I live in the midst of a big public park and, seeing that the guy who had just parked his car and got out with his 2 dogs was walking away into the distance while his dog relieved himself, I had an internal debate about just leaving it (first time I'd ever been out jogging - trying to help the stress levels!) but decided to be proactive and called to him to point out what he'd 'missed'.
He started spouting loads of stuff about how, as it was a country area, it was ok for dog poo to be just left (this was right by a road that people walking through the park always walk on - themselves with buggies on the road, their kids romping along the grassy verge - just where the the dog had gone), how cow and sheep poo were 'part of the countryside too', how if I wanted to campaign against something then I should focus on the plastic bags full of dog poo that people abandon and which take 15 years to biodegrade and to "stop urbanising our country"!. While this was going on his other dog also had a large crap about 3 feet from where the other one went, while he carried on justifying why it's ok to just use an area where kids play, families barbecue, fun runs take place etc as his dog's personal toilet. When I asked him if it would be ok for me to bring my dog to crap outside his house he sneeringly told me of course not because he lives in a town and that's what the country exists for . . .
I am just still cross about the whole thing and though I didn't at the time get all officious - part of me wishes I'd taken his numberplate and threatened to 'report' him (though not sure to who??) - at least it might have meant he'd been a bit more aware in future. I'm so sick of dog poo being a permanent addition to any walk - the pram wheels are always smeared with it, my older son's shoes are encrusted with it and I have to helicopter around the toddler to ensure that hands that have made contact don't go in the mouth . . .
Needed to rant, it's been on my mind all day - AIBU?