Talk to them first. If nothing gets better, burn their house down.

What breed? Big enough to leap over a temporary but stable retaining wall? Chain link is ugly but maybe a tasteful barrier. that backyard almost requires friendly neighbors.

A bit extreme, but still an option.

Respond in kind.

I would first talk to them even if they are not nice people. I would then find out the exact property line and put up a chain link fence. In the mean time, throw all the dog poop back to their yard.

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Originally posted by rtquig:
I would first talk to them even if they are not nice people. I would then find out the exact property line and put up a chain link fence. In the mean time, throw all the dog poop back to their yard.

Just go to DRMO and get a couple of spools of this - you'll be all set in no time.

Bunch it up tightly if the dogs are small, then hook up 2-4 car batteries for special effect.

Placing it at the end of their driveway where they will track it into their drive and or garage will have a great impact. This really sends home the message as to how revolting it is to have poop everywhere. This method worked for me instantaneously as the dad raised hell with his whole family until he discovered the problem was of their own making.

I had the same situation years ago. I bagged up several piles in a small paper lunch bag, waited until dinner time and rang the doorbell. When the neighbor answered, I handed him the bag and just said "This is yours." After he opened it, I added "I watched your dog leave it in my yard." No yelling, just a matter of fact tone and the problem was solved.

Not mentioned on the OP or asked yet, but what is the disposition of the shit-depositing-in-your-yard dogs?!

Friendly and affectionate, or aggressive and territorial, etc.?

Keep in mind that dogs tend to hunt in packs and can be more aggressive and provoking when there's more than one.

We've all heard / read stories of horrific dog attacks. Not meant to scare you or be overly dramatic here, but also do not want to read about anything bad happening to your family.

Rob

I've had the problem for years. We had a fenced yard. Everyone down the side street would walk their dog up to my corner, linger, then walk back home only after they let their dog do their business. My solution was to just shovel it out in the street so tehy can run over it and toss it in their fender wells. I almost never drove down the side street, they had to. I even had a designated shovel, my shit shovel. My wife broke it. She said not on purpose but I have my doubts.

I do like the bacon grease coating idea.

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Originally posted by Lord Vaalic:
Talk to them first. If nothing gets better, burn their house down.

This.

Who has the time for fences or poo flinging?

You had noticed a potential rabid raccoon in your yard the other day so you put out some cage traps.

Two days later, some weird looking raccoon gets hauled off and you have no idea where the dogs went.

I would talk to the first but if that doesn’t get you anywhere get a few big shakers of cayenne pepper and sprinkle a 4 or 5 foot wide boarder right down the property line.

I really do like the bacon grease suggestion.

When we 1st moved into our house I witnessed our male neighbor purposefully bring his dog to our front yard to poop & he left it there. I picked it up n a poo bag, wrote a note on it to pick their dog's poop up as we don't even let our own dogs poop n our front yard, then I left it n the middle of their front steps hoping the wife would find it when she came home & give him hell. Well, come to find out, she does it too!!!

So now, every time I hear or see them anywhere our yard, I set off the car alarms. Deters them some but it still happens. This morning I saw it all happen again so I flung it onto their front yard. At some point I will have a face to face confrontation with them, but usually happens when I am on a time crunch, getting ready for work.

This has been going on 6+ yrs.

I forget what prompter him to do this, but my grandfather was a tit-for-tat kind of guy and once made Roundup ice cubes and used a slingshot at night to send them over into the neighbor's very well manicured lawn.

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I forget what prompter him to do this, but my grandfather was a tit-for-tat kind of guy and once made Roundup ice cubes and used a slingshot at night to send them over into the neighbor's very well manicured lawn.

Not cool. Round-up kills growth. A way better form of revenge, apply fertilizer in patterns to form letters. A nice X-rated message in lush green grass on their front lawn.

This but in the meantime, use a spade & fling it back in their yard. I had a colleague with this problem. He resorted to shooting the dogs in the flanks with a pellet gun. Got to the point to where the dogs would run like hell when they heard him open the window to point the pistol out

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Plant what is known as "defensive shrubs". Will deter not only dogs, but two legged poopy types too.
Cat Claw Acacia.
Roses work too but are a lot of work.

You miss the point where he mentioned he had a couple small boys? Planting that stuff you mentioned would make them playing outside dangerous.

Step 1 - Go talk to your neighbors regardless how friendly they've been to date and explain the problem. That's how civil society is supposed to work.

Step 2 - No luck with step one, install a fence. You don't need an ongoing problem and the confrontation its likely to created if the dogs keep getting into your yard.

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
I forget what prompter him to do this, but my grandfather was a tit-for-tat kind of guy and once made Roundup ice cubes and used a slingshot at night to send them over into the neighbor's very well manicured lawn.

What's with grandfathers? Back in the 80's when I was a kid, your dog pooped on our lawn my Grandfather left it in your mailbox for you the next day. He was a mean son of a bitch.

I had this problem with my neighbors, their tiny dogs would sneak through the old fence between the houses and shit all over my patio. The neighbors were really cool about it and tried everything to keep the dogs out but it didn't matter, they kept finding a way to come over. So they went ahead and built a short black chainlink fence themselves. Problem solved.

Talk to them first, if it doesn't change just put a short fence up and don't frustrate yourself any further. Good fences do make good neighbors.

Warn them first, then snatch the dogs and take them to the pound if it continues.

It's a lot more humane than my other solution which would be employed if things continued after that.

I have no tolerance for such things.

This is just one of the many reasons that I hate people and will never, ever, again live in town with neighbors closer than 200 yards. Preferably more.

We had this problem too. I started off by talking to him and it did no good. Then I started throwing it back into his yard and it did no good. We finally put up a six-foot privacy fence. This was a guy I went to school with too.