Am I being 'disgusting' for letting my dog pee and poo out of my garden?

[LST]

As, according to a woman I've just past on my wall with my dog I am

He wee'd up a lamp post and pooed on the grass, but I did pick it up!! She tutted me and told me he should be better trained?

Just thought I'd give it to mn! AIBD??

[pieinthesky123]

There is nothing more disgusting than removing a large ball of green human phlegm off a fluffy puppy paw after a walk.
It was the worst experience imaginable and much worse than scraping dog poo off a shoe. I always pick up after my dogs but have had three incidents of abuse from dog haters in the last month. Do they abuse people who close up one nostril to blow snot onto pavements and who do throaty sniffs to gather up phlegm to spit onto pavements too because that is equally disgusting.

[paxtecum]

I sometimes wonder how people manage to wipe their own 'disgusting' poo off their own bums.

Dog wee is a lot less offensive than pissed up peoples' wee that seems to be in every city recess every weekend if not every night.

Don't ever go in the lorry parks at motorway services. The amount of human excrement lying around there is quite shocking.

[SnakeyMcBadass]

I didn't realise that anyone would find dogs peeing on lampposts an issue tbh. The dog pees, it rains. Pee washes away. I quite happily hang about on walks while my dogs sniff and reply to weemails. It's an important part of a dogs communication. I'd be pissed off if someone came onto my property to let their dog piss, but lampposts and communal trees? Equivalent of the water cooler at work. I save my ire for the filthy bastards that leave dog poo on paths or inexplicably pick it up, and hand the bag somewhere like a Christmas bauble. I personally find cat wee more offensive, and one neighbourhood cat has taken to peeing on my garage door. It reeks. But, cats

[LST]

Wow I am absolutely gobsmacked I just thought this woman was a bit batshit but obviously she isn't alone.

I apologise for being such a disgusting human being....

[LST]

Where sells dog nappies?? My ddog being a boy rarely actually poos outside the house but he does like too wee. I very much doubt you can stop instinct...

And for the record my dog is extremely obedient!

[HeffalumpsnWoozles]

I'm crying with laughter at some of the comments on here. OP YANBU! What about rat/mouse wee & poo? Foxes, birds, even flies that land on food & then basically throw up on it? Do people really believe the pavements would be sterile if it wasn't for dog pee

[queenofwesteros]

Heffa I'm crying right along with you
Boys that's the best response yet. I've owned dogs for 35 out of my 44 years, I currently have 3 and I've never EVER experienced in real life the level of vitriol against dog owners that we get on MN. Some of the responses here are just utterly batshit.
You cannot "train" a dog to pee on command wherever YOU want it to. They use their pee as a form of communication, surely even someone with only a rudimentary understanding of animal behaviour knows that!
And as for dog nappies

[GreeboOgg]

TBF I have seen otherwise sane people suggest nappies for horses, on account of there occasionally being horse poo on country roads. Once it gets to that point there's not much to do other than nod along and hope they stop speaking to you soon.

[LST]

I thought there would be unanimous YANBU. But no. My poor dog will have to tie his willy in a knot.

This woman was the first person that I have ever met to have an issue with dogs.

DP is in hysterics at some of these responses. It's just a bit surreal to me...

[SignYourName]

"And here we are privileged to see a gathering - a "frothing", if you will - of the species Mumsnettus anti-canem. Rarely seen in the wild, their natural habitat having been over-run with normal people, they have adapted to a shy, online existence. Their cry of "YABU" is triggered by mention of anything canine-related. The cry reaches a particular pitch of excitability when exposed to discussion of dog urine or faeces, which seems rather ironic since one would expect them to be more naturally drawn to...batshit."

[GreeboOgg]

SignYourName that's brilliant

[LST]

Signyourname you've just made me spray cider all over my dog.

[WatchingSeaMonkeys]

YANBU at all.

Our dog hates pooing in our garden & will hop around until we take him out. I pick every last speck up and, TBH, I find littering a more prevalent and nasty human habit.

I'm absolutely hoping that some numpty like evalyn or some other nutter will approach me now as I shall have such fun with them!!

[evalyn]

WatchingSeaMonkeys: "I'm absolutely hoping that some numpty like evalyn or some other nutter will approach me now as I shall have such fun with them!!"

Ha! Well, glad to have made an impression; meeting is probably unlikely, but at least eagerly anticipated on both sides.

Thing is, monkey & co., take a look at yourselves. You've found here on MN that there are some people with a whole different view - very unexpected, it seems, to some of you - about dogs, shit, piss and the public domain. Does finding out that other people don't share your sensibilities give you any pause for thought? No. It's sad, but, no. You're just confirmed in your hitherto-unchallenged and unreasoned dogma.

As for the kinds of responses - talk of wild animals and other blank non-sequiturs alternate with abuse and ridicule of a point of view you just don't understand and arguments for that point of view you seem wholly unable to grasp, much less respond to in anything approaching a reasonable fashion.

Someone disagrees with you? Never mind what they say in support, ignore it and call them names. That'll do nicely.

Oh, well, tant pis.

"O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!"

MN certainly has no such Pow'r.

[LST]

But seriously.... why does dog wee bother you??? We've had shite loads of rain.. it's gone. My dog pooing is exempt as I pick it up but wee? Seriously!

[SignYourName]

There's having a different POV - interesting, stimulating, thought-provoking - and then there's being so hung up on an issue as to appear borderline (or worse) irrational.

A wide variety of animals pee in what we think of as "in public". An even wider variety of substances, some of them human in origin, are also to be found in public spaces. Dog urine is probably one of the least noxious, given that the fluid intake of the vast majority of dogs is 100% water, and in the UK rain-prone climate is one of the most easily and most frequently washed away.

So why do certain people get so hung up on dogs peeing? Is it because they see it happening where they are less likely to see wild animals in the act of evacuation / people vomiting / sex acts (human and animal) and all the other things that make up the invisible layer of "stuff" we encounter every day? Is it because they automatically associate urine with "being dirty" (it's a sterile substance at the point it leaves the body)? Or is it yet another stick to beat all dog owners with because they don't like dogs / had an unfortunate encounter with an irresponsible dog owner once and now tar all with the same brush / don't understand, or want to, dog behaviour, instinct and what can and can't be trained?

[Icimoi]

evalyn, the problem is that you seem unable to explain your point of view, and you are certainly unwilling to consider any alternative. Your posts come down to saying little more than "dog pee is disgusting" whilst wholly refusing to engage with any alternative view.

It does amaze me how some MNers have such massive hang-ups about poo, pee and dirt. By definition the majority of people round here have changed hundreds, and probably thousands of nappies, have wiped dirty bums, mopped up vomit, wiped dirty noses, washed pooey clothes, and generally coped with all the filth children can bring into their lives. Yet the thought of a bit of extra water-based wee in a filthy street which will be washed away by rain makes them go "Ew! Disgusting!"

[Hillbilly71]

Yanbu but if I have a dog I would like to train it so it will go on command like guide dog trainers train their dogs to.

[cindydog]

YABU , You should have power hosed the spot where your dog peed and then wiped it down with Jeyes fluid.( if I knew how to insert grin smiley ,it would be here)
Stupid woman probably has 6 cats that piss and shit everywhere .

[GreeboOgg]

From dog pee to solemn Robert Burns quotes in 3 short pages. Excellent.

[Zucker]

Tell me this isn't true....People down at a dogs bum, while he squats to do a poo, with a bag to catch the poo before it hits the ground.

NOoooope, people can't be doing that are they?

[Staywithme]

^Tell me this isn't true....People down at a dogs bum, while he squats to do a poo, with a bag to catch the poo before it hits the ground.

NOoooope, people can't be doing that are they?^

Haha Zucker. Let's hope the dog never has a runny one!

[SignYourName]

My dog "travels" while he poos. If I could keep up with him and catch it before it hits the ground, I'd deserve a call-up to the England cricket team.

Since I'm not a contortionist I'll stick to walking sedately behind him and picking it up just after it lands.