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

get off my lawn!

[haptotrope.livejournal.com]

curiously. Is this the driveway that cuts through hudson to highland?

here (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=highland+and+porter+somerville&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=31.646818,68.642578&ie=UTF8&ll=42.391699,-71.109761&spn=0.00045,0.001047&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=42.391747,-71.109846&panoid=oR8ZfpMOKE9HrKINJMLj7g&cbp=12,223.4494691410325,,0,6.498079385403323) to here? (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=highland+and+porter+somerville&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=31.646818,68.642578&ie=UTF8&ll=42.391276,-71.110212&spn=0.00045,0.001047&t=h&z=20&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=42.39122,-71.110212&panoid=mglqp8gwgqYwnEqgEtdJ7g&cbp=12,48.16901408450705,,0,5.57618437900128)

If so, I believe it is a public walkway (or perhaps something similar?), and she may not have any say about who cuts through.

Re: get off my lawn!

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

That's the driveway I thought of, too, but I don't believe that's anything but private property.

Re: get off my lawn!

[haptotrope.livejournal.com]

I remember looking on an old city map (though of course I can't remember which one), and noting that this was a public walkway/passageway, and labeled as such. (Currently it is listed as a boundary in the quitclaim deed for 255 Highland ave, and the fencing of 251 doesn't imply property ownership of the passageway either)

I'm such a property geek.
:-)