A non bike related dog problem.

fatbabyjake

How can i stop a dog crapping in my non fenced front garden?

It never happens when i'm home, so i don't know which dog it is.

It's not really the dog's fault so i'm not wanting to hurt in any way. Just something to keep out the garden until i find it's ignorant tw@t of an owner.

Feel free to suggest ways for me to hurt the owner though.

Pufftmw

Cheap video camera - you can get a Muvi rip on eBay for a tenner. Either put the frame rate down on it or there will be something simillar that records to a HDD - webcam maybe with movement sensor?

Get the evidence then go find the owner..

fatbabyjake

Pufftmw wrote:

Cheap video camera - you can get a Muvi rip on eBay for a tenner. Either put the frame rate down on it or there will be something simillar that records to a HDD - webcam maybe with movement sensor?

Get the evidence then go find the owner..

I'm thinking along those lines too. Some of the houses in the street are rented out by a housing association so if I can get proof I can complain to them before taking matters into my own hands.

I don't want to go to the expense of putting up a fence and besides the fecker shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If I can catch it in the act I could use a super soaker type water pistol to try and scare it off.

Slapster_UK

Super soaker filled with a water/vinegar mix sorted my similar problem. Tad cheaper than CCTV too...

SimonAH

Shotgun?

Joking of course. Had a similar issue and staked out the back drive for an hour a day over the likely timeslots. Caught the b*stard on day three and told him that it was fine to let his dog lay eggs all over where I park and get in and out of my car as long as he didn't mind me collecting them up and posting them through his door every evening.

Stopped immediately.

rjsterry

We have a fox that does this, and in the back garden. It once neatly laid a turd on the handle of my 2 year old daughter's watering can. I wonder if hunting with dogs could be reintroduced in a suburban setting - perhaps with bikes instead of horses. We also have a local stray that occasionally uses the pavement just outside our front gate as a toilet.

Wallace1492

Have a mate that used to always metioned the smell of pi55 as he entered my house.... cheeky begger got slagged off by me and I got angry as I run a clean ship. Until my neighbor told me a few days later he had watched a cat pee on my front door mat for the last few days.

Removed mat, it stopped. Saved me wiring it up....

StorckSpeed

I've never really known a dog do it's business repeatedly in the same place unless trained to do so ?
There's 2 products I know of, haven't tried either so don't know how effective they are.
Sonic Repeller:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mega-Sonic-Repe ... B0012KLCL8

AND
Scatter Crystals:
http://www.petsathome.com/shop/get-off- ... apet-15442

Hope this helps

rick_chasey

My boss was looking at legal crossbows to deal with his fox problem.

rjsterry

Wallace1492 wrote:

Have a mate that used to always metioned the smell of pi55 as he entered my house.... cheeky begger got slagged off by me and I got angry as I run a clean ship. Until my neighbor told me a few days later he had watched a cat pee on my front door mat for the last few days.

Removed mat, it stopped. Saved me wiring it up....

Had this too. Absolutely reeks. Like the crossbow idea*, but then you've got to dispose of them, and I'm pretty sure dead fox smells even worse than fox sh!t.

*Not really

Pufftmw

rjsterry wrote:

We have a fox that does this, and in the back garden. It once neatly laid a turd on the handle of my 2 year old daughter's watering can. I wonder if hunting with dogs could be reintroduced in a suburban setting - perhaps with bikes instead of horses. We also have a local stray that occasionally uses the pavement just outside our front gate as a toilet.

Living in Bow (Tower Hamlets) and foxes were using my very small patch of grass as a toilet ( :evil: ), so I rang up pest control @ LBTH and asked them to sort it as my new child was undoubtedly going to be playing out there and it was severely un-hygenic. They said they couldn't and referred me to a "Fox Helpline" which gave out "humane" advice... So I asked him can I shoot them and was told "NO WAY!", so being a bit hacked off I said that it was legal for me to ring up the Essex Hunt and get them to ride down Roman Road chasing the foxes*. The sounds of apoplexy as he considered this down the end of the phone was beautiful to behold



* It was legal still in them days..

rjsterry

Pufftmw wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

We have a fox that does this, and in the back garden. It once neatly laid a turd on the handle of my 2 year old daughter's watering can. I wonder if hunting with dogs could be reintroduced in a suburban setting - perhaps with bikes instead of horses. We also have a local stray that occasionally uses the pavement just outside our front gate as a toilet.

Living in Bow (Tower Hamlets) and foxes were using my very small patch of grass as a toilet ( :evil: ), so I rang up pest control @ LBTH and asked them to sort it as my new child was undoubtedly going to be playing out there and it was severely un-hygenic. They said they couldn't and referred me to a "Fox Helpline" which gave out "humane" advice... So I asked him can I shoot them and was told "NO WAY!", so being a bit hacked off I said that it was legal for me to ring up the Essex Hunt and get them to ride down Roman Road chasing the foxes*. The sounds of apoplexy as he considered this down the end of the phone was beautiful to behold



* It was legal still in them days..

Depends what you mean by humane - a captive bolt is considered humane. A bit tricky to use on a fox though.

SimonAH

I've got a speargun you can borrow

Pufftmw

rjsterry wrote:

Depends what you mean by humane - a captive bolt is considered humane.

Not in all cases

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-storie ... -21820568/

Twostage

Rick Chasey wrote:

My boss was looking at legal crossbows to deal with his fox problem.

Crossbows are legal but hunting with them isn't. Anyway it would be difficult to guarantee a clean kill and he wouldn't want it running about with a bolt sticking out of it and him being the only the one in the neighbourhood with a crossbow.
There are pest controllers who will take the job on though. Or there are repellents according to Mr. Google.

DrLex

Rick Chasey wrote:

My boss was looking at legal crossbows to deal with his fox problem.

Snares & a .22 dealt with my fox problem. For OP, surveillance is the best way.