My son shat by the footpath.

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He said he was going for a wee, on our twenty minute walk home from school. He went behind a bush next to the footpath. When I went to pull his trousers up the evidence was there to see (and smell). He proclaimed innocence to start with and then giggled uncontrollably all the way home.

I usually have poo bags with me but I'd left the dog at home and hadn't considered I'd need them for walking a five year old. So I had to leave it.

We scarpered down the path and I think we got away with it, but I am mortified.

Should I have gone back to clean it up? I considered it but then, erm, didn't. I'm now feeling a bit guilty.

How bad is this? Please tell me your children are as gross as mine!

My dog is tiny and does the smallest poos in the world. Ds's was HUGE by comparison.

I kicked some leaves over it and we legged it out of there.

Now that would get confusing if you were using the Bristol Stool Chart (type 4).

Imagine how much easier life would be if digestive systems worked so that it only took one word and your bowels spontaneously evacuated.

God can you imagine the hideous Pavlovian response if you inadvertently heard someone say the trigger word.....

I'm doubting any of you have IBS; when shit happens, there's no stopping it . My son once had to guard me while the world fell out of my rear and under a bush. It was probably the most scared and desperate I've ever felt in a public picnic area (I did run as deep as possible into the woods).

I found a stick to dig a hole and bury it though. And I didn't giggle all the way home (on my bike)- I cried.

Someone took a shit in a display toilet at the local homebase.

I saw signs up everywhere in Next the other weekend saying "Display toilet only" and couldn't understand why anyone would think "oh how convinent a public convenience in the middle of this very brightly lit room"

Now I know... I also know WAY more than I ever needed to know about dogs eating poo

NavyandWhite

How do people know the difference of a human and a dog shit?

The shitty loo paper by the side of the turd tends to alert me to the fact it's probably not dog mess. Unless other dogs are cleverer than mine.

Exactly. So I suspect it's a regular occurrence and those people ought to carry poo bags.

I think being a shitting deviant sounds far more exciting than IBS...

soupy is a regular.

That "a" makes all the difference on a thread like this.

The poo I see is in the hills/mountains when out hill walking. So I suspect it's to do with being nowhere near a toilet for hours and hours.

Thankfully I never get the urge to have a poo when away from civilisation.

at posters with children who have never had an accident. Go back and clean it op but I don't see why it's an issue that you weren't carrying poo bags in case your kid did a shit in the plan. Hardly expected.

Someone took a shit in a display toilet at the local homebase. At least where your DC shat it will wash away eventually

My niece did this when she was graduating from the potty. When I first mentioned it on here lots of people piled in to say my SIL must have let her do it. She didn't and she's not a neglectful mum either - my niece was out of sight for a few moments and must be a speed shitter. She only knew when my niece proudly announced she'd done a poo in the big girls' toilet and wanted to show her.

SIL scarpered from the shop. She regrets that but she's easily embarrassed and couldn't face owning up. Otherwise she's very nice. I bet you'd all like her.

If my dog was around he would have eaten it (sorry - gross I know but he eats all kinds of poo).

It's biodegradable and it's in a bush. Why are people getting so worked up?

Other children as gross as yours?? You were the one who left it on the ground for someone else to walk in. It's not in a fucking bush, how could it be???
It's just as gruesome as the gobshites who don't pick up their dog's shit.

And as for your comments about being fairly well to do, op... Are you serious? Finest example yet of money not being able to buy class.

Yes this has.happened to us. If a 5 year old needs to go they need to go, we went behind a tree in a place no one would be likely to walk and covered with leaves. I had no idea people would think that was such a big deal.

DP came home the other day to say he had a shit in a field at work (farmer). He was chuffed to bits because he knew he had a half an hour wait for the next trailer so had time to find a good spot, and he said it was the best outdoor poo he'd ever had. I was genuinely pleased for him.

He was chuffed to bits because he knew he had a half an hour wait for the next trailer so had time to find a good spot, and he said it was the best outdoor poo he'd ever had. I was genuinely pleased for him.

LOL!

I remember a quote from someone way back that went along the lines of "there's nothing so overrated as a bad shag, and nothing so underrated as a good shit"

I live by that mantra .

I quite agree crazy

No ones likely to walk in it. It's a footpath with woods either side, DS went behind some shrubbery, well off the path and not somewhere you'd walk. Well, unless you were a small child going for a wee, I suppose.