to get cross about 'Come Outside' advocating flushing dog poo down the toilet

[Shelly32]

Dogs carry the parasite Toxocariasis that can send people blind and cause all sorts of other flu like symptoms. Chemical sewage treatment and even bleach cannot 'kill' this parasite. By showing the woman flushing it down the toilet and then describing how all that sewage will get reused as manure for our vegetables and recycled back into drinking water makes me feel sick. We are told not to put dog and cat poo in the compost for health reasons. I do not want my vegetables grown in Fido's potentially blinding excrement. Only regular worming can destroy the Toxocariasis and not every dog owner is that responsible. I can't believe they'd encourage flushing dog poo with ours to be recycled...

My dad always used to life the drain cover and shove the dog-doo down the main sewers. I flick pavement turds into the main sewers.

Beats leaving it laying about.

I wish you'd been around to say that to the woman who washes her dog shit-caked wellies in her dishwasher!

First I've heard of this, my family have always flushed it down the loo.

..and what are people who don't have a compost heap supposed to do - stick it in the bin? Wrong wrong wrong.

Blimey, watched that one with ds when he was a toddler and it's always stayed with me - there's something about Nurse Gladys Emmanuel in a light aircraft showing children the wonderful world of sewage I've never been able to forget. ds is eight now - whatsherface the actress must be doing OK on repeat fees!

Not every dog carries toxocariasis - it's also prevalent in cats as well and they make cat toilet seats that fit over human toilet seats

Taken from theNHS website : Toxocariasis is a rare condition, with an average of 10 cases occurring each year in England - it's an epidemic! rolls eyes

hmm, now that I have got all you poo-literate people in one place, I am wondering, my neighbour usually chucks her dogs out to poo on the green infront of our row of houses, and by now it is so dogpoo ridden that children cant play out there anymore. (She is a dogsitter) She has two dogs of her own, and I am sure she worms them and all, as she is a true dog person (aside from when she kicks them in the face to shove them in or out the door). But does this mean that the green outside the house is a possible Toxocariasis breeding ground?

Come outside. Brilliant show. I saw the video around 80 times. DD kept getting it out of the school library.
It used to bother DD that Aunty Mabel got recognised at St. Tiggywinkles hedgehog hospital.
OP, you are being a bit daft. If you ever buy veg imported from China, I understand they use night soil to fertilize it.

they make cat loo seats? Wow.

I'm not sure my current moggie is bright enough to cope with that, but my childhood Siamese used to squat over the plughole in the bath. If we ever caught her, cue LOTS of 'ew' from us kids and much usage of bleach from my Mum, although have to admit the cat had very good aim and it really didn't splash at all.

no it means you must take sneeky pics of her doing it and get the council to fine her ass

I flush cat poo and sick down the toilet on the rare occasions my two get caught out - evil me

Edam I think the programme is older than that. I'm sure I remember watching with my 2 and the youngest is 18.

Quint, report to Environmental Health dept of the council.

Did I miss Pippin's Poo episode again? FFS, I LIVE for that episode. That and the chip-pan one.

My favourite episode is 'Useful Holes'

The holes in the ground song is a classic.

Now I always say this on the Auntie Label threads but HAVE YOU SEEN the vid for Useful Holes? Badgers shagging in it. Trufax.

I watched it with my DS, he's 15 and it was a few years old then

My dear old Auntie Mo used to let her dog out in her backyard ( two up two down - proper a la Coronation St ) and then pick it up and put it down her outside loo then swill her yard with bleach. l thought it was ingenious myself - it does seem the obvious place to put poo tbf.

they do indeed - and you can teach them to flush as well!

www.amazon.co.uk/Litter-Kwitter-Toilet-Training-System/dp/B0014N70QO

with video ...

www.lapcat.co.uk/healthandbehaviour/litter-box/toilet-training-a-cat.html

Doesn't human poo carry a lot of nasty viruses & bugs in it, anyway? I mean none of you obviously have such nasties, but some folk, even in the UK, must do. Is there something special about Toxo-whatever that our sewage systems can't deal with it, when they can deal with HIV, tetanus, whatever else live microbes in our excrement?

My cat has to live indoors because of a health condition and we always flush any number two's down the toilet as I thought that was better than leaving it in a bin for potentially 2 weeks? Am I doing something wrong?

sorry that should be twos

Polio - live virus and it is passed through excrement. I've read cases of young adults contracting it (having missed initial or booster vacs0 simply by changing a nappy - the contents of which go down the loo.

YY when I had DD1 XH wasn't allowed to change her nappies for a while because he wasn't up to date and didn't want the booster so he could get out of shit changing duties.

I always flush LittleDog's and FailCat's poo down the loo.