Dog poo

uropachild

Thankfully our local area seems to be pretty clean of dog poo and there are loads of dog owners around here too.

Unfortunately i can't say the same about cat poo. There are ALWAYS horrid, stinking piles of cat plops all over our front and back gardens and it scares me. I can't do any gardening because of it - i'm pregnant and i have no desire to loose my baby to toxoplasmosis. Also, my toddler plays outside. What if she were to touch some and then rub her eye or put her hands in her mouth? In our OWN garden!! It's sickening.

For some reason people seem to think it's just "one of those things", but why should it be when it's potentially dangerous? I have no idea what you can possibly do about it, but i have no objections to spraying the cats i find in our garden with water if i'm quick enough.

I do love cats though, honest. It's just their toilet habits i despise!!

geri1965_2

Mupette wrote: »

up until recently i lived in the center of Bristol, where if a dog pooed, it stayed on the floor

I'm guessing you lived around the Stokes Croft area.

zaksmum

Swan wrote: »

my ex mother law, a tiny (but fierce when riled!) woman in her late 70's at the time, caught someone allowing their large dog to sh*t in the entrance to her path

she politely asked the dog's owner if they were going to pick the mess up, the woman laughed & said 'you must be f'ing joking, pick it up yourself if you want it moving'

she did pick it up but hurled it straight at the back of the departing dog owner's head, SPLAT! right in her hair :eek:

neither the dog nor the owner have ever been seen on that road again

Not something to be recommended though. If you did that in my area you'd end up in intensive care.

Swan_2

zaksmum wrote: »

Not something to be recommended though. If you did that in my area you'd end up in intensive care.

ah, you don't know my ex mother in law :eek: :cool: :whistle:

marleyboy

Swan wrote: »

ah, you don't know my ex mother in law :eek: :cool: :whistle:

Personally, I would shake her hand................But she would have to wash it first

SheWolf_2

Well, this is my main PET HATE of dog owners, it gives people like me a very bad name. I myself have 2 German Shepherds and have NEVER left my house without phoo bags!!!! It disgusts and upsets me to know that the owners can just simply walk on and seem to ignore what their dog has just done!!!

Remember, it is not the poor dogs fault, what else is it to do, it is the responsibility of the owner to clean up after them. Hoe would they like it if someone did that right outside their home and left it there? There was also a news article today on GMTV about a wee girl playing in a childrens play are and fell over into dog mess, as she stood up crying the wee soul wiped her eyes and almost ended up blind. Within 24 hrs of this happening her wee eye had swollen up soooo much that her eyelashes inclined into her eyes. If not for the quick attention of her mother and doctor this wee soul could have ended up loosing the sight in her eye!!

LET THAT BE A LESSON TO ALL LAZY DOG OWNERS OUT THERE, after all, we are all NOT the same.

bap98189

crabyducky wrote: »

Do you know whats even worse than not picking it up??

Picking it up putting it in a bag and then throwing the bag on the floor.

Yeah, why do people do this? When I'm out walking, almost every time I see a bag of dog poo hanging on a bush or sitting at the side of the road. If you have gone to the trouble of picking it up in the bag, why on earth would you then leave it lying around.

Bizarre!!!

Mupette

geri1965 wrote: »

I'm guessing you lived around the Stokes Croft area.

close enough, it was St Judes, thankfully no more.

Mupette

bap98189 wrote: »

Yeah, why do people do this? When I'm out walking, almost every time I see a bag of dog poo hanging on a bush or sitting at the side of the road. If you have gone to the trouble of picking it up in the bag, why on earth would you then leave it lying around.

Bizarre!!!

I do this if i am out in fields/walkway, but its so that when i come back i can pick it up and pop it in the poo bin on the way home.

The reason i do this is because i walk with a stick, and it helps me, takes the poo off the floor and usually dog owners pick them back up on their way back, if no one is around when you see it then perhaps they haven't come back for it yet, if its there for days then ok that is not nice and shouldn't happen.

I always pick mine back up, ds or OH will remind me when we are out.
I have never left a bag yet.

chuckley

shoulda thrown it at em.