1559
Wed Jan 10, 07 2:01 pm EST
I hate to be a pain in the neck, but I'm still curious - why does cold weather (apparently) make a difference as to whether people pick up after the dog or not? Maybe there's some common sense angle I'm missing.
crustythor Regular
Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 75 Location: heights
Wed Jan 10, 07 2:42 pm EST
Mamacita wrote:
The dog owner let her dog climb inside the ivy bed and paw all around it before taking a dump in it. At least she scooped it up afterwards. But what about the piss and crap smeared behind? What if the apartment owner had decided to garden that day and finds a stinky surprise?
The average lifespan of a New York City street tree is just five years...and one of the biggest contributors, besides neglect and people bricking up the tree pits, is dog urine. 10,000 street trees in New York die every year. Please, I implore dog owners, DO NOT let your dogs pee on street trees...they have enough to contend with.
izisharp Insider
Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 358 Location: Washington Ave
Wed Jan 10, 07 3:01 pm EST
vanilla wrote:
hhmmm... what if you know certian neighbors are doing it, you don't know their names but you know where they live?
sounds like the makings of the perfect, vengeful prank, doesn't it?
Laura B Insider
Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 367 Location: kitty corner
Wed Jan 10, 07 3:36 pm EST
apollonia666 wrote:
Drano wrote:
All you can really do at this point is try to catch the jerk red-handed. Get a subtle cell-phone shot of pwner and dog, and make a bunch of copies in the style of a wanted poster to put all over the lamposts.
Cameraphone at the ready, huh?
This is going to be a community policing a la http://nyc.mybikelane.com/
which I think is AWESOME, for the record.
I keep my phone at the ready for that...
Mamacita Stuck in the middle with you
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 7603
Wed Jan 10, 07 3:40 pm EST
Oooo and I just got a new camera and my desk is by the window facing the main street.
Neighborhood poop watch here I come!! _________________ (\__/)
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poot Newbie
Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 49
Wed Jan 10, 07 9:31 pm EST
I don't think dog owners are less likely to pick up in the winter. Maybe the occasional snow just makes the droppings seem more prevalent. It certainly highlights urine spots. I personally find it easier to pick up in cool weather because the stench of a fresh one is somewhat dulled.
I am baffled by dog owners who don't pick up. Like someone said earlier, it is likely - since they are clearly walking their dogs down the same blocks repeatedly - that they are the ones trekking through the minefield. Don't get it.
pitu Fake Buddhist
Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 6489 Location: Utopian Park Slope
I hate to be a pain in the neck, but I'm still curious - why does cold weather (apparently) make a difference as to whether people pick up after the dog or not? Maybe there's some common sense angle I'm missing.
I absolutely find this to be the case. People get sloppier and grumpier about picking up in the cold weather. Especially at night. Especially in the snow. As a dog owner who, well...NOTICES, that is what I find.
I can't begin to speculate what *they* are thinking.
I have to pick up, so you have to pick up -- that's what I'M thinking. _________________ maar de oesters zijn zo lekker!
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sounds like the makings of the perfect, vengeful prank, doesn't it?