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

[FantasticVoyage]

I think it's deliberate.

Sardine, that's trully awful, but that dog got there with a mum and a child.
it didn't get there deliberately to poo.

And yes everyone should pick it up, dogshit on the pavements etc is grim.

Sorry I don't understand what you mean coffee?

It was grim, the play area has a no dogs sign on it- so to take one in and not pick up seems doubly off.

I doubt it was a mum and kid - more likely to be teens out later at night. It's not a park that gets locked IYSWIM. I can't imagine anyone with kids would leave a dogturd in a play area!

Or older people - maybe some local can drinking types.

I imagined it was a different set of park users to the people with toddler types IYSWIM!

I've never seen anyone without a child in a playground.
I have seen mums and dogs and children.

Oh FYI for cats, out neighbour has 3 and they always shit in our garden.

I found black pepper liberally sprinkled on the flowerbeds to have quite a good deterrent effect. Apparently they go in the same places habitually so if you can get them out of the habit of shitting in your garden then all will be well.

You probably don't visit them after dark though coffee!

My park has a green area which is shared and a fenced off play area.

Oh god not again.

I must admit, not much.
It's locked anyway.

Post it back to them!

DBF . Is it just me who finds it slightly amusing to watch?

Sorry coffee I'm not following your point.

This park that I'm talking about is not locked at night as it's a big field type place, and there is a gated children's bit, but I'm sure it is used at night by people drinking etc who I would imagine would be more likely candidates to have left a dogturd than a mum.

Although I suppose it could have been a mum, I don't know. It was someone, anyway

"Not that it is an excuse,........... 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"

A proliferation of dog poo bins will just encourage dog owners to let their dogs poo anywhere. Yes, they have to take them for walks but why can't they let them poo in their own gardens? Why does it have to be where others walk or play? OK, if you live in a flat or have no garden, why do you have a dog??

See, just because someone has a child it does not make them a saint.
Of course it could have been a mum. It could have been anyone. Like outside schools and nurseries.
Or just because I have a dog does not make me a target for the firing squad.

You have a dog because you want company.
bcause not everybody is of chidbearing age or inclination.
Because the children have gone.
because you're lonely.
A dog is a good thing.

Well, if it's difficult to get a toddler to use the toilet before you leave the house, I bet it's worse to get dogs to go before you leave. And suppose you have more than one dog?

So I don't mind that. Just clear it off pavements.

Just I can't imagine a mum getting away with taking a dog into the play bit, she'd get told off straight away and asked to take it out again. No time for it to crap.

I've just never ever seen a dog in the playground in the daytime. But I know people drink there at night so it seems more likely to be them.

I'm not saying mums do no wrong. Simply that it seems more likely to be the special brew crew with their dogs on strings than a mum in the middle of the daytime when she would've got clobbered by other parents.

Erm

I'm not sure why you are upset about my deductive reasoning, I know I'm not poirot but it's not that bad.

If my local park is anything to go by, the issue with dogsh*t in parks is mainly because owners let the dogs loose and don't see them crapping.

I've seen two examples of this - the first time the woman was busy texting, and the second was a woman with spaniels busy discussing the breed with a passer-by.

In both instances, they both cleaned up when it was pointed out to them and weren't funny about it - they simply hadn't noticed.

But if you're walking a dog on a lead and find you suddenly have to stop because the pooch is curling one out, then you're going to notice you're outside a school or nursery when looking around pretending the cable-laying is nothing to do with you. There's not many other places that put up finger-painting pictures in the windows and have a massive board written in Comic Sans on their front grass.

:o @ Dooin

I once saw a very, very, very big man allowing his dog to defecate in the middle of the town centre. He had a toddler standing next to him.

Reader, I was a coward. I got a nappy bag out my pocket, but I didn't dare go up to him with it.

No, he didn't clear it up afterwards, either.

Oh?
So that's how you recognise schools?
I thought the hint was in the dog turds on the pavements outside and the huge amount of double parked cars blocking every inch of the road?

Actually, I've changed my mind about the topic. Execution is unreasonable; it's too civilised. Execution is a mode of punishment accepted in many countries, including in the developed world.

I think we need something more extreme. Hanging, drawing, and quartering? It's coming up to Guy Fawkes' Night, so it even seems like an appropriate time to begin campaigning for the reintroduction of hanging, drawing, and quartering.

After we've dealt with dog mess, could we extend the penalty to littering, noisy neighbours, and Annoying Me? Hanging, drawing and quartering would only be dealt out for dog faeces, obviously. I wouldn't be unreasonable.

[backs off]
[tries to pterend her dog's a big scary rottweiler]
you lot are scary..