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I don't own a dog because I travel a lot so I can't properly take care of one but I love dogs and someday I will adopt one.
I live in a rather expensive community of townhouses and there are many rules and regulations regarding what you can and can not do outside your home. One of these rules regards picking up dog waste and the heavy fines to offenders.
One of my neighbors owns a very cute, small dogs but she does not pick up after him. She lets him out late in the night or early in the morning for the dog to do its business while she watches from her back door -then she brings him back inside.
Sometimes days will go by -even as far as a whole week- and the dog waste will be laying all over her open backyard or even her own cement porch.
The only times she picks up the dog feces is when she'll be spending time outdoors and on a few of those infrequent occasions, I have caught her (and also her visiting relatives)scoop the waste and walk it to neighboring bushes (in front of MY porch) and dump it there.
This is the first thing I see in the morning, when I open my upstairs bedroom windows or when I go out on my back porch to water plants... mounds of dog poop sitting everywhere for days at a time. It's SO disgusting and so against health regulations!

I don't know what to do. I'm relatively new to this community and my husband is out of town a lot for work reasons so I'm mostly alone here. I don't want to get into disputes with my neighbors.
I have contacted the HOA but annonymously and nothing came out of that; except for a brief reminder in the monthly newsletter for dog owners to pick after their dogs.
As if THAT is going to stop them!

Why do "seemingly" decent people behave this way? They KNOW that what they are doing is wrong; otherwise they wouldn't be "skulking" around when they're dumping feces in other people's bushes or common areas. Yet they continue to do it...
How would they feel if someone sent their toddler to their yard and allow him/her to defecate on their lawn; reasoning that "it's natural"...?

PLEASE, ANY SUGGESTIONS?