? You are reading Part 2 of 3 in A Tail of Three Shitties
Missed Part 1? Read Larry Block’s “Bring your pooper scooper to the market while you shop?”
Joel Huxtable says the sidewalk in front of his building smells like a toilet. And he’s not the only one who’s noticed.
In a post shared to Nextdoor, Huxtable — a resident of 1245 N. Hayworth Ave. — issued a plea to dog owners in West Hollywood’s MidCity-East Crescent neighborhood: stop letting your dogs pee in front of our building.
“Our apartment building has become a hideous pee-stained and odiferous blight,” he wrote. “The stench alone is overwhelming. The massive stains on the sidewalk in front are an embarrassment.”
He traced the issue back to the building’s late manager, who was known for being dog-friendly. That reputation seems to have turned the front walkway into a regular pit stop.
“No other building in the area has so much dog damage,” Huxtable wrote. He asked neighbors to steer clear so residents can clean and disinfect the area.
The post comes just days before another pet-related mishap at the Pavilions market, where a dog left a mess in the produce aisle — [read that full report here].
Other locals chimed in.
“I live on Norton between Fairfax and Hayworth,” wrote Gail Willumsen. “The entire block smells of dog urine — and probably a fair amount of human urine as well.”
Some offered solutions: enzyme cleaners, hosing down the sidewalks, or installing pet waste stations and artificial turf. One commenter floated a city initiative.
Others weren’t so sympathetic.
“You can’t tell people where a dog can do their business,” said Joseph M. Strothman. “Unless you personally are going to go and do the cleaning yourself.”
Still, some dog owners pushed back. “Having all of our pooches is a privilege,” wrote Robert S. “Allowing them to urinate on neighbors’ hedges is rude, insulting, and righteous.”
Huxtable says he’s tried tackling the problem himself — even power-washing the pavement.
“People literally let their dogs pee on our bushes as I was washing,” he said.
As the thread grew, more tips emerged: carry a water bucket, spray with Odo-Ban, try Simple Green. Some called for courtesy. Others called for enforcement.
But Huxtable’s original request was simple: respect your neighbors.
And maybe, just maybe, steer the leash to the curb.
? Continue to Part 3 of A Tail of Three Shitties — a satirical plunge into West Hollywood’s escalating pee-and-poop crisis.
Curb your dog is not an empty phrase. A properly trained dog is trained to urinate in thr gutter and defecate in the street. The owner picks up the feces and the urine trickles downstream. If all dogs are so trained the city is much more livable. West Hollywood should iitiate a public education campaign to curb your dog.
As much as I empathize with the tenants I confess the urine from drunks, homeless and uber drivers on Kings Road, SMB, the garage at CVS where homeless sleep in park spots is worse. Maybe the worthless ambassadors can carry disinfectant and be of some use and scrub and clean our sidewalks on Sunday mornings. The stench is beyond anything in areas and tax dollars would be well spent cleaning our sidewalks, public parking areas and more. I have hosed down homeless people screaming while naked and throwing their shoes and other articles at people walking down my street and… Read more »
and the CVS parking garage and stairwell with the stench of years of piss
SAD