Dog Poo on the walk to school is getting ridiculous!

[OhJustPassTheCake]

AIBU to want to personally "police" the dog walkers in our area to make them pick up poo on the goddamn PATH TO SCHOOL!!!???

We live in a very child friendly area, lots of playgrounds and green spaces but the path to school runs right along a playing field (which clearly states that dogs should be kept on leads at all times, but this is massively ignored). Dog walkers actually congregate on the playing field and there is literally dog sh** everywhere, we have to dodge it every single morning.

There is an alternative way to school but it involves roads, which the playing field way doesn't, plus, I don't see why we shouldn't take our chosen way to school just because of in-considerate dog owners!

Any advice welcome on what we could do about this?? I contemplated some bright coloured chalk drawn around all the sh** on the paths to draw attention to it but also to guilt owners into picking it up, but can't say I'm keen on getting close enough to draw around it!

It's awful where we live too at the seaside. At Christmas you could not walk in a straight line on the Promenade as there was so much of it to dodge.

The council here are trying to restrict areas that dogs can go in but the local dog owners have had all sorts of protests because, of course, it is never their dog. These owners say they clean up after their dog every time sothe whole problem is down to these mythical irresponsible owners

There are always poo baubles hanging on the trees around the bloody dog waste bin at my local park. Dirty gits.

A few weeks ago my baby would only sleep if being pushed in her pram.I was going out multiple times a day, and no matter how much slaloming I did I would still end up with poo on my pram. The worst one was when the poo got into my brake mechanism and I still don't know if I got it all out :(

It's the same where we are (Lancashire). Our street in particular is disgusting, I counted 19 lots of dog shit in about 250 yards the other day. There was a letter in the local paper last week that referred to our street as 'Dog Poo Lane'. Lovely.

My kids' school is in a nicer area, but still there are regular piles of crap all over the pavement outside school, and all over the park opposite (no dogs even allowed in there!). I spend my life shouting 'Watch out for the poo!' - my kids think I have issues about this!

I think I'm going to do what my friend suggested and put signs up outside claiming to have CCTV so clean up after your dog. She says that worked on her street, but I'm not so sure it will here. I have actually followed people up the road saying 'Excuse me, you need to pick that up please', but got a load of sweary abuse in response. One woman squared up to me and threatened to knock my teeth out when I pointed out she'd left shit everywhere. Not sure what can be done if the council can't sit there 24/7 to catch people.

Same on my school run. Dodge the dog shit. I can't let toddler walk because it's just everywhere.

YANBU. I have severe OCD so couldn't pick up dog crap even with gloves on and a poo bag because i'd feel completely contaminated in germs, so guess what, as much as i want and would love one, i didn't (and won't) get a dog!
It's part and parcel of dog ownership, if you're going to let it out in public places, you accompany and clean up after it. If it shit in your house/garden you wouldn't just leave it because you don't want it there, same goes for outdoors, nobody wants it there, you bloody well clean it up! I'd love it if the council employed people as "dog poo wardens" for want of a better name, who patrol and fine on the spot for owners who don't pick up/have provisions to clean up after their dog, or if the dog is wandering alone, and it can be done safely, capture the dog and temporarily hold it til it is claimed and fine the owner for the fouling as well as a holding fee for picking the dog up. If nobody collects the dog, put it up for adoption as a stray.