Dog Feces: A Concern on Emerald St.

Three residents on Emerald Street spoke to Marc Borbely about dog feces. What are your thoughts?

One of my main concerns is about the residents walking their dogs. I've noticed from time to time a lot of dog feces out here by the trees, on the sidewalk — they're not picking up after their dogs, and they walk them early in the morning, and I just really think that's a major concern.

Any ideas of how to fix it?

They can walk around with a plastic bag or a dog scooper or something, but I think they need to clean up behind the dogs. There's no reason people who don't have any pets or whatever come outside and have to step in it.

I mean, I had a little dog, but I took him out in my backyard, and I cleaned up behind him. And I just think it's a serious problem. I come out — I wear a uniform to go to work — and I have a problem when I come out and my boots or my shoes or whatever I'm wearing is covered with it. And it's fresh feces. It's not like it's been sitting there a while. You can stand right there, now, and see feces. You know? Hopefully we could take care of that problem, because it's really annoying. Sometimes, it's on the sidewalk — not only by the tree.

If you see someone doing it, do you tell them, "Excuse me..."—

— Well, what happens is, a lot of times if I'm running out of here, I'm running kind of late, I can't really stand up here and talk to them, and I don't want to come at them the wrong way. And what I was going to do was put a letter in his mailbox, but I said maybe this might be even better, because everybody gets to read it.

I want to talk about these people letting their dogs crap in front of their houses and not cleaning it up. Because it's not right. If everyone else can scoop it up, I don't know why certain people can't do it. They let their dogs run loose and *** in front of my house, and I'm sick and tired of it. I'm just tired of having to come outside to walk to my mother's car from my porch and step in some dog ***.

And then you've got a couple down here that lets the dog out in the yard and *** in the yard, and don't clean it up. And it smells terrible. I mean, come on!

Theiel: They come right here, and they *** right in front of the damn house. They *** right there. Then again, it's not all the dogs around here. Because there's a lot of people around here that's got dogs — they clean up behind their dogs. It's certain people around here. §