Bagged dog poo hanging from various branches in parks.

[captainfarrell]

I keep seeing this and think AIBU to wonder why someone would bother to clean up after their dog and then tie the plastic bagged poo to a tree or fence. Wouldn't it be better to let the dog mess in an overgrown area where it can biodegrade? Surely leaving it in a bag means it won't breakdown. Am I missing something?

I don't understand why anyone would do this.

I have literally never seen a poo bag hanging in a tree here (Australia). I seem to live in a dog-heavy area, and have a dog myself. I almost never see poo on the ground either.

You lot must be filthy.

Horse poo isn't the same at all.

As a Gardner if hardly bag up dog shit and put it all over my roses.

I'd

Horse poo has never really bothered me. I suppose if you get a lot in your area it would be annoying to step over huge piles of steaming dung . Now that would be one humungous shit tree covered in bin bags of horse poo!!

I've just started doing this
My friend and I walk through woods and farmland where there are no bins. My dog without fail poos 5 minutes into a 2 hour walk so I leave the bag hidden and collect it on the way back. Disclaimer I wouldn't do this in a park or where there are people about as I think it looks horrible. We never meet anyone so that is my justification.

There was a bag just down the way from us that was there for over 2 years.... hanging from a substation fence, just out of reach for anyone to get it down. Who ever put the poo in the bag and threw it over the fence from the path had no intention of picking it up on the way home.

I use nappy sacks and do the turning inside out thing and tie the handles.

I have only hung the poo once on a tree and did go back for it (honest!) at the end of the walk. We took on a rescue collie who was a poo eater. Yuk! He would eat his own poo and any other poo he saw. He thought the poo bag I carried full of his poo was meals on wheels. He is out of that habit now and has been for many years, probably due to a better diet, it only lasted 6 months or so when we first had him. I still remember the awful guilt of hanging the poo on a tree branch so I could pick it up on the way back and put it in the poo bin by the forest walk entrance, which, of course, was always miles from where he poo'd.
I found out recently that if you double wrap dog poo it can go in normal public bins like those outside supermarkets and in streets (not ideal and I have done this furtively so as not to make others hawk with it being so near food when I use the Tesco express bin).
Having had children and now grandchildren, I am so anti poo on streets and on walks that my dh gets both barrels of my frustration if I see unpicked up dog poo. So many times I have had to scrape it off little shoes or out of bike tyres or pram wheels.
People have babies and nappies go in the bin. People have dogs so poo goes in a poo bin.
Off the soap box now! (This is just a taster of what dh gets!)

I walked around Kensington / Chelsea last year and was revolted by piles of poo bags left on the pavements next to lamp posts and people's front gates. I've never seen it anywhere else, so I guess it's a thing round there. I don't care if people collect it later (although I suspect that most of them don't get picked up until the poor street cleaners come by and have to deal with it...); the fact that you're going to pick it up an hour later makes no difference to me as I steer my child around the bags. Filthy habit

My sister had an inspection at work. There was an awful smell throughout the facility and she hopes that the inspector didn't notice.

At the end if the visit the inspector thanks her then fishes a used, rolled up nappy from her pocket and says 'can you bin this for me?'

Thanks to those confessing that they do this. But why can't you just take it with you?Maybe just wear a double bagged rucksack or something and zip it away.

I don't get it at all.

I've got a little bag that you put your bags of shit in, that folds down to ensure it doesn't smell. It was about a tenner and we use it on long walks with no bins. Easily fits 3 shits each for 2 big dogs in it.

However, new lab has somehow trained himself to shit near the bin - there's 3 bins on our usual walk and he - very kindly - shits within 5m of them. Maybe it's the smell, he smells shit so thinks 'oh that's a good idea'. Or am I giving him too much credit?

Dog poo is massively offensive - whether left on the pavement (only total scum would do this, surely?) or hung on a tree like a rancid bauble.

I know cat poo isn't exactly delightful, but, in defence of cat-owners, when's the last time you actually had to dodge cat poo? If they won't go in a litter tray, they do tend to hide their poo - whereas you will regularly find dog crap right in the middle of the pavement. Plus, dogs are taken to very child-friendly places like parks with big fields, and the owners let them run round and pretend not to notice that they're doing a huge shit right in the middle of the field (I've seen this recently).

mard Damn it I was gearing up for dragons' den with my little poo bag!

hung on a tree like a rancid bauble.

Couldn't have put it better.

Mard can you give more info on the small bag that holds the bagged poo? I have never seen one of those and would like one.

Once I put a filled poo bag on our car's tow bar and we drove home quite a few miles after I forgot I did that. It arrived home safely (amazingly!) and I was able to put it in our wheelie bin. It must have raised a few laughs bobbing around on the tow bar all the way home.

The confessions are coming out now!

I hate this! We have lots of rotting plastic bags dotted around, at least exposed poo can be washed away 💩 Always wondered why people did this

rancid bauble lol

I and my children have to dodge cat poo in my garden every morning merchant

Not ours I hasten to add

S a dog owner, that is one of my bug bears too. I've seen it a lot where I live. Just carry the bag and dispose of later.

Where's the poster who hangs her bags of dog shit from the car tow thing?

My garden has one place suitable for growing veg. Unfortunately the next door neighbours cat also buries it's poo, in my veg patch, every fucking day. I have given up growing veg now, it was more stress than it was worth.

I seem to be lucky with the cats in my area. they like to sit in my garden and lie in the sun but don't poo in it, not where I can se anyway. Is it true that they don't poo and relax in the same place? If so, I drew the lucky straw!

Yanbu both cat and dog poo. Cant see why owners cant be responsible for their pets. In the case of op what in earth is the point of making a poo tree. Its not a new holiday, special event is it. Very strange. At the moment im waging war on a cat who taken to pooing and weeing in our garden. Its grim! 'Move it' seems to be working at the moment.