to believe that dog owners who leave their dogsh*t outside of schools/nurseries should be executed?

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I think it's deliberate.

See if you get a dog, you don't have the problems with cat poo in the garden!

Ok, so then you find the escaped ferret from three streets down in your back garden anyway - but no cats!

And my dog doesn't shit outside Sainsburys - it's Waitrose purlease! (Actually it's not Waitrose cos they don't have fuck off huge clumps of nettles outside for me to play fish the shit in)

Timothy PMSL at your FIL!

No idea if it works, I have cats and dogs so don't wish to deter them. Others on here swear by it though.

DejaWho, I can thoroughly recommend these poop scoops.

You have to take great care in snapping the two components together but once that's done these are robust and very good at the job they're designed to do. Also good for picking up dead mice which cats have killed. I can't do that by hand, can handle anything from an aggressive dog to a tarantula, a rat, snake, whatever when alive. Show me a dead animal and I'm a sobbing, shaking wreck.

My dog eats the dead mice that my cat leaves lying around. She does poo out the remnants but I always pick em up .

nancerama; Sorry about the burglary ( bastards )

They should be buried up to their necks in dogshit. Upside down, of course.

And that applies to all streets, not just those outside schools.

And if that doesn't work we will have to try something really severe . . .

"toboldlygo: my argument on that would be a very simple one.
Cat poo is fairly small and confined to a small local area. Dog poo is 10x the size and there's more of it. ( dogs eat more than cats ) and if you let dogs roam free they'd do it anywhere and everywhere.
I know my cat doesn't wander far from home, a dog would be shitting outside sainsbury's, at the bus stop, outside schools, you name it. That's why you have to have a licence to own one."

My dog's poo is fairly small. They poo with about the same frequency as a cat, if I remember rightly, been years since I had a cat. My dogs aren't allowed to roam outside supermarkets or schools or, indeed, anywhere as they are always on a lead and under close control. In this country you don't have to have a licence to own one.

What you're saying is that because cats are smaller and nobody sees it it's just fine for them to roam and shit anywhere. The same argument could be applied to small dogs - remember, it's not personal, he's just marking his territory! By the same token you're saying it'd be fine for my dogs to shit in my neighbour's garden because it's confined to a small area.

Ridiculous. Again, we all know that people should pick it up. No argument on that front. Huge kudos to the earlier poster for braving nettles to scoop.

You don't need a dog licence anymore? I must be living in the past.
Is Blue Peter still on?

YANBU. There is often shit outside DS's primary school. There was shit outside his nursery too. I can't imagine what sort of selfish idiot would do this.

Execution might be a bit strong, but the temptation is so often there to find out where they live and out it through their letter box so it ends up all over their carpet instead of mine (I have a 7 year old who simply can not look where he is going and, worse still, seems to have a magnet for the stuff. They had to evacuate a classroom because he got it everywhere, the other week and ended up having a huge meltdown when asked to remove his shoes and get cleaned up [hsad])

I would normally say something sarcastic about choir-preaching, dog-owner trolling and human rights.

However, earlier this week, the littlies went to the park. We successfully avoided all dog mess in the park, and had lots of fun. I then stepped in some dog mess that was concealed by fallen leaves, just outside the nursery next door to the park.

The cleaning of my shoe (did I mention that they were new?) was unpleasant, time consuming, laborious, and has significantly inconvenienced the family.

Where I regularly walk my doggins there is often dog poo in front of the dog poo bin. It drives me insane. I have been known to hand poo bags to people who are not picking up, there is NO excuse. I chose to have a dog I chose to deal with poo I hate that others give us all a bad name.

Not that it is an excuse, but are there dog poo bins anywhere near the said school/s. There seems to be a shortage of them (and bins in general tbh) round here which is such a pain, I hate putting poo bags in my car, but not as much as i hate the thought of some poor kid standing in it or worse

WhyTF would you think it's deliberate?
Bloody annoying and rude - yes.
But do you really ,really - I sound like a SpiceGirl here, Bitchy Spice? - think dog owners go round looking for nurseries/schools to let their dog have a poo?
get real - a dog cannot hold it in.

I never see dogsht outside the local convenience stores or papershop, coffeeinbed*. And whilst they don't have as much footfall as a school or nursery, they are likelier places for a dog owner to go.

We also know that some people really don't like children, so it's possible that there are some misanthropic dog owners who use pavements outside schools/nurseries as dedicated latrines.

Bless!

A big fat YABU.

coffeeinbed has a point. Maybe it is accidental- the dog owners were actually aiming to take the dog into the playing field for the defecation?

No fields round my neck of the woods, jessie.

Or woods either.

I think there is more poo outside schools/nurseries (and I agree, it does seem disproportionate. Or maybe I'm just more likely to notice it there) because lots of people merge the school run walk with the dog walk. Outside our school it's like Dog Central some days. Which is unfortunate for DS3 who was bitten by a random dog last month and is still decidedly twitchy.

Any play-areas in the grounds of the nursery, maybe?

Do you think I managed to raise the blood-pressure of dog-owners across Britain with that post? Or do you think they're just ignoring me?

Well, imagine a dog owner contemplating feeding doggie some boiled rice in case the school's at quite a distance so the dog will deposit wanted substance at a later stage in the walkie.
Or pears - if the opposite's true.
Nah, too much trouble.

"We also know that some people really don't like children, so it's possible that there are some misanthropic dog owners who use pavements outside schools/nurseries as dedicated latrines."

I'm in the first category (apart from my own DC... and even then sometimes.. :o ) but not the second. I know plenty of people like me but none of the type you describe.

Hands up anyone who knows any child hating misanthropes who purposefully take their dogs to schools and nurseries so that they can deliberately encourage their dogs to shit outside said establishments?

Hassled, if it's parents doing the school run and the dog walk concurrently, then why is it not clicking?

Faeces of any origin are horrid on any pavement, obviously.

Tsk! I should have said "...any particularly child-hating misanthropes... ".

I'm trying to work out the logistics.
Madness.
Even though I much prefer my dog to other people's children- and mine, sometimes- I just take extra baggies and pick up whenever required. Even/especially outside schools/nurseries.
much easier.
executed?
FFS.

Recently went to the park with the kids and there was a huge pile of dogshit right in the middle of the gated children's play area, in amongst the slide and climbing frame and things.

Grrrrrrr.

See!