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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Most Disgusting Blog Ever
Ok, I need some help and advice from fellow Humzooers. I apologize in advance if any of you are reading this over your lunch hour. *yuck*
We have this problem at our apartment. Right outside our front door, there is a little flower bed that is nice and usually mulched, and I have really been looking forward to seeing what's going to be planted there by the apartment staff.
Well, the past few months, that little flower bed has been repeatedly violated by what seems to be a GI-NORMOUS dog. Some caveman resident of our complex thinks it's ok to allow his dog to take giant dino-sized dumps right on top of our flower bed.
Now, keep in mind, these "gifts" are deposited about three feet from our front door. This makes for a horrible and traumatizing smell-o-rama whenever I leave the apartment and come home at night. It's also really gross to look at.
I sent a message to my apartment office telling them this has been happening for about 2 months, and they need to do something about it. This is what I got back:
Do you have any idea where this resident lives? If so a bldg # and apt # would be ever so helpful. Or a description of the dog and owner. I will be more than happy to take care of this unsightly problem for you. It is in direct violation of the pet agreement that the resident signed.
I can guarantee I will handle this discreetly, without any mention of where the complaint came from directly.
Alright, the apartment office gets an "E" for effort, but honestly, what am I supposed to do, stake out the flower beds all night, waiting for the alleged pooper to do his deed?
1. They must think I have been spying on this guy and watched him walk all the way back to his apartment and then jotted down his apartment number (of course, without actually saying anything to him).
2. I don't really give a hoot how discretely you handle the situation, because, to be quite honest, if I ever caught this guy in the act, I would go totally ape sh*t on him. Then probably be attacked and eaten by his huge dog-o-saurus.
The only possible option I can think of is to set up my web cam pointing at the flower bed and set it to motion sensor mode, and hope for a shot of the culprit.
But don't you think that's a little excessive?
Any advice from the Humzoo Community?
Most Disgusting Blog Ever
Ok, I need some help and advice from fellow Humzooers. I apologize in advance if any of you are reading this over your lunch hour. *yuck*
We have this problem at our apartment. Right outside our front door, there is a little flower bed that is nice and usually mulched, and I have really been looking forward to seeing what's going to be planted there by the apartment staff.
Well, the past few months, that little flower bed has been repeatedly violated by what seems to be a GI-NORMOUS dog. Some caveman resident of our complex thinks it's ok to allow his dog to take giant dino-sized dumps right on top of our flower bed.
Now, keep in mind, these "gifts" are deposited about three feet from our front door. This makes for a horrible and traumatizing smell-o-rama whenever I leave the apartment and come home at night. It's also really gross to look at.
I sent a message to my apartment office telling them this has been happening for about 2 months, and they need to do something about it. This is what I got back:
Do you have any idea where this resident lives? If so a bldg # and apt # would be ever so helpful. Or a description of the dog and owner. I will be more than happy to take care of this unsightly problem for you. It is in direct violation of the pet agreement that the resident signed.
I can guarantee I will handle this discreetly, without any mention of where the complaint came from directly.
Alright, the apartment office gets an "E" for effort, but honestly, what am I supposed to do, stake out the flower beds all night, waiting for the alleged pooper to do his deed?
1. They must think I have been spying on this guy and watched him walk all the way back to his apartment and then jotted down his apartment number (of course, without actually saying anything to him).
2. I don't really give a hoot how discretely you handle the situation, because, to be quite honest, if I ever caught this guy in the act, I would go totally ape sh*t on him. Then probably be attacked and eaten by his huge dog-o-saurus.
The only possible option I can think of is to set up my web cam pointing at the flower bed and set it to motion sensor mode, and hope for a shot of the culprit.
But don't you think that's a little excessive?
Any advice from the Humzoo Community?
2. plant mothballs (after it's cleaned up) - this works for gardens to keep animals from eating your plants because they hate the smell, i have to think it would work the same way to deter dogs from claiming that their spot
That's totally nasty. Maybe if you figure out who it is, you could scoop it up with a shovel and relocate the offensive poop to say...the owner's car. Especially the door handles.
(If I can find the software for the motion capture thingy...)
hayley - your moth ball idea sounds promising. Although I am not too excited about the idea of digging around in there...
You guys all had great ideas. Humzoo is the best!
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.a...
Expand Applications and it should be the first choice. It's called Dell Webcam Manager. Not positive if it will work with your computer config, but hey, why not give it a shot?
Buzz Kill of the Century. Since I have the JOKE of an O.S. that is Windows Vista, my perfectly good webcam is rendered useless, since the manufacturer refuses to make special drivers to make it compatible with Vista.
Which, I guess I don't blame them for. It's a great "damn the man" type of stunt... but it's just SUCH bad timing!
I might actually go to Best Buy tomorrow and purchase a new webcam, just to catch the pooper.
Then maybe return it?
Sigh... Sorry guys. Can't catch him tonight. Maybe tomorrow.
Stay tuned.