I am exacting my revenge upon my neighbors

she'd stop and eat the cat poop

EWWW LOL And that would be a nasty backfire eh?

OkielaPitmomma

 And if it where me I would let one of the little turds "attack" my leg then kick the crap out of it

My guess would be that the owners would learn nothing, and the dogs would be the only ones who would suffer. These types of owners tend to not learn anything and hold a 'poor me' attitude about everything

I used to let my GSD cross out on his leash *read, flying like a bat outta hell out the back door* on his leash when my neighbours ankle biters were out pooping in my yard.  Perhaps get a retractable leash and walk her around the parimiter of your yard.  You've still got control because she's on a leash, but she can run like the dickens at the little buggers and hopefully scare them off, or perhaps scare the crap out of the people.  Wash rinse repeat until one of them either the 4 or 2 legged ones get the picture

That's not revenge.  Revenge is letting Molly out without the leash chasing those little suckers all the way home!  I have problems w/ my neighbors, and believe me, I wouldn't be so nice.    It's hard enough to clean up after one dog, but if your neighbors are letting their dogs come into your yard to do theirs, I'd be ... frankly, pissed!  I'd find all those little turds and when I saw my neighbor tell them here ya go...clean 'em up!  That to me is just plain ignorance on your neighbor's part, and I find it offensive.  If I caught Misty or Tabitha going to my neighbors yard to the one side, we're adjacent, I would go and pick it up, but that's me.  I hope those little guys do bring home a poop-load of stinky cat poo.  Otherwise, I would speak up.  Don't let them take advantage of you, like ours did to us.  They don't anymore, I think they're now afraid of me!  :)

if cat poop fails... try some from horses or cows... my JRT used to go body surfing in the stuff.... i found out early on that you did NOT let Amber outside without a leash.. even if you DID live on 200 acres of cattle and almost no neighbours... she would disappear for about thirty minutes and come back home covered in crap... she was also a parson russle... so she had a thick beard with poopy dreadlocks... poop between her toes... stuck in her teeth... oh it was vile and disgusting!! So... if you know of any cows or horses nearby dont hesitate to ask their owners if they would allow you to take some crap from the pasture.. they'd probably be more than happy to part with it. Its better for your garden than cat poop too. the worse thing about where i was living when i had Amber was the land lady had flower beds all over the place, and they all had mounds of horse and cow crap in them... So if Amber couldnt find a fresh warm pile.. she would settle for dried and crumbled...

just an idea... AND its good for your yard and less smelly AND there isnt as much danger to harming the dog (even if they are punks..) nothing worse than seeing your dog eating something giant and black, removing it from their mouth only to find a charcoal sized piece of horse dung, all nice and soggy!!  

If dogs regularly died from eating cat poo then Gypsy would have been dead YEARS ago. 

I am soooo  hoping that the little monsters do what Gypsy often does.  She snacks and then barfs it up...in her crate! Oh, the sweet revenge!

As for them charging at Molly, get your squirt gun out and nail the little buggers with some water scented with vinegar.
 

I think I'd be tempted to ....

1. return thier animal's mess everyday in a sack, in the middle of thier yard...I'd run a note off on my computer that explained you were helping them to keep thier dog's waste from becoming a heatlh issue. and tie it to the top with bright curly ribbon.

2. I'd put up several signs facing the street and thier yard telling them doggie waste must be picked up to avoid legal repercussions. I understand they have been ticketed but having a public notice directed at them might embarass them enough to make an effort.

3. I might buy a set of pooper scoopers and a large bucket and make a clean up station in my yard then send them a registered letter notifying them that you expect them t o use it should thier dogs continue to "accidentally" mess in your yard.

4. Take a camera out and snap pictures of them....

5. Write your local sound off collum in the paper and complain with as much identifying detail as possible.

6. Keep a hose handy and spary them every time the dogs come into your yard.

I would not dump the litter, it does make a mess and could ruin your bushes and yard.   Besides folks seeing you dump kitty litter in your own front yard might just think you are lazy or nasty if they don't know about the neighbors and the mess. That would bite for people to feel sorry for these rotten folk and think poorly of you.

 I have the icko neighbors who let the little flufy momsters out to mess where ever, get in trash and exercise themselves while we big dog folks get slammed if our hounds even bark for a good reason.  many of my neighbors are retired and should soooo know better, they are white collared , educated people who think they can behave this way because it's Alabama.  Not in my yard bucko!! I will take my pooper scoopers out to them if they are walking the off lead dogs. And I will use my hose in a heartbeat.

Bonita of Bwana

Bonita of Bwana

1. return thier animal's mess everyday in a sack, in the middle of thier yard...I'd run a note off on my computer that explained you were helping them to keep thier dog's waste from becoming a heatlh issue. and tie it to the top with bright curly ribbon.

6. Keep a hose handy and spary them every time the dogs come into your yard.

I think those are the best suggestions! Spraying the dogs with a hose will DEFINITELY discourage them from coming into your yard. That would be my first line of defense. But for those occasions where they've snuck into your backyard when you aren't out there, the "gift box" would be great!

I would not dump the litter, it does make a mess and could ruin your bushes and yard.   Besides folks seeing you dump kitty litter in your own front yard might just think you are lazy or nasty if they don't know about the neighbors and the mess.

I agree with that. I've seen kitty litter dumped in a yard and it's a disgusting mess. Not easy to clean up either because the litter spreads everywhere!

Also wanted to mention I probably wouldn't recommend one of the other ideas someone said of letting Molly patrol the area on a flexi lead and scare the neighbor dogs off. With a German Shepherd people will villianize YOUR dog way before the little ones and it could definitely backfire. Is there any chance that you could put a fence up?

While I understand the disagreement here, I actually see nothing wrong with Mary dumping a bit of cat poop in her own bushes.  She's had bear in her yard so it isn't like this is a pristine "city" neighborhood.  I suspect that Mary is NOT going to make the bushes her permanate litter box dump......just once or twice to send a message.

Clay litter isn't going to cause a problem.  The clumping stuff, yes, certainly can, but clay doesn't stick to the poop very well anyway, so the most that is likely to happen is that these dogs are going to go home and drop a turd in the stupid owners hand...if they've been taught to "drop it".  Mary's cats are all well vetted and vacinated so its also not likely that they are going to be carrying any illness that they can pass on to the puppers.  They are INDOOR cats, so not exposed to much of anything either.

Mary has been posting for years about how awful these people are.  They are completely irresponsible and absolute jerks who don't give a rodents rump about being good neighbors.  And in fact, sounds like they go out of their way to make the neighbors miserable.  Had it been MY 92 year old mom who those dogs chased, they would have very quickly disappeared to AC as strays.  I would have stalked the darned things until I caught them and could turn them in....maybe in another town.  And no, it isn't the animals fault, but no one is willing to take any responsibility for them.  A little cat poop isn't such a dreadful thing compared to what SOME might do to these mini terrors.

Chances are that these dogs have already had cat poop snacks left by roaming neighborhood cats.....lol......

Years ago, before having this place fenced in like Fort Knox, we had a dog visiting our property on a regular basis....tearing out trash if the garage door was left open.....this dog would go swimming in my ornamental pond and would tear out the plants, disturb the frogs and take off with solar lights......very annoying.....AC was called, people were warned....nothing....DH took a BB gun, pumped it once, one well placed ping on the butt, this dog never came back.

Whatever you do, please be careful. If they are as bad as you say you do not really want them looking at you for every little thing that goes south for them.

And as for cat crunchies, Kord thinks they are the bomb! And I have a cat who has cat box issues, needless to say presents are left in another part of the bathroom from time to time and I keep a gate up because Kord knows about them before they hit the floor, and I prefer that he not munch.

Wow, I think the people who are so worried about a dog getting sick and/or dying from eating a cat turd really, really need to wake up- that is beyond ridiculous. Dogs are not cute little human babies in fur pants, they're DOGS. They EXIST to eat the grossest, smelliest, nastiest things imaginable, then puke it all up, roll in it, and eat it again. That's what dogs DO. They love it.

Living in the country is WAY different than living in the city, especially for dogs- I guess if you've never seen a dog out in the country it's hard to imagine the horrible things they roll in, eat, and get into. I bathe my inside dogs sometimes twice a week- have to, because they get into GROSS stuff.

My dogs eat poop. Cat boxes are buffets, when no humans are around. To them, chickens are feathery, clucking things who's butts dispense treats. They follow them. Horses? They can hear them pooping a mile away and immediately roll in it and rub their faces in it. Goat crap? Delightful. Wild rabbits? Let's catch them, eat them, and then roll in the guts and fur! Horses eating apples? That means APPLE DROOL! If we hurry, maybe we can catch it before it hits the ground! A skunk!? Well, the ONLY thing to do is to poke it and bark at it. Maybe it will spray some more of that DELIGHTFUL skunk juice at our heads, if we play our cards right!

Seriously, dogs are gross...and they are designed to do "gross" things. Chief regularly catches his own wild rabbits and alot of the time, feeds himself- and he's still a puppy. He recently caught a young racoon that was getting into my chickens- the next morning all I found were some fluffs of racoon fur and a bit of tail. The rest, he had eaten. He's not dead yet. In fact, he's gorgeous and healthy- and more than half of his diet is wild animals and, you guessed it, poop.

Again...they're not fuzzy little people, they're DOGS. My dogs have eaten far worse than cat poop and they're not sick or dead yet. As long as they're UTD on vaccines, and regularly wormed, it's fine. My dogs are all healthy, shiny, and happy.

I think leaving strategically placed litter-box poo for those snotty dogs to find is hillarious. Hopefully after a nice smily turd or two dropped in their laps, they'll get the idea and keep their irritating dogs out of your yard.

Goatlickers? ROFL.

The cat poop is inspired. If your total goal is revenge then I think you'll have achieved it soon...if you're trying to get them to keep the dogs out of your yard you may need to follow up in a week or so by asking them to please keep the dogs out of the cat litter in your yard. That way they'll know where the presents are coming from and maybe they'll try to keep the dogs away from your house.

Are there any pregnant women in that house? Pregnant women are advised to avoid changing litter boxes because of the risk of toxoplasmosis (a disease you can get from cat poop) so I'm guessing that getting doggie kisses after a kitty poop snack would be bad...

I second the suggestion that you return the poop to them. My DH shoveled up a pile placed in the snow directly in front of our door and marched it to the owner's house and catapulted it over the fence and into their yard. Did it get them to keep the dog locked up? No. But the look on the owner's face when DH walked past her to send a shower of poop into her yard was priceless.

Good luck and good thoughts to Molly---like she needs this aggravation!

Could you start a rumor about fisher cats in the area and frighten the people into keeping their dogs locked up in the early hours and at night? Maybe some neighbors could help. You're rural enough for this, right? Fishers are the reason some of my old neighbors turned their outdoor cats into indoor cats...just a thought.

All I have to say is "You go girl"!!!!  Bottom line, it is not your responsibility if their dogs get into your cat poo on YOUR property!!!  It isn't like you are poisoning their dogs!  I'm with you!

Dawn