Clean up your dog sh*t

[Irresponsibl]

Anybody who has a dog and doesn’t pick up their poo is a complete and utter moron. Shame on you!

If you don’t have a poo bag then don’t go out with your dog unless you have something to scoop it up with, a carrier bag, a tissue, hell anything!

I can’t believe how much sh*t I’ve seen lately all over the pavements just laying there ripe and ready for some poor sod to walk right into. It’s just not on.

Clean your mess people!

Can’t disagree with you OP. Not just dog mess but general litter as well. I think it boils down to general selfishness.

The amount where I live is horrific! Its definitely so much worse since lockdown & dog ownership increasing.

Im feel like Im always screeching at/rugby tackling my toddler to avoid the dog poo!

We have two dogs and I can’t understand the issue with cleaning up after them. 🤷‍♀️
There are some woods across the road from us which are popular with dog walkers, it’s disgusting in there, unfortunately folk let their dogs off lead and don’t even try and find where they 💩

Definitely more litter around too. We live miles from McDonald’s KFC etc but still see the rubbish around so it must be getting chucked out of vehicles

Got 2 dogs and always carry a poo bag.

I don’t think you will find a single responsible dog owner who doesn’t agree. My dogs are trained to stand by their poo until I get there to pick it up anytime they are off lead.
I am fed up with rubbish owners.

It's definitely increased over the last couple of years too. Loads of the stuff.

My village is next to a beauty spot /path which people will drive to to walk their dogs, and it pisses me off how much bloody dog shit I see there.

I’m a dog owner and I agree, I can’t see why it’s such an issue for some.

I’ve been caught out without a poo bag before (had what I thought were two left and I was wrong). I waited until I saw another dog owner and asked for one from them, I didn’t just leave it.

By law every dog should be dna tested and on a database then dog dirt can be traced back to the owner. The owner should then be fined and made to pay the testing costs as well.

Dog licenses might be a more realistic route. To have a dog you would need to apply for a license for them which includes proving you have gone through basic manners training with them.

People that bag it then hang it on a bush irritate me more than the ones who don't pick it up at all for some reason. Once I forgot to take poo bags with me. Couldn't find my dog walking coat so chucked on a different one. Dog does a poo. I put my hand in my pocket, no bags. Not even a bit of tissue. Obviously no other dog walkers about because I needed to borrow a bag so they had all disappeared. So I did the only thing I could and had the joy of walking home with only 1 sock on while carrying a sock full of dog crap. Never left the house without double checking I had bags again.

My mother would never take her dog for a walk until it had done its business on her property. The dog knew it would not be taken for a walk until this was done. My father would clean this up daily. This must be an old fashioned way of thinking because people now intentionally take their dogs out in order to AVOID their animals crapping on their own property - it's medieval, deliberately fouling the streets.

Had to wait an age for traffic to pass in order to walk on the busy road with a twin pram and buggy board this morning as a vast amount of dog diarrhoea was liberally spread full width of the pavement by the unfortunate people who had trawled through it before I got there. Not easy to manoeuvre kit like that when dropped kerbs don't take account of where dogs prefer to shite and you have to bump four pairs/sets of wheels up and down a higher kerb. Further turds dotted about all the way into town. It's revolting having to load prams/pushchairs into a car or take them inside the house when there's wet turd oozed up the side of the wheels/tyres.

Dog owners should have to buy an excruciatingly expensive licence for each dog they own so that money could go towards councils paying to employ someone to clean it up.

Those saying that they pick it up? What every trace? You pick up every single trace including all the disease that goes with it? That trace still gets picked up on shoes and wheels and trodden/taken into homes. That is of course unless your dog is special and does hover turds and it doesn't actually touch the ground.

Foul your own homes/gardens - instead of forcing your disgusting mess into others' homes.

Also, keep dogs on leads and under closer supervision - I don't want any dogs approaching me/ touching me. Huge greyhound raced up to me and jumped up at me several times recently - this is a footpath that reminds dog owners to keep their dogs on leads and take their waste home every hundred yards or so. Having said that more dogs touch me as they are passing on lead. I tend not to deliberately touch people in passing and I don't want dogs deliberately touching me in passing.

If a dog can be trained to sit, it can be trained to defecate BEFORE it's taken for 'walkies'.

Totally agree! Our village has had so much of it lately it's disgusting, the parish council go out as often as they can to clean up (not that they should have to!), they even supply poo bags all around the village! No excuse!

Yup I'm absolutely sick of avoiding it on the streets. I wondered about some sort of DNA testing system. A huge fine or severe punishment for the owner! Something needs to be done!

My mother would never take her dog for a walk until it had done its business on her property. The dog knew it would not be taken for a walk until this was done. My father would clean this up daily. This must be an old fashioned way of thinking because people now intentionally take their dogs out in order to AVOID their animals crapping on their own property - it's medieval, deliberately fouling the streets.

I do this, she goes in the garden before she gets walked to do what she needs to do and will usually wait until she gets home if it's a particularly long walk, it was just an extension of housetraining really, that said I still carry poo bags and pick up on the rare occasion that she does do something, but there's many round here that do the opposite, walk the dog 4/5 times a day, just down the street and back to do their business and have trained the dog to only go when on a walk. At least if it's in my own garden and a bit sloppy/messy then I can get water and swill it away, though I wouldn't walk a dog with a dicey tummy anyway because of that reason.

Dog owner here always have poo bags and always clean up after my dog. And they're not let off lead so I know where they poo.

Dog licences here in NI - £12.50 if Not neutered £5 if neutered - and and they're microchipped.

I know there are many responsible dog walkers and I do see majority of owners pick up dog poo. I also see the ones that pretend they haven’t seen their dog take a dump and just turn around pretending to gaze at some random tree while dog does it’s business. It’s ridiculous.

Recently ruined a pair of good trainers by stepping in some moist sh*t. My DD stepped into it on route to school yesterday, it’s just not nice.

I hope some of those who can’t be bothered picking up the poo read this thread and feel silently ashamed!!!

I used to live in a street with a family who had a large labrador type dog. They would let it out on a long lead and stand at the front door holding it, while their dog crapped on the pavement right outside their own house. There were always half a dozen turds in various stages right by their gate, inconveniencing everyone but mostly, to be fair, themselves. It was a really strange set of choices.

I think we need to start challenging owners who don’t tidy up after their dogs. Shout something like “I hope you’re picking that up”.

Do you really think this rant will make any difference

It'll be the same twats that litter and fly tip

I agree it’s disgusting, And dangerous too. If people don’t pick up after their dogs, they shouldn’t have them.

@outtheshowernow

Is this not a free platform where people can air their views?

Some people should just scroll on.

We once witnessed a man letting his dog crap among the poppies of the Remembrance garden on Remembrance Sunday!
DH 6 foot 4 in drew himself up to his most imposing height and said "I trust you will be cleaning that up" which prompted some verbal abuse. DH said "you're not going anywhere until you've cleaned that up" and I nervously wondered if it might descend into a fight but the man sent his son to a nearby cafe to request paper towels/napkins and meekly cleaned up. I think there were enough witnesses he just wanted to get out of there.
I couldn't get over it. Loads of people milling about on a Cathedral Green and he let his dog wander among the poppies before crapping there, right where people were leaving poppies and looking at the display.

Umm, maybe as long as you have good eyesight. A friend of mine was very shaken after an aggressive man yelled at her to 'Fucking pick that up' when all her dog had done was sit arthritically at the kerb to cross the road. He was insistent that she should go back across and scoop up the imaginary poo.

There is dog shit all over the place in my very well to do town. DS and I walk to school and we have to constantly looking out for poo to avoid. It's absolutely grim. I'm tempted to get a pink chalk spray and start colouring them in.