I LOVE dogs, and I also love my floral landscaping…. which is getting completely destroyed by dog pee. Not one dog, but all dogs going for a friendly stroll with their owners. I'm not home 100% of the time, but my video doorbell catches many neighbors allowing their dogs to pee on my flowers, and not use the tree less than 10 feet away. Is my sign tacky and unneighborly? I will take it down.
by Heydee269
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I’d probably make it smaller, but whatever it’s your yard and it’s not that bad.
Just put a sign in your yard that says “lawn treated with pesticides; keep off”
Dogs are def gonna pee on that sign
Better to put a little fence around it
Put a fence around the flowers, and place a boulder as the closest item to the sidewalk. Give the dogs something they’d like even better to pee on!
I don’t think the sign is tacky but I don’t think it’ll be effective either. You’re fighting a losing battle – the dogs are peeing there because they smell each other’s pee. It’ll be hard to convince the dogs to commit to a different spot, and the owners will likely either not notice or disregard the sign.
Could you lean into it? Turn it into an intentional doggy bathroom and put your flowers elsewhere?
Maybe a tad tacky, but definitely not unfriendly. I’d welcome the direction myself. I try to keep my dogs to sidewalk strips to do their business, but sometimes they’re really drawn to people’s lawns. This would remind me to keep them away from people’s shrubs/flowers.
I have the same problem at my house. My entire front yard is a garden. People walk by and let their dogs full on roam my entire front property to pee. I feel like I should start walking to their house and pop a squat right in the middle of their lawn and poop. Do you think they’d be okay with that? Doubt it. But for some reason totally fine for their animal to destroy someone’s else lawn or garden.
Ive started putting cayenne pepper everywhere. Dogs do not like it. It doesn’t kill my plants and now my bushes arnt dying because owners don’t care about others properties.
… This sign looks fine to me.
I did the same thing and my neighbors seem to be respecting it
It’s fine.
I would question why a hydrangea of all things is the one being protected, they’re pretty bullet proof from pre but if it’s a newer plant, put the sign out for a year or two
Make the plant harder to get to and give the dogs an easier target that you don’t care about. One dog uses it and others will follow.
Dogs can’t read
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I planted a row of rosa rugosa on the edge of my property to stop this and fly tipping. Rugosa are a hardy species rose with a lot of thorns, but kept tidy makes an outstanding hedge. They’re good for road facing property lines because they are extremely salt tolerant. They actually thrive on winter road salt, so much so that when we have mild winters I have to add Epsom salt to the soil in spring to give them a boost.
lol, I have a dog and walk all the time. I like your sign! I think it is friendly because 1) it acknowledges that animals pee outside 2) tells people where you are okay with them peeing. I do not allow my dog to run around Willy nilly urinating on the flowers but my neighborhood also has a lot of “easement defenders” who will sprint out of their house to spit scream at dogs who pee on the hell strip. The hell strip, in my area, is technically city owned. I appreciate your approach much better. And I say this as a gardener that is fine with animals peeing in my yard. I only care if they leave fecal matter that isn’t picked up.
This looks terrible and dogs can’t read lol
Well said. Most would get a chuckle, as I certainly would.
I think the sign is cute!
Honestly I would laugh seeing this dead thing with that sign, and then forcibly not let my dog near it out of respect.
I put out a sign in my back yard asking folks not to remove the succulents as they were stabilizing the hill. I may as well put out a shovel and a free sign. It was a nice sign, I’m sad people are shots sometimes. Not one single 70 years of growing succulents gone.
I also cleaned the open space behind an our house, and it the garbage in our fence yard so I could easily pick it up. Someone posted a ton of pics of me doing that on next door, evil site, and the blow back was immense. I repeatedly pointed out that it was my yard and I did t want to jam the common garbage in the park, so I put it where I could pick it up easier to throw away.
Yes. And confusing
Dogs can’t read so it might not work.
Far from the worst anti-pee sign that I’ve seen. A bit of twee friendliness like this is more likely to help than a passive aggressive and super serious sign, in my opinion.
There’s a thing called object fixation that both humans and dogs have and it’s why dogs like to pee on objects. Put a large rock before and after that plant, closer to the sidewalk, and they’ll pee on the rock and not the bush
This is 100% reasonable.
That’s why I avoid having anything poking out of grass within 6 ft of the sidewalk, no flowers, no shrubs, no Christmas decor. Further the better of course. Most people go for a 5-6ft leash, unless they use one of those extendable ones.