Posted on 06/03/2015 10:10:28 AM PDT by nickcarraway
John Robinson, of North Park, said he’s tired of neighborhood pets leaving waste in his yard and is hoping the candy will prevent dog owners from walking pets near his property
A man in San Diego’s North Park community has dumped chocolate chips in his yard in an effort to deter dogs, but the act is upsetting neighbors. Frustrated with neighborhood dogs leaving waste on his lawn and dog owners not picking up after their pets, a man known as "John" recently scattered several pounds of chocolate chips in the grass in front of his home on Lincoln Avenue and in a nearby easement. Suspects Sought in Attempted ATM Theft John said it was an experiment – and that it worked. Over the last several days pet owners have been steering clear of his property, with some neighbors afraid the candy will make their animals sick. Some concerned residents have called San Diego County Animal Control and the San Diego Police Department to complain, saying this is threatening the lives of their pets. Unbelievable Animals: Python Swallows BBQ Tongs[NATL] Unbelievable Animal Stories Sarah Fisher is one of those worried residents, and she’s warning others in North Park not to walk near John’s home. “[Residents] are scared of what he might do,” Fisher told NBC 7. “If he is doing this – which is like an animal genocide – pretty much, he's putting it out for animals to ingest and get sick.”
Through social media and a neighborhood phone app, Fisher has been alerting local pet owners of the chocolate chips left in John's yard. Fisher has a two-year-old golden doodle named Lucy that she walks with regularly. She is now avoiding John’s property but fears unsuspecting animals will stumble upon the candy and get sick.
John agreed to an interview Tuesday with NBC 7, if his face wasn’t shown on camera. He said irresponsible dog owners are constantly not picking up after their pets and leaving piles of waste in his yard.
He said he has left signs in front of his home – including a note written on a yoga mat that suggests an animal could be electrocuted if it urinates on his tires.
However, those signs don’t seem to work, John said, so he came up with the chocolate chips idea.
“They can walk on the other side of the street,” he said. “I am tired of it. People disrespect my yard; I'm tired of the stuff.
John insists chocolate won't harm the animals. Still, there is a large school of thought that says it can be toxic to dogs and can lead to illness and even death, depending on what kind of chocolate it is and how much a dog ingests.
John said he plans to mow the grass in the next few days to get rid of the remaining chocolate morsels. However, his neighbors want something done about the situation immediately.
San Diego County Animal Control Deputy Director Dan DeSousa said animal services investigators were notified of this incident by North Park residents on Monday.
He said the investigation is ongoing, and no further details would be released at this time. On Wednesday John said someone had broken the mirror on his car in what he believes is retaliation against him putting the chocolate chips in his yard.
LOL No, but you need a bag to pick up dog poop. Likely, the losers who let their dogs poop don’t have them with them. They have those little bag holders for leashes, something like that....just put one there for their use. I see them in parks all the time. Given a choice of being filmed and turned in, they should self police themselves after that.
Exactly.
If the guy was putting punji traps or setting nails upright in his yard to puncture dog’s feet, that wouldn’t be ok.
I had friend who got sick and tired of one articular individual sh!tting her dog on his lawn, so he followed her discretely to see where she lived, and then got a gallon of used motor oil from a diesel pickup hat his son owned and late one night dumped it all over her lawn and driveway. It didn’t cure the dog problem, but he said it made him feel better.
ROFL!
Our dog just ate people food. She was far too much the lady to eat inorganic matter, or to catch live prey. Once, she caught a grasshopper. She was quite taken aback that it kept moving in her mouth. She spit the thing out. Lucky grasshopper.
sitetest
You characterize people as “passive-aggressive” who directly confront trespassing with requests, signs, and finally a “behavioral modifier” like chocolate after all the direct requests, confrontations and signs have been ignored—but in fact, just the opposite is true. People who ignore polite requests and flaunt the signs are the ones who are passive-aggressive. They aggress on someone else’s property and then passively claim not to understand why it is trespassing or offensive.
It appears you don’t know the meaning of the term private property so we have nothing in common as I own over 30 acres and spend too much time kicking a-hole out of here that feel its there right to come in here from the back, sides and front and do as they please.
You would probably be one of those people.
No, they don’t, but poisoning their dogs doesn’t fix the situation in a neighborly way, either.
Just because your neighbor is a dick doesn’t give you the right to be one back.
And I’d never live in a HOA neighborhood that didn’t let me do what I wanted with my yard. If I want a full-size trebuchet in my backyard, by God, I’ll build one.
had a poodle once who joined me for breakfast in the AM and literally had a cup of coffee (cream and sugar) and a choco chip cookie - every single day....it lived to 17...It wanted a Marlboro, but I had to draw the line....he couldn’t hold the paper and smoke at the same time...I thought everyone knew that?
because he sees it happen and doesn’t live in the woods and if you cant tell the dif between dog shit and deer fox or coyotes shit your a city dweller
I think they’ve added something to make anti-freeze taste nasty because of the pet/children/murder incidents.
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People who get this angry with neighbors should live out in the country.... for the sake of their own sanity.
And the fact that he posted signs as a “simple piece of logic” seems to be escaping many of the posters on this thread as well.
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Umm, dogs cannot read. Another fairly simple piece of logic.
Punish the owner, not the dog. It’s not a challenging concept.
This is a family forum. Bad language offends community standards. I imagine you think that's no big deal, either.
Thing is if a stray dog came across these items or even any other type of wild animal that did not have any owner and got poisoned by this material... it’s just not a good way to handle this sort of situation I think.
This thread is getting ridiculous..So long and keep your smelly dirty butt licking frigen mutts of my lawn.
I don’t see any attempts to poison dogs.
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Depending on the size of the dog and the type of chocolate used, it absolutely can be poisonous, up to and including the death of the dog.
Did you really not know that?
Signs are for the owner Genius
I have a dog and we put up an invisible fence that we often refer to as an electric fence. The neighbors who walk dogs now studiously avoid our yard. We pondered it and realized they think their dogs will get shocked.....we laughed, but mostly we just keep our mouths shut. We no longer pick up their dog droppings.
Couldn’t resist responding to that stupid remark
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