I have a neighbor who has several dogs. The dogs used to keep to their own yard, but soon, they were coming into my yard also and taking dumps. As it happened during the winter, it wasn’t immediately apparent the extent to which this was going on. Spring came and the snow melted. Dogs kept crapping in my yard…and their people would often just look on and watch, do nothing to stop the dogs nor pick up the dogs’ crap. We had called out to them from our house several times to deal with it, but nothing ever came of it.

So one day, I opted for supreme retaliation. I went outside with my shovel and a bag, scooped up all the crap and bagged it. Then placed the bags full of dog crap on the windshield of one of their vehicles parked in the driveway with a nasty note about how if I wanted dogs crapping in my yard, I’d have dogs, but since I don’t want dogs crapping in my yard, I don’t have dogs and that they should be better dog owners and keep their dogs and their crap out of my yard.

That problem stopped in a New York minute.