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On certain jobs I keep a trowel tucked into a corner of the mower for this exact purpose. In fact I gained a good regular job because the previous gardener didn't like the (newly acquired) dog mess. Sometimes there seems to be more than others because they clean it up mostly but always a few get missed. The owners who make no effort and leave it all to the gardener deserve to be kicked to the kerb. I think there is a niche market to be had with the recent lock down inspired dog ownership boom of a lawn service aimed at such properties. I would call it "Lumps on the Lawn". A bit like Tyres on the Drive
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I warn them from the start that I expect it to be cleared. I also send a reminder the night before my visit. It's a hazard to health and makes me gag. I mow around or raise the deck if I spot it.
Depending on the mood I'm in I sometimes just go around the piles, if I see them in time, so that there are obvious little tufts of grass on the lawn highlighting where their dogs has left their mess. It might be petty or unprofessional but the clients certainly get the message and you begin to see less piles after each visit.
I also like to use the side discharge on my mowers on some of the 'crappy' lawns, so if the poos are dry then I just go over them and fertilise the lawn.
Appreciate lab poo's can be pretty hefty, not something that would disappear easily with the mulcher.
If they're big and wet then on they get flicked out of the way so I can continue to mow
Mower round them when there wet, pick them up when there dry. If there's loads I read them the riot act.
I guess you've asked the householders if they could clear it up before you arrive? If you've a shrub bed or something suitable nearby, I just use a hoe to flick them into it. Otherwise, I just flick it to one side with my boot....... I'm certainly not going to pick them up. I don't think mowing round them is a sensible option............ leaves a ver poor looking job with tufts sticking up.
Having a dog is a luxury having your grass is a luxury, said luxury gardener is not picking up said luxury dog turd because luxurious customer is to luxurious. Said gardener leaves a luxury grass mound around said luxury turd to remind the luxurious customer to pick up there god dam dog turds!🤣
at the end of the day there are people cleaning elderly folks bottoms for a lot less. Or emptying stinking wheelie bins, hoarders' houses into skips or scraping up piles of vomit for low wage. So it could be worse. And absolutely one's own right to withdraw services if there are too many dog bombs in the equation
When I was a kid my dad breeded gun dogs, I love dogs. Every day I would clean up them turds in the dog run and wash it down.
I don't have a dog because I'm not picking up it's turds, if you own a dog pick it up! Simple.
I have children, I changed my fair share of nappies I never said " oh bin man I pay your wages via tax, clean my child's ass"!
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