Dog poo dumper caught on camera
A Canadian woman has made a shocking discovery after dog poo started mysteriously appearing on her driveway.
Sasha Poldmaa, who lives in New Zealand and owns three dogs of her own, had been coming home from work to find the poo scattered across her driveway for three days straight in mid-February.
She told news.com.au and confirmed in a now-viral TikTok video that she has never had issues with her pets or received complaints about them from her neighbours - making the discovery all the more baffling.
“I thought it was strange for it to happen two days in a row - someone was definitely putting it there. Then when it happened a third time, I was like, ‘I am going to set up a camera and catch who’s doing it’.”
After setting her iPad up directly in front of her dogs’ kennel, along with a second at the top of her driveway, Sasha reviewed the footage after work and uncovered the culprit: her neighbour.
“The way she did it - she was just throwing them right where I get out of the car,” Sasha told news.com.au.
“I don’t even walk [the dogs] past her house - I go the other way and there are other dogs in the neighbourhood.”
After making the discovery, she wrote a stern letter to her neighbour.
“Dear Neighbour, I was shocked to find out after reviewing the video surveillance of my house, it was because of your arrogant and frightening assumptions on my negligent animal ownership that led to three consecutive days of driveway dog poo dumping,” her letter read.
Sasha penned a letter to her neighbour after discovering they were behind the mysterious appearance of dog poo on her driveway. Image: @sashapoldmaa (TikTok)
“Now firstly I took the opportunity to return the faeces to your property using my own doggie poo bags which you’d see me walking with IF I ever did actually walk down your direction in the street.
“Because this is something that I refuse to ignore as a result of your repeated and deliberate acts of bitterness towards my family … you should expect a friendly visit from the local police in the coming days as you are not only chargeable under the nuisance laws but I am genuinely concerned for the safety of my pets because of your hatred towards them.
“P.S. An apology would be welcomed in exchange for not demanding costs for damages,” she ended the letter.
Several days after placing the letter in her neighbour’s letterbox, Sasha revealed in a follow-up video that the neighbour had knocked on her door to apologise.
Sasha’s neighbour came to apologise after she placed a letter in her letterbox. Image: @sashapoldmaa (TikTok)
It seemed the neighbour had found the faeces on her lawn and assumed it came from Sasha’s dogs, to which Sasha said there are many other dogs in the area it could belong to.
Sasha captured parts of the conversation she had with the neighbour, including their apology.
“I am so sorry, I’d rather you had have come to me in the first place,” the neighbour said in the clip.
“I must admit I’m very sorry but I’ve thrown the dog poo bags over the back corner. It was an assumption I guess.
“I felt quite sick and horrible afterwards. I really do apologise. Ah well the laugh’s on me so let’s face it.”
Sasha said the encounter ended well and praised her neighbour’s courage for coming over to apologise.
“I told her next time you have an issue just come and talk to me about it,” Sasha said.
Images: @sashapoldmaa (TikTok)