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 two are 17 and 19 and we used to watch it.

Mine are 18 and 14 and we still watch it if it's on.

Auntie Mabel's awfully careless with Pippin.

Oh look Nurse Gladys has lost the dog. Again.

Goverment advice to flush dog poo.

Think you can rest easy op, or find some other crackers thing to lose sleep over.

I have always flushed dog poo, way nicer than sending it landfill.

From wikipedia: Come Outside was filmed in 1936 at a time when every middle class spinster aunt used a government issue light aircraft for nipping to the shops for chip fat and sensible shoes.

Or my version of Wikipedia :) between 1993 and 1997

Edam, I remember nurse Gladys Emmanuel in her spotty plance and my DS is 18!

Yes, her repeat fees must be enough to keep her in Rigby & Peller underwear for a lifetime!

I always remember getting quite tearful at Auntie Mabel and Pippin's reunion at the rubbish dump.

I've learned two facts from this thread. Come Outside is Nurse Gladys's pension fund AND lots of cats pee on the loo.

You could always try washing and peeling your vegetables if you are in such a blind panic -pun alert- about this.

What a strange idea that the dog and cat poo is highly toxic. Especially when you consider the amount of rats that live in the sewers with the diseases they carry

I always flush my cats' poo down the loo. Where else would I put it?? In the bin?? Ew.

I watched it with my niece when she was little and she's 25 now.
And then with ds who's 16.
I didn't know it was still going.
I loved it, and Pippin never got the recognition he deserved. He was a true star.
He'll be in doggy Heaven now .

Well I had radioiodine ablation last year. I had to basically eat the radiation. I was so radioactive I had to be in a isolation room. My wee and Poo was highly radioactive yet it was fine to flush that down the toilet (Had to flush twice to ensure it was all gone) Even when I was allowed out it was still highly radioactive. If that is allowed into the sewage system then dog poo and it's bugs is.

I loved this episode of come outside. 'can you see your poo Pippin !' Classic episode.

RIP Pippin. Missed every day!

Humans can also carry Toxocariasis, where should they poo?

I'm more concerned about her jumping in the plane to take a single shirt to the dry cleaners.

Quite right, her carbon footprint must be massive.

I was more concerned that all the human excrement was spread on the fields. I always thought that was one way to spread really nasty diseases and had naively thought that muck spreading was animal shit.

I'm sad enough that I knew when come outside was made without the aid of Wikipedia

Lots of responses to this, a few who haven't read my post accurately though.. Yes , human excrememnt does carry horrid diseases but chemicals can deal with pretty much all of them. The toxocariasis has a hard outer shell and bleach and other chemicals takes this off but can't destroy the nucleus with the bug in, so actually makes it easier to infect humans. I know there are only a few reported cases of blindness per year but who wants it to be their child?? There was a highly publicised case of it last year where a little girl got it in her eye after falling over in the park..she's now blind in that eye.. Lots more people get it due to touching infected soil/grass but it doesn't always migrate to the eye and cause blindness..but it can.
It may be a bit of a bonkers thing to worry about, i know, but it's something I can't help.

Oddly, if you follow one of the links it says "bag it & bin it".

And that you should try to get your dog to poo in your garden & then "bag & bin" before going out with your dog.

I´m lucky in that where I walk there are quite a few "dog poo bins" so after picking up a poo I don´t have to carry it far.

But on the odd occasion that I take one home it would go in my own outside bin as it is already bagged.

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