The Dog Who Crapped in Our Yard

There’s this guy down the street who likes to walk his Rottweiler in the afternoons. He’s an older man, probably retired, but I don’t honestly know. He has an old dog and it’s fat, which is why he started walking the dog in the first place. Sometimes when the weather is nice, I’ll read out on the front porch and he’ll be walking his dog, and we’ll wave at each other.

He seemed like a nice man until I watched him let his dog pee and poop at almost every house along their walk together. The dog would walk a little ways, get a whiff of another dog’s scent, and take care of his business. This irked me a little bit because it just seemed rude for him to allow his dog to act this way. He wouldn’t tug on the leash or anything to get his dog out of someone’s yard. I decided to let the issue go. After all, if the dog wasn’t doing it in our yard, then it wasn’t that big of a deal.

That was until the old man let his dog take a crap in our yard. With Alison looking out the window at him I might add, but that didn’t stop the old guy and his dog. Maybe I should thank him for the free fertilizer or forgive and forget, but letting your dog do his thing whenever and wherever he pleases just doesn’t seem right.