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.

Comments

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

Placing an object that is classified as trash is littering. About the only objects that are "worse" than actual littering is if the item is some sort of item that is detrimental to public health: drugs, hypodermic needles, radioactive materials, something with intrinisic anti-health properties (um, samples of pus from someone with ebola, etc). Once poo is put into a bag, it becomes litter.

Call Somerville's 311 line to get more details if you wish, I can't see it classified as anything except litter at that point. Heck, it would even make sense to me to have dog poo that isn't picked up classified under the litter laws too.