5 things to know about Sandra Bullock's model-turned-photographer boyfriend Bryan Randall http://t.co/rrdDCM8bzE pic.twitter.com/5h9PG4NXkX
— People magazine (@people) September 2, 2015
I have to admit that this story made me squee a little inside. There is little I hate more than when people don’t clean up after their dogs. I used to live in a corner unit in one of those prefab housing complexes. Because I had the most accessible lawn, people would let their dogs dump on it all. the. time. without bothering to clean it up. To combat this, I installed a fake security camera complete with a blinking red light, I started a rumor that our complex was going to do doggy DNA testing (I knew this would never happen but I am professionally skilled at rumor mongering), and I ordered a metal sign telling people to clean up after their dogs. There were little doggie cleanup stations with bags and garbage cans around our small complex too, and I got bags in bulk and made sure they were always full. Despite all this, it was so bad I couldn’t do Easter at my house because there was too much poop in the lawn to hide eggs for my son.
Anyway, Radar Online tried to dig up some dirt on Sandra Bullock’s hot new publicity-hungry photographer boyfriend, Bryan Randall. Apparently the only thing they could find was an incident in which he smeared dog poop on his neighbor’s doorway after he refused to clean up after his dog. As someone who has dealt with this repeatedly, I completely understand. While it’s possible that this was a onetime instance to which he overreacted, I would guess that it happened repeatedly before Randall got to this point. Just reading the claims from the a–hole who didn’t clean up after his dog makes me side with the new boyfriend. Here’s more:
In 2012, [John Stacer, the neighbor of Sandra Bullock’s new boyfriend, Bryan Randall,]… filed a Temporary Restraining Order filled with explosive claims against the photographer.
John Stacer stated, “On the evening of 7/26/12 I was walking by and Bryan Randall confronted me about my dog defecating in the front of the building. He was videotaping me and said, ‘pick up your dog’s s**t, a**hole.’ He is a big guy and I was scared to go any closer so I called my dog back toward me and took him upstairs.”
“I was about to go back outside to pick up the feces when I heard a commotion and my girlfriend came home moments later,” he claimed. “She said there was feces spread in our doorway. I cleaned it up and she sent Bryan a message saying it was unacceptable what he did.”
Stacer claimed Randall responded by saying “10 days from now this will play out differently,” and “I’ll pray for him,” and “he will see another side as soon as my kid is out of state.”
“I filed a police report the next morning for criminal threats …” he claimed in the documents. “I know he has guns and a notoriously erratic temper and I am scared of what he will do next, as his daughter will be gone come Sunday.”
The temporary restraining order was granted, but attempts to make it permanent were unsuccessful during a contested hearing.
Note that the article doesn’t claim that Randall ever threatened the neighbor with a gun, just that the neighbor knew he had them (which is perfectly legal) and that Randall claimed he would pray for him and that this would “play out differently” in the future. There were no direct threats of violence. Team Randall. Yes this was OTT and it was scary enough for the guy to file a restraining order, which sounds significant. Still, I doubt that this neighbor was ever going to pick up the poop if he had to go back to his place to get a bag. Dog owners know this.
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So, the guy had to ‘call the dog to him’ means his dog was also off leash. I’m team Randall on this one too, and I kind of think he probably just deposited the dog poo on his neighbor’s front door step, not ‘smeared it around’. This guy sounds like a drama queen.
Team Randall!!! I hoped he smeared it.
I’ve dealt with self-absorbed dog owners that can’t seem to bend over if they think no one is watching… (There are many responsible owners, too.)
Yup. HUGE pet peeve of mine when people don’t control their dogs. Drives me crazy. Just the other day on my run, I was going through a public park and an unleashed dog ran up and blocked the pathway, barking loudly and jumping up and down. I had to come to a full stop, while the dog owner stood on the pathway, merrily chatting away, completely oblivious to her dog’s behavior. I glared at her and ran off the pathway and around the dog. I love dogs but I DETEST bad dog owners!
I’ve yelled at people from the front porch, watching them blithely leave their dog poop, not knowing I was watching.
jWhen they know they’re caught they’re shocked, then they stand there looking dumb, and of course they don’t have a bag w/them.
When you tell them you don’t want their dog refuse on your property, how would they like it if you take it to THEIR yard, they have the nerve to get mad. “Leave dog poop in MY yard!” they’re thinking — cause they know it’s disgusting in THEIR yard.
So lacking in empathy or common sense.
That’s also my pet peeve. People want the dog but not the responsibility of cleaning up their poo. Even at the dog park I take my pooch to I along with other pet parents find ourselves cleaning up other dog owners poo. If no one is around they just leave it.
Even where,I live people don’t curb their dogs.
Though it’s gross, I’m team Randall on this.
And you guys would never have to worry about me walking my baby off his leash. He’s a husky and if unleashed he would probably end up in Mexico before I found him. Huskies are runners, they are pack animals. It’s an instinct that’s bread into them. He’s microchipped and I just ordered a GPS tracking system for him.
My mom would be on Team Randall too. She really hates her next door neighbor’s dog who constantly barks at her and who is allowed to run around without a leash to pee and sh*t anywhere. It’s true that extreme animal lovers do not understand that not everyone chooses to have a pet, really likes being around animals, or wants to have to deal with someone else’s pet. Pets are like children. It is your responsibility to train/teach, discipline, and clean up after them.
Once I read on Facebook a post from an animal lover complaining that a business owner threatened to call the police on her for allowing her pet to pee beside his business REGULARLY. You know what? I am for the business owner 100% because at the end of the day he’s going to have to deal with the stench, not this woman. People are so inconsiderate at times.
The shortest way to our garage is through our back alley. Most of our dog-owning neighbors are pretty good but there is one asshole who will not stop letting their dog poop back there and NEVER cleans it up. I know because the poop always looks the same color. The alley also smells like a urinal. Makes me want to install a camera and nail the jerk. I suspect these are the same people who blithely go through their whole lives shitting all over everything, metaphorically speaking, pretending or actually being unawares. I’m really grateful that my parents never tolerated that kind of behavior growing up.
There’s nothing wrong with a dog being off leash when it’s well trained / behaved.
I disagree. I think dogs should only be off-leash when they are in a designated off-leash park area. Too often I see unleashed dogs in areas where there are signs that are clearly posted saying that dogs must remain on a leash. Why some people think that the rules don’t apply to them is beyond me.
The thing that you have to remember is just because YOU know that your dog will behave off-leash doesn’t mean that strangers will know this. Meaning, people like myself who have been bit by dogs ARE always a bit nervous/uneasy when we see an unleashed dog coming towards us regardless of how well-behaved that dog may be. That being said, dog parks and areas where unleashed dogs are allowed is fair game. In Boston, there are countless areas like this, so there is no excuse to not follow the rules. It’s the safest thing for both the dog and the public to remain on a leash in the city.
As a survivor of a dog attack that has left me very fearful of dogs I could not disagree more.
My leashed dog is often approached by unleashed dogs. Their owners don’t know if my big dog is friendly or not. My dog is okay with it, but I have plenty of friends with dog aggressive or shy dogs. Having an owner yell, “He’s friendly!” and do nothing doesn’t help the other person trying to control their dog or keep them from being too stressed.
Yes. That’s the anthem of owners of off leash dogs. “My dog is so well behaved, I’m sorry he —fill in the blank–.” Jumped on you.. Ran in front of your car.. Grabbed the food off your picnic blanket… Knocked your kid over… Attacked your dog… Peed on your flower bed (with you standing there watching, since we do this all the time when you’re away)…
Allowing dogs to be off leash is against the laws in our town, but it doesn’t stop those most inconsiderate and self-deluded of people who imagine they have some sort of control over their off leash pets.
As a committed dog owner, with a Velcro dog who doesn’t leave my side, I staunchly disagree with you. There is most certainly something wrong with even a well trained dog being off leash if you are in an area where you are required to keep your dog on a leash. And most counties have leash laws requiring you to keep your dog on a leash unless you are on your own property or in a specifically designated off leash area.
All that being said, while I can understand someone not cleaning up after their dog would make you angry, vandalizing that person’s property is not acceptable. My county has a law stating you can be fined $50 for not cleaning up after your dog. I am sure LA has a similar ordinance. He had it on video. Call the cops and file a complaint.
Well, in my town it’s against the law unless you are in an off leash area. I can’t stand it when I see dogs off leash when I’m driving by. It’s not safe for the dog or for me. I don’t want to be approached by a strange dog without a leash, especially if I’m walking with kids. There are many many cases of unprovoked and unexpected attacks, despite what dog fanatics would have you believe.
My furbabies are never off leash unless it is a designated off leash area. I love them too much to risk them getting injured or risk them being misunderstood. My littlest Scottie is over friendly and is still “jumpy” with people, although she’s gotten better. No matter how well trained terriers are, they are still terriers so they stay on lead unless in a designated area and then, I watch them like a hawk.
Everyone thinks “their” dogs are well trained. And well trained usually means jumping on you/nipping at your heels/barking/running into the road.
My favorite is people whose dogs jump and claw at you every time they see you, and the person is saying, oh they’re friendly! They never do this! Every.single.time.
Sorry. Dogs are ok. I’m not a dog hater. But I definitely like cats better.
Add the people who keep their dogs on retractable leashes, pay no attention, and clothesline the poor runners (me) who have no way of knowing what the dog will do. Once a woman with a double wide stroller, dog on a leash talking on the phone ran me off the trail. She apologized… to the other person on the phone. It still makes me angry. I love dogs, I hate lazy dog owners.
Until that one time when it jumps or startles a 90-year-old woman who then falls and breaks her hip. True story – happened in my neighborhood. With an asshat who always had his dog off-leash. Until he got sued by the woman who was injured when his “well-behaved dog” ran from his side and jumped up on her.
Add to my list of pet peeves people who don’t control their dogs even ON leash. My little 5-lb Maltese got attacked by another dog in the neighborhood while both were on leash. The other owner just sat there laughing like “oh, how cute, they’re playing,” while I was like “your dog is BITING my dog’s neck.” There were three other witnesses who were just as shaken as me, and I had to pull the other dog off of mine, and all this was going on while my dog was cowering between my ankles.
Well-behaved, my ass.
I trail ride on my horse and I can’t even begin to count the number of times a “well behaved/trained” off-leash dog has gone after us. Usually with the owner standing there ineffectually telling the dog to come over and over. Even in areas with strict leash rules. One time two dogs even jumped up onto the rump of my friend’s horse. The whole time the stupid owner was telling us that “they NEVER do that!”
Sorry, I don’t care how well trained you think your dog is, if it doesn’t come when called it has no business being off leash. In fact, I can only recall a couple dogs (ever, in over a decade) who deserved to be off leash.
Zip, I almost believe your comment is trolling.
You can have a dog that is the best-trained, best-behaved, sweetest-tempered doggie that ever lived. This amazing dog should still never be off-leash in a public area because it will, at one time or another, encounter: aggressive, angry-tempered dogs who might try and attack your dog – which you have zero control over, since your dog is off-leash; people who are scared of dogs; mentally ill people who might try to attack your dog; drivers who are drunk and could drive over the sidewalk, injuring or killing your off-leash dog. Something could happen that would frighten your dog so much that it darts into traffic, or into a person, knocking them over and potentially seriously injuring them. If you don’t think this has ever happened, then you are extremely naive and uninformed.
The basic point is that a situation may arise in which you need to pull your dog away to safety, which you cannot do if your dog is off-leash. Having your dog off-leash in public areas is horrendously irresponsible and selfish. It’s not about your dog feeling “free of the leash,” it’s about you stroking your ego by saying to yourself and others, “Look what a good dog owner I am – Fido is so well-behaved he doesn’t need a leash!”
Fido needs a leash to help protect him from dangers you cannot predict.
“There’s nothing wrong with a dog being off leash when it’s well trained / behaved.”
I could not disagree more with this attitude. Just reading this made my blood pressure go up. Must be written by an entitled dog owner who thinks their dog is perfect.
Our rescue greyhound can’t be around other dogs. We don’t know what happened to her, but she goes into fight-or-flight mode when she sees an unfamiliar dog. So we keep her in the yard, or on a leash, always. I can’t tell you how many times some idiot dog owner has let their dog run up to us, insisting their dog is “friendly.” I DON’T CARE IF YOUR DOG IS FRIENDLY. It belongs on a leash, far away from mine. “Calling it back” is not good enough.
PS And don’t tell me “there are no bad dogs, only bad dog owners.” Dogs that were abused may be afraid of any number of things. They are not “bad dogs,” and their owners are not “bad dog owners.”
@Kitten all you had to say was there is something wrong with it. It’s against the law. I have seen people walking pit bulls off leash. The dog could be friendly but how does a child or an adult know that.
Dogs in most cities are to be leashed in public. I assume this was LA, and I am pretty sure they have a leash law so the person is breaking the law.
Wow reading these comments a lot of people seem really upset with some dog owners. Now I am a dog owner, and I clean up after my dog cause I find it disgusting. Still I see plenty of dog poop on my walks even with a community with bins and bags in abundance. Still if this story is true, which I doubt, not sure putting poop on someone’s door or threatening them is a good idea. Celebitchy’s ideas seemed ingenious. Can’t believe they didn’t work better.
My only wonder is he a badass or mean? Well keep in mind Sandra’s track record with men. Her ex was sort of a badass and mean, and that turned out so well. Hope this isn’t a repeat performance.
I ALWAYS clean up my dog’s poop. I recently stepped in a pile of dog poop and got so angry. I feel like if I always clean up after my dog then the universe should grant me protection from all other dog poop. I can’t believe people don’t pick up after their dogs. I would be in favor of police or someone checking people walking their dogs for plastic bags. I always carry a roll of them with me.
I’ll bet you have poopie bags in all your jacket pockets, too. I found one in my pants pocket this morning! It had been through the wash.
I live in a condo complex; we have those bag stands and drop bins everywhere, and I NEVER see ANYONE pick up after their dogs! Oh, they have the little bags tied to their leashes, but to bend down and pick it up… nope! Even when I call the office or the Guard Gate to come and cite them, it never happens (even though it’s in the CC&Rs about cleaning up after pets).
Even my 87 yr. old dad picks up after our dog if he walks Pfeiffer. And these entitled a$$wipes just stand there and let there dogs poop anywhere and keep on walking. GRRRRR!!
I wish I had Randall’s nerve. My next door neighbor has no fence and doesn’t leash his chihuahuas. They wander, they are free range chihuahuas leaving their tiny turds everywhere. They’re also unrepentent barkers. Conversations have gotten nowhere. My husband flings the poops back in the guy’s yard. I have fantasies about collecting my friends’ dogs’ poop and decorating his yard with it.
This is such a first world problem. That, and people who light up (weed or cigarettes) in my house or car without asking if it’s OK (it’s not). It makes me homicidal.
We live in a farm so my dog is used to being walked off-leash. It’s not a problem until we go to the city for a visit. I always leash her but I do have to let her off the leash briefly to poop. She won’t do it if she’s leashed; it is like the leash is an extension of the house to her. I try to sneak and do it in a stand of trees so people don’t see and then I do clean up after her… But sorry! I am one of those folks who sometimes has to let the dog off leash! She is very good on recall though; it’s a necessity or else she’d get killed by livestock or a wild animal at home.
A neighbour dog that is constantly barking is awful and it seriously changes your quality of life. You can’t go outside on the deck, you can hear it all day and all night from inside your house. Talking to the owners is an exercise in futility. You call the Bilaw officers and they do nothing.
“free range chihuahuas” made me laugh out loud.
@redd “free range chihuahua” is hilarious and as a chihuahua owner myself, your neighbor is an a$$hole. While I love my pups more than anything , let’s be honest they are also tiny little pooping, nonstop barking machines with the mind frame of a huge dog. Not to mention chihuahuas are fragile and need constant supervision, it doesn’t take much for them to get seriously or mortally injured. I really dislike inconsiderate , lazy dog owners who can’t be bothered with the actual work of having a pet. I would do the same thing as you. Put it on his doorstep!
I scream “shut uppppp!” out the door at the neighbor’s horrible little shit of a dog.
I TOTALLY get behind the boyfriend. Nothing has made me homicidal like the neighbor’s ENDLESSLY barking dog when I’m trying to write an effing dissertation. I seriously thought I might have to delay a year, which is RIDICULOUS when you think about it. They just let it stand there behind the screen door and bark for hours on end–right next to them!! Just thinking about it makes me see red.
“free range chihuahuas” IS kind of funny.
However, I hope for their sake your neighborhood doesn’t have any free range coyotes.
One of my neighbors has a chihuahua mix that they sometimes tie up on a long leash in front of their house, so it barks at/chases everything that comes down the street. They let it off leash frequently to wander the neighborhood, and it poops everywhere. The owners saw me out for a walk one day and asked, with faux-apologetic faces, “be honest, he poops in your yard doesn’t he?” and I said “yes, it’s annoying” and they said “oh, we’re sorry about that” but then have never changed their behavior. Stupid neighbors. Though, to be honest, though the little yippers’ poops are annoying, it’s NOTHING compared to the neighborhood cats’. Those things dig up the garden beds, and leave poops in my herb garden (and no, I don’t have catmint drawing them in). Unfortunately, there are no laws against free-roaming cats, so people just let them wander and there’s nothing I can do. We do have coyotes in the area, and I feel bad when I see the ‘missing cat’ posters go up and I can guess what happened. The owners are such idiots, putting their kitties at risk like that: wild animals, cars, disease, chemicals…the big wide suburban world is not a safe place for loose dogs and cats. These people claim to love their pets, but letting them wander seems a strange way of showing it.
(I love cats and dogs, BTW, if it weren’t for family allergies, I’d have some myself…but I don’t like having to deal with the waste of other peoples’ pets in my yard)
Life is dog poo! If life causes a person to make threats and leave sh%t on someone’s property then there are deeper issues. Run Sandra run!
Thank you! I couldn’t agree more. And the neighbor was granted a temporary restraining order because there was a veiled threat in Randall saying things would play out differently after his daughter was gone.” WTF! So, when his daughter goes off to college, he’s gonna go kaowack on the dog-poop owner? If a person is obsessing about something so menial until his daughter has moved away, that is not anything to be brushed off. He sounds like a total whack-job. The neighbor also said Randall has a notoriously erratic temper. Oh do tell. Judges don’t hand out restraining orders like candy. In fact, they are limited to a certain number they are allowed to issue. That tells me Randall has a history of being volatile.
spoken like a dog owner who thinks their dog shitting all over the place is no big deal. If the dog shit is nbd, then wiping it on the doorstep isn’t either.
Sandra has lousy tastes in men, which makes one wonder about Sandra, herself. This guy is broke, not a penny to his name, he was dating a 23 year old, but dropped her to date a 51 year old. I think this guy sees dollar signs when looking at Sandra. His Facebook page is really weird, too. I’d run in the other direction as fast as I could.
I disagree. Sounds like she’s landed another roided up immature loser in love with her fame. His face screams a-hole,much like Jesse James did.
Keanu is still available Sandra. Why don’t u try with him at least,before settling with some unstable over the hill ‘model?’ Lol
I am not a believer in Sandy’s innocence through all that. she knew who Jesse was when she married him.
there are few things that make me hate LA more than the people – but the people who don’t clean up after their dogs are top of the list, (right behind bad drivers). Still, this guy snapped a little too early and a little too aggressively for my tastes. What is with Sandy B- first the Nazi/Motorcycle gang guy, Now this dude with the mercurial temper. Geez, i wish she had better taste.
As it so happens, I’m dealing with this right now…
Someone’s been leaving big doggy dumps outside my building, and I’m pretty pissed off about it. I left a nasty note, and my other dog-owner neighbors applauded this, but it still hasn’t stopped. It’s not like any effort has been made to come back and pick it up either. The person just doesn’t give a sh*t – or rather does and leaves it everywhere.
So I didn’t want to, but I finally caved this morning and cleaned it up myself. I don’t like my poor older dog stepping in it, especially on our late night potty breaks, or moreso because my other dog has taken to eating it. Ewww!
When I catch the person, and I will, I plan on leaving a big pile of it on their doorstep – then they can step in it, too.
I call bull on the neighbor going back to clean up his dogs mess. Why didn’t he have a baggy with him if he was walking his dog?
Exactly what I was wondering. And if you don’t want to clean up after the dog, train it to do its business in your own yard.
Exactly! Totally on this guy’s side – in fact, this story is the first sympathetic thing that I’ve heard about him.
“I was about to go back outside to pick up the feces…” Yeah, right. Sure you were.
That neighbor sounds like a lying nightmare.
FFS. How hard is it to tie a bag or two to your leash before you go? Better yet, take your dog for a walk *after* it poops, as a reward for getting its business done. I don’t even leave my yard without two tied to the leash. No one, I mean NO ONE, wants to deal with poop on the street, much less strange poop on the lawn (my dog’s is quite enough, thankyouverymuch).
Add me to “Team I cannot stand people who don’t pick up after their dogs.” My girl is going to be 15 this month, and is also a “Velcro dog.” If we’re out in front of the house – and I know my street and neighborhood well – on a quick out “take care of business” excursion, I don’t leash her. That said, I’m never out of collar-grabbing range. And yes, I’m one of those with bags in every pocket. But on the rare occasions when I’ve brought two bags on what turned out to be a three-bag walk, I learned that no one really minds when you ring their doorbell and panhandle for a plastic bag to pick up the by-products on their lawn. Dude could have asked Sandra’s BF for a bag and I bet that would have de-escalated the situation fast. I get his frustration, but it really takes a special kind of person to smear dog poop on a neighbor’s doorstep. And I don’t mean special in a good way.
Cannibell, like you, I have a 15 yr-old dog…
He’s now “off-leash”, so to speak, because he can’t walk much anymore and has to be carried outside to do his business. I often do this throughout the day and night, so I’m pretty understanding of my other dog-owner neighbors as well, especially as I know most of them, and sometimes we might miss a dropping here or there in the dark.
Yet in our case, someone’s leaving big messes that can’t be missed, making no effort at all, and we even have a doggy bag station on our block. As frustrating as this is, though, if I were to see this person and get angry or threaten him/her, I’m not so much afraid of an RO or even harm to myself – but most of all, some kind of retaliation against my poor old dog.
With some people, you just never know… 🙁
Oh, Laura, I feel your pain. My dog needs help getting up and down stairs (arthritic back, two bad knees – she had ACL ruptures when she was 91/2 & 11, and we did the basic repair surgeries both times, but one healed “loose”). We’re pretty lucky on our block in terms of not having a lot of the type of behavior you describe, but my neighborhood is “transitional” and my big fear has always been someone freaking out and shooting her, so I’m ALWAYS close by. (It’s never happened, and my block is by and large very quiet, but there has been the occasional bad actor, so I like to err on the side of caution.) How big is your guy? (I always tell people if I looked like my dog, I’d be Naomi Campbell – she’s a Shepherd mix, black and slender with very long legs, and her weight ranged from the high 50s to the low 60s.)
Seriously! Whenever I walk my roommate’s dogs, I have plastic bags stuffed in all my pockets…one of them sometimes likes to go 2 or even 3 times. I hate scooping up poo but I would be SO mortified to leave poop out. One time when I was a kid a woman let her dog poop in our yard and did not scoop. I gleefully alerted my dad and he immediately raced out the door and shouted up the street “Madame, please come back here and clean up after your dog”. So now when I am out with the dogs I am always thinking some seven year old might be spying on me….AND I SCOOP!
every one of my dogs has a little poopy bag container on his/her leash that contains a roll of bags. And I do the stuffing the pockets thing too when I know they might be off-leash (in my yard, for example or at the dog park)
I don’t have my own dog, but I have dog sat for my brother. I have to admit that my PRIMARY reason for cleaning up after the dog was fear of getting caught NOT doing it. Secondary reason for doing it was that it is simply the right thing to do.
I used to get scared that someone would see him going on their lawn and come yell at me even though I HAD a bag and was planning to use it. (We lived in the city and unfortunately, he was used to going on grass so inevitably, it was someone’s lawn)
When I was dog-sitting for a week, I always had too many bags when I walked the dog. But a few days into my dog-sitting, I had to use several more bags than usual on a walk and I ran out. Then the dog stopped to poop again, right in front of a neighbor. I honestly did intend to run back, get a bag and clean up, but before I could do anything the neighbor that was watching started yelling at me. I explained, but I know he didn’t believe me, he got me a bag so I could clean up, and of course I did, but I have no doubt he thought that I wouldn’t have cleaned up if he hadn’t been there to shame me into it. Obviously, the next few days I brought even more bags with me and never had that problem again, but assuming it was an isolated incident, I can see it being an accident and maybe the guy would have come back to clean up. Obviously, if it happened repeatedly then the neighbor loses any benefit of the doubt.
I’ve on occasion run out of bags on a walk. I’ve been known to knock on people’s doors to ask if I can have a bag to clean the poop up. They actually appreciate the effort and give me a bag.
Yes, it happens sometimes, only three bags on what turns out to be a multi-poop walk. And that’s when I’m grateful for random flyer/newspaper litter – or even a giant leaf! Otherwise, I talk out loud to my dogs, saying we’re coming back for this, and then I do, because that’s how crazy I am.
Yeah, I’m not liking this Blue Steel guy very much.
Full disclosure: I’ve had my dog for ten years and after numerous surgeries I was leaving my dog’s mess outside more & more, to an embarrassing degree. I’d usually forget to take a bag (thank you, Vicodin!) or was just acting carelessly. When my neighbors complained it snapped me back into the real world where even though I was in tremendous pain I was being gross, selfish & inconsiderate. I wrote apology notes to my neighbors and contacted the homeowners association to let them know I wouldn’t be a problem any longer (as there are at least five other dog owners on my block who still never pick up after their dogs, my little guy would now pass any doggy DNA test!).
Stacer could be a jerk, but it’s amazing how well people can treat each other when they’re approached with a tiny bit of graciousness. Whatever the provocation, I would not want to associate with anyone who smeared feces on someone’s door.
And I believe McConaughey was messing around with Ashley Judd on the set of A Time to Kill and dumper her when he met Sandy. And then he dumped Sandy on Valentine’s Day. I always thought Bullock should have held on to Tate Donovan. I also thought Aniston should have held on to him too, but judging from a Donovan interview I saw recently it sounds like he filed Jen under “Bullet Dodged”.
The dude seems thirsty. But Sandy is enough of a power player to be behind this info dump (ha see what I did there 😂) in the media. I don’t know, I love Sandra but she does have a tendency to pick douchecanoes.
I’m beginning to think her “picker” is as broken as Halle Berry’s.
At least she doesn’t have kids with them.
I think it’s more Halle herself who is broken and troubled. Her former fiancee Gabriel seemed fine and seems fine away from her.
It seems Sandy does have a ‘type’ … and I’m not impressed.
Ditto. She likes “bad boys” and it doesn’t work in her favor. All I thought with that Jesse James dude was she thought she was so much better than his previous ladies that he wouldn’t do to her what he did to them. I find it extremely arrogant. And she may not have had kids with either of them, but she does have a child and had the adoption in process when she with Jesse James….as if. Hope she’s really taking her son’s environment into consideration with new dude.
Gabriel Aubry seems to be the exception in her history. Him she couldn’t get rid of fast enough.
Yes, she does .
Yeah, I’m not convinced this new boyfriend is not a douchebag. She does seem to gravitate towards men who are douchey, except possibly Ryan Gosling. Time will tell but I’m bracing for another horrible story on how this guy cheated or did something not nice to dear ole Sandy.
I don’t think Matthew McConoughaey is douchey.,
Although I understand his anger, he took it too far. Creepy.
I agree. Sounds like he threatened and intimidated the neighbor.
Was the restraining order granted? Judges don’t give out restraining orders based on frivolous claims.
Sandy likes her bad boys-might be time to give this one a closer look.
Yes. While I understand the frustration of cleaning up sh*t from my lawn that belonged to non-resident dogs, this response seems out of proportion.
Temporary restraining orders are easy to get. You just have to fill out a form and claim to feel threatened. The judge didn’t renew it, so it didn’t stand up to scrutiny. Same thing happened that infamous Thanksgiving when Halle’s attack dog of a boyfriend seriously beat up Nahla’s father (after Halle had lost her court bid to take Nahla to France, and the dad was just dropping off Nahla since he agreed to give Halle some of his time for the holiday). Halle had the gall to get a restraining order on the victim! It was a holiday, so the temporary order was granted, but once normal hours resumed the ridiculous restraining order was dumped.
Childish.
I’m not Team Randall at all.
Mixed feelings. I hate people who don’t clean up after their dogs. But there are other, more mature actions that you can take, I would think. Threatening and poop smearing seem extreme.
Someone on my street refuses to pick up their dog poop. It’s disgusting.
The other day I saw a bag of poop just sitting on the sidewalk (because a plastic bag of poop that is not biodegradable is better than just poop?) and someone finally took a sidewalk chalk and wrote “PLEASE clean up your..” and circled the bag of poop with chalk. Lol…
The problem is so bad that for a while someone had posted signs on my street saying that whoever is not picking up their poop needs to do so.
People in our neighborhood are pretty good about it, but it is really gross and irresponsible when they don’t pick it up. I don’t get it. It’s part of owning a dog. If you don’t want to do it, don’t get a dog. I’ve had dogs and it’s really not that big of a deal. Sorry you have to jog around poo. No fair.
It’s not like your hands are touching the poop. It takes but a second to bed down and scoop the poop, then turn the bag inside out and tie it. Unless it’s pudding… I hate when they do pudding poops. That’s why I have a water bottle with me when we walk.
Right, paranormal girl. I couldn’t do it in my sleep. We use the plastic bags our newspaper comes in. It’s really not a big deal.
Oh paranormalgirl, have you ever gotten a ripped bag and didn’t notice? I know what poop feels like.
Oh Crumpet – I have! UGGGGHHHH! And more than a few times…
I love dogs (not too keen on cats with the obvious exception of kitten) but poo is not just a messy nuisance, it can be a serious health hazard for young kids especially. There is a bizarre habit in some neighbourhoods of bagging the poo and then sticking it in a tree,bush or hedge. Do they think the poo fairies will turn it into into magic dust? Dogs bring responsibilities, including poo disposal, if you aren’t prepared to do it you shouldn’t have a dog.
Crumpet: that JUST happened to m a few minutes ago! First time in YEARS!!! Thanks god for the water bottle and hand sanitizer until I got home. I still think I smell like poo even after a shower and several handwashings.
THAT drives me crazy! I was eight years old when I first moved into my house……and our dog would crap right in the backyard, on the very EDGE of our neighbor’s yard. But my parents would make me and my brother clean up dog poop the minute we got home from school. Like literally, we had to get out of the car, put our backpacks on the porch, and pick up dog poop. So it wasn’t like we were letting him crap in the neighbor’s yard, and leaving it. We cleaned it up every. single. day. at. the. same. time. EVERY DAY. But this neighbor (allllll of them are crazy) through a hissy fit, yelled at us, yelled at our parents…..
……and this same neighbor had one of those tiny barking rat-dogs, and would take it for walks and let it crap in everyone else’s yard, without picking it up.
Sandy looks very Angie Harmon in that pic. Still don’t care much for bf.
i would never do that, but trust me, I’ve wanted to. People who don’t clean up after their dogs are like the worst people in the world. Seriously, it’s like 1)serial killers, 2)rapists, and 3)people who don’t pick up their dog’s poop.
Why do people want dirt on him? If he’s a scumbag that must mean Sandra’s a scumbag too?
Why would it mean that Sandra is a scumbag, just because she tends to be attracted to them?
And I don’t know if I would SMEAR dog crap all over someone’s doorway, but if I knew, absolutely, without a doubt that THIS PERSON was letting their dog crap in my yard, I’d gather it all up for a month or two, and then go dump it in their yard.
where would you store all the poop leading up to the full month? it will really stink
@moo– I was giggling at the thought of a month of poops being lobbed onto an offender’s yard, then you had to get all practical with your question. Geez, way to kill a buzz… 😉
I understand the anger. There’s lots of awful people who don’t pick up after their dogs at my local beach and it makes me furious! This guy is obviously one of these people so he has no credibility. He wasn’t going back to pick it up and nobody threatened him. I’m getting angry just thinking about it! I wish Randall had fed it to the guy
hahahahaha
I laughed so hard at this comment, I swear people in my office think I’m crazy now.
Eeeww.
I’m just here to say that I’m officially in love with CB for having the wit and LadyBalls to put up a fake security camera and convince an entire complex of people that “Doggy DNA Testing” (dying) is a thing. I needed the endless giggle-fit that this information has sent me spiraling into.
Thanks but it’s a real thing! It is! I heard a whole program on NPR about it. Follow the link I put up for that. It’s like 1,000 to start plus a 100 to register each dog or something pretty reasonable. I would casually bring it up when I was chatting with various neighbors and I told enough people I’m sure it got around.
I have no doubts! I just meant that I was impressed that you were able to convince all your neighbors that it was happening, as if a goon-squad of guys in hazmat suits was about to show up and start swabbin’ the poop.
Thank you for the link! Seems like a very reasonable, logical way to keep excessive poop under control. And “poop-prints”… Dying all over again.
CSI: Dog Patrol…..coming this fall on CBS!
This drives me NUTS!!! Part of the responsibility of owning a dog is CLEANING up after it!
Our neighborhood is waging a war- we have great sidewalks and lots of green places, and lots of families, and lots of wonderful dogs. The thing is, people don’t clean up after their sweet little pooch, and now, it’s kind of a misery trying to walk/run on the trails as you’re constantly looking for piles of dog doo to avoid! No matter the number of signs or free doggie bags they put up!
However- not sure I’d smear dog poo on a neighbors door… that’s a little much, dude.
Put little flags in every pile of dog poo you come across. Maybe people start realizing how many there actually are. 😉
It will look like Poopapalooza. I see little flags all the time with “Lost Poop” “Did you forget something?” “Please Momma Pick Me” “My Daddy Didn’t Love Me”, etc. Someone is having fun while making a point.
This is what the world was like before we brought in pooper-scooper laws. It wasn’t good.
Poop pollution!
I had a neighbor do the poop smearing incident to someone else. It was a rage response after many attempts at asking the damn dog owner to clean up after their dog. Sometimes shit on your door is the only thing an asshole understands! They were also pushing their luck, this woman was kinda crazy and they could’ve ended up with boiled dog for dinner-
Don’t shit where you live folks- and don’t let your dog do so either.
(By the way, I love dogs. But I know I’m too lazy to clean up after them, so I don’t own one.)
Randall sounds scary to me. That is not an appropriate response to feces. At least one calm warning should precede videotaping and threats like this. Anger does not justify violence. Randall wasn’t going to be hurt by the poop so it wasn’t self defense. Picking up after your dog is necessary but it doesn’t warrant this ominous response.
Maybe he had asked him before, and the neighbour ignored him.
We are assuming that the guy who never bothers to clean after his dog was speaking the truth. Sometimes people exaggerate the situation to make a formal police complaint because it is a he said / he said situation so it’s not like what is in the complaint is what actually happened.
Now if more and more of these kinds of stories pile up then that adds more credibility to Randall having a bad temper and douchey personality. Right now what we have is an asshole neighbour who was literally called on his shit (or the dog’s in this case) and so his version isn’t exactly reliable.
I doubt this was the first time it was discussed, and I’m sure it was not the first time the dog pooped on the lawn.
Really petty in my opinion.
Ugh irresponsible dog owners drive me utterly insane. If youre not responsible enough to pick it up you shouldnt have a dog. Its disgusting and unhygenic. Our sidewalks are smeared with poop. Its like walking through landmines sometimes. We got our building to put out a trash bin with bags like you did and STILL people are too lazy. I get super irate sometimes but i dont think id go that far. Unless maybe i asked and they were a smartass….
YES! one time on my lunch break in a black suit sitting on a park bench on my cell phone. Now I love dogs. Really insanely love them. These two chicks walk by w dog on leash. Big Rottweiler. Give it a bunch of slack on the leash so it can come sniff me. I didn’t motion for it to. They just didn’t care. It came over sniffed me and left huge jowel slobber on my pants. And I looked at them like what the hell. They just started laughing and kept walking. I was soooo pissed and grossed out.
People who make physical threats to another person when upset and agitated have lost any common sense they possesed and that’s a big red flag to me. The more I hear of this guy the less I think of him. Then again, Sandra Bullock doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to choosing men…
I’m beginning to think she’s drawn to the doucheness because maybe she is a bit douchy herself. I don’t get her choices.
Team No One.
And, I hate to be this person, but I’ve run out of bags and had to go home to get another. Sometimes your dog goes more than the usual number of times. When that’s happened, I rush home and get a bag to clean up. Just sayin, not all of us are d-bags.
No excuse. I have 2 dogs and carry 3 bags with me at all times as 1 dog often poops twice. How hard is it to carry extra bags? Tie them on the leash.
I live in a condo complex and it’s mostly ok except for 1 stupid owner with a huge Saint Bernard (who does that to a dog?) who let their daughter get dragged along to walk him. I made the mother follow me outside and clean up the dog’s poop once.
This is a HUGE pet peeve (haha) of mine. Selfish, selfish, selfish people don’t care about their neighbors. You just KNOW that Randall did what he did because that incident was not the first time his neighbor didn’t pick up after his dog.
I carry two normally because thats his normal number. He’s surprised me with three. It’s embarrassing.
Other Renee – apparently more people than you think do that to a St. Bernard, or we must be neighbors-
He did nothing wrong. I’m in an apartment complex surrounded by neighbors with huge dogs who take multiple huge sh*ts everyday and nobody cleans up after them, it’s beyond disgusting and rude to litter a common area with foul smelling piles of feces and I can understand this guy losing it and smearing it all over the door! I’ve been at that point myself. I can’t even sit in my backyard because the smell is overwhelming and my daughter can’t play out there because she steps in it, I’ve even watched my neighbors let their dogs out and they watched them take a sh*t next to my back stoop and they did nothing while I went inside and got a bag and picked up the mess. And I can really get going on those who let their dogs bark alllllll night long, so rude and inconsiderate! In situations like this I see animals similar to children, I don’t let my daughter come take a sh*t in your yard and scream outside all night so why is it ok for your dog! Ugh, I have to stop, I can feel the anxiety rising, Lol. It’s funny that her boyfriend smeared poop, smear it everywhere dude!
I’ve never lived in an apartment so I don’t know, but can’t management impose some sort of discipline or else?
I’ve tried talking with the owner but he lives two hours away and doesn’t seem to care much, there are only 10 units and they kind of circle around a huge back yard area that we all share, and apparently word got out that the owner allows pitbulls because every single person here has one. I love the dogs but can’t stand their owners, I can’t wait to move!
There was a lady a few years ago who only took her dog to my next door neighbor’s corner. It was awful, twice a day, every day. So my neighbor had a sign made ; MRS SMITH PLEASE KEEP YOUR DOG OUT OF THIS YARD! The sign included a photo of her dog mid-dump. It finally shamed her. I don’t know if she began picking up after her dog or just took him to another yard, but my neighbor finally had a clean yard.
Ha!
Awesome!
Lol! I love it!!!
“I don’t let my daughter come take a sh*t in your yard and scream outside all night so why is it ok for your dog!”
Maybe you should, Jess. OK, I’m totally kidding but I’m picturing it, and it would be funny as heck.
Ok, my coworkers can hear me laughing in my office by myself and now think I’m crazy. That picture in my head of your daughter screaming in someone’s yard beside her little ‘pile’ is just hilarious!!! Thanks for making my day.
I wouldn’t smear it, but I very much would at least consider picking it up in a bag, and then dumping it out on his stoop. This might seem immature compared to say, knocking on the door to talk to him– but I really think it is possible that Randall’s side of the story would be that the neighbor NEVER picks up after his dog.
At our last apartment we found phantom poops out in front of our house ALL the time. Always roughly the same size. We figured it was probably the same dog owner alllowing it. We NEVER caught them in the act. We work all day away from home and didn’t have a window that faced that way- — so when we were home, we never would have seen them. But we used to get SO mad because it was in the middle of our path from our car to the front door. And my kid stepped in it once, probably the one time I wasn’t hovering over her pointing out the poop and telling her not to step there. (Sigh) I then had to clean her shoe, gagging away the whole time.
Anyway, right or wrong, had I ever caught ANYONE not cleaning up after their dog there, just once, I cannot say I wouldn’t put it in a bag and throw it straight at their head. This is not the right thing to do, for sure, but the anger built up over a year of finding poop there? It can be quite ragey.
Ha! Maybe I should just let her, or do it myself:) I obviously don’t deal with sleep deprivation very well and these are the thoughts on revenge I have when I’m wide awake for hours at night because of constant barking. I wonder what kind of trouble I’d get in for that, public defecation? Lol, eye for an eye, turd for a turd!
Nope, super childish.
I have always dreamed of doing this…collecting all the dog poop owners leave behind and placing it right at their doorstep so they have to deal with it! Clean up after your dog or just don’t have a dog if you’re too much of a lazy as$ to do so. Yes it was childish but I take early morning runs and often accidentally step in dog poop as I can’t see too well when its still dark…its beyond annoying! Im sure Randall had to put up with a lot of sh*t to take it that far. Neighbor sounds like an ahole who can’t take responsibility for his actions.
Someone did that to one of my friends! She has two small dogs and refused to pick up their poop. She always told me her dog’s poop is so small it doesn’t matter. In every other way, she is a wonderful person but this was an issue. Finally, one of our neighbors (anonymously) gathered up her dog’s poop and put it in a bag on her porch with a note to please pick up after her dogs. That did the trick! She has been picking up after them ever since.
So small it doesn’t matter, eh? : )
That’s so ludicrous! It’s like junior-high boys arguing about fart types. It’s like we need a poster: “What part of “PICK UP THE POOP” don’t you understand?”
It’s not about turd size, overall quantity, horizontal or vertical formation, pyramidal parameters, density, smell, consistency, frequency, difficulty in defecation, degree of squat or any other qualifier. It’s about the fact of poop. I’m about to burst into loud laughter and my co-worker is on an important call so I need to remove myself from the situation and laugh somewhere else.
Glad she was finally able to respond to reasonable persuasion.
On a related note, my coworker let his dog poop IN THE OFFICE that he shares with the boss and did not clean it up. I spotted it first and my boss asked ME to clean it up. I refused and said we should call the dog’s owner (he works outside usually), but rather than do that, my boss cleaned it up herself. I was horrified on multiple levels. This dog has also bitten several people at work and my boss continues to let him be around (but now he has to be on a leash, still bites people who approach him). It’s ridiculous IMHO.
Jaysus what is wrong with people? I guess this is what happens when lazy, arrogant, entitled people own dogs.
Your boss is allowing a dangerous work environment to exist and endanger the other employees, which makes your office a hazardous workplace – put together a paper trail on the bites and the next time one happens, report it anonymously to OSHA.
That dog needs to be reported! Sounds like a dangerous work environment, jeez. I work in an urgent care place and we’re required by law to report it when someone comes in with an animal bite, the animal has to be picked up and quarantined for 10 days, and repeat offenders will get put down.
So what’s the cause of the boss’s incompetence? Let me guess. The boss is hooking up with the dog owner.
Yes, listen to PennyLane and Jess — against the law.
Thanks for the rally of reason! The permissiveness is unbelievable to me and I believe we’re one lawsuit away from getting shut down. It’s totally absurd.
And no, the boss isn’t hooking up with the dog owner, the dog owner is hooking up with one of his former underlings who is 30 years his junior.
Her bf looks like a character in 5th Element in that photo above. He looks like Jon Stewart.
When my husband & I first moved into our house we quickly found out that our neighbors a couple houses down would let their dog freely roam the neighborhood. He would go into everyone’s yard and use it as his bathroom. You never saw him on a leash, being walked and cleaned up after. Others in the neighborhood were obviously aware of this, but no one did anything about it. Well, my husband finally had enough and went down to their house to confront them about it. It turned into a not very pleasant exchange, with the guy even stating that no one else seems to mind. Letting the dog loose continued until my husband called animal control. After they got their dog back they started walking him with a leash and keeping him in their yard (yes, they have fenced in yard!). Things are cool now. We even wave at each other when we’re outside.
The guy is hot he can do no wrong.
Meh. I don’t know about all that now, but I can’t judge the guy for the poop thing, I did the same exact thing a few years ago to an annoying neighbor who would let her dog poop in my tiny yard & piss near my door. I asked her as nicely as I could muster to please not do that in the future and she laughed and walked away and did it a few more times, she even let her stupid dog bite at my trash bag on pick up day until I yelled at her dog to stop. She answered real snippy that he couldn’t tear it anyway because his teeth are too small and walked away as I was responding to her but I did yell out that this would be the last time I was nice about it. I finally had to get crazy after a particularly bad day at work & almost stepping in it coming home. Grabbed a plastic baggy pick it up & smeared it on her door knob! Haha, I laughed all night! It never happened again.
I am against dogs off leash and their peeps leaving the poo.
That said, Sandy is attracted to bad a$$ men so I don’t doubt that he was threatening.
Clean up after your dog,feces is disgusting!! I would’ve done the same thing. Team Randall.
What an idiot, well done Randall! That neighbor was just full of it, he if was that scared he would have cleaned the poop.
Well, the neighbour said he intended to clean up immediately … it is what he said he INTENDED. Perhaps it is not what he did do.
Smearing dog poo after just one conversation about cleaning up is a little bit extreme. I suppose there were several conversations about cleaning up and it didn’t help. And only then did the smearing thing happen.
I totally agree with this Randall guy. We’ve had dogs for years and always picked up after them — kids too! We kept seeing a family whose kid never picked up and drove everyone in the neighborhood crazy. My husband smeared dog poop under the car door handle and left a pile by the car door. They got the hint!
Sounds like a building with multiple tenants. If that is the case, the guy should have reported it to the office and let management handle it. Sounds like the guy might become a little unhinged when made angry. Actually picking up dog poop for any reason other than throwing away is a little extreme. Then to smear it is pretty nasty. I think Sandra likes bad boys. What was that book ‘good women love to love bad boys?’ or something like that? Rational people handle things in a rational manner. What’s even stranger to her I’m sure is that anybody is even telling the story and commenting on it! Lol
On the other hand:
the management often doesn’t do anything of offend tenants as long as it ain’t no huge problem – e.g. the cleaners or gardeners pick it up and then that is it.
Additionally: if he confronted the dog owner and the dog owner showed no sign of remorse let alone say that he will clean up then I can understand if people get angry. And apparently it did the trick.
I too believe that he confronted them several times and that the dog owner neighbour merely forgot to mention that in his little story.
Also I would like to know how much did the dog owner neighbour get for telling his little story?
We had had neighbours who would put their dog on our front lawn deliberately to do his business there… They couldn’t be bothered either. And her husband was a police officer … go figure how effective complaints to the police were.
Easy. Pick it up with a plastic bag, walk to jerk’s door & smear! Lol!
Does Bryan seem 49 here in this video? This is three and a half months ago with his 23-year-old girlfriend.
https://www.laineygossip.com/(F(f))/Video-of-Sandra-Bullocks-boyfriend–Bryan-Randall–with-ex-Paris-St.-John-on-Instagram-14-weeks-ago/40539
Sorry, dog shit smeared over the door of a dog owner who doesn’t clean up his dog’s shit from public places…
Nope, I don’t feel sorry for this dog owner. If he thought that dog feces in public places should be acceptable for other people then other people can expect him to accept dog feces on his property.
In my neighbourhood there is a problem with dog feces and if you confront dog owners then they aren’t even sorry about it.
If you ask me it should be law that everybody who is accompanied by a dog should be legally obliged to have bags for dog feces in his pockets. If not there should be a small fee around 20 bucks. Then dog owners will learn quickly.
Dogs (and cats) have left their poop in my yard and I hate hate hate it! I don’t let my dog poop in their yard so why do they allow their pets to do in my home?!! It is irresponsible owner behavior and although I understand Randall’s anger, he took it too far. Fair to say that I don’t know how long Randall put up with this but he does seem to have a hot temper.
Yeah! Does anyone know of any other good ways of teaching poop forgetting dog owners their lesson? There’s a sweet lady next door who’s dog does it on my lawn…
How old is she? If she’s over a certain age, the poop scoop laws might be kind of new to her, or she’s out of touch. If she’s over a certain advanced age, forgetful? Does she walk her own dog or does she need to simply let it out and it goes home again? Is anyone capable of walking the dog somewhere else? Could be worth a little investigation.
If she’s not older, then maybe there’s something else. If she is truly sweet then maybe a series of conversations can lead to some understanding of what’s happening.
I agree that you should just have a polite conversation. I don’t really think that there’s much excuse for letting your dog poo in your next door neighbor’s yard. Somewhere deep inside, she knows it’s wrong. Lol
I would maybe say I really enjoy being your neighbor and I like you very much, and in the interest of keeping our relationship on pleasant terms, I would ask that you not let your dog go to the bathroom on my lawn. I’d really appreciate it.
I don’t think you need to explain why. She knows why.
Despite leash laws, my neighbors let their two grown labs roam when they let them out and they ALWAYS go in my front yard. I have a fantasy where I collect all the poop and smear it all over their van that they ALWAYS park in front of my mailbox despite being two houses down!!
Are you in a good climate for … cacti?
Lol
Just smear in on the door handles
Mean or badass? Neither. He seems immature and low on impulse control especially given that in 2012 when this happened, he was 38 years old. Undoubtedly, the irresponsible dog owner is a jack-hole so he does not get a pass from me, but as my mother always said, two wrongs don’t make a right.
And in my area there is a $75 fine for not picking up your dog’s poop. Is a fine specifically for dog poop or categorizing it as litter and therefore a misdemeanor an uncommon thing?
My yard is apparently the neighborhood bathroom. It’s unreal. This past winter when the snow thawed and then rained I couldn’t use my veranda, it just smelled so bad. It took WEEKS of me working on it to get it tolerable, and then every day there would be more…so gross. I was so worried people would think I was some nasty dog hoarder that doesn’t mind the smell of feces. I understand his frustration completely. The fake security cameras are a great idea, I’m considering it and wish I thought of it myself. I just can’t go through that again this year.
Doesn’t the city where he live have animal-control by-laws? Where I live (Montreal), by-laws require dog owners to keep their pets on leash and pick up after them, or risk a fine (from $ 100 up to $ 2,000 for a repeat offender). I can certainly understand his frustration, but wouldn’t it be more productive to call the city authorities on his irresponsible neighbour rather than smearing the dog feces on his door?
When I lived in an apartment complex in the city I would always pick up after my dog. He always pooped twice so I would bring three bags just in case. Well, one day he pooped FOUR TIMES and of course my neighbours saw me without a bag. *sigh* they got after me of course, even though they’d seen me clean up after him countless times since living there and after I explained the situation. Sometimes people get over-zealous about the dog poop. Yes, get after someone who is a habitual polluter, but sometimes cut someone some slack when they DO have to go back for another bag.
Geez. I didn’t realize dogs were such prolific poopers. I’ve only lived with cats, who usually are the one-a-day type. I will never again complain about having to dig in the litter box to find their deposits. Even devil-may-care Junior Cat digs a hole and covers it over when she uses my yard as a giant litter box (which is only a problem when she digs holes in the snow and Spring thaw arrives).
hot steamy topic
So, my choice of sides to take, is a dog poop scofflaw or a vigilante poop smearer?
No thanks.
BTW, did he ditch his long term 23 YEAR OLD long term girlfriend for Bullock?
2X no thanks.
Apparently, she dumped him because she wasn’t ready to settle down, get married, and have babies.
“Apparently, she dumped him because she wasn’t ready to settle down, get married, and have babies.”
Well, then a least one of them have some common sense.
Whatever. In my superficial gossipy judgey way, I’m calling it, now. He’s emotionally immature.
When she going to marry him so she can divorce him after finding out about his tattooed,stripper girlfriend?
I’ve got a dog and I ALWAYS cleans up after her, as any normal person would do.
But we have a problem with the neighbors cats. They poop in our flowerbeds and pees on the cushion for our outdoor furniture. As soon as we go inside, even if it’s just for a moment, we have to take everything inside or it will stink of cats piss.
Why is it OK to let cats roam around peeing and pooing everywhere? I think cat owners should take the same responsibility that dog owners do.
Coyote (or any predator) urine works well for deterring cats. Because that’s always fun to order and sprinkle about. Anyways, Home Depot carries it sometimes or you can get it on Amazon.
I live in Sweden so we don’t have Home Depot, but I tried some other stuff that I got here and it didn’t work. Anyhow, shouldn’t it be my neighbors job to buy, spray, and see to it so that his cats don’t ruin other peoples stuff? I tried to talk to him but it was no use.
It doesn’t work if I let my dog urine in the garden either. I tried it. They are not afraid of my dog at all and she is too nice to chase them out.
Yeah I agree it’s the neighbor’s responsibility, but you know, neighbors. I think it’s time to get motion activated sprinklers. Or perhaps a mountain lion. A mountain lion would do the trick. 😉
Ordinarily cats bury everything. So when you find them leaving a pile out in the open or see them urinating on surfaces or objects – a political struggle is going on. Those are political statements aimed at their feline colleagues.
With flower gardens, you need to put a mesh barrier up to make it harder for the cats and other critters to get in there. A fine enough mesh won’t look bad. You might be able to devise it so you can easily get it out of the way to work in the garden. Try gardener’s forums and ask for ideas. Maybe angling it would help, cats can be deterred that way because they can’t see their way clear for a jump. Look for “cat fence” plus Houdini for ideas, since all escape artist cats eventually get called Houdini. I’ve had two different designs for the cat proof fencing around my yard, the simpler one just uses polypropylene mesh held by brackets curving inward on my chain link fence, although the same mesh can be used to construct a standalone critter proofing fence. (People use them to keep deer out, for instance.) Had to go to a much sturdier Houdini-Proof(R) fencing because of Junior Cat, who has made it her life’s work to get past all the defenses and has learned how to walk on flimsy mesh (normal cats don’t do that). We think she has hidden designs for a hang glider as her next project. But the simpler design worked for many years with mellower cats.
I have an escape artist extraordinaire masquerading as a cat, also. He doesn’t see a fence, he sees a challenge.
I sprinkled cayenne pepper around my beds – worked like a charm. They try to lick it off their paws and….well….you’ve never seen a cat run so fast to the nearest water source. Works with raccoons too.
We have someone in our neighborhood who has consistently refused to pick up after her dog until a confrontation has ensued. She claims it makes her so sick that she starts to gag. My response is, “don’t get a dog if you can’t handle it, this is part of the responsibility.”
Two years ago, one of our neighbors immediately collected the offender’s dog’s poop and dumped it on her doorstep. A huge yelling match ensued with her father (mind you, this is a grown woman in her 30s), until he learned that his daughter was an irresponsible a-hole, then he calmed down and said he would talk to her. Things were better for a while, then she decided she didn’t have to pick up after her dog anymore. This led to a more recent confrontation with another neighbor in which security was called, then SHE called security to have them escort her while she walked her dog because she feared for her safety… I swear, it’s like a telenovela down here. And it could all be avoided with a Pooper-Scooper. Or by using the bags from one of the FOUR doggie bag stations we have.
“A huge yelling match ensued with her father (mind you, this is a grown woman in her 30s), until he learned that his daughter was an irresponsible a-hole, then he calmed down and said he would talk to her. ”
LOL. Which makes one wonder….did he just think that the guy who dropped the poop on the doorstep did it JUST “BECAUSE”? It sounds like he understood once the situation was explained. But I am lol’ing over here imagining what I’d do if I caught someone dumping a bag of poop on MY doorstep. (I don’t have a dog, so I would have no idea why they would do that)
I’m in the minority here because I think that Randall is Jesse James 2.0 with his “notoriously erratic temper.”
He could have waited 5 minutes to see if the guy came and picked up the poop or not, and yes, those sounded like threats to me.
Perhaps it’s because I was in an abusive relationship, but those things are red flags. He could have called the Housing Association or even Animal Control to have something done. Or even the police, since the guy had his dog off-leash, if there is a leash law there. He had choices, but what he chose to do is smear dog poop – an aggressive act – and then make threats. Run Sandra!
Yeah, the more I think about it, the more I agree. I understand the frustration, and some of the stories above are awful, but I think he handled it in a really unnecessarily aggressive manner.
These dumb commenters ignored that very important bit about his “notoriously erratic temper”, instead they focused on the dog poop. He probably is a lot like her ex. I wouldn’t expect Sandra to be with a good guy. She’s got issues.
Doreen, no need for name-calling. No one is “dumb” for relating to inconsiderate people who literally sh*t on their neighbors. The “notorious temper” description came from the rude poop neighbor who was likely trying to embellish his complaint. It’s not like he’s going to say nice things about the guy who smeared poop on his door!
Jag,
ITA. This dog poop story just makes me give this guy the side-eye. And Sandra even more of a side-eye.
If (and I say if because I pray this is not the case), this guy is later discovered to be a philanderer with Nazi paraphernalia and so on, I cannot say that I will be shocked. Disappointed yes but not shocked.
I bet, that this neighbors dog shit repeatedly in that guys yard. And that lovely neighbor, never picked it up.
Plus, I also bet, casual conversations were made about it, yet neighbor still let his dog crap where ever. He didnt care.
It gets to a point, that talking isnt going anywhere. That neighbor had to get a hose and spray off his front door.
Now he should “get” it…but no. “Hmm..my little darling is constantly pooping in my neighbors yard, and hes upset about it, and since I never consider my neighbor, like he should me, he had the audacity to smear darlings feces on my door. Im going to get a restraining order! He has no right to do that! They are tiny poops! Whats the big deal!?!”
Yeah.
And p.s…I have 2 big uglies. I live in a modest neighborhood. All of us have dogs/cats ect. We dont like stepping in crap, or having kids step in it. We have back yards for that. Fenced backyards. And a kid who will pick it up for money.
A new neighbor moved in with their “sweet dog” . Who was allowed to free roam. Who attacked my dogs frequently, while mine were on a leash. Attacked everyones dog just getting into a car! And challenged people. And shit everywhere. There was no amount of talking, calling animal control, nothing that these people understood.
They were feeling entitled. And it was US that had a problem.
We had a party when they moved.
““I was about to go back outside to pick up the feces…”
Suuuuuuure. Riiiiiiiight.
I’m a dog owner, too, and I despise other dog owners who 1). don’t pick up after their dogs and 2). walk their dogs off-leash. I even had to put a sign on the fence in front of my building telling people to pick up after their dogs. I’m also very good about pulling my dogs (2 pugs) out of the way in case someone is afraid of dogs. I have many people of different cultures living in my neighborhood. Some cultures aren’t used to dogs like we are and see them as something to fear (Haitians come to mind, though the little Haitian girls who live next to me love my dogs).
Lately, things have been pretty good, with responsible owners to pick up and keep their dogs on leash.
I can understand him.
I live in the city and every piece of lawn is full of dog poop. There’s a playground near my home that’s surrounded by trees and lawn and my neighbours and me only call it the dog-toilette because you can’t walk around this place in the dark without stepping in dog poo. There a children playing there! What makes me even more furious is, that there are free poop bags hanging on every garbage can. And still nobodys using them. It’s a big problem in Germany and especially my city.
I think threats of violence are not good but I’m inclined to be team Randall. The fact that he had a video cam at the ready implies that this was a repeated problem and dude had had it up to here. And yeah, the fact that the dog was off leash and he had to go inside to get a bag to collect the feces tells me had no intention of picking up the poop in the first place.
Unless he had a poop bag with him at the time, he had no intention of cleaning up after his dog. Some folks thing rules only apply to others, but it’s common decency & respect to pick up after yourself… and that includes your dog’s poop.
Well I can’t stand that either- somebody’s lawn is not your dog’s personal litter box. It’s inconsiderate. I do think his response was overly aggressive, but I’m sure he got his point across and it didn’t happen again. It was probably happening more than once.