Looks like there's plenty of space there right on the side of the road along the gutter for a person and a dog to walk with enough room for a car to pass without even getting close. Are cars really speeding down the street right up on the curb like that? Just walk on the side of the road and keep your dog on a short leash so it can't go out into the middle of the road.Interesting thread.
So in my neighborhood there are no sidewalks but a decent amount of traffic. I have to walk in the street and so does my dog. When cars are coming, I stay in the street and put my dog up on the curb, which means people's lawns. My dog also has no rhyme or reason to how and when he poops, he just does.
I literally take a back pack with me everytime that has his poop bags, and it is where I put them in once he does his business and then I throw them out at my house. I do everything right as far as always picking it up and taking it with me.
So what am I supposed to do with no sidewalks and hence no strip of grass? Especially if people insist on doing 50 miles per hour in 25 hour residential neighborhoods.
And yes, I have a yard. My dog poops multiple times a day and his walks are the favorite part of the day.
I get not wanting it to happen, I do, but I do not have a whole lot of options. I have a right to walk my dog.
EDIT - Adding a pic as I know a lot of people may not believe there are no sidewalks. There are no sidewalks on 80% of our walk.
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I don't really buy the whole "no sidewalk" excuse. If that's the case why don't you just fully walk in peoples' lawns then? Why bother walking in the street at all? After all you have no choice because you have no sidewalks.
I also will say that your dog has no rhyme or reason to when and where they poop because you've trained them that way whether or not you did it intentionally. Just like our dogs don't poop in the house after we repeatedly teach them they have to poop outside, you teach your dog it's ok to poop anywhere and everywhere by keeping a routine where you regularly allow it to do so.