Ugly Sack of Water

And don't get me started on 'extendable leashes'. Those owners that use these types of leash are never in control of their dogs. If another dog appears from around a corner or a young child, there is still risk of serious injury. The off leash laws still require demonstration of control in that a dog must respond immediately to their master's commands, extendable leashes though once again and as tdieikx noted, those dogs are still able to poop on their front yard despite being on a leash; where is that exercise of control? How quickly could such an owner regain control of their dog if urgently required?

Commendable, granted. However I cannot be sure that it wasn't he that in a fit of spite (given his aggressive response to me) put the large amount of poop on my lawn for me to deal with before the next time that I mowed. I have also had numerous people (mostly of one particular ethnic background that I won't identify) use my un-fenced front yard as a short cut and many tradies that have been working on neighbouring residential construction sites that also disrespect the property boundaries, parking their vehicles in front of my property and then crossing diagonally to the neighbouring site. This has become quite annoying so that when someone with a dog off leash, let's it enter the property (without calling it to heel), drop it's load and then proceed to also disrespect the property boundary, it is just infuriating. I'm sorry, I just cannot forgive such blatant disrespect.

My property, a corner block does not have front fencing, with only a footpath bounding both street frontages. I have sometimes had dog owners that walk their dogs off leash against the local laws with their dogs straying into my front yard. On at least one occassion, I spotted someone bent over in my front yard, just in front of the steps leading to the front door of our residence and proceeded to confront them as to why they were trespassing on my property. The response was that their dog had just taken a dump right outside my front steps which the owner was busily scraping up off the path leading to those steps. When I asked how it came to be that his dog had taken a crap in my yard, he nonchalantly replied that his dog had wandered in before he could stop it. When I asked why his dog was off leash he became agitated, told me that his animal was allowed off leash and that I, and people'like me' are the problem. When I then asked him to please leave my property, he dug his heels in (almost literally) and dared me to 'make him'. This is the attitude of some dog owners and since then, I have encourntered dog faeces on my lawns when mowing, leaving me to clean up after their dogs. At least some dog owners show more respect for their animals than other humans.