to give a piece of my mind to the dogwalker who, when challenged about picking up his beast's poop which it had deposited on the pavement right in front of my NDN's garage door, shrugged and said he didn't have a bag on him. Well why the fuck not, since the object of taking the animal out is to enable it to empty its bowels?
I provided him with a (used) tissue from my coat pocket and waited while he picked up the turd. He muttered that it was only a Chihuahua not an Alsatian, but I don't care - a turd is a turd and it has no business being on the pavement.
As he skulked off after his dog I yelled "and don't forget to bring a bag next time!" In fact I hope I've warned him off properly and he'll go elsewhere next time. Of course, the alternative is that next time he pops the turd through my letterbox.... I wouldn't normally be so bold as to challenge him like that, but he was just so brazen and blasé about it.
AIBU?
to give a piece of my mind to the dogwalker
Meluzyna · 29/11/2016 20:38
YANBU!!! I'm a dog owner and I hate these people. Firstly they give us all a bad name. Secondly I've had dogs with serious allergies who will pick up and eat dog poop (disgusting but some can't be trained out of it) and no matter how quick and eagle eyed you are it can cause serious issues.
Although on the flip side lol I live in an area where there are no designated poop bins and signs up everywhere saying to use normal bins. Today I had a barney with a well dressed 50 something woman because I put my bagged dog poop in a bin next to a kids park. She thought it was disgusting and dangerous for her kids. When I asked if she would prefer me to leave it on the ground or bag it up and put it a bin I got a tirade of abuse. I then smiled sweetly and suggested she keep her dirty children from digging and playing in public bins and walked away praising my dogs so much they were very confused lol. 
[YANBU (except that the purpose of taking a dog for a walk is to give it exercise, not to make it do a dump]
Exactly! Dogs are quite able to dump in their own gardens. All dogs need to be walked to be exercised. I wouldn't expect a non dog owner to know this but they will obviously voice their biased opinion anyway! 
My dog shits in the garden - always! But I always have a never ending supply of poo bags in my pocket for those owners whose dog craps in the street and think they can get away with it :D
I have chihuahuas and they get a couple of miles a day. They really do enjoy running around and exercise. All dogs need it, no matter their size - it annoys me when people think because their dog is small it ''can just exercise in the garden'' or just needs a tiny 2 minute walk around the block. But anyway, that's another thread.
YWNBU - maybe get a little box of nappy sacks and put them in your hall so if you see it again you can pass them out. I hand out nappy sacks to people walking away from a poop when I'm walking my dogs
I then smiled sweetly and suggested she keep her dirty children from digging and playing in public bins
Noce one, Beagles
e have three dogs - one is a great dane (envisage the dinosaur poop on Jurassic Park), the other two are spaniels - one of them can quite easily do 4 or 5 well-formed poos on a walk - and when she's in heat she can Sh*t for England! My big fear is leaving the house without enough bags, as you can imagine.
When I have been out I have offered bags to other owners who weren't going to pick up; some are pathetically grateful ("she only does one poo as a rule but today this is her third - thank you so much"), some are embarrassed into picking up (you can tell by their faces), some get angry an aggressive and tell me to pick it up myself if it bothers me so much! (It takes all sorts.)
Personally, I don't crawl through brambles and gorse, but if I can reach it I will always clean it up.
I would appreciate more bins about for walkers to use (though with current council cuts I can't see that happening - plus I spoke to a High-Vis jacketed a bloke who had the unenviable task of emptying the bins, and he said that kids often scattered the contents far and wide 
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What always makes me smile is when bins say "Litter and wrapped Dog Waste only"
Who doesn't wrap this stuff? If there is someone out there picking it up with their bare hands I want to know who they are so I can avoid being introduced to them at parties (not that I go to any - it's the principle
i went to Cornwall and the big bins there said No dog mess 
mrsbeagles, I bet the woman was a mumsnetter.
how ridiculous.
A bin is a bin!
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