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A reader that wished to remain anonymous took this pic of a sign affixed to a tree on Chattanooga St. in lovely Noe Valley, where there are dogs (and children) aplenty. The text, for those who have trouble making it out, reads:
Hi NeighborNeed your help.
We have soaped in disinfected the area around this tree (little picture of a tree)
to free it from the stench of dog urine and so folks living behind you can open their windows again. (little picture of happy face breathing "aaahhhhh)Please, let us all keep our dogs from using area as urinal?
Thank you.
Speaking in the "collective we," eh? Who do these note writers think they are -- SFist?
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We prefer to think of it as the "Royal we".
Pluralis Majestatis 4Eva!
royal we... yes!
i love the little face and tree.
Word to the wise, you can't stop a dog peeing when it starts. That' one of the unshakable rules of the universe.
Royal wee.
Street trees (and anything else on the sidewalks or in the walkways of dogs) is dog pee-worthy.
Not only can you not stop a dog once it's started, but... it's their territorial right.
If you don't want them to pee on it, put up a (uncoded and possibly illegal) wire guard or wall around your street tree.
Poop is another story:
Harvey Milk penned the SF City Law: SF Health Code #40. Scoop Thy Dog's Poop
Dog pee hardly smells (as opposed to cat pee: think Sauvignon Blanc...).
So what's the big deal?
Or do we really have human's peeing there?
It's Noe Valley, not SOMA, right?
aren't soap and disinfectant bad for trees?
I have two dogs, and their pee most definitely DOES smell. NOt the same as cats' but more than "hardly," for sure. It's not too hard to train them to pee somewhere else or to keep them away from the tree, but once a couple of dogs pee on something every single other dog that comes along will want to pee there too.
Point taken, Holly. (though it is truly barely noticeable...).
Street trees, once peed upon, are dog-pee territory.
Just plain water is probably better for the world, and works better, than 'soap and disinfectant' though...
You can keep your dog from peeing on the trees by merely not letting them stop until they get to the spot where you want them to pee.
There's a guy in my neighborhood who has made the base of his street tree fancy with flowers around it, etc. My dogs are clearly dying to pee all over it. I just tighten their leashes and keep them moving.
But pee is probably less harmful to the tree than soap and disinfectant.
Ha, my dogs prefer to pee on pretty things too! But I don't let them.
Really, when it builds up the dog pee can get really really stinky. One dog's pee = barely noticeable. 2 or more dogs' pee = really really bad. Just ask my backyard.
This pee tree letter should be submitted to passiveagressivenotes.com...
i think the disinfectant was for the walls and sidewalk in that area, in fact, it looks like they replaced or resurfaced a lot of the sidewalk with some kind of plasticy fake brick thing. that corner really did have a bit of a stank to it.