To hate 'stick and flick'

[lozster]

A Conservative MP is advocating that owners don't pick up dog poo but instead 'stick and flick' in to undergrowth. This is apparently to avoid plastic poo bag littering. My local forestry commission already have signs advising to do this. Consequently I avoid this area as my toddler loves to run around and pick up sticks. AIBU to want to be able to walk through the countryside with an inquisitive toddler without having to stay exclusively on a path?

There must be such a thing as a compostable poo bag? That would be a win-win. All dog owners should be obliged to use them.

Most poo bags are biodegradable, that's a lot of people's (poor) excuse for throwing them in a tree, but they still take years to do so, and are therefore still litter.

But what about all the ducks and geese, they must shit in the canal?

I haven't done this by the way, just pondered it.

Water fowl's diet will be what can be found in water, so probably not anything that will cause any contamination of the water.

Birds' faeces have a very different composition to mammals'.

Most poo bags are biodegradable, that's a lot of people's (poor) excuse for throwing them in a tree, but they still take years to do so, and are therefore still litter.

Biodegradable plastic never really stops being plastic though. All biodegradable really means is that it breaks down into tiny pieces and stops being a visible problem. Marine life is now being found with guts full of biodegraded plastic.

Semi normal I do use tissues and poo bags I was just trying to agree with the other poster that runny dog poo is normally after the first couple on a long walk

By stick&flickers' logic, anyone can shit in the woods, parks, countryside, and just ensure it's under a bush or at least not on a footpath. Including me, my dh, my dd, our friends, our friend's children including the baby? Just leave a load of shit in the woods? Really?

The point is that we are supposed to be civilised, and our dogs are our responsibility and so we bag up their shit.

Jux "By stick&flickers' logic, anyone can shit in the woods, parks, countryside, and just ensure it's under a bush or at least not on a footpath. Including me, my dh, my dd, our friends, our friend's children including the baby? Just leave a load of shit in the woods? Really?

Well said.

Is this what we are dumbing down to be.

OP returning with a lovely coda. Went for a walk in forestry commission ground with 4 year old. 4 year old got tired so I heaved him on to my shoulders. As he held on with his gloves across my face I innocently asked ‘oh little Loz, your gloves smell of sick why is that?’ Only to realise that wasn’t sick I was smelling but the dog crap caked on his welly, transferred to his glove and now down my coat and face and THIS is why I don’t like stick and flick.

I promise in the long term the plastic poo bags ending up in landfill is more danger to your toddler than the risk of them picking up a poo stick.

Its the shit my dog likes to roll in. Ggggrrrr

I've never heard of it but Thu k it's a good idea.
We once took our dog on an organised ramble and he pooped in the first five minutes . I carried a bag of dog shite for 2 hours ....trudging through cow pats, sheep shit and rabbit droppings ....looking back I was a fool

in a few weeks, everywhere I walk where the sticks flick will be covered in nettles and part of the reason for nettles will be because the soil has been enriched by the nutrients for the dog shit.

You're one of those parents aren't you

Dog shit isn’t part of the forest ecosystem. Anyone who does stick and flick and says it’s ok as rabbits shit there it ridiculous. Dog shit is highly offensive, I’ve chucked shoes because of it. Fucking foul and weird to leave your dogs shit when you could pick up. It seriously limits where I go with my kids. We don’t use the local park because of it. we choose to drive the short distance to the shops so we don’t step in it. People are weird fuckers. Dog walkers use our high street at 6am. Leave their shit for the day’s shoppers to step in. Every time we get out of the car at school, I say watch where you’re waking. What sort of a twat lets their dog shit directly outside a primary school gate and leaves it?