Dog poo decorations!!!!!!!

olias

Why do people pick up their dogs poo in plastic bags, and then instead of binning it or taking it home, insist on hanging it from trees or hedges as some sort of bizzarre scatalogical christmas decoration???:mad:

At least if they left it 'unpicked' it would get washed away in the next shower rather than hanging there at head height, putrifying and stinking for several years!!!!!!!!

What I understand even less is those people that pick up after their dog's whilst out in the countryside and then dump the plastic bags. I have lost count of the number of times I am out walking my dogs in the middle of nowhere through fields filled with cow !!!!!! and sheep !!!!!! and there is a forlorn plastic bag full of dog !!!!!! dumped beside the path............why!!!!!!!!!!!!!

if you are in an urban area then take it home or bin it
If you are in the countryside either leave it to wash away or if your dog has done the dirty deed on a path then just get a stick and flick it into the verge or hedgerow. It's not difficult!

Olias

davetrousers

Some people don't think rationally!

I live by the coast and sometimes go for walks along the shore. I often see merde along footpaths when it could simply flicked a few feet and into the sea (or shingle at low tide).

simontheiceman

davetrousers wrote: »

Some people don't think rationally!

I live by the coast and sometimes go for walks along the shore. I often see merde along footpaths when it could simply flicked a few feet and into the sea (or shingle at low tide).

Your signature is more true than your think... Thanks to the power of Avogadros number, you are quite likley to drink a molecule of napoleons urine every time you drink a glass of water.

As for dog faeces - I really dont know why some dog owners have a mental block. I have noticed, and I wouldn't like to generalise here, that the older the dog owner the less likely they are to pick up. This is possibly because they have never had any reason to do so. This will never be a resolved issue but the "decorations" approach even occurs around bins designed to take dog waste.

I reserve my worst disgust for those who break glass bottles where dogs can cut their pads (which is anywhere, cos they dont wear shoes). This is a younger persons issue and it is one which is getting worse.

Paparika

oh how childish.... don't take seconds to scoop and bag... you don't even get your hands dirty...

sclancy1

I live in London and always pick up after my dog and if no dog bins i carry the bag until I find one or take it home. Not a big deal to do it and I get annoyed when I see dog mess everywhere. Just got back from the country and while in the woods and fields also picked up after my pooch and walked the extra to put in the dog bin. My first dog on my own so I suppose I knew it came with the ownership whereas years and years ago when we had a dog it wouldn't have even entered my head.

mrcol1000

Usually its because someone is walking past when the dog goes to toilet so they pick it up and then soon as they are alone they dump it.
Your also right that older people tend to not to pick up after their dog, older people are also more likely to complain about dog mess not being cleared up and older people are also the ones that have the biggest strop when they get fined by the Dog Warden for not clearing it up.

Stephb1986_2

If I'm driving around now and I see a dog doing the dirty I shout out of my window "clean it up" lol It's a bit obessive but it's not very nice if a child falls in it or stands in it, I don't want dog turd on my trainers!

People have let their dog turd right outside my front wall it drives me nuts. I've got a camera now so I know who exactly the culprit is be warned! I'm coming for them!

Steph xx

smileypigface

Just to say I agree about the issue of people scooping then abandoning their poo. However, sometimes when we are on a walk in the countryside where there are no poo bins and we have to take the poo home we bag it and leave it to the side of the path to pick up on our way back to the car - honest we do collect it on the way back it's just not the most pleasant of things to carry on a walk - especially if the poo is done too far from the car to double back and leave it there but still early on in the walk.

So maybe some (one or two) of the bags are awaiting collection by owners, like us, who make sure they do take it home with them at the end of the walk (usually hanging off the rear wiper of the car cos the poo bag might keep the poo in but still lets the smell out .. yuk!)

mrcol1000

smileypigface wrote: »

Just to say I agree about the issue of people scooping then abandoning their poo. However, sometimes when we are on a walk in the countryside where there are no poo bins and we have to take the poo home we bag it and leave it to the side of the path to pick up on our way back to the car - honest we do collect it on the way back it's just not the most pleasant of things to carry on a walk - especially if the poo is done too far from the car to double back and leave it there but still early on in the walk.

So maybe some (one or two) of the bags are awaiting collection by owners, like us, who make sure they do take it home with them at the end of the walk (usually hanging off the rear wiper of the car cos the poo bag might keep the poo in but still lets the smell out .. yuk!)

I don't think thats really an excuse and that is a litter offence. If you were caught doing that by a warden they would be within the law to issue a fixed penalty fine. If you have a dog then your responsible for clearing up after it. If it means carrying around bags of pooh all day then sadly thats part of what you signed up to when you got the dog.
I think there should be more bins and dispensers for pooh bags which would solve the problem. Although your still get lazy people who couldn't be bothered.

boldaslove

although i agree, i have to say the national trust drive me bonkers as they apparantly (at least in styal mill near me) don't install dog poo bins as it "ruins the ambience of the countryside". :mad: i told them they could at least put one bin at the entrance to the property because people do bag up the poo and then leave it dangling on tree branches.... surely much more unsightly than a small inoffensive bin?! i tend to do what smileypigface does if i'm on a long walk, put the bag somewhere right out of the way for me to collect on my way back to the car.

i have to say i always pick up after my dog and bin it, but i do think it's a bit counterproductive in some ways. you may be keeping the park/country/etc clean but the plastic bags full of dog poo will end up in landfill festering for years, whereas if it was just buried in the earth it would decompose naturally. even if (as i do) you use decomposable dog poo bags, the bins are likely to use normal plastic binbags. and some poor !!!!!! has to empty them every day, what's the health risk to them?!

i do think it's great that the law says you have to pick up after your dog now, but more places should provide facilities for doing this

MRSCARNEY

Marbury Park in Cheshire actually has a piece of grass right next to the car park which is a designated dog poo area. You do not have to clean up any poo on that bit but you do in the rest of the park. It's brilliant because the first things our dogs want to do when they get there is poo. (It's also a brilliant place for the dogs as they can run freely off their leads and get muddy and dirty :eek:)