Our neighbors have a puppy that "goes" all over the shared garden. There was dog excrement on the sidewalk for several days...this happened twice and was only removed both times from someone (that was visiting her) stepping in it. DH has asked the owner of the dog on 2 separate occasions to clean the poo up. One time she said "Oh I will...I didn't know that he had gone in your side of the yard." First off, this was AFTER there was poo on the sidewalk for 3 days (that she has to walk past to get to her door)...I guess she didn't know about that either.
And second, it is a SHARED garden...we don't have a "side". Anyway, the second time, he specifically pointed out one pile and she went and picked that one pile up. There are literally 30+ piles of dog poo in the small yard. She's had the dog for about 3-4 weeks (maybe longer?) and has NEVER cleaned any of it up. We have a 6-year-old that can't even walk, much less play in the yard because it's everywhere and I've now given up on trying to use the clothes line because there's so much everywhere.
Anyway, I filled out some kind of complaint thingy with the local council...I was wondering if anyone else has had any experience with dealing with them? Will they actually do anything about it? I called the letting agency they rent from and was referred to the landlord. He used to be our landlord and he's useless so I'm really at a loss for what to do if the council doesn't act on this. My only other option is cleaning it up myself...and if that happens...it will be put through her letterbox.
Hopefully we're moving soon and even considered giving up our £400 bond by not giving a 30 day notice just so we can get away from the dog poo...well, that and the daily waft of weed we have to endure even though they've already been reported to the police and nothing has changed.
