Owners not picking up after dogs

[Devil2575]

StuTheGrouch said:

I fking hate this problem. Taking my kids to the park and it's a fking minefield on the way there (fortunately the play area is fenced off and is fine).

If I had my way then punishment for this disgusting example of ignorance would be that the owner is aggressively force-fed the dog st. Dirty s.

Yes, I have the same problem walking with my kids to the local woods. Plenty of dog poo bins but plenty of dog st on the floor.

In the summer when it's warm the smell gets quite unpleasant.

[Devil2575]

PorkInsider said:

bigbob77 said:

Walking my dogs in the dark is an absolute nightmare. I always need a decent torch with me, but even then it's not easy to navigate the dogs around all the st.

Wouldn't have been so bad in the 70s when I was a nipper. You used to regularly see white dog st but that went out of fashion.

It's much harder to spot in the dark now.

It was a nightmare in the 80s when I was growing up. There was a back path that was a shortcut between two streets that was unlit. On a night you could gaurantee that you'd stand in st. In fact we used to call it dog st alley.

PE on the playing field behind the school was an exercise in dodge the dogst. I remember having to get it out from between the studs on my football boots before we wee allowed back in the changing room.

[mike74]

The really puzzling one for me is when people are out in open countryside, not urban/suburban areas, and they pick up the st in a bag then just throw the bag of st away anyway (or even more bizarrely hang it on a branch or fence)

[Monkeylegend]

DNA testing is now the way forward according to some councils.

A sample of poo for DNA analysis, a swab of each dogs bum as they pass by, get a match and Rover is busted.

You might need gloves and arm protectors.

[Efbe]

mikal83 said:

here in the country there is one person who picks up their dog st, puts it in a bag and flings it into the hedge. FFS just leave it there and the rain will wash it away in a day or so....OR if your that worried flick it into the bottom of the hedge with your boot.

seriously annoying. we get this too.
up on the moors too. If they didn't bother bagging it up it would just wash away, but by bagging it, they last for ages!

[rs1952]

Efbe said:

mikal83 said:

here in the country there is one person who picks up their dog st, puts it in a bag and flings it into the hedge. FFS just leave it there and the rain will wash it away in a day or so....OR if your that worried flick it into the bottom of the hedge with your boot.

seriously annoying. we get this too.
up on the moors too. If they didn't bother bagging it up it would just wash away, but by bagging it, they last for ages!

Quite. It’s called the law of unintended consequences.

I can understand that dog turds on pavements can be an annoyance to some people, especially to “non-dog people.” It doesn’t bother me because I grew up in the days when dogs took themselves for walks and you just kept an eye out for what you were stepping in, but then I also smoked in the office, in pubs, on planes and trains and on the top decks of buses. Things change over time...

However, given the climate (ie the frequent rain) in the UK, a dog turd will usually vanish after a day or so anyway – if they didn’t, we’d be up to beyond our bleedin’ necks in ‘em from countless century’s worth of dog “empties.”

But people have been so conditioned by the media frenzy on this topic over the last 30 or so years that they generally automatically clear it up. And put it in a bag. Then look around and see that nobody is looking. Then chuck the bag away.

The end result is that a naturally biodegradable product then becomes non-biodegradable because somebody has put it in a non-biodegradable bag,

This, apparently, is progress

[BlimeyCharlie]

Have this problem outside our house, in the road and the path, and basically anywhere I walk.

I put Jeyes fluid down, which stinks, but it is meant to stop the problem, and appears to work.

What bugs me is we pay the same Council Tax as people who 'own' dogs. It costs money for those bins to be emptied and for someone to clear up, so why not make a licence available through the council? At say £50.00 a year?

Less dogs, less sh*t.

The bins obviously are too much effort for many people, so just make people pay or they can't have a dog.

Bit like owning a car and a television really.

[helix402]

Some dog owners behave in a very odd manner, they pick the poo up, then put the dog's poo in a bag. Then they drop in on the pavement or hang it from a branch. Is it for the dog poo fairy to pick up? I have not met the fairy yet.

Very odd. I have yet to find someone doing this but may suggest they take it home with them. Or assist them in returning it to their home if they have difficulty with the task.

[Toltec]

mikal83 said:

here in the country there is one person who picks up their dog st, puts it in a bag and flings it into the hedge. FFS just leave it there and the rain will wash it away in a day or so....OR if your that worried flick it into the bottom of the hedge with your boot.

There is an owner here that clearly collects the st in a bag, then leaves it behind the Virgin Media box.

[Who me ?]

rs1952 said:

But people have been so conditioned by the media frenzy on this topic over the last 30 or so years that they generally automatically clear it up.

And then the dog owner looks round for somewhere to deposit the poo bag, but if local is any example, the vast majority of bins are now sanctuaries for young fish in local river, courtesy of the night time yob population. But as a responsible dog owner, you've "scooped". You've now satisfied the law, but due to lack of provision, councils are failing dog owners. OK- I don't condone chucking it in the hedge, but where's there no bins in park, I dump mine in a bin on a street. Hopefully once street bins honk of dog poo, council will replace bins in park. End of bad dog owners rant. Now on to those partying in park not picking up. Remember the song/taking the P out of "English country Garden"- it's now common- flower beds riddled with beer/cider cans,and foot paths littered with white spirit glass and part shattered beer bottles. Forget the danger of noxiousness of dog poo- there's now a real danger to toddlers from falls into layers of broken glass, of stabs into th foot from broken shards on the pavement.

Edited by Who me ? on Tuesday 9th February 23:04

[E24man]

Take photographs and when the ask why, just say you're collecting evidence to report non-picker-uppers to the Council. The fear of being reported will get to most people, no need to worry the council.

[silverfoxcc]

My old mutt does 'bombing runs' when he craps, on the move, i have to go back 20ft to pick up the singletons!
Mind you he got me last night. out the front to pony and theres the bombing run spread evenly along the grass verge, so i walk in the road and start collecting, until i find the one the sneaky bugger left in the road on the 'run home' with my right foot!!!!.Placed the bag outside front door with the other one, and this AM took him for his morning walk,so another two bags in the council poo bank. The plus side?
Keeps your hands warm this time of year, specially the amount he produces. i swear more comes out than goes in

[herewego]

Given how dogs love to please their owners, is it not possible for those with gardens to teach them to crap in the garden before going for a walk? I have the impression people are taking their dogs out into the street for a crap rather than for some exercise.

[bigbob77]

herewego said:

Given how dogs love to please their owners, is it not possible for those with gardens to teach them to crap in the garden before going for a walk? I have the impression people are taking their dogs out into the street for a crap rather than for some exercise.

Yes you can with most dogs. Both of mine toilet on command which makes it so much easier to deal with.

But we're talking about people who literally think it's OK to crap on a public path and just leave it there. I doubt they can toilet-train themselves let alone their dogs.

[bigbob77]

silverfoxcc said:

My old mutt does 'bombing runs' when he craps, on the move, i have to go back 20ft to pick up the singletons!

Oh god our Border Collie does that too and I could actually punch him sometimes! I tried holding him in one spot once and he freaked out mid-poop, so not trying that again...

[Monkeylegend]

bigbob77 said:

Yes you can with most dogs. Both of mine toilet on command which makes it so much easier to deal with.

"Nooooooooooo....... I said sit"

[rscott]

helix402 said:

Some dog owners behave in a very odd manner, they pick the poo up, then put the dog's poo in a bag. Then they drop in on the pavement or hang it from a branch. Is it for the dog poo fairy to pick up? I have not met the fairy yet.

Very odd. I have yet to find someone doing this but may suggest they take it home with them. Or assist them in returning it to their home if they have difficulty with the task.

Head down our road at 8am most mornings as I take the dogs out for a walk and you'll see me picking up the deposit from our of our hounds, putting it in a bag, then leaving it by the side of the road as I walk them up the lane.

Come back 20 minutes later and you'll see me heading back down the lane , picking the bag up and taking it back home to put in the bin!

[Smiler.]

[Devil2575]

rs1952 said:

Quite. It’s called the law of unintended consequences.

I can understand that dog turds on pavements can be an annoyance to some people, especially to “non-dog people.” It doesn’t bother me because I grew up in the days when dogs took themselves for walks and you just kept an eye out for what you were stepping in, but then I also smoked in the office, in pubs, on planes and trains and on the top decks of buses. Things change over time...

However, given the climate (ie the frequent rain) in the UK, a dog turd will usually vanish after a day or so anyway – if they didn’t, we’d be up to beyond our bleedin’ necks in ‘em from countless century’s worth of dog “empties.”

But people have been so conditioned by the media frenzy on this topic over the last 30 or so years that they generally automatically clear it up. And put it in a bag. Then look around and see that nobody is looking. Then chuck the bag away.

The end result is that a naturally biodegradable product then becomes non-biodegradable because somebody has put it in a non-biodegradable bag,

This, apparently, is progress

I'm going to guess that most dog poo bags are biodegradable.

The end result around where I live is that actually that there is a hell of a lot less dog st around that there used to be. Yes some dog owners are aholes but most aren't and most take it home with them. The dog poo bins are well used and although some people do leave the bags around most don't.

So maybe there has been some unintended consequences, but I'd take the situation now than what it was like 20-30 years ago any day. Stepping in dogst was a regular occurance in my childhood, whereas now I think I've had to wash it off my kids shoes once or possibly twice.

[Hooli]

BlimeyCharlie said:

What bugs me is we pay the same Council Tax as people who 'own' dogs. It costs money for those bins to be emptied and for someone to clear up, so why not make a licence available through the council? At say £50.00 a year?

Less dogs, less sh*t.

The bins obviously are too much effort for many people, so just make people pay or they can't have a dog.

Bit like owning a car and a television really.

Ok, I'll pay extra for two dogs IF I don't have to pay for schools because I don't have kids.