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September 1, 2025 • 16 mins

Inspired by a mystery dog poop incident on producer Suzy’s property, we opened the lines to hear about the wildest neighbourhood feuds - and listeners did not disappoint. From stolen pregnant cats to police reports over outdoor lighting, the drama was next level. Plus, City of Stirling Mayor Mark Irwin joined the show to weigh in on proper dog poop etiquette. It was messy, petty, and yet, downright entertaining.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
There's really nothing worse than a neighborhood feud, is there,
but you know between neighbors because they're right there involved
in But sometimes things go on in the neighborhood that
are serious and sometimes just a little comical. And our
producer Susie has been keeping us abreast of a situation
at her joint. Susie take us through what's going on.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good morning. So a couple of months ago I started
to notice every now and then when I'd bring my
empty bin in from the street, there would be a
bag of dog poo in my bin. Now I don't
have a problem with that. I think that's completely fine.
I rather it in my bin than on the ground. Right,
this was I noticed this a few months back. Over

(00:41):
the last month, I'd say, things have escalated and I
have noticed someone has been throwing their dog poo bags
into my garden. So I'm talking like flinging it from
the footpath four or five meters into my bushes. The

(01:02):
other week I found one tucked behind my garden rock wall.
Come on, yep, there or they'd put it there, so
it would definitely have been tucked in.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Because those new council bags are compossible.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
I don't know. This is because people are lazy. They
don't want to walk down the street with the bag.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
They think it's not as bad.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
No, So I messaged my neighbor because I was like,
what the hell is going on? And apparently she's been
coppying it a lot more than me and for a
lot longer, because she has extra front yardage with like
being on a corner.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
And it's a bigger target. Yes, fling a bag of.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Into the pooflinger and she's spotted the poof flinger. So
she's gone out to her yard and this lady with
a sausage dog was was at her gate. I walked
up on her private property up to her gate where
her bins were and put the dog poo in the

(02:01):
bag in her bins to the point where she then
had to start putting a padlock on for a while
and then it was bin yeah, and then she was
just getting annoyed with it, so she was removed it again.
But it's an older lady with a sausage dog. So
and I live in yo Kine. If you're an older
lady walking a sausage dog around Flinders up Freight, I'm
going to find you and we will have the bag

(02:24):
color is green, so she we were able to match that.
It must be the same lady. Yes, I went for
a walk around yesterday. We found another one in my
neighbor's my neighbor's garden. It's getting out of control and
I don't know what to do.

Speaker 5 (02:37):
So because they've got.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
The bins, They've got the bins and the bags everywhere
around the suburb. There's plenty of opportunities and end of them.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
And at the end of the day, if you do
have to walk down the street with a bag dog poop,
you've got.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
To do it. And it's the deal.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
She's got a sausage dog. It's not like it's a
Great Dane poop. I just take her with you until
you get home.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
I I mean, I've got a dog. She just lock
to go for walks.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
But anyway, when we do, I won't put it in
someone's bin on the verge, because I won't even put
it in my own bin at home until bin day.
I put it in a bin down the back near
the shed, a secondary bin, and then on bin day
I bring, you know, the garbage bag full of the
little bags up to the bin and put it out
because you don't want that sitting in your bin for
the whole week.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
I get that because people.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Say, oh, it's in a bag, yeah, but not everyone
wants your dog pull in their bin, So I appreciate that.
But flinging it into your garden that's next level rude.
Does take it, or don't have.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
A dog, or just pop a cork in it until
you get the dog.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Back and then let it go at your house morning.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
Our neighbor name and location.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Has been suppressed for legal reasons.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Our neighbor was invited with his wife to our house
for a Newyear's Eve party, and then proceeded to sneak
out the front and get it on with another guest
while his wife was asleep with the kids at home.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Just fifteen meters from where they were getting it on.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
The old lady across the road saw it face a
letter in their mailbox. Needless to say, all hell broke
loose and the street is still embroiled in the saga
that's juicy.

Speaker 6 (04:09):
That you forgot your wife, mate.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
Can you top that? That's going to be pretty good
if you can top that few neighborhood style.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yes, the real neighborly feud.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
Debbie in Dianella, what's the face pie?

Speaker 3 (04:36):
We're good, We're good?

Speaker 7 (04:38):
Are you very good? I'm hoping this one's going to
be a lovely one. Okay, the sense back on the sorry,
of course, that's okay.

Speaker 8 (04:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (04:50):
So then you start off with a divining fence because
we just started building divining fence.

Speaker 9 (04:56):
Yeah, okay. So basically what it was is that she
I said that she would get her guard to do
the foundations the defence, and we would get our guy
to do the finch off the top of the fence.
I fortunately she put. Unfortunately, she concreted her whole backyard
and didn't leave any gap between the concrete and the fence,
so over time the wall cracked. So it was our fault. Oh,

(05:18):
we went, we went to court over this. She took
out restraining orders off from my husband and I and
said that we get her. But my husband wasn't even
an estate. So this went on for you that for
quite a few years and then but the father one
of it was that I've got to At the time,
my two sons were five and seven and I had
to take them to school, and one morning on the

(05:39):
way to you know, basically thinking okay, well I heard
this stump at the front door, and I thought, oh,
what's that. I opened up the front door and I
saw that both her and her daughter had thrown over
used women's pads by my front door, and the bag
had split open, and I thought, how am I going
to do this? I've got to quickly clean this up

(06:01):
before I took my boys to school, So that's what
I had to do. But this went on and on
and on about things. She was throwing rocks in that property.
My husband ended up having a stroke and we ended
up selling the property and just just moved.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
This is like next level of current a fair episode
start see.

Speaker 9 (06:20):
And we lived in a in a in a colder sex.
So my boys would go and play on the street
with a whole geap of other children, and I remember
a warm day they she would come out with ice
creams and give all the ice creams to the children's
my two sons.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
This is horrible years.

Speaker 9 (06:36):
This went on for about two years, and the other
one I mean, if you if you broke wind, she'd
call the police.

Speaker 7 (06:44):
If you sneezed, she'd called the ranger. If you did
the you know, it just went on for two years,
and I thought I'm so sorry. I've moved moved in then,
and we've got a lovely property now and lovely neighbors.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
What a relief, Thanks Debbie, Thanks Debby.

Speaker 9 (07:03):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
So that horrendous story. Allison in Southern River, Hello, are
you good? What's your neighbour feud?

Speaker 10 (07:15):
Well, mine's millias bad. So we built a house and
then our next door neighbor would leave letters and called
the ranger or the police because we left a down
light on under our fresco area, all on social media

(07:36):
that why should we have a light on for a dog?
Everything else. She then went on to say that the
lights shine around corners of her house.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
One of those bullet lights.

Speaker 10 (07:51):
Yeah, so she put pamphlets in our mailbox. Then we
had the range to come out. Then we've had the
police come out. My husband used a high pressure cleaner
at one minute past seven just before Christmas. She called
the police for noise pollution. So then we've actually got graceful.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
The police has things to do.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
You know.

Speaker 10 (08:16):
Oh yeah, my kids can't ride their scooters out the
front or even out the back of our own property
because it's too noisy for her. She's called the council
on tradesmen.

Speaker 7 (08:30):
Because.

Speaker 10 (08:33):
Yes, they've used a power tool for longer than two hours.
And actually, if you look under the City of Gosnell's
guidelines and everything else, you can't even play a musical
instrument for longer than an hour in a day.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
And she'd know that book.

Speaker 10 (08:49):
She does through and through and it goes and it goes.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
On her Her place must be a stable distance from
your down life. They're really you know, biggish blocks and
when it's not like you're living in a villa on
top of each other.

Speaker 10 (09:09):
Forty one square meters.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yeah, gosh, that corner rounding down light.

Speaker 5 (09:14):
I love that you're making everybody else almost appreciate their neighbors.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Yeah, not quite so bad.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
I'm so sorry, Allison. That's outrageous.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
What a miserable, miserable woman.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
And does the battle rage on?

Speaker 10 (09:28):
Yes, still does. So we had to try and get
misconduct restraining orders against her. We've even got misconduct restraining
orders against her for our kids. She's threatened our kids
and it's on Gollwie.

Speaker 5 (09:41):
Time for motor scooters. Really give us something at all?

Speaker 1 (09:46):
I mean, gosh, I don't even know what to say
other than I'm so sorry you're having to.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
Deal with this.

Speaker 10 (09:52):
We nicknamed her our Karen.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
Yeah, karen is one word for it.

Speaker 10 (10:00):
On social media.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
We wish you luck continuing battles.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
What must be such an unhappy person. Very that doesn't
make it any easier for Alison's.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Alison's not unhappy dead inside.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
Oh my gosh, I.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Reckon we should get a ranger on or something, you know,
because I still think there must be a lot of dog.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Based barking dogs.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
Yeah, pooh bags, maybe from the city of Stelling. Maybe
we should just go to the mayor. Maybe we get
the mayor of the city of Still, let's.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Go to someone who knows the book.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yeah, so, well, Allison's neighbor knows the book.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
It's exactly.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
There's a lot of them on the text. We've got
one that says I have a pet cat, and so
do my neighbors across the road.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
My cat got pregnant.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
And we believe it was with the neighbor's cat. We
told the neighbors about this, and then the following week
we came home to find our ignant cat was missing.
After a few weeks of searching, we saw our cat
in the neighbour's window. They had stolen our pregnant cat
because they believed the kittens belong to them.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
That's just shacked up.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
That's that sounds like it needs the services of a
pet detective, because there is such a thing pet detected.

Speaker 4 (11:23):
Can we get a pet detective on the show? I
wanted to see what they do.

Speaker 5 (11:26):
Yes, our producing team is going to hunt them down.
Cindy says, I've got two dogs.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Before going to work one day, I picked up all
of the dog poop, and then when I got home,
I noticed dog poop by the back fence, and I
knew it couldn't be my dogs. So I checked my
cameras and found that our neighbor who had lived behind me,
had got her pull scoop oh and flung dog poop.

Speaker 5 (11:45):
And then she put in the bull I reckon a
fair distance over my back fence. And when I confronted her,
she did not believe so, so I showed her the footage,
and then she tried to blame it on her ten
year old niece, who looks remarkably like her. Obviously, ever
since then, she has demanded that we remove our cameras well,
stop flinging pooh and anyway what And she has been

(12:10):
a I'm not sure what that word is ever, since.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
It's not a very nice one.

Speaker 5 (12:14):
Are neighborhood feuds over animals a common thing?

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (12:20):
So often it involves some flung flung. We are going
to go to the top.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
We're going to get the Mayor of Sterling on to
talk about how you deal with poo gates.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Yeah. Oh, but he must love resolving that stuff.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
So we've managed to We've managed to track down the
mayor of the City of Sterling, Mayor Marker and good
mornings go.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Straight to the top.

Speaker 8 (12:43):
Good morning, guys, thank you for this high level topic.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
I know, probably not the most high brow moment you'll
have today, Mark, but we're starting early and low. So
in the City of Sterling. I'm there as well, and
I have a dog. What are the rules about dog poop?

Speaker 8 (13:03):
Well, look, it's not hard, is it? Pick it up?
And yeah, and honestly it beggars belief when you walk
along our reserves and our parts and our coastline. How
many people think it's okay to leave their dog poop behind?

Speaker 5 (13:17):
Yep, you know.

Speaker 8 (13:18):
I had an email yesterday from we had the Perth
Metro foot Lit have their finals at one of our
major reserves. Yes, they reckon before the game. They had
to pick up forty dog poops so their players don't
run through it. And these are the same people that
profess to be dog lovers.

Speaker 4 (13:34):
It's crazy, exactly exactly, and there's.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
Plenty of opportunity.

Speaker 5 (13:38):
I mean the city of Sterling, you guys have got
and the bags they're everywhere.

Speaker 8 (13:43):
Well funny, I didn't even know this, but after you
guys ring and asked if I talk, I did some checking.
I can't believe how many dog poo bags we put out,
so this is going to it's actually incredible, especially when
we talk about costs of living and the rates going
up every year. But we put out almost six million
dog right back in a financial year at a cost

(14:05):
of rate payers of almost quarter of a million dollars.
Wow A given that, and we're a big we're a
big council. But given that we supply the dog bags,
they're supposed to just be your backup bag. But as
we know, people go and empty them and stuff their
pockets for whatever reason and think they've got to take
them all home because otherwise they won't get them. But

(14:26):
for given that, you think they'd be able to use them.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
What is the what is the legal situation on putting
putting your bag of dog poo in a bin that's
on the verge that was just collected for bindet and
it's you know, it's empty, but now someone has to
come out and take it back inside.

Speaker 8 (14:43):
Yeah. So there's a couple of different fines. Hum.

Speaker 7 (14:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (14:47):
The main one is sort of on reserves, et cetera,
in public paces. It's comes under the Litter Act and
that's a couple of hundred dollar five. But there is
also provision through the Dog Act for one hundred dollar
five and that's things like in proper disposals and where
the bidding stuff comes into it. Adam adam maximum for
recidib the offender. So this is this is probably this

(15:08):
is probably Susie's case. We can actually go them and
actually profixed them and then you can get up to
about a two thousand.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
Tolerant bridge, right lady, and that sausage dog are going down?

Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yeah, absolutely, because we're getting we're getting a pet detective on.

Speaker 4 (15:22):
So we are not stopping here. This is just the beginning.

Speaker 8 (15:26):
May Mark, we have a chat because we've also got
our safer suburbs rebate and that's where we help assist
with people putting CCTV cameras, as long as one's forward
facing and it's got to be linked in with the
w A polafe. But let's get some c C We
can probably get one of those trailers out there on
the road.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
We might need to put Susie in the witness protection
We go.

Speaker 4 (15:46):
Full ace venture. Thank you so much.

Speaker 5 (15:51):
Yes, I know it's not the most high browsing you'll
do today, but it must be such a an issue
for you.

Speaker 8 (16:02):
It is and looks you know, it's a reality. People
trying to stick to your basics would like the government.

Speaker 4 (16:07):
We have a great day mark.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Thank you don't exactly thanks for your time mark. We
appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (16:13):
We do
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