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twdvermont t1_iyd5f4m wrote

As a large dog owner, I'm not sure I could look at an outdoor turd and say it was human with 100% certainty.

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whaletacochamp t1_iydax21 wrote

I would tend to agree as a GSD mix owner. His shits are huge and humanlike. That being said, the maintenance guy at my old apartment used to shit in the yard (long story) and it was very obvious what was human and what was my dogs. Also my dog would try to eat it and roll in it.

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vtdadbod007 t1_iydiacm wrote

Alright…I gotta ask…what’s the long story?

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whaletacochamp t1_iydkr8w wrote

Lol. Apartment out in Charlotte on a big piece of farmland (anyone familiar with charlotte can probably guess who owned it). Maintenance guy was really nice but really rough around the edges - a real salt of the earth vermonter. The only type of person who could actually say they are a "real vermonter" and not have it be eye-roll worthy. You know the accent I'm talking about.

Anyway - he would only fix issues in the apartment, didn't really do any upkeep/non essential maintenance but he was very often on the property doing other work for the landlord (brush hogging, working on the sugarhouse, etc). Apparently he didn't feel comfortable asking to use our bathroom (which is fair since he wasn't really doing work for us) and so he would go just past the edge of the "proper" yard to the other side of a row of spruce trees and take a big nasty shit under the trees before getting back to work.

I would notice because I would walk my dog in the field behind this row of trees, and without fail my dog would sniff out his shit every single time (although sometimes it was very obvious since there was TP blowing across the field).

Same apartment eventually had a catastrophic septic tank failure on thanksgiving. It was a couple weeks before they could get an excavator out so the maintenance guy's solution was to give me a sump pump and a long ass hose and have me go and pump the septic tank myself out onto the lawn each night. But it was very important that I don't damage his hose that i was pumping shit water through because it was his best hose. We moved a few months later after successfully avoiding a fine from the EPA lol

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t3chnobilly t1_iydqgdj wrote

I think I know exactly where your talking about. Was a sweet spot to live

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whaletacochamp t1_iydsr6g wrote

Did you live there at one point? I was in the first floor apt (apt A) and as far as I know the same folks are still in the other units. I hear the folks before me were wild. We went through a number of neighbors the first year we lived there and then the last 5 it was steady.

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t3chnobilly t1_iydtecx wrote

I was upstairs in the mid 2000s. Cool old house in the middle of a sugarbush. We certainly had some fun 😁

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whaletacochamp t1_iydto41 wrote

Were you the ones that made the half pipe in the garage? Or did you shoot down the downstairs neighbors door?? 😆 or maybe you were the ones who got busted growing weed out back? Dismantled the car in the garage and left it there? Had a massive bonfire that you can still see the remnants of today???

How did you like Victor??

Your old bathroom ended up destroying mine, and then the septic tank destroyed itself making the whole apartment almost unlivable. Add on the rats and mice and the land was the only thing keeping us there. Clark was happy to let me hunt out back which was cool and the land was perfect t for our crazy dog.

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sound_of_apocalypto t1_iydxbf5 wrote

Disappointed that you didn’t just start using the area beyond the spruce trees.

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whaletacochamp t1_iye2ox4 wrote

I did piss there quite often, and once caught the neighbor's daughter having relations with her boyfriend back there. That was wicked awkward.

On one fateful night I left my night shift job early due to stomach issues. Had to walk my dog when I got home and i was hit with an un-ignorable urge halfway through his walk and knew I wouldn't make it back to the house. I did use the spruce tree facilities that evening.

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sound_of_apocalypto t1_iyej7hp wrote

Sounds like a surprisingly eventful spot! I wonder if the two lovers knew about the poop.

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Danisue7 t1_iyeja3a wrote

This sounds like where I live now. Was it 3 apartments, two on the ground floor and one upstairs with an attached garage and deck? Straight Vermont guy right down to his name (and I’m a native Vermonter) that mows the lawn?

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whaletacochamp t1_iyev25f wrote

Kinda. Three apts but only one is on the ground floor from the front. Apt A us ground floor, Apt B is above A, and C is above the garage with the entrance out back. Right in spear street, owned by one of the biggest property owners in Charlotte. Local towny mower the lawn but never knew his name.

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Formal_Coyote_5004 t1_iyebui8 wrote

My staffy takes big dumps but there’s a huge difference between dog shit smell and human shit smell… idk

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