I should hire my parents dogs out to clean out poo. Everytime I let them loose they clean up the neighbors yard. Hmm...delicious poo.

Actually dogs are much cleaner and purer and less harmful than some humans. those who treated dogs inhumanely should also be filmed.

Isnt it a fine able offense to not clean up after your dog in CA?

Film them doing it dozens of times then file a compliant had have on officer come out and fill out 20 somthing tickets at once

I believe officers have to witness crimes taking place to go after people. Footage could be doctored. Also, it's hard enough to get them to come in a timely manner when you hear gunshots in the alley (because they're busy with other gunshots elsewhere, not because they're jerks).

I'm a bit more vindictive. Discreetly follow them home to figure out where they live. Collect the pooh for some time, and return it. Technically, it's their property, and you're just being conscientious.

My TEN year old shows more class than these people. When she walks the dog, she brings the plastic bags. But she refuses to clean up after other people's dogs. I'm okay with that.

Looks like they have a big dog. Gah.

People like that give dog owners, especially the owners of large dogs (like me) a bad freakin' name. Disgusting. The levels of irresponsibility, laziness and self-absorption just confound me.

This type of behavior is why I wrote a blog two days ago in response to a student who wanted to bring her dog to college with her. Nice idea in theory - but in practice, 90% of those kids would simply make it a more expensive hassle for the university to keep the campus clean, regardless of what policies they enact.

I have never had a bad experience at Trader Joe's. Any given visit will inevitably involve a staffmember with a background in international travel that far exceeds my own, a checkout clerk with awesome dry humor, hot alterna-chicks, hot moms, or just some really interesting food items.

And I typically get out of there with a week's worth of food for less than $40.

That looks like a really beautiful garden in the background, too. Pity.

It's been driving me nuts all day- what was the film where someone described planting another family's name (the dog owners) on little flags in the un-picked-up poops?

sort of in response to Jessica's post.

At the college I attended it seemed like all the neighobors would come to there to let their dogs run - and many would not clean up after them. No these were not students. The campus was just treated like the local dog park. Security would sometimes ask them to leave but were generally too busy to be bothered with them.

Husband is much better at calling people out on crappy behavior than I am. There is a lady down the street that lets her husky shit in our yard regularly. He's walked outside before and told her to clean it. She was pretty empbarrassed... I guess she thought we didn't notice. We've discussed taking our great dane over and letting him make a deposit in her yard. Maybe that would be a more effective way to get the message across.

And on bad behavior at the grocery store: We were walking into Central Market one evening, and some woman, upon finishing loading her groceries, just let her cart roll away. Husband grabbed it before it hit someone's care, turned and glared at her, and said, "That's really irresponsible." She was so embarrassed she started crying. It was awesome.

I've had this problem, both with anonymous dog owners and our neighbors, who would never walk the dog and instead just let him run out and poop, either in other people's yards or on the grass in between the sidewalk and the street. My boyfriend is a smoker so he's outside a lot more than I am. He saw her do it once and told her to go get a bag and come clean it up. She went and got a bag and picked up some pile, though he thinks she couldn't find the fresh one.

We live in Virginia and there are signs posted that say there is a fine associated with not cleaning up after your dog. He called the nonemergency police number to report her. An officer came by and gave her a warning. This actually made her start to clean it up. Since I wasn't the one who called and it's been a while since, I can't remember what exactly they said about it. If you report it once they will give offical warning, but I am unclear on what happens if it doesn't stop.

We had that problem with neighbor. She used to walk her pit bull in a public area just upwind from our backyard.

My wife saw her (more than a few times) just walk away after the dog had finished his "business."

I was polite and damned near obsequeous in "reminding" her that our HOA has rules about picking up after one's pets. I thought we were going to have trouble when she brought up the fact that she walked her dog on public land.

I acknowledged that it was public land and brought up the fact that bordered our backyard. Add a stiff breeze and a pit bull's droppings and you're not using your backyard anytime soon.

After our talk, she never again walked her dog on land abutting ours. She still didn't pick up after the dog. She started taking him across the street next to the guest parking area and only walking him after dark.

If the dog is unattended, (or even if the dog is on a leash, if you're the brave type), it is quite rewarding to pet the dog for short time, while carefully grabbing the feces with a plastic bag and smearing it all through the dog's fur. It does not harm the dog and is very inconvenient for the owner (assuming of course the dog is not a stray).