Dog mess everywhere

nimbo

call the council they will have a department that deals with it where i am it's called eneighbourhood services, and they will get it cleared up....

i log calls for it very infrequently up here as there isn't too much of an issue.

bosseyed

Argh, dog s**t, one of my all time personal hates. Its a scourge on decent people and having a toddler who is apparently a dog crap magnet I'm fairly sensitive to it.

Snuff Mills in Bristol is a disaster for dog poo, a simple walk becomes a ridiculous slalom to avoid the piles every few steps.

If it ever became mandatory to have your dog on a DNA database, I would happily volunteer to be a dog poo DNA tester in my spare time. I would merrily stalk the streets collecting samples and take great delight in offenders being fined for being dirty, disgusting, lazy individuals. In my utopian world, I would also collect the entire dog poo too and once the culprit had been found the offending deposit would also be returned to them along with the fine.

wary

pulliptears wrote: »

He stopped at the end of the drive while the dog (on an extending lead) ambled over onto the grass and did it. He stood and watched it had a shifty look around then wandered off. Probably thought that because it was dark he'd not be seen. Sadly for him he was quite distinctive (dont see many 50+ blokes in baseball caps here) and his dog was reasonably distinctive as well so spotting him again was easy.

He’s got a nerve ... and well done for catching him out. You missed a trick though as you should have discreetly followed him to see where he lives, then scooped it into an envelope along with a “thought you’d better have this back” note and shoved it through his letterbox!

Many years ago, next door’s 3-year-old told me that his mum had thrown a dead bird into my garden, and sure enough, right in line with their patio ... I was very tempted to stick it in an envelope along with a similar note, but decided to bite my tongue and not fall out with them over it. It hardly sets their kids a good example though and I did have a problem with their kids as they got older, throwing stuff into my garden and similar behaviour. I wonder who they got it from!

PollyOnAMission

As a responsible dog owner it drives me MAD when people don't clean up after their dogs.

Every morning I walk from my house to a local nature reserve/fields, do a circuit round there and come home. There is not a single bin along the walk so I double-bag the poops and carry them home to my wheelie bin. I wish other people walking their dogs there would do the same thing. There is so much dog poo on and around the paths of the nature reserve and fields

I suspect it would help a lot if the council put up more poo bins (or at least one by the entrance to the nature reserve); but then we often walk at a local park, which has bins-a-plenty and I often see poos people have left AT THE BASE OF THE BIN! :mad:

MidLifeCrisis_3

It's the same where we live, from the moment we leave our house it's a case of constantly saying to the kids "Mind out for the dog mess" - totally unnecessary and disgusting. We also have a lot of responsible dog owners around here, but sadly the few that don't pick up ruin it for everyone and end up giving all dog owners a bad name. I have noticed recently that a lot of them are tying their bags to their dog lead so that everyone can see they have every intention of picking up. I'm sure these aren't the same people that pick up and then sling it in the hedge either! Just can't understand it, either use a dog bin or if none around or it's full up what's wrong with taking it home??? How would they feel if we slung dirty nappy sacks in hedges:mad:!!!

MLC

castle96

WHY did dog poop 40/50 years ago, come out (or more likely dry out), like' buscuit' ? As a kid it was always 'berakable (or had it just been sitting there a while ? Something to do with food given ? Just wondered

wary

There's only ever gonna be one way that this problem will be effectively tackled, and that's to have a breed of dog that eats its own dung.

Anyone fancy inventing one?!?

haynick

wary wrote: »

There's only ever gonna be one way that this problem will be effectively tackled, and that's to have a breed of dog that eats its own dung.

Anyone fancy inventing one?!?

Shitzu is the breed??

PollyOnAMission

castle96 wrote: »

WHY did dog poop 40/50 years ago, come out (or more likely dry out), like' buscuit' ? As a kid it was always 'berakable (or had it just been sitting there a while ? Something to do with food given ? Just wondered

My guess would be bone content in the dogs' food and less grain.
I feed my dogs a raw diet and their poops come out like this, more so the more bone they have. If it's been in the garden like that for a day or so it crumbles away to powder.

The processed rubbish a lot of dogs eat these days (but probably didn't 40-50 years ago) is probably causing the different consistency out of the other end! (Yuck)

missile

What I find disturbing is many of these so called dog lovers leave their dogs all day in a house / flat. The only execise the poor dog gets is to do the business.