Young Edinburgh woman's anger at constant dog mess on street outside and on the wall of her Meadowbank home
A young Edinburgh woman has spoken of her anger at constant dog mess being left on the street outside and on the wall of her Meadowbank home.
The 22-year-old woman, who asked to remain anonymous, has had to clean up the mess twice a week since she moved into her Marionville Road home at the back of Meadowbank Stadium earlier this year.
She is angry and frustrated that a dog owner is letting their dog(s) make such a mess outside her home and on her property’s walls on a regular basis.
She said: “For about four months now a dog has been fouling on my property wall. It’s honestly disgusting. I come home from work and I have to bleach and clean the street, getting boiling work to clean this mess up.
“I’m getting incredibly infuriated about it. I think I’m going to have to call environmental health, something is not right. You can’t leave dog poo hanging around like that.
“This is numerous times this has happened. You can see from my photos how awful the situation actually is. It’s on my property wall. It’s disgusting.
“I’ve just bleached the street again. This is the second time in just one week. It happens frequently and has done ever since I moved in.
“If it’s not on my property then it’s trailed up the street. Awful behaviour from the dog owner!”
The young woman, who lives with her two dogs, is worried that people might think they are the culprits, and that she gets into trouble with her landlord.
She said: “As someone who owns two dogs I don’t want to get evicted. I know that’s possibly jumping to the extreme. But people are going to look at it and see me with two dogs, and think that’s my mess. I would never condone that.
“I’m cleaning it up all the time and it’s not even my mess. It’s disgusting to wake up to that in the morning or see it when I come home from work.”