‘Love pets, love animals, don't like lazy owners’: 20+ People share their ‘unhinged’ tactics for dealing with pet owners who don't pick up after their furry friends

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Jan 11, 2025 7:00 PM EST

It's a hard place to be when you are an animal lover, but are getting terrorized by a domesticated animal. It's much more complicated than dealing with a wild animal, like raccoons or opossums, because now you have to deal with a human… And humans are much more stubborn if you can believe it (we definitely can). When someone's pet is misbehaving, it is the pet owner's fault, so you have to address them rather than the pet directly. This happens often when there are irresponsible pet owners who refuse to pick up after their beloved furry friends. It's not the pet's fault! They literally don't have thumbs. They couldn't pick up their droppings even if they wanted to! They'd have to eat it, and we all know that is very unhealthy… 

 

So it's up to the human, and yet, there are many entitled and/or lazy pet owners out there who just don't care. If their pet wants to relieve themselves on your property, you should feel lucky. They aren't going to pick up the icky stuff! Their pets chose to do their business there, so there it shall be and you must accept that!! Well… No, no you don't. 

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  • One homeowner turned to Reddit to share their tactic for getting their neighbor's outdoor cat to stop going on his house. Long story short, after asking politely many times, he set up a trap, caught it, and took it to the shelter. Many cat owners disapproved of this tactic, but many others were all about it! The thought they all agreed on was: If you are going to be an irresponsible pet owner, maybe you shouldn't own a pet. 

     

    The thread then turned into others sharing their hinged and “unhinged” tactics of getting their neighbors to stop allowing their pets to go on their property. Many are gross since it's a gross business. But some are just silly! See for yourself below. 

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  • "I trapped my neighbors cat and sent it to the local shelter"

    My neighbor has an intact cat who marks my house, to the point where I can't open the windows on one side of my house because of the flies, and the smell. The cat even on my fence, like perches on the fence and .The cat is an indoor- outdoor type, and chooses my back, front, and side yard as his litter box. I brought the frustration to the owner of the cat who said, "I can't keep him inside" to which I replied, "You can, but you choose not to".
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  • Cool, I swallow my pride, take a shovel and chuck the sh in his yard when I see it. Last week, while rushing to work I unknowingly stepped in his cat's sh and tracked it into my car, final straw. I went online to buy an animal trap, set it in my backyard and after 3 days trapped his cat. Now the fur-ball is at the local shelter, and my yard is free. DISCLAIMER: Love pets, love animals, don't like lazy owners who think their animal should be free to do as they please on other people's property.
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  • PresentationThat2839 This reminds me of a story about my mom that I posted under my lost alt account. She collected the cat sh in a 5 gallon bucket and dumped it on the neighbors porch.
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  • excel271 Lmao, people walking their dogs kept letting them sh in my dad's front yard and they'd never clean it. He'd catch them walking away and ask them to pick it up, they never did.. went on for a while. He eventually collected several weeks worth of his dog's sh and went out at night and flung it all over their cars, roof, yard. Their dog never sh in his yard again.
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  • EntranceShadows My father in law, he's chilled out with age but apparently was a crazy b rd when he was younger. Neighbor's dog was in fil's grass, fil told the owner to pick it up, the owner wouldn't. After 2-3 days, my fil picked the sh up, went to the house where the owner lived, and shoved all the sh through the guy's letterbox. Father in law hasn't had anyone's dog sh in his grass since. I guess word got around
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  • kelldricked I had a crazy neighboor who once litteraly pick fresh I up with their hands and throw it at head (one of the best throws i have seen) of the owner who was walking away after he said they had to pick it up. He simply walked 4 steps and washed his hands. Lady was having a breakdown and retching while her hair was coverd in sh.
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  • HandOfSolo the apartment complex i live in doesn't allow dogs, but looks the other way when people say it's a service animal, even tho they clearly are not. my place is near the common area, so people walk past my patio door with their dogs and there is usually sh every where. i got fed up last year, decided to pick up the in a box all month, and i drop the box and the rent check off. i set the box outside next to the entrance and told the apartment manager that i will continue to do that until
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  • LA_Nail Clippers At my MIL's house, the guy across the street lets his dog out the front door to take a sh and the dog runs across and poops in my MIL's flowers. She was trying diplomatically to deal with it but one night I was out there and saw it happen so I grabbed one of our dog poop bags, picked up the sh and shoved it through the mail slot. It stopped immediately.
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  • Fackrid duty, Growing up we had issues with our neighbors' dog, he would literally jump the fence, sh in our backyard, and jump back over, and they would just laugh. Finally my parents started singling out his sh from our dogs (he was a much bigger dog than them, easy to figure it out), and while they're out shoveling sh they'd just chuck it back over the fence. Eventually one day, I was on came across a fresh pile from the neighbor dog, went to fling in back over the fence, and got a bit carrie
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  • Flying Toasters101 I watched one of my neighbors on the corner go nuts for like 8 months trying to get people to clean up after their dogs. They tried signs. They put chains through all their trees. They complained at HOA meetings. Posted more signs all over the neighborhood. What finally made it stop (or made them give up, unsure lol) was them putting out free dog bags & bag holders for leashes with a very mean sign saying that of course a good neighbor would NEVER do this unless they were just
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  • hardboard Similar to this: Years ago a bloke I worked with had a problem with a guy walking his dog, letting it shon his front lawn. He caught the guy one day, told him not to let his dog foul his lawn, but nothing changed. One evening, he saw the dog I on his lawn, followed the guy home from a distance to see where he lived. My friend got a shovel, scooped up the dog sh and walked round to the dog owner's house. He rang the bell. When the door was opened, my friend said, "I think this is yours,
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  • Different-Bid-5860 on the side of my yard I had a neighbor that let his dogs that borders a CVS parking lot. I saved up bacon grease, then poured it over the piles of . Thereby enticing his dogs to eat their own . Ugh, doesn't harm them permanently, just causes diarrhea later. After a couple of rounds it appears he changed his route
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  • Federal_Secret92 I did the same years ago. Picked up like 25 dog in my yard from the neighbors and piled them on his front stoop welcome mat. Solved that problem.
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  • moreobviousthings I put a sign in my front yard: ATTENTION DOGS: Please keep your It helped. hole out of my yard!
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  • perrin68 This happened in my neighborhood only it was a single small paper bag of the neighbors cat . Hed been ask multiple times to stop his cat from pooping in his yard. So the cat owner calls the local news, slow news day and it gets on air. The pro "let your country" crowd teamed up on him and bu ied cat roam the him for being mean to the with the cat. We have really big hawks and coyotes around us, rare but they are there and they love to snack on cats.
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  • Spasticwookiee We had a neighbor who's cat sh in our yard constantly. We borrowed a game camera and verified it was from that neighbor. We collected a week's worth of excrement, printed the picture of their cat, and went to confront the neighbor. They didn't answer the door, so we left the bag and picture say this needs to stop. After freaking out and victim-blaming us (who puts up a camera to catch cats in their backyard!?!), we gave them the ultimatum of either keep your cat indoors or we'll t
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  • Few-Philosopher4091 I knew a guy who thought rules were for other people. He let his Rottie all over neighbors' yards and refused to clean up after the dog. Neighbors finally had enough. One day he came home smeared all over his front door and on the and found dog handle.
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  • CipoteAstral I sprinkle Carolina Reaper hot sauce all over my front yard and that certainly stops cats and dogs from coming over. I love animals too but people should be responsible for them. Otherwise, I'll keep on watching through my window how they run away sneezing after just getting a whiff of that hot sauce.
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  • s317sv17vnv We once kept finding sh in our yard, assumed it was the alley cats, cleaned it up, rinse and repeat. But one day we found our gate open (no locks since we didn't have anything worthwhile, but there was a latch so it couldn't have been the wind). We didn't have a security camera at the time so my brother decided to set up a digital camera to record all day and lo and behold, we reviewed the footage and saw that our neighbor across from us from had been opening our gate, letting his th
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  • treeslip My stepdad has a similar story (outside cats are illegal/strongly frowned upon by most in their area) traps are supplied by council, after de d wildlife and sh throughout their gardens he trapped them and did the same. The owners just kept getting new cats rather than looking for their pets so he stopped. I don't understand how people who own pets would care so little about them to treat them as replaceable like that.
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