Using a wheelie bin for dog poo - unreasonable?

[Snowballschanceinhell]

I'm willing to be told I'm being unreasonable here. I've just been shouted at by a woman for putting my poo bag (very small, my dog is a pug so doesn't produce much waste!) in her wheelie bin.

I live in a residential area, not many bins on the street, plenty of wheelie bins right next to the pavement (it's not like I walked down her driveway or anything) so I quite often just pop it in the nearest one to me as it saves walking for the next 30 mins holding a bag of shit.

Who is being unreasonable?

I have dogs and I think putting your poo in someone else's bin is disgusting. When I put the poo in my own bin I make sure it's in a sturdier bag or on top of the other rubbish. Otherwise it gets stuck at the bottom of the bin and stinks. I'd be really cross if I had to clean someone else's dog poo from all the way at the bottom of my bin.

A crisp packet maybe, but certainly not poo.

Sorry, I know it's a pain carrying dog poo for long distances but unfortunately it's part of having a dog. More poo bins in some areas would be really useful.

I would be very upset if someone put bagged dog poo in my wheelie bin. The bin men won't take anything that isn't in black bags, so I'd have to take out the dog's bagged poo and put it in a black bag. This would be very unpleasant for me because the smell of dog poo makes me puke. I don't know why, but for some reason I'm sensitive to the smell.

I can't quite believe anyone thinks it's ok to put their dog's poo in someone else's bin. It sort of confirms some of the things I've always suspected about dog owners...

Lots of dog owner have said they wouldn't dream of doing this so you'd more than a little bit silly if the actions of one person confirmed your suspicions about all the millions of dog owners.

Don't you agree?

It sort of confirms some of the things I've always suspected about people called Sorcha..............

how did you get to be so entitled? Really curious.

Massive generalisation their sorcha really, do tell us all the things you've long suspected about dog owners - no wait don't bother because you will be massively unreasonable. Not all dog owners do this, how can you say it confirms what you think cos one person was stupid doesn't mean every one that owns a dog is! It's not pleasant for anyone, dog owners on this thread have been telling the op she was wrong. Then you go and make that remark! And I'm not a dog owner.

Op I think you knew and have now been told you shouldn't have done it, yes you only put one bag but what if every one did, and not just their dog mess but their own rubbish. Sorry it was a private bin you shouldn't have been putting anything in it! (And sorcha, none dog owners can put any type of litter in people's bins would you be saying the same about them)

there not their in the first line!

YABU

Yes it's one bag but if everyone did that one bag then other people's bins would be getting filled before they could even use them.
Particularly bad form in summer when things tend to get stinky anyway.

If there's a shortage of bins at the dogwalkin area email your council. They'll either put a doggy bin there or a normal bin that can be used for your dog bags.

Jesus wept! This is so annoying. It happens to us. One of them can't even be arses putting it in the bin and leaves the bag on top.

Think of it this way...it's not a public bin for a start. And of one person is doing it, other people are. We used to end up with a couple of bags a day. Talking 30 odd bags of other people's dog shit in our bin. It stinks. If there is no problem with it, put it in your own. We now have to have a lock on our bin, so that an come bin day there isn't a hoard of flies round it and an awful smell. I caught the bloke that leaves it on top and he lives round the corner, cheeky twat. He doesn't do now I know who he is, because I told him I will take it back to him. If I wanted dog shit in my bin, I would have a dog myself.

I understand OP you have accepted Yabu. I am talking to the people who think this is ok.

Meh! I can't imagine living in a world where this would bother me in the slightest let alone have me 'fuming'. It's a bin, it's for rubbish.

Not a dog owner but to be honest if my bin was on pavement and somebody popped a wrapped up dog poo in it it wouldn't bother me at all . Could be though that I put my cat litter in mine (in a bin bag and tied up mind) .. I just couldn't get het up over it

The school kids who throw their bottles, chicken boxes etc in my front garden are an entirely different matter !

People are weirdly precious about their bins. I couldn't give a monkeys if someone put rubbish or dog poo in my bin when it was out. Better than it being left on the street.

It's a sodding bin. For rubbish. I cannot bring myself to care about it beyond that.

In your own bin, YANBU.

In someone elses, YABVU.

I wouldn't like it, purely because I would prefer that the bag of poo be inside another bag.

I wouldn't even consider doing this with my dogs poo. Do people actually do that?!

YABVVVVVVU

And I have a big dog who does big poos. I would never dream of putting a bag of poo inside someone else's bin. I don't put poo inside my own bin, I collect it up from the garden and walk to a dog waste bin. The thought of dog poo festering in a bin for two weeks - urrrrgggh.

It's her bin, take the shit home. I don't dump any sort of rubbish in someone else's wheeliebin without permission, and I expect the same from others.

tough, i think you should post a picture of your pristine bin with floral numbers when you get it. Bin Pride!

Of course, Tough. The Wrong Sort of Floral would be an aesthetic disaster :)

Your dog, your poo, take it home and put it in your own bin. It's not as if you are going to struggle to carry it.

saw a dog walker last night and the dog trotting along carrying its own poop bag home in its mouth.

just saying.

Ok, a question on a tangent to this thread...

I walk my dogs up a footpath, along 100yds of very rural main road, then down a lane that leads to a sole house (about 100yds down the lane) and then turns into a bridleway. There are always loads of cans, bottles and wrappers chucked out of cars on the main road. I've got a habit of picking as much as I can up and popping it in the house's bins as I go past (separating the bottles, cans and paper into the correct bins. I hate walking past litter, but I also thought I was doing the house owners a favour cleaning the top of their lane (they mow the verges on it). Now I'm worrying I may be upsetting them if they're particularly bin proud. Would you be ok with this? Would you rather I left the litter all over your lane/ drive? (We don't have the black bag rule here).