Just as a big of background, my dog sometimes squats when he wees. Big, proper wee he squats, if he's just marking his territory he'll cock his leg.
Have been out for a walk with dog.
I take him across some fields, down to our local beach. He needs a good run and this is usually quiet so I can let him off his lead. To get there I walk along a footpath, across a park and down a little lane. He stays on his lead until we get to the field.
He has 4 shits while we're walking along the footpath and the park. I pick them all up (as I always would).
Half way across the park, an 'official' (I don't think he was our actual dog warden) stops me and asks if I'm aware that I could be fined for letting my dog foul and not clearing it up. I tell him that I am aware, that I always pick up and indicate the bags of shit that I'm still carrying.
Official then states he saw my dog foul and that I continued walking. I immediately apologise, I didn't think I'd missed one, as dog is on his lead, I'm pretty sure I would have noticed him stop, so I start back tracking to try and find it. I can't, so I ask Official where he saw it. Official starts looking where he though he saw it, can't find anything, starts looking further and further afield before finding a poo about 20 feet ahead of where he stopped me. I point out that this couldn't possibly be my dog as we hadn't got that far yet.
Dog then wees and Official realises his mistake. He'd seen dog squatting and assumed he'd pooed.
Instead of accepting his mistake, then going on his way, Official then insists I pick up the other poo that he'd found or I could be fined and while we're standing there he sees another and insists I pick that up too.
I did pick them up, I hate it when people don't and it wasn't worth an argument, but aibu to think that someone who has the power to issue me with a large fine, should know what he's talking about? If dog hadn't weed when he did, I might have ended up with a fine
And that it's really not my responsibility to pick up every turd in the area?
AIBU?
to think a someone who can fine for dog fouling should know the difference between a dog weeing and a dog pooing?
Blinkybell · 27/03/2017 11:37
You should have handed him the bags that your dog didn't do!! !! 
4 shits?! 
But that aside you'd have thought that someone in that position would know that most bitches squat to wee. And you shouldn't have had to pick up other poos - I'd have suggested that as he obviously hadn't done his job well enough by letting other dog walkers get away with not picking up that he should pick them up himself. You might want to email his employer to point out that he's not up to the job if doesn't know the basics!
This reply has been deleted
Message withdrawn at poster's request.
You picked up other dog shits because he made you
I would have told him to fuck off!
I'd dearly love to know how you're supposed to clear up a wee from grass, are we all to carry sponges along with our poo bags?
Did he not notice your hands full of dogshit bags? 
Sounds like an overzealous official to me.
My DS once told someone off for letting their dog wee in public 
once I'd profusely apologised ans explained to DS in detail dogs could wee anywhere (for context, part of the school run is through woodlands so anywhere applies - its the tied up bags I can't stand) he was fine. Difference is though, he's an 8yo with Aspergers, he's not an official in uniform making some poor OP pick up other people dog muck.
I'd be tempted to say something too. Do they work on commission by any chance?
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.