Dogs/neighbors, A crappy situation.

[purpless77.livejournal.com]

My friend lives a few streets over and she's been having a lot of problems with her neighbors and their dogs. First the neighbors were walking their dogs through her drive way. She spoke to them more then once telling them to stop and after speaking to them even caught them running off from the driveway once they saw her coming. She doesn't have a problem with them or dogs and didn't want to cause any. But also didn't want the smell and stains of urine and her land lord might assume one of them has a dog when none of them do as it is private property.
Now someone is throwing bags of dog crap into her drive way. Though she has an idea of a few it could be, with so many dogs now in the area she isn't 100% sure. There are also a few apartment buildings around and she isn't exactly sure of the exact apartment IF it is one of them. There are a few other suspects in the neighborhood as well. What if anything could she do about this? She was going to call Animal control but doesn't want to call on the wrong person. Should she report it anyways?
Thanks for any advice I can pass onto her.

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[purpless77.livejournal.com]

You obviously didn't read what I wrote. Reread it. She rents.
Her driveway is pretty much a yard too. They use it to pass through. The driveway is a lot longer then 8 feet. Again, it's not the walking as that doesn't seem to be an issue anymore. At least from what we know. It's the poop dropping.

Nobody said she screamed at them. She is not that type of person. If someone yells you nicely to stop what you're doing on private property but you continue to do it out of spite that is pure immaturity.

I wasn't the one who brought up finger printing, but a bag of smelly crap is A LOT different then a candy wrapper.

Again, please read what I'm typing before going off.

[purpless77.livejournal.com]

Ust wanted to clarify on something. What I mean by the waking not seeming like an issue any loner is it seems they don't walk the dog THROUGH the driveway anymore. However, they go in pretty deep to dump crap.

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

"yells at" and "screams" sort of mean the same thing to me, sorry if there is a difference in your book. Continuing to do something "out of spite" is not immaturity, if what they are doing is totally within the law and very annoying to curtail (i.e. if you're walking the dog, and the person demands that you to cross the busy street, walk on the other side of the street, then re-cross to get back to that side of the road after going around the house,) that is just plain irrational, and any mature person would ignore it.

With that said, it's also difficult to remedy the situation once it has risen to such proportions. This is a social issue (except for the littering aspect). Since the complaintant is renting, they may have to get their landlord involved if it's a tresspass issue.

[purpless77.livejournal.com]

I didn't say "yells at". It says "yells you", it was a typo on the keyboard the T is next to the Y. It's supposed to say "tells you".

It is immaturity, whether it is dropping dog crap or some other thing out of spite. Crossing a busy street and going all over the place isn't what these people would have to go through to get to their place NEXT door.

Since who ever is doing it, [the people who used to walk through or some other person] is walking pretty far in to drop the crap off, I'm thinking it could be a trespass issue. She said she is going to call 311 some time today.

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

From what you've said elsewhere, the driveway is not a standard driveway. Walking in or through the driveway may or may not be considered "tresspass": that's for the police and the landlord to decide after looking at the thing. Also, remember that poop bags are emminently "tossible" so it may be a litter thing, or it may be termed "illegal dumping". 311 is a good idea. I hope it can be cleared up. (as for my issue, I just stopped walking my dog. It was a poor decision, since I like walking around. But she was becoming quite irrational, like if she saw me out with the dog she'd drive her car down the street REALLY FAST and I thought she was going to run me over!)

[tfarrell.livejournal.com]

So, you're saying that you believed that this person attempted vehicular murder, and you didn't call the police?

Are you insane?