st0wandgrow
Well-Known Member
It's a tricky one.
Firstly, a lot of people don't use retractable leads properly and you end up walking into the lead or the dog rounds a corner with the owner way behind, not effectively supervising the dog.
Likewise your wife wasn't properly supervising your dog.
So even though you dog-sat for me and I would return the favor, I would still alert your wife that your dog had just shat on my lawn.
Your wife would/should appologise and pick up that shit immediately, because she would have her dog shit kit with her.
I would bid her a good day wave and she would do likewise and that would be that.
Doesn't mean he doesn't appreciate the favor or wouldn't return it.
But if a dog shits on your lawn, the owner needs to pick it up.
Yeah, I don't know bro. Under normal circumstances I would agree with you. If she would have noticed that the dog took a crap I'm positive she would have picked it up. We're not the red-neck neighbors that let our dog run around and deuce all over the place. Not sure I agree with your retractable leash etiquette either. She wasn't taking the dog for a walk. She was outside in our yard with the dog, the neighbor lady started chatting with her, so she walked over and figured she better put our dog on a leash so he wasn't running around.
I just don't feel it's very neighborly to call someone out like that. If it were a random person walking their dog, and stood there and watched as their pet crapped on your yard then I feel you would have every right to say something. That's just being rude not to pick up after your pet. In this case she didn't see it happen. Add to that the fact that we just watched their dog (and picked up a dozen piles of his shit over the weekend) so I feel like he was out of line. I could be wrong here, though. I guess I'm just putting myself in his shoes and expecting him to respond to the situation like I would have.
Either way, I can't wait for him to ask me for another favor so I get to tell him "sure, right after you come pick up your dogs shit all over my yard from 4 months ago".