A Vallejo man came up with a smelly solution to fighting off package thieves this holiday season.

Bryan Nalette tells KPIX that after a package disappeared from his doorstep in October — and then again last week — he began setting up decoy boxes as a way to get photos of the thieves in the act.

“I don’t like being stolen from,” he said. “I don’t think anybody does.”

After allowing thieves to get away with two empty boxes, “I filled up the third box with dog crap,” he said. The source? His dog, Chance.

“I wish I could have been there in the car when they opened the box,” he said, laughing.

Nalette has since turned over the photos to the Vallejo Police Department, but no arrests have been made.

Flashback: A Noe Valley woman famously stopped a package thief in 2012 when she set up a decoy box and doused the culprit with bear spray before he could get away.