To not always pick up dog poo...

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I walk my dog in a very remote, rural area. She is pretty consistent in the general area that she normally goes to toilet on a very old, rarely used lane which is bordered by a massive over grown thicket hedge and woodland. I usually get a stick and knock it into the hedge. No one really walks down here, no one would ever get through that hedge and see it no different than a fox having a poo there - which many do! If I am in a public place, on a public footpath etc of course I'd always pick it up. But picking it up there means carrying smelly poo for three miles home as no bins etc and seems unnecessary
AIBU?

Stick and flick is much better than hanging a poo bag from a hedge/tree/fence and presumably expecting the dogpoo fairy to take it away

Yes you are not exactly leaving it on the street are you but I saw a programme the other day council workers finned a dog owner for letting her dog poop in a bush its a heafty fine

near my dm is a well used wood and they have a stick and flick policy. I don't think that is necessarily a good policy in a well used wood but no doubt they suggest that as they don't want to have to empty a poo bin.

I would like the whole of the UK to introduce a compulsory Microchiping and Dna sample system so that any abandoned dog poo could immediately be traced to the offending dog and owner. With hefty fines attached there would be a dramatic reduction in the amount of dog shit abandoned throughout both cities and countryside.

YABU. Part of having a dog is that you pick up its faeces, and if there are no bins, take them home with you.

Noah no need for poo bins. If you have a dog, bag its shit and take it home with you. In a well used wood the chances of stepping in poo must be very high.

I own a dog and think YABU; I honestly don't think I've ever left her poop anywhere. I walk her twice a day, usually with the DCs; I'd be pretty pissed off if they went tramping through someone else's dog's mess, so wouldn't consider leaving ours. I don't leave the bag in the poop bins, either, it comes home with us and goes in our main bin.

Yanbu. It's the council that fines, not the National Trust

Perhaps the NT needs to rethink its policy. Dog owners not picking up shit means people cannot enjoy walking in woods except on paths. There is also a real risk to farm animals and wildlife from dog shit. Personally I would ban dogs from all farmland (unless they are farmers dogs of course) and wild areas.

If I stick and flicked I would end up with it on me

My children pick sticks up in the woods and play with them.

If it's a well used area (and I know in op's case it isn't, but I don't think I'm going too OT) I should think not picking up could lead to outbreaks of disease among dogs. Again this is a hunch, but it seems feasible that a build up of poo would lead to a build up of nasties, particularly if one small spot is getting used repeatedly.

Do farmers' dogs have different shit then, Anthony? I can think of reasons to ban dogs from farm land but their dangerous shot isn't one of them...
Walking in woodland you are likely to tread on for or badger shit, both of which are easily as vile as dog shit. If it's under a hedge/in a bush I don't really see the issue.

Farmers have maybe a few dogs. If all the walkers did this, it could add up to hundreds of dogs (where I live anyway).

Carrying dog poo around is something you sign up for, when. You get a dog. You can't just leave it lying about. Regardless of where you live

As long as there are no grazing animais in the land as dog poo can be harmful to animais like cows and sheep. We pick up poo on our farm and bury it in an area where the cattle don't graze or where we're not growing food/fruit trees.

They have stick and flick in our local wood and it's fucking disgusting. There are dozens of piles of shit all along the side of the footpath and the sticks used to flick them discarded next to them. It means the woods are essentially unusable for my kids unless we stick right to the middle of the footpath and don't let them pick up any sticks. Which kind of defeats the object of walking in the woods.

If you must flick then please, please throw your stick well into the wood afterwards so my kids don't pick it up

Get yourself a Dicky Bag - insulated so the poop doesn't smell and created for walks where there isn't a poo bin handy.

Anthonyblance.

This wood has a stick and flick policy

YABU and I say that as a dog owner who also walks her dog in quiet rural areas. There is absolutely not one single valid reason not to bag your dog poo and take it away with you. It's part of the deal of being a dog owner. Not wanting to carry it with you for a few miles is no excuse. I use a trailing long line on my dog at the moment as he's still in training. He runs through the undergrowth and I would not appreciate the line being covered in dog shit just because you're too lazy to pick up after your dog.

I think stick 'n flick is ok if there is no chance people will walk where the shit has been flicked.

I hate dog poo and I'm not a dog owner but I've no problem with this.

My dog goes off up an embankment to poo on our normal dog walk.

I don't clamber up there to pick it up. It's remote and no one goes up there.

Someone tell me that I should?!

Pretty consistent: so not all
normally goes to toilet" so not all the time
usually get a stick" when you feel like it
No-one really walks down here: your own private walk, eh?
if I am in a public space : so when you can be seen being a feckless lazy-arsed dog owner.
Carrying smelly poo for threes miles: your dog's arse, your problem.

YABU and a fucking disgrace.

I am not a dog person, but have dog and would never in a million years ever not pick up after it.

If you are on the verge of a lane, path or road - regardless of how quiet it is - someone still has to maintain those borders. Can you imagine how pleasant it is for the council employee, landowner, NT employee or contractor when their strimmer/brushcutter hits the poo that has been flicked under the hedge? I know someone who used to do that job and they regularly ended up covered in dog faeces while working.

I'm a dog owner too, and if we're in the middle of the woods or a big Forestry Commission area that we often use, and the dogs go way off into the undergrowth that's one thing, but verges/borders on a lane or path aren't the same.