Owners not picking up after dogs
Discussion
Outside my office there seems to be a regular offender. It's a busy high street but he/she comes out early with the dog and it spreads it's cr*p over about a 30ft section of pavement. It must be a big dog! I can only assume they pull the dog on it's lead while it's doing it's business.
By 11am or so, it's been spread about by feet/prams etc. It's like a minefield! People look like they're performing Swan Lake as part of the State Ballet when they're negotiating the pavement.
By 11am or so, it's been spread about by feet/prams etc. It's like a minefield! People look like they're performing Swan Lake as part of the State Ballet when they're negotiating the pavement.
If none of the above suggestions work, you could always try approaching the owners and asking them to pick up - maybe even be proactive and buy a pack of plastic bags (cheapo nappy sacks is fine) to offer the walker of each dog? Just don't be the usual PH aggressor as that never works.
Failing that, contact your council to request a poo bin to be sited nearby. We did this a few years ago when a much used cut-through to some fields became Dog Turd Alley.
After some months of asking, the council installed a poo bin and the alleyway became reasonably squelch free almost over night. However, as with everything there are cost constraints and the bin is not the expensive part, it's the emptying and maintenance that will eat into their budget. So if you're not near a poo bin lorry route you probably won't have much luck.
Failing that, contact your council to request a poo bin to be sited nearby. We did this a few years ago when a much used cut-through to some fields became Dog Turd Alley.
After some months of asking, the council installed a poo bin and the alleyway became reasonably squelch free almost over night. However, as with everything there are cost constraints and the bin is not the expensive part, it's the emptying and maintenance that will eat into their budget. So if you're not near a poo bin lorry route you probably won't have much luck.
We're having this issue now. Just moved to a nice cul-de-sac, all 4, 5 and 6 bed houses so not a rough estate by any means and yet my other half had to dispose of 5 dog turds from our front lawm. We're on dog watch to try and identify the culprit. I was ready to visit the neighbour opposite but we've never seen them with a dog so don't think it's them. Selfish culture is a growing trend in the UK it seems.
Impasse said:
If none of the above suggestions work, you could always try approaching the owners and asking them to pick up - maybe even be proactive and buy a pack of plastic bags (cheapo nappy sacks is fine) to offer the walker of each dog? Just don't be the usual PH aggressor as that never works.
Failing that, contact your council to request a poo bin to be sited nearby. We did this a few years ago when a much used cut-through to some fields became Dog Turd Alley.
After some months of asking, the council installed a poo bin and the alleyway became reasonably squelch free almost over night. However, as with everything there are cost constraints and the bin is not the expensive part, it's the emptying and maintenance that will eat into their budget. So if you're not near a poo bin lorry route you probably won't have much luck.
There is flats above us, so the rain will not wash it away as it's covered (we're on the bottom floor). There is a poo box literally over the road, a bin and a salt box which also gets used. It's just people being lazy. As for people saying "through it at them" it happens at night and I don't spend the day looking out the window waiting to catch someone!Failing that, contact your council to request a poo bin to be sited nearby. We did this a few years ago when a much used cut-through to some fields became Dog Turd Alley.
After some months of asking, the council installed a poo bin and the alleyway became reasonably squelch free almost over night. However, as with everything there are cost constraints and the bin is not the expensive part, it's the emptying and maintenance that will eat into their budget. So if you're not near a poo bin lorry route you probably won't have much luck.
Devil2575 said:
RobinOakapple said:
I'd go along with that. You only need to shoot one to deter the rest of them.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.
What I don't get is - there are so many "repeat offenders" where I live. They walk their dogs in the same place all the time and let their dogs st in the same place all the time... Don't they care that the next day their dog will step in its own st???
They obviously don't care... Their house must be covered in st. They must have stty carpets and stty walls and stty shoes.
stty people
[PHanswer]Put it in a can of Red Bull, throw it at their lawn, hammer it in with a frozen sausage and then bum the dog to death[/PHanswer]
HTH
Slightly more serious, I've had this from dog walkers at the end of my drive and if I spot somebody new stopping at the trees, I just go out in the drive and give the patented "Paddington Bear hard Stare" which has never failed in the dog egg collection stakes.
HTH
Slightly more serious, I've had this from dog walkers at the end of my drive and if I spot somebody new stopping at the trees, I just go out in the drive and give the patented "Paddington Bear hard Stare" which has never failed in the dog egg collection stakes.
I have a similar problem just along the pavement and road/grassed (private) bank where I live.
There was always a bit of mess left now and again, but there seems to be something new in a different place everyday for the past month or two and it all looks fairly similar "style and content", so expect it is the same dug.
As above the problem is identifying the culprit as most folk I do see with dugs round and about generally seem to pick up.
Anyone have good suggestions for cheap CCTV camera I can set up in my window on motion detection? If I at least can work out who it is and when it normally happens I will stand a better chance of ensuring I am around to go and have a word with them.
There was always a bit of mess left now and again, but there seems to be something new in a different place everyday for the past month or two and it all looks fairly similar "style and content", so expect it is the same dug.
As above the problem is identifying the culprit as most folk I do see with dugs round and about generally seem to pick up.
Anyone have good suggestions for cheap CCTV camera I can set up in my window on motion detection? If I at least can work out who it is and when it normally happens I will stand a better chance of ensuring I am around to go and have a word with them.
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.
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.
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.
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