Dog owners stupidity

MrsAtobe

If there's no bins in the area, I always put mine on the rear windscreen wiper of the car. They even survive motorway journeys .

Bonniew86

I was once walking my dog and made a comment to my OH that I'd have to carry the filled bag I had for ages due to lack of bins. A woman behind me overheard and said 'Oh just chuck it in the hedge, the bags are biodegradable'. I couldn't believe it! I replied saying that I would not do that as surely it would degrade quicker out of a bag than in one, and that I was perfectly capable of carrying it a while longer.

I thought it was a disgusting attitude to have!

moggymutt

We have used poop scoop bags of dog mess rammed into the top of black bags of donated items left in our charity shop doorway. Also I used to ask Somerfield to be allowed to take some of the carrier bags that people had brought in for recyling (just next to the tills, inside the shop ) . One carrier bags of bags that I pulled out was- you've guessed it- full of plastic bags thatwere full of dog mess. As well as someone having to be stupid to think that such a thing could go in plastic recycling, they had actually take all this dog mess into a food shop!!!!!!!

brandem

better that leave it in the woods is to leave it on the ground, is suppose to be good with the ground, isn't it? Though I find it disgusting, but if there are not other options...

Mossop93

This does my head in, especially as it paints the ones that do it to collect it on the way home in a bad light.

I've been in two situations of people making assumptions about me because of other people not cleaning up after their dogs.

One was much like this. Walking my moms dog and she did a poo, I bagged it and popped it by a tree so it wouldn't get stepped on as the nearest dog bin was about 2 minutes from my moms house and we were 10 minutes from there, so I figured I'd finish the walk and pick it up on the way back. Only to come back and get verbally attacked by an old lady because apparently I had no intentions of picking it up. Safe to say I got very annoyed and slightly less politely than normal pointed out it was the middle of summer and there was no way I was chasing a jack russell threw a field with a steamy bag of poop in my hands.

Second time was because my friends dog pooped in a car park when we had no bag with us (they seem to love to do that don't they) as I was just taking the dog 2 minutes down the road from mine to where she lives. Figured it would be fine. But nope, as I say the dog decided to squat down and empty her bowels right in the middle of the small village shops car park. So I walk off with the dog and come back only to get verbally attacked by some bloke that I have never met before making assumptions that because I was young I thought it was acceptable to leave the poo there where it would get stepped on/run over.
I don't blame him, you walked off! I hear you all shouting at your monitors. Well yes, yes I did. I did the sensible thing and walked the 10ft to the shop entrance, stuck my head threw the door and asked a member of staff if I could kindly have a bag as I hadn't bought one with me and needed to clean up behind the dog. She decided to praise me for being so sensible, meanwhile I'm stood their politely trying to hurry her along (the joy of villages, they seem to chat for hours) and so I'd taken 5 minutes. And even though I came back with a bag in hand to clear it up I still got verbally attacked.

It just pee's me off that some of us clean up after our own and sometimes others dogs and still get tiled with the same brush as the ones who don't. In fact I've been known to "stick it and flick it" before when somebody has left a lovely steamy dog plop on the trailway.

Grrr. Sorry, rant over. My electric cigarette doesn't arrive until tomorrow and a nicotine deprived Mossop is never a happy one LOL x