KEEP ANIMAL WASTE OUT OF OUR PARKS AND OFF PRIVATE PROPERTY

FECES - EACH DOG PRODUCES .75lb every day

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Dog feces is a public health hazard because it contains bacteria and parasites that contaminate soil and water and can infect humans and animals through contact with contaminated environments.

Los Angeles | 5.3 million × 0.75 = 3.975 MILLION pounds or 2,000 TONS of fecal waste every day.

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SAN FRANCISCO | est. 200,000 =150,000 pounds or75 TONS of fecal waste every day.

URINE - EACH DOG PRODUCES 0.36–.72 liter of urine every day

Dog urine contains HIGH doses of urea and nitrogen. This high concentration acts like a chemical burn on grass roots and can carry bacteria such as the current outbreak of Leptospira. That is why all of the grass in the small parks is dead or dying. Your dog piss killed the roots on the grass and trees.

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Los Angeles= 700,000 gallons of dog urine PER DAY

San Francisco=26,500 gallons of dog urine PER DAY

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MULTIPLY those number by the week/month/year. INSANE

Private property means private property. Please keep dogs off lawns and landscaping unless the property owner has given you permission. Allowing your dog onto someone else's property creates a second problem: when you step onto that property to retrieve your dog's waste, you are entering private property that you were never given permission to enter. A requirement to clean up after your dog is an obligation, it is not permission to use or enter someone else's property in the first place. Dog owners are responsible for controlling where their dogs go. Keep your dog, and yourself, off private property.

Small neighborhood community and and pocket parks were created to provide residents with scarce urban green space for passive recreation, relaxation, gathering, walking, landscaping, and in some cases, wildlife habitat.

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A single gram of dog feces can contain millions of fecal coliform bacteria. An average dog can produce roughly ¾ pound of waste per day. In a dense urban environment with hundreds or thousands of dogs using the same small lawns, sidewalks, parks, and landscaping, that contamination adds up quickly.

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Picking it up removes the turd. It does not sanitize the ground.

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So the few open lawns cannot reasonably serve their designated purpose for picnicking, sitting, children’s activities, concerts, and community recreation when it is routinely used for dog urination and defecation, leaving animal waste and potential pathogens throughout the very grass the public is expected to use.

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If you or the owner don't want your dog's waste in your/their own living space, you already understand why your neighbors don't want it in theirs.

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Many rentals that allow dogs, prohibit them from using the property for your dog dumps. HOAs ban owners from toileting their animals in common areas. MANY homeowners refuse to allow it in their own exclusive use yards. These restrictions reflect an important principle: permission to own a dog does not create a corresponding right to use someone else's property or shared neighborhood spaces, as a substitute dumping area. If a person chooses to keep a dog without having an appropriate place for that animal to relieve itself, that private decision should not impose the resulting burden onto your neighbors. The responsibility for providing for a privately owned animal belongs with its owner; the solution cannot be the uncompensated and nonconsensual use of other people's spaces.

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Ask yourself why your dog isn't allowed to urinate and defecate anywhere it wants in your living space. Why not your patio? Your doorway? Your garden? Your flowers? Your grass? The answer is obvious: because waste is unsanitary, unpleasant, damaging, and something you don't want where you live.

Yet somehow, once you cross your property line, those same concerns are treated as though they no longer matter.

Picking up afterward doesn't change the underlying issue. A bag removes the feces; it doesn't undo urine, the feces residue, the damage to landscaping, or the fact that someone else's property was used as your dog's toilet without their permission.

And that's where consideration becomes entitlement: you recognize the reasons for keeping animal waste out of your own space, but expect your neighbors to accept it in theirs simply because owning a dog makes it convenient for you.

 THE IMPACT DOES NOT STOP WITH PEOPLE

Ground insects, birds, small mammals and larger wildlife all encounter the pathogens left in contaminated soil grass and water. Rain and irrigation wash those contaminants into storm drains and waterways, spreading disease through the entire eco-system.

To urban wildlife, a neighborhood full of dogs is not harmless, it is a landscape filled with predators and contaminated habitat. Dogs can and do kill wildlife, and this is well documented by conservation scientists. But ok, your dog doesn't chase animals...but those turds and all that urine- DOES.

Finding an appropriate place for a dog to relieve itself is the responsibility of the dog owner, not neighboring homeowners and not the community at large.

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• Choose housing that accommodates the dog. Access to a toilet area should be part of the decision to own a dog. “There's a park nearby” is not a bathroom plan, unless an area is designated as dog-only. 

• Create a relief area at home. Private patios, balconies, bathrooms, and other appropriate private spaces can be equipped with dog-relief systems. Many other pet owners have managed to figure out pet waste that doesn't take away from others. GET A DOG PORCH POTTY

• Share a private space. A group of dog owners can collectively rent or arrange access to a private yard or appropriate toileting area.

• Ask permission. Find a property owner willing to allow dogs to use a designated portion of their yard for your dog toileting.

• Hire or travel to appropriate facilities. Dog walkers, daycares, dog-only park areas, and other permitted spaces provide alternatives.