To put dog mess in a strangers bin?

Total dog lover here but what you did OP was disgusting.

It wouldn't bother me if you put it in my bin in this specific scenario, but I'm a dog owner with my own dog's poo in my bin.

Much though I've been tempted, I wouldn't put it in anybody else's bin, I do think that's a line not to cross.

Likewise though, in the specific scenario you described, he was OTT in his response which would make me want to do it again in the future.

It’s not about the bin, it’s how the contents are put in. Where I used to live, bin men always opened the lid first to have a quick glance that things were bagged (big bags) properly. They’d leave any bins which had loose bags on top. Trouble is, it’s not always the householders fault - it’s passers by. Happened to me - full bin didn’t get emptied for another two weeks, plus you have to add the small dog poo bag to a big bag. Where I live now, each black bag has to be secure as they take them out of traditional round bins, no space for wheelie bins. However, I wouldn’t have gone crazy at OP but would’ve explained.

I actually spend some time making sure I don't make my bin filthy because I am too tight to pay for it to be cleaned, and in the summer it would reek if stuff was just thrown in there willy-nilly and I don't want to have to jet wash it all the time.

So no throwing unbagged food in there to rot and stink, making sure stuff that might attract a herd of the local cats is well bagged and won't split apart.

So someone dumping a bag of shit in it (that I unless inspecting closely would not know a) how strong a bag it was or b) how well it was tied up) would not be encouraged.

It doesn’t matter TBH: as I think you’ve now accepted, you just should not put dog shit into other folk’s bins. I don’t mind if people put other kinds of rubbish in there like crisp packets or plastic bottles, but dog mess is distinguishable: it’s absolutely filthy, smells revolting and is riddled with disease. There are other options for binning it and if I had a dog, I’d make sure I used a public bin.

This falls under the heading of things I wouldn't be in the least bit bothered about if it happened to me but I would never risk doing in case of someone kicking off as happened to OP.

YANBU in the circumstances you describe where bins were being collected instantly but afraid YABU to think there wasn't a strong possibility you'd be busted by one of the NIMB crowd

@Lomonald haha in our house they'd always be referred to as dogshit lady

My bin is about 3 metres from the pavement and always filled with people's shitty dog bags.
I get really cross at this too, stink up your ow bin.

It's not as bad as just dropping into a random bin on a driveway. But I find the language interesting. Whenever a dog owner on MN dumps a sack of shit in someone else's bin, they always "pop" it in. Minimising every time.

That used to happen here but it doesn't any more. They have changed what they do.

They have a larger bin into which the sacks are placed and then that bin is upended into the bin lorry.

People are weirdly possessive of their bins. I don't care if people put stuff in my bin; it's a fucking bin. I don't get my bin washed; it's a fucking bin. Who cares if it smells a bit or if someone else's rubbish is in it.

I'd rather people just used it, especially if it means they don't just drop stuff on the road.

Dog shit is a bit of a different case, but if you could literally see the bin was about to be collected then meh, that's fine.

You assume it would be in there for 60 seconds. A poster last week was rightly complaining about this kind of situation as the binmen on her road don't tip the bins up, they remove the individual bag from the bins and as a result she keeps being left with someone else's dog poo in her bin.
If the binmen were as close as you say you could have approached them yourself rather than involving anyone else.

It's about boundaries.

That's what entitlement is - ignoring the other person's right to set their own boundaries.

This was a small matter, but he was cross because you trampled over a boundary.

You probably were a bit unreasonable but I genuinely don’t get the outrage about it. Much rather that than you leaving it on the pavement and I probably secretly judge people who get so worked up about a bin on bin day.

if the bins had already bin emptied, then someone might have a genuine point (especially in summer).

Don’t the contents of the public bins specifically for dog shit get incinerated?

@AgnesMcDooI am guessing you’ve never had to scrub out your bin after some filthy dog owner lifted the lid and dumped a bag of their dog’s shit in the empty bin (ie before we the home owners put any bagged waste in there), the bag then broke and the dog shit was all over your bin.

Christ those people are absolute scum.

Yes you were out of order. What makes you think other people need your dog’s shit? 🤮🙄

One of my neighbours told me he’d spotted someone doing it to my bin. I told him I didn’t care. I have no problem with it, especially people who leave their bins out all week. I’ve seen people pick it up outside my house open the window and shouted and tell them to use our bin, it’s getting emptied anyway. I’ve also thrown it in the back of a bin lorry which OP could have done.

I wouldn't dare put my dogs poo in someone's else's bin.

Was it beneath you to fling into into the bin lorry with a "thanks!".

I would never dream of doing that as a dog owner! He was right to be cross. You should've taken it home.

We own our bins and have to pay for them. My bin contains about 3 big black bags a week, no random other bits in there. And certainly no tiddly bags of dog mess.