Hi girls. So, ok...I live on the first floor of my apartment building. In a city. There are a few TINY patches of grass across the street from my building, but that's it in a 2 block vacinity.
So, when I come home, I take my dog for a walk. My dog is 12 and she's home for a good 10-12 hours before someone comes home to walk her. When I walk her, she will usually pee on the sidewalk in front of our apartment building. Occasionally, when she REALLY has to go, or has had a UTI, she has peed on the concrete steps OUTSIDE of the building.
WHENEVER she pees on the steps, I pour water over them to rinse them off as SOON as I get back inside. When she pees on the sidewalk, I usually just let it go, unless it's RIGHT underneath the steps. I mean, we live in a city...dogs pee on sidewalks.
So, ok, I've seen some signs around my building from neighbors/the management company about them not wanting dogs to pee in entranceways. Ok...like I said, I hose off the steps EVERY time Gemini pees there.
So there hasn't been any nasty notes in at least 6 months. Today, I got home from work and took Gemini out. She peed on the sidewalk, a good 3 feet from the building and around 8 inches from the curb. A jogger, who apparently lives in the building, flags me down and starts saying, "I was just curious, but haven't you seen the signs? She's not supposed to pee there, and I've seen pee on the front steps and blahblahblah."
I explained to her that what she sees on the front steps is water from when I hose it down and that neither she nor the management company has a say in whether or not the dog pees on a sidewalk since it's public property...and the conversation was just rather circular.
What are your thoughts? Am I wrong here?