We also have a "dear" neighbor who walks her dog on a leash to our yard in the wee hours of the morning and late at night for potty breaks! The dog is a German Shepherd.....nasty big piles! I have asked her many times to pleae stop and she informed me that urination and dog defecation was good for grass and shrubs, so I suggested she treat her yard with the stuff and she told me I had Hell in me and needed serious counseling.

I keep a supply of rubber gloves, which are cheap and every time I see her dog's potty habits in our yard, I pick it up, walk accross the street and sling it all over her front walk way, door, and drive way. I have mixed cayenne pepper with amonia and sprayed in the area which does work if the dog is brought out when the scent is still fresh. The dog hates the smell of amonia and cayenne! When it rains, I have to spray again. Also, I have tried a product called Liguid Fence and it works really well, but is expensive. This product does not wash away when it rains, but you need to reapply frequently. I even tried placing little signs in the yard that state the yard has been sprayed with pesticides, keep off grass......didn't work.

The only remedy/repellant I see in the future is our dear neighbor moving or the death of her dog and neither is likely. She just moved to Georgia last year and her dog is young.

Didn't they just pass a new law that you can shoot first if attacked and then ask questions? Just shoot the d@$# dog and say it attacked you.

Of course us guys with the inside track will know it was a poop-attack, an attack non the less!

Since this idiot neighbor of yours seems to be stupid beyaond belief talking to him won't work, here are some good ideas. Follow the principle of what "goes around comes around". If you have an old plastic bucket take a shovel load up the droppings for a couple of days add a little water. Then late at night or early morning spread on his steps or outdoor grill or both. Leave a note (not hand written of course ...typed or letters cut from the paper) We don't want to get charged with making a terroristic threat, do we? Let this careless idiot know that he left something on your property, and you thought he would want it back. For the dogs sake please keep calling the animal shelter it sounds like he will get hit by a car if you don't. If you keep calling them I have found that the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

If it really bothers you, get with him, be honest, and let him know how you feel. Other than that, keep throwing the little gifts back into his yard.

There are some effective animal devices sold on the Internet.

Our cat likes to eat Christmas Cactus. We got an indoor Scraminal unit. Works like a charm. Cat will not go near that area now.

Problem is any animal life will trigger it. And it is LOUD!

There is another type that, when triggered, attacks the animal with a stream of water.

But, again, it will attack any animal and people. Could go through a lot of water and get yorself soaked.

There are some powders that claim to work. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.

Hope that gives you some ideas, if nothing else.

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Keeping it real and to the core of the issue, not the peripherals.