NZ neighbour caught throwing dog poo on woman’s driveway

A furious NZ woman to set up a camera after discovering dog poo appearing on her driveway – and was shocked by what she found.

A woman installed a camera at the front of her house after she discovered dog poo randomly appearing on her driveway.

Sasha Poldmaa, a Canadian New Zealander, had been coming home from work in mid-February to find dog poo scattered across her driveway for three days straight.

The 37-year-old owns three dogs – Crow (NZ heading dog), Ruby (border collie) and Skye (blue heeler).

She assured news.com.au and reiterated in her now viral TikTok, that she’s never had any issues with her pets, nor has she had any complaints about them from neighbours.

So, to find dog poo at the front of her house was both worrying and baffling to her.

“I got home one day and there were two piles of poo in front of the kennel and I thought, ‘That’s weird,’ because no dog would take a dump right in front of another dog’s kennel,” Sasha said.

Sasha Poldmaa, 37, from New Zealand, was shocked to discover dog poo on her driveway.

The mother-of-four who lives in Wanganui, in the North Island, didn’t think anything of it – until it happened again.

“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.”

Sasha’s driveway. Picture: TikTok

Right next to her driveway is the dog kennel. Picture: TikTok

Sasha set up her iPad directly in front of their kennel and also one at the top of her driveway.

“That night I got home from work and immediately after I saw the footage I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is mad.’”

In a TikTok she made about the incident, which has since clocked more than five million views, Sasha revealed the footage showed her neighbour dumping piles of poo on her driveway.

“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,” the mum said.

Shocked and confused by what she had witnessed, Sasha wrote the woman a stern letter which said: “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.

Sasha found the dog poo appearing on her driveway for three days in a row and decided to set up a camera to bust whoever was doing it. Picture: TikTok

It was her neighbour. Sasha said the woman had found dog poo on her lawn and assumed it belonged to Sasha’s dogs. Picture: 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.”

She went on to say: “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.”

She ended the note with: “P.S. An apology would be welcomed in exchange for not demanding costs for damages.”

Sasha wrote her neighbour a stern letter and also returned the poo in a doggy bag – depositing it in her neighbour’s letter box. The pair resolved the matter in the end. Picture: TikTok

Sasha posted the note in her neighbour’s letterbox along with several bags of the faeces.

The mother-of-four wasn’t sure how her neighbour would react, saying she hardly slept in anticipation of the reaction to her letter and “deposit”.

In a fourth and final video rounding off the saga, Sasha explained the neighbour knocked on her door to apologise.

It seems the neighbour was finding poo on her lawn and had assumed it belonged to Sasha’s dogs.

But Sasha said she knew the poo didn’t belong to any of her dogs as she knows what she feeds them, adding there are many other dogs in the neighbourhood that it could have belonged to.

On the TikTok she recounted the conversation between the two of them, with the upset neighbour saying: “I am so sorry, I’d rather you had have come to me in the first place.

“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 it all ended well and it was courageous of her neighbour to come and apologise.

“I told her next time you have an issue just come and talk to me about it,” Sasha said.