Sometimes there is a genuine reason not to pick up dog poo...

[Griffineater]

AIBU in thinking this? But it did occur to me the other day as I was walking to work and narrowly avoided a dog turd, that sometimes some people might not actually be able to pick up dog poo. What if they are blind or partially sighed for instance or a wheel chair user with a severe disability and physically therefore unable to do it? I feel really bad now for inwardly cursing all the irresponsible dog owners when really some of the dog poos might have been left because of these kind of owners. Opinions please!

Is that "staff" as in Staffordshire Bull Terrier?

I have a rejected guide dog & he will poo if we tell him to go busy. He was never a fully trained guide dog & we rehomed him 8 years ago but he still recognises this command. Very few guide/assistance dogs will crap in the street & if they do then this is the only time not cleaning up after your dog is acceptable! Agree with pp that only selfish people leave it for others to step in.

YABU - there are poop scoopers with long handles available.

On a side note, why does someone go to the length of actually picking the poo up and bagging it then throwing the bag into the trees/on the path - they've done the hard part, surely.
Hate dog poo trees and hate having to do a dog poo slalom on the school run and seriously doubt due to the sheer amount of it that it's blind people leaving it everywhere unless i've missed the disproportionate of blind dog owners where I live so I will carry on being annoyed.

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combine as I've said on other dog poo threads, it is normally naughty school boys(and maybe girls though I've never seen them) that throw dog poo in trees. They get it out of the bins and throw it at each other like a snow ball fight only with dog poo. It's gross.

Is the reason that the dog owners like to see small children run it down the street, into school or back home? It makes them v proud.

Most people who don't pick up dog poo are just plain ignorant.

I must be incredibly lucky because I seem to be the only person on mn who lives in a place where the paths are not dog poo laden. I live in a smallish village which is very rural, loads of dogs, horses, sheep etc. but no dog poo on the school run/walks. Thank heavens for lovely villagers and plentiful dog poo bins!

Ahh-that sort of makes sense now needabum , I just didn't understand it at all

Really LOLd at training staff to shit in the garden

we manage to train our staff to shit in the garden

Sounds like a whole different thread :o

he only time i dont pick up dogshit is if we are in the countryside where there are no dog shit bins. I may use a stick to fling it into undergrowth or a bush or something

I walked in a nature park once which had posters up encouraging people to "stick and flick" rather than pick up with bags. Can't get my head round that to be honest. Guess less plastic bags is more environmentally friendly?

I would have sympathy for someone who had developed mobility problems some years after getting their dog, but the dog poo on the streets has very little to do with people with disabilities. I've seen a lot of fuckers in the act of just leaving it behind them, and I cannot believe that they all had invisible disabilities that meant they walked easily without any apparent discomfort, but couldn't scoop.

wheel chair user with a severe disability and physically therefore unable to do it

It won't be a wheelchair user. Wheelchair users suffer worse from dog mess. Imagine for a moment being in a hand wheelchair, like this, having just accidentally gone through a pile of it. It goes all over your hands as you turn the wheels. It's a lot harder to avoid if you're in a wheelchair, too.

Have a proper think about that. If you're out on your own, you have to touch those wheels to get back.

And even if you're in a powered wheelchair, and don't have to turn the wheels by hand, it's still worse for you than a ordinary pedestrian, because ordinary walking folk can leave their filthy shoes outside or on the mat. Wheelchair users sometimes need their chairs to go round their own house. So they're going to have to somehow scrub those wheels or find someone who can, or accept spreading dog mess over the floor.

See I will bag up even if no bins. I just carry the bag until we get to the car and then take it home with me and bin it there.

If they arent fit to lift dog poo they shouldnt own a dog then.
I live just a short walk from town on a dangerous hill with a very narrow footpath.....every single morning i go to walk ds to school it is absolutely covered in dog poo....meaning having to step off the narrow footpath onto a dangerous road to walk past it all to avoid ds standing in it

Dont be trying to tell me that all these piles, some mornings more than 10 in about 200 steps, belong to dogs of people with disabilities !

I walked down one day to a friends across the road to go out for the day put my ds in the car at her house and then thought he was covered in chocolate it was on his hands face and jeans ....turns out no it was actualy dog poo that was on his shoe and the way he had climbed into his car seat he had got it on his hands and was then covered in it...had to take him home and give him a scrub and change his clothes before we went anywhere...never mind how unsafe it was for him to have it on his face....all because some irresponsible dog owner couldnt spend a few seconds lifting the poo.
I think there should be heavier penalties for this and also for the penalities to be enforced !

It's disgusting. I actually retch if I see it and the thought of kids throwing it around makes me feel sick.

I had wondered about guide dogs though.

must go - feeling queasy

I don't always pick up after my dog, sometimes he sticks his arse right over brambles or backs right into long grass. I don't pick up then, I'd get scratched to bits in the brambles and it's almost impossible to find poo that's at the bottom of long grass and I am not getting my arm covered in poo either!

He once pooed right on top of a thistle. I didn't realise until I was prickled through the bag. That was fun

I just carry the bag until we get to the car and then take it home with me and bin it there.

Viva Just remember to take out of the car. I couldn't work out what the vile smell was in the car for at least a week, so took it to get cleaned. The cleaners found a bag of poo under the back of the driver's seat, that one of my boys had put there one day and forgot to lift it.

I'm a guide dog owner & part of our training with the dogs is about clearing up behind them! They go on command in a specially allocated area of the garden and when out if they need to go they take you to the gutter rather than doing it in the middle of the pavement. Boy dogs are trained to see like girls so we can tell what it is the dog is doing (flat back a wee, hunch back a poo!)

I can say, hand on heart I've only not picked up after my dog in public a couple of times, when I've 'lost' the poo(!) I couldn't find it after he'd been & when he's had issues and it was a brown water deal!

Most guide dog owners do their utmost to pick up... We know how hideous it is to tread in it or roll a white cane through it! ??

staywithme. I actually tie the bag to the tow bar ball. I have however been known to drive round for a few weeks with a bag of poo swinging off the back of the car!

I'm physically disabled and in a wheelchair, I have dogs (that I had before I became disabled)

But it's no excuse for me not to clear up dog poo. It hasn't always been easy and I miss out on a lot of dog walks because of it but better that than leaving dog shit everywhere

And yes getting my hands covered in dog poo whilst out with nowhere to clean up has brought me to tears more than once, thanks so much for that post spin- very well said

Strangely the visually impaired people I know are vehemently against dog shit on the pavements. Can't believe many wheelchair users like to be used as an excuse by people who can't be arsed to clear it up either.