FOAD Thursday – Shit Ninjas

There is something that’s been bugging me for a while, and I’m so about to rant about it.

At the moment the walkway in front of our building is like a minefield of dog shit.   When we are going to the car or walking the dogs we have to watch every step we take because there is dog shit everywhere… and we can’t catch the people who are doing it.

It’s gotta be the same dog, because all the shits look the same, but who’s dog is it?!   We know most of the people who live around us with dogs because we meet up with them in our walks, and we’re pretty sure none of them would be that antisocial.   We do have an idea of who is doing it but we just can’t catch them in the act.  They are quick and quiet, like ninjas!

There’s a couple who moved into our building about 2 years ago.  They have some beagle type dog and a young daughter.   They are one of those people who never have their dog on a leash, and what’s worse is that the woman doesn’t even bother to walk with the dog.   She goes downstairs to the main doorway and stands there while her dog runs up the road and walks itself.

I think that the dog is shitting everywhere willy nilly but I can’t catch it.   When the dog takes off to the end of the road and you are in our living room you can hear the noise of the dogs nails on the sidewalk.   So when I hear that I go out on the balcony to watch, but try to hide a the same time because I don’t want to be one of THOSE neighbours.

Whenever I watch though, I never see it shitting on the sidewalk.  Maybe it’s not that dog at all but some other dog that gets walked quietly while we are in bed.   Like a shit fairy leaving presents for us in the morning.

I’m considering going on a stakeout and spending an evening in our car in the parking lot.  I’m pretty sure I’d fall asleep and miss it though, then all our neighbours would think Xander put me out and I had to spend the night in the car.   We wouldn’t want that.

We’ve also gone the geeky route and considered setting up a webcam to monitor the walkway.   This is still a possibility.

It’s just so disgusting.  I mean there are endless amounts of grassy patches around here to let your dog go out on.   Our dog WON’T shit on the sidewalk, he’ll turn around and back into a bush if he has to.   It’s just so completely antisocial nowadays to have your dog shit all over a sidewalk and not clean it up.  I really wonder what kind of people they are.

I know what kind of person I am though, and if we do catch them and they don’t clean up their act, we’ll be depositing every piece of shit we find after that straight into their mailbox.