As a result, Hickory Cluster has become a defacto dog park and/or dog relief station where dozens of resident and non-resident dog owners and others walk their dogs, and ... inevitably ... pee and poop night and day on rear patio walls expensive and time-consuming to repaint, light pole bases expensive to replace, grassy areas that take lots of time to regrow, or otherwise immediately around HCA Member homes and cars.
If the dog walkers just allowed THEIR dogs to do THEIR business right around THEIR own homes or cars, so only THEY would be impacted, it would be a non-issue.
But no, the dog walkers insist on spreading the joy everywhere else so their neighbors can also share pee-bleached now-dead greenery, or even worse, walk through the never-100%-complete picked-up dog poop on the way into or out of their front doors, rear patio gates, or cars.
And HCA Member dog walkers insist on doing this DESPITE at least one long-standing HCA rule against it. More specifically, HCA Governing Documents General Resolution 2: Code of Conduct Rules and Regulations, page 2, paragraph 10 states: "Please walk dogs in the wooded areas, not in planters or on common grassy areas, nor on traffic islands or where children play." It's a shame that we even have such rules, but unfortunately we do because some people are so inherently thoughtless.
One example ... and what inspired this post: This morning at about 9:00 a.m., an HCA Block 2 Member homeowner observed another Block 2 homeowner walking her big loveable dog along an HCA footpath behind a neighboring home. After several minutes of stopping and intensely watching her dog find the right time and place, she then clearly allowed the dog to squat directly near the neighbor's rear patio wall, and within the clearly expected walking path from the rear patio gates to the rear footpath of TWO Goodman Houses. So now every time her two neighbors come out of their gates they can unknowingly enjoy her dog poop remnants, possibly infectious e.coli. bacteria, and distinctive stink on their shoes, then possibly track it all into their own kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms, or wherever.
Another example: Yesterday morning an HCA Block 2 Member homeowner observed a non-resident and his cute medium-size dog walk right up to the front entry door planter of another Member's Goodman House. He specifically stopped there and clearly watched his dog pee on obviously otherwise well-maintained Liriope plants only a foot away from the door. When asked about 30 seconds later why he did that, the dog walker blatantly lied: "Oh, sorry, I didn't notice."
Really?
Is this your idea of "community?"
YOU cannot control YOUR dog? And if it's not a problem, then why don't YOU do it around YOUR own house?
Do YOU want to step into what's left of YOUR big dog's massive pile of poop right outside YOUR home or rear patio?
Do YOU want to smell dog pee right outside YOUR home as more dogs sniff and repeat in the same place?
Do YOU want to always see previous greenery, now dead and pee-bleached yellow, outside of YOUR home?
Please do your part to address this inconsiderate dog walker behavior.