Dog people - how does the poo not disgust you?

The only thing i sit in dread of is the next daily goady dog bitching thread. You hold your breath, bend down and bag it. How else are you meant to deal with it FFS.

You just get used to it and the sooner you bag it and get it contained & into the dog poop bin the better! All poo stinks doesn't it.

I don't mind picking my owns dog poo up, as I know shes healthy and wormed regularly.

What im not a fan of is carrying the bags around if we are not near a bin, or driving home with a bag in the boot as again bin. (Obviously I do do this but it's not my favourite thing). We hike a lot so have this issue. Car parks should have bins at least IMO.

@Standingtree

they don’t look cute shitting and there must be better ways to warm your hands in winter than picking up shit

What else is the poor dog to do ! It has a digestive system . Not picking it up is the issue

Parents - how do shitty nappies not disgust you?

It is the most demeaning thing about owning a dog, I hate it, but really love my dog. Luckily I have plenty of land to let my dog run so I rarely pick it up. If I am taking my dog out I let her run around our fields first to empty her out, sometimes I get lucky but I'm always surprised by the amount she can produce. I also only take her places with bins because I am repulsed by bags of shit dangling from windscreen wipers and tow bars. Sometimes I double or even triple bag but I can still smell it through the bags which I really don't understand.

In the winter my parents argue about who gets to pick up the poo, my father has been known to walk with a bag of fresh, steaming poo in his pocket to keep his hands warm. Once he forget to empty his pockets and it festered for days before they traced the smell.

I had no problems with my DC nappies, I briefly had a nappy bin in the house but I found that disgusting so used an outside bin but I really can't deal with eldery, incontinent relatives.

Funnily enough, I married a farmer and can happily paddle through cow shit and have zero problems with handling it. I just view that as recycled grass with no nasties in it.

It’s part and parcel of having a dog. Not my favourite thing to do, but needs must.
own a dog, and you sign up to dealing with it.
I know people get annoyed when people compare the two, but in this case it is no different to knowing that part of having kids is dealing with shit, sick, snot, head lice etc. You do it because you love the creator.
Warm, fresh poo is also more pleasant than cold poo.

Agree dog poo residue is gross but have you ever tried to drag a dog when it's trying to do it's business? Near impossible and also pretty mean. Imagine sitting on the bog about to drop one and someone suddenly yanks you to the side.

If I see anything dog related on the horizon I give it a wide birth; be that the creature itself or the human with a bag of feaces in hand🤢🤮

No issue picking up poo, although it's less easy when I have DS in the carrier and I'm trying to keep his flapping hands from getting to it 🫠 but the idea of picking up someone else's dog poo makes me feel quite queasy.

It's not like you carry it around with you for the rest of the day though! The key is to make sure your dog is on decent food so the poo is always firm. I have a large dog and hers are the size of a toddler's forearm so sometimes it's a two-bag job…

It is exactly like your own baby's filled nappies. Your own dog's poo is bearable. Happily walk along swinging a plastic bag full of poo.

I do wonder if people who can't understand people's willingness to pick up their dog's poo have a problem wiping their own arse. I don't see the difference. If you can do one you can do the other.

And then swing the bag jauntily around as they walk. I don’t want someone’s dog’s poo anywhere NEAR me.

And why do they allow dogs to poo on the pavement as there’s always “residue”. Drag it to the kerb/a tree and pick it up from there.

I think they sometimes are disgusted and often don't take fair responsibility for the poop. On bin day down our lane many dog owners put their poop bags in our bins. They look round to see if anyone is watching. If I'm quick enough I'm out the front door 🤣

I live in (apparently) a well-heeled part of England and, quite frankly, l am far more bothered by the increasing amounts of human poo on grass verges outside of people's houses.

It doesn’t bother me in the slightest. My dog is a small breed and raw fed so produces particularly small and unsmelly poops but I sometimes look after friends dogs too where that isn’t the case. DH plays cricket and occasionally a poop is left on the pitch and I am first to offer to go and pick it up as some people can’t stand it.

Same way that a parent changes their own child’s shitty nappy.

I prefer picking my own dogs poo up than other dogs poo, but it’s really no problem to pick any up.

Give me dog poo over a child’s nappy!

think this is where resilience comes in

I couldnt do it.

Lots of dog owners see their dogs as their children, one of the family so I'm assuming it's no different for them to changing their child's nappy🤷

You just shut off and get used to it.

I remember when we first had our dog the first poo he did I started gagging on the smell and I said to my DH I had made a mistake buying him and didn’t think I’d be able to deal with it.

After a while you get used to it though, and it becomes normal like changing a babies nappy. But it will always be the thing I like the least about having a dog!

Indeed! Great minds and all that 😀