To think picking up dog mess isn't enough?

[DoggyPoo]

I've name changed even though this is a genuine question (expect a lot of flaming but want to return IYSWIM).

Why do dogs have to shit on the pavement? Even when it's picked up it leaves a horrible shitty streak. I know the dogs diet/age will have a lot to do with this but if your pushing a buggy or using a mobility chair it's really hard to avoid.

Why can't dog owners make them "park it" in the gutter? You'd still need to clean up but shitty streaks wouldn't be a concern.

Where I live there a quite a few dogs so lots of turds. Even the owners who pick up still leave a nasty calling card and I have to take my buggy into my flat (I can't leave it anywhere else).

I don't expect pavements to be my personal red carpet but surely dog owners can see that their mess lingers so to do it in the gutter would be better?

Or...

AIBU?

Are you going to insist we wash away dog wee as well?

I personally carry around a wet wipe to make sure no hint of my dog's effluent remains.

Not really.

He is neurotic and is only able to go in the garden. A bit like me.

Merde!

What do you expect them to do? Take some dettol and a cloth out with them? Perhaps some zoflora and a bucket of water?

There's only so much that can be done. Have you ever tried getting a big dog to move mid shit? It doesn't happen.

You can't always get them to go in the gutter and surely they'd just make more mess going right across the path if you make them move mid -motion IYSWIM

Sadly, dogs can't tell you they are about to have a crap. So you cannot 'park' them somewhere convenient. You don't tend to get advance warning.
Unless you suggest we walk them in the gutter?

The pavements are covered in human, animal, bird and insect excrement, urine, vomit, spit and other unmentionable secretions.

Unless you thoroughly wash and disinfect your pram wheels after every journey then they are minging. There is nothing you can do about it, sorry.

Don't be daft Clouds, a cloth and dettol won't do the job. I usually take one of these and some Jeyes Fluid.

I agree with you in principle, and if you have a dog from a pup you may be able to train it to do that. My last lab we rehomed at age 4 & it was clear from the first time he buried himself in a bush that he had been trained to do that.

However if the dog has always just gone where it wants or if the owner can't predict when it is going to squat (some dogs, like humans are regular as clockwork others not) it's difficult to control.

Just be grateful some folks round you pick the main turds up, many don't do even that!

Feed them on a raw diet and no more streaky sloppy shits.

Mine occasionally produce no more than a puff of chalk dust.

-pffft-

Just like that.

I understand the sentiment op, however as a dog owner who picks up their dogs shit, what should I do? I cant stop a 50kg rottie shitting If she has to go she has to go. I use jays fluid in my garden to stop the smell, I cant take frowniepooch for a walk with a scrubbing brush and a jays fluid mix in a bucket.

Most of the time she does good solid poo's, but sometimes they are runny. Shit happens

You can train dogs to only go in the gutter actually. My mum always does this with her dogs.

PandaOnAPushBike I'm very pleased you take your duties as a dog owner so seriously. You could also use it to give your dog's bottom a quick wash after he's finished.

Interesting - I often wonder this as i try and scrape my dogs shit off the floor on the occasion he doesn't go in the edge. Then its awkward trying to GET to the shit - can't win for losing!

Interestingly, when i was younger, the campaign and law was "kerb your dog" as in, make it go in the road, by the kerb, you didnt have to pick up. so with that in mind, YANBU - however it IS unreasonable to expect someone to be bent down on the ROAD trying to pick up dogshit, that would be dangerous.

Birds shit on the pavements you know. They're not the most hygienic of places.

I don't see that much dog shit streaks round here at all. I think the frequent rain does a good job of washing any away. Plus most dogs will shot on verges given the choice.

But then I live in a village with lots of grass verges, I guess in a city there may be more shit on the pavements.

Barbara Woodhouse was very big on training dogs to 'go' off-pavement, in the gutter.

I tried that once MsVestibule but he hasn't walked right ever since.

I think the favoured command was 'Busy!'

If anyone tried to move me off the throne mid shit and directed me to crap in the sink or the bath there's no way I could halt peristalsis until I got there.

I remember very clearly that my nan thought she'd moved to a posh area as the dog turds were all in the gutter not on the pavement.

LtEveDallas

Maybe round your way but it's naice here

Seriously though, can't dogs be trained to do this? I'm sure seeing eye dogs can?

Seriously OP, I do think you have a point. Thirty years ago, I don't think picking up one's dogs poos was The Done Thing, but it's changed a lot since then.

Give it another 30 years, and perhaps everybody will be expected to train their dogs to go in the gutter?

toboldlygo

love it!

My dog often craps without warning so directing him into the gutter is a no no. I'm sick of this dog bashing. I was out in the country the other day, well off the beaten track, and my dog had a crap in some muddy hedge row. Some guy with his family started moaning -despite the fact that it was on a patch of land that would never be walked on and would be eaten by foxes. Suffice to say, I gave him short shrift and the middle finger