To ask why people hang poo on trees?

That is only what the grim dog owners tell people when their caught. Never seen anyone actually pick one up again.

My guess is they think it’s neater than leaving it on the ground where someone may tread on it, maybe some warped thinking that it’s better for the environment if it isn’t degrading on the ground too… I have absolutely no clue. I always figured they just hung it there momentarily and forgot to grab it but it happens way too much for it to be that.

I guess people chuck it then walk away. Definitely more repulsive but only if you're looking/smelling/having a sense of human decency.

Walking through a park in Cornwall last week, with my dog, some lazy fucker had put a full up poo bag on a bench, in sight of the poo bins. I carry bags bloody miles to find a bin.

I have a plastic container with lid in the back of the car. Can't smell it then.

Lol, exactly.
I've followed a few cars with poo bags hanging on the tow bars. Just what on earth is that about? I saw one, thought it must have been a joke, but I've seen a couple more since. Imagine it flying off at high speed 🤢

I have never seen a dog walker retrieve a poo bag from a branch.

When my children were primary aged the walk to school was along a walkway. 1970’s estate. The path was lined both sides with a hedge. Constantly there was poo bags in the hedge. Feel sorry for the people who owned the hedge as that was their boundaries between the path and their garden.

Even in a bag , poo smells escape. It can only be laziness and unwillingness to do the right thing.

I often take my friend’s dog out in a rural area, and find bags left on the grass verge by the side of the footpaths or tucked in the hedgerows . It’s minging. It’s not unusual for me to see a bag on the way back which wasn’t there on the way down the path. I might only have seen 1 or 2 dog owners on the walk. There are two bins easily accessible on the way. I pick up the ones on the verge but am not going to pick them out of the hedge.

Those are for carrying treats and the poo bag roll. haha

Because it’s generally the irresponsible dog owners that are too lazy to clear up properly after their dog. 🤬

They're usually there for days though so they are clearly not collected on the way back.

Domestic bin outside. I also only buy biodegradable bags. The idea of all these non-biodegradable bags in landfill is horrid.

You can buy little neoprene pouches that clip to your belt or bag to put your poo bags in. They contain the odour too. If dog owners are grossed out by carrying plastic poo bags they just need to get the right kit.

I sometimes do litter picking when walking the dog on the school run
The local high school have put a fence up on their field which is next to a busy footpath that leads to the primary school

One of the bungalows which backs onto said field must’ve been chucking shit filled bags over their fence onto the field as, I’m presuming, the maintenance grass cutting people had lined up over FOURTY turd filled sacks on the verge (must’ve chucked them over when mowing)

I’m fairly confident I know who left them on the field (same type of dog poo bags and the couple are rubbish dog owners)

I filled a bin bag full with aforementioned crap receptacles and, if I’d had evidence, I’d have dumped them in the owners’ garden

People who do shit like this are massive cunts

I'm tempted to do that. Is it a crime to leave dog shit hanging off my plants?

That actually does happen, plus there is at least one nappy in a passing place not far from my house that was obviously thrown out of a car window - not bagged.
I don’t understand any of it, it’s utterly disgusting.

Some dog owners are just disgusting. There is absolutely no justification for this behavior. Personally I think the council should have more powers to remove dogs from people who act in antisocial ways with them.

Yes fair point re nappies, I was out and about in the summer and someone had left a soiled nappy, and this morning on my dog walk my dog found someone's disgarded sanitary pad, I was not looking forward to trying to get that out of his mouth with my bare hands, luckily he dropped it! There are just some very grim entitled people around.

I'd love to know who the disgusting fuckers are. My front garden is on the edge of a short path and I have a hedge of different shrubs along the edge of my garden. It's perfectly clear this is someone's home, yet the shit-danglers drape their offerings on my garden plants when there's a bin 1 minute away. It's absolutely disgusting, I can't understand the mentality, I assume they wouldn't throw a bag of rubbish in my garden, why do they think they have the right to put their vile dog shit there?

I have never had a dog so no skin in this game.

But - when I've been out with someone else's dog, the swinging weight of a turd in a bag is repulsive. Much grosser than picking it up in the first place.

Nappies are less gross because their weight isn't just a turd in a bag. And tbh you do see nappies in laybys etc.

Yes it is to collect them on the loop back. But I'd say many forget or end up going a different route. It's pretty grim. I have a dog and just carry the bag until I get to a proper bin or my home bin.

To collect on the way back rather than carrying it around on a walk that isn't circular?