toripearson_19 t1_j9pqpc6 wrote on February 23, 2023 at 6:20 PM

I'm a dog walker, and a lot of the people in Greenfield will yell at you if a dog gets anywhere near their property. Like I've had people start yelling at me to stay off their yard when I'm just walking past. I actually had a lady come running out of her house in her underwear screaming that a dog I was walking peed on a bush on the edge of her property. The dog didn't pee on the bush. She called the cops and the cop pretty much told her she was being nuts. It seems like a very old-cranky-people neighborhood and doesn't seem very pet friendly. Almost every dog walker I know has had the same issue in that neighborhood.

Pennsylvasia t1_j9pyubt wrote on February 23, 2023 at 7:10 PM

It's weird, I've noticed that a lot recently. In the last couple weeks I had a teenager yell out at us "MOM, THE DOG IS POOPING ON OUR YARD" (it was walking, not pooping), and had an old guy yell out at us on the sidewalk to keep moving. I don't recall people being as vocal before, and there are tons of people walking their dogs all hours of the day. I get it, there are a lot of irresponsible pet owners: Nextdoor has postings almost every day about "lost" cats whose owners let roam, and I pretty frequently find poop on the sidewalks or in our front yard. But what is especially irritating about some of these crabby people is they are the same ones who put their garbage out days early, or let it blow all over the place, or let their cats walk all over the place, or make noise late into the night, or do other things that make it a less neighborly place. Or maybe I've just become more sensitive to rotten people with how ugly everything else going on is.

toripearson_19 t1_j9pz6z5 wrote on February 23, 2023 at 7:12 PM

I don't walk dogs there anymore because of this. It's not new either. These incidents I'm referring to were before covid, and it's just gotten worse. I'll pick up dogs from the neighborhood and take them somewhere else to walk.

chippyinairplane t1_j9q4st7 wrote on February 23, 2023 at 7:47 PM

Wow. I didn’t know that. Thanks for the heads up since I was looking there as well

kaitb1103 t1_j9qji3q wrote on February 23, 2023 at 9:18 PM

I used to live in Greenfield and used to have this issue when taking my dogs for a walk. Even when I clearly had a bag in my hand for picking up their poop, heaven help if they happened to stop at this one particular yard on the block -_- I did make sure they pooped there after dark just for shits and giggles though (always picked up after).

toripearson_19 t1_j9qk133 wrote on February 23, 2023 at 9:21 PM

I actually sent a letter to the lady that called the cops on me detailing the city's ordinances and laws involving dogs being outside lol. She needed some educating.