Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Clarendon Park Area Dog Walkers, Beware

A reader sends this information:

"Wanted to alert you of something disturbing I saw last night before the heavy rains hit. Someone posted up a sign on several trees on Agatite between Hazel and Clarendon that someone had been spraying poison all over the grass. Signs said to carefully watch your dogs, ensuring they don't roll around in it, or eat the grass. As of this morning on my way to work, all the signs got washed away."

While it's entirely possible that the poisonous lawn treatment was washed away as well, better to be safe than sorry. Please watch your animals and keep them off the lawns -- not bad advice in any case, but particularly so on that stretch of Agatite.

12 comments:

  1. I'd like to know how someone came to believe that poison was put out, and if it was, we need to really figure out who would do that and why, and make sure they don't do it again.

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  2. Property owners don't appreciate their lawns and landscaping being ruined by dog urine, and they have every right to treat their lawns with whatever legal chemicals they please. Many many dog owners in Chicago have no respect for other people's property when it comes to allowing their dogs to urinate and defecate wherever they please. If dog owners would simply have the courtesy to curb their dogs, they wouldn't have to worry about it.

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    1. Interesting. Where would you have a dog urinate and defecate?

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    2. Seriously? You've never heard of curbing your dog? http://southloopdogpoop.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/curb-your-curb-your-dog/

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    3. What does putting down poison have to do with people needing to curb one's dog? Poison does not remove urine or dog duty. We're talking about public property (between the sidewalk and curb) most likely, so the comment justifying putting down poison because of dogs is rather nuts. You can break any law you want to, but be aware that it is a crime to poison the public parkway and you will be arrested and fined. A home owner on Marine Drive was arrested, taken to jail, and fined over $1,000 for putting poison on the (city-owned) parkway in front of his residence a couple years ago, and I assume others poisoning public property might take notice - because residents do report such crimes. Our blind friend in the building had no way to see posted signs about poison when he walked his guide dog on that poisoned public parkway. The police said the resident put down more poison on his tiny plot than is used in a month at Wrigley Field for rat abatement. The fines were increased substantially because the poisoned parkway was within 2 blocks an area where school children from Disney and Brennemann walk and play - this includes parkways and public parks. I'm all for curbing one's dog - because responsible dog owners are the most likely to suffer when irresponsible owners don't pick up after their dogs, but trying to poison dogs is criminal.

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  3. So your telling me its perfectly fine to put something thats harmful and dangerous down all for the purpose of protecting a fucking lawn? thats some twisted logic right there. What if a kid rolls around in it? will it still be acceptable then? no matter kid or pet it still shouldn't be allowed to be put down.

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    1. You probably need to direct your anger at all the landscaping services in the US. Maybe start with ChemLawn, or TruGreen, or any of the other hundreds of services that regularly spray chemicals on lawns to repair the damage caused by dog urine. There wouldn't be a need for it if people would respect others' property. My condo association spends tons of money repairing the grass around our entrances because people let their dogs pee everywhere. Not cool.

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    2. Kshizzle-Technically, the parkway (where this is likely put down and where the dogs urinate) is actually city property. I laugh when I see signs designating where dogs can pee or to keep dogs off the parkway because it is actually public property.

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    3. I get what you're saying NU, but since when does public property = dog toilet? Do you want to picnic in a public park soaked with dog urine? I don't. Curb your dog.

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  4. Kshizzle,
    Hate to tell you...you probably do picnic in a public park soaked with dog urine. If the park allows dogs on leash, they have urinated on the grass. And other than the parkway, where exactly do you suggest a dog urinate then? When you say, "curb your dog," this has nothing to do with where they urinate. Curbing your dog refers to picking up poo, nothing related to urine.

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  5. My dog likes to chew grass. Thank you for this news. I think this should be considered a criminal matter and investigated.

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  6. I've got a neighboring dog owner who actually cleared a path of snow in the next door neighbor's front lawn so his dog could go to the bathroom. Rude, yes. Crazy, yes. Bully, yes.

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