To say don’t put dog poo in bags

As an estate manager can I request that people don't "stick and flick" unless the landowner specifically says its OK. A lot of people have dogs now, I'd estimate I have over 200 a day emptied in our woodland - that's a huge amount of shit being dumped in the undergrowth and it's damaging to the plant communities in that sort of quantity. Pick it up and take it home.

Please don't leaves your dogs shit in the woods so it's stepped on or eaten by another animal! Plus the damage is doing to plants. Don't be lazy and disgusting

My dog has just pooed!
just going to bag and walk back a few hundred metres to the bin!

Presumably everyone can agree that the worst option of all is to bag it and hang (or fling!) the damned thing into a tree or bush. I simply can't comprehend that thought process.

Our dog used to usually do a poo pretty soon after he started a walk so if it wasn't somewhere we knew there would be a bin I'd nip back and leave the bag tucked under the boot of our car and then we'd take it home.

Me too - the point about bagging poop is not that it’s toxic to the ecosystem (see previous post re other wild animals pooping and peeing freely), it’s about making sure that the pathways used by humans and, potentially, children are clear of the poop. It’s why we clean up on pavements and take special care in urban areas. My dogs actually run off lead into the shrubs and heather and poop there.

I do not roam the bushes of the 400acre woodland near me looking for my dogs poops - but I do make sure the pathways they’ve used is clear and that has often meant cleaning up the poops of other inconsiderate dog owners, too. I was once a mum of young kids/pushing a buggy.

Other people’s dog shite is off limits.
I happily pick up my own dog’s poo and dogs I personally know’s poo - ( small bore poo)

But a nasty mound of slushy shite done by a Bully - no thanks!

They always seem to have gut issues and owners who never pick up afterwards.

But vegetarian animals don’t eat fatty things.

People are getting lazier and lazier. My woods have bags and bags of it, what's the point picking it up and leaving it there?. Absolutely disgusting and lazy behaviour.

I took compostable bags when we had our little dog. Used them on pavements and paths. If she went in a thicket or dense undergrowth, left it to decompose, along with the fox and badger poo.
Flushed contents when I got home and composted bags.

@AngelinaFibres ..I'm vegetarian and my poo isn't any different to anyone else 🤣🤣

Horses are vegetarian and their poo breaks down a lot easier than dog poo. Nothing smells quite as bad as dog and cat poo. This is because of their diet. Fox poo can smell bad but there is not so much of it about.

Off topic a bit but they are really not. Even the ones that say they are compostable are only really compostable in very specific circumstances that are never naturally present in the real world.

The compostable ones thrown by the side of a woodland path will be there for several decades before they naturally break down - possibly even centuries! It's shocking they are allowed tocall themseleves compostable tbh.

Someone with a horse will be on soon to say that horses are vegetarian and therefore their poo is the equivalent of stepping in Chanel no 5. It very much isn't

Poop is poop…

Is there a difference between dog poo and horse poo then? Other than most responsible dog owners pick up their dogs poo?

I would like whoever keeps bagging the poo and then dropping it over the fence behind my shed to stop, I can tell you that much for free.

Oh the irony

Surely if the poo bag degrades, the poo will be on the path again?

I have never bagged a poo then not taken it!

I have done stick n flick in suitable places (ie into a thick hedgerow where no one will be walking, into deep nettles etc, not just off the edge of the path where someone may still reasonably tread) when I was running low on bags and didn't want to waste one where there is a stick n flick policy.

I have collected poo that wasn't 'mine' when my dog pooed and I couldn't find it (this happens more often than you may imagine if on some sorts of terrain, especially close to dark). I figured one out, one in, but also if I can't find it, the chances of someone else stepping in it are pretty low!

Dogs aren't wildlife.

Really? So what about the other wildlife - the foxes, wild rabbits, badgers, deer or the horses being ridden through the same woodland? It’s a wildlife area where LOTS of animals are pooping and peeing every day, all day. Every bit of soil you walk on has likely been pooped or shat on by some animal at some point, and composted!

I still remove my dogs’ poops though, just to be clear.

I often see full poo bags hanging on trees. Can owners not just walk to the nearest bin and drop them in...?

What's wrong with this country? Filth and plastic left everywhere - no respect for others, no respect for nature. Just so sad.

Our local park every summer on hot days smells putrid its just hot dog shit

With so many dogs and everywhere being dog friendly it’s about time there were dog poo bins everywhere and emptied regularly

Really the ideal would be for dog owners to do as guide dog trainers do and get their dogs to poo in a designated outdoor place within the bounds of their property, and then dispose of it.

Obviously not everyone can/will achieve that but it's a better starting point for expectations than "don't worry about it; just shove it under a bush".