Not picking dog poo is not as bad as throwing poo bags into bushes

[DogCalledRudis]

Or worse... Somebody's hedge.
At least poo washes down in the rain, bags don't.

totally agree; or the people who hang the bags of poo off trees

Both are disgusting and anyone who does either should have their dogs taken from them

I find both equally disgusting personally. At least in a bag I can't tread in it but if you've gone to the effort to pick it up bloody bin it FGS.

Makes me wonder -- why bother picking if you intend on littering? I just dont see logic. Poo is at least more "environmentally friendly" than a plastic bag

Aren't poo bags degradeable?

I agree. I hate to see a poo bag hanging on a tree.

And what I just don't understand at all - surely picking the poo up and getting it in to the bag in the first place must be the most disagreeable part of the process; carrying it home or to the bin after that is only a minor inconvenience. So why on earth would anyone take the trouble to bag it and then leave it?

I see this everyday while out with the dog, I always pick them up as I just can't bear the littering.

There's also people who hang the full poo bags from the trees like shitty Christmas decorations boak

I do sometimes discreetly leave them to pick up on the way home but to permanently leave them is yucky. There was one dangling right at head height by the footpath I use today! Marginally better than treading in it though.

The purple one that was hanging high on a bank of blackthorn on one of my regular routes took over three years to disintegrate - not very biodegradable!

My poo bags are biodegradable but never chuck them in bushes. They go into special poo containers.

Not only do I get lumber aches and pains bending down to pick the poo up, but a few days ago after doing my duty I trod and nearly slipped on another person's dog's poo which had been left in the middle of the narrow track

The problem is that dog poo isn't really that biodegradable, otherwise we could just put it on our gardens like horse manure and you can't. It hangs around for ages because the meat content means it doesn't break down that easily.

I think both are equally disgusting. Don't get a dog if you can't deal with poo properly.

Completely agree - what goes on the minds of people who do this?

Dog shit on the ground is revolting but there's a lot of little creatures out there waiting to break it down.

yanbu

I just don't understand why someone would bother picking it up just to abandon them at the side of the path. Also, what is it with people hanging the bags on trees? It's beyond vile!

I just wondered because I always make a point of buying degradeable ones so when the bin is collected it might have started to break down and make it easier to dispose of.

I don't chuck them in the undergrowth as always think what if it landed on a mouses head or something, but if the bags aren't going to disintegrate, I'll just buy the cheaper ones.

I find that a hot bag dangling in a bush filled with liquifying dog poo just as disgusting as the naked sort, merely easier to deal with much of the time.
I remember dd climbing into the pushchair with poo on her shoes, and in the process managing to get it on the pushchair, up her legs, on her hands and on her face and hair.

Don't leave anything on the paths that you wouldn't be happy to recieve back through the letterbox is a good rule to work by.

From a personal perspective, I would rather it was contained and not nestling in a patch of long grass where my toddler or I could easily put my flip flop clad foot into it, but from a planetary perspective it's a pointlessly polluting act not to put the bag in the big and therefore worse for the bigger picture.