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Dog owner putting poo bags in my wheelie bin

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ParanoidBeryl · 11/07/2017 00:46

Our council has a system of 3 wheelie bins, each get collected fortnightly. Black bin for landfill, blue for recycling, and brown for garden and food compost.

For the last three or four of times I have put out my brown bin, after it has been emptied, but before I have had a chance to bring it back in, some dog owner has put a black bag of dog shit into my brown bin.

AIBU to think this is gross? Not only does it mean it would fester for a fortnight in my bin, but the brown bins don't accept plastic, so there is every likelihood that the council wouldn't lift it if they noticed it, and it means plastic bags of dog shit are going for composting.

I assume it is the same dog owner each time, as it is the same type & colour of bag each time.

If you are a dog owner would you think this is ok?

OP posts:
Lulu1083 · 11/07/2017 03:20

Woah provider, you sound a little unhinged!

It's pretty normal to be pissed off about something disgusting being put inside your bin but you've got a problem with owners also carrying the poo in a bag? What do you suggest they do with it?

OliviaStabler · 11/07/2017 03:28

Get a bin lock. Problem solved.

sparkleandsunshine · 11/07/2017 03:33

HUNT THEM DOWN OP!!!!

WanderingTrolley1 · 11/07/2017 03:39

Oh, that is foul!!

ZebraOwl · 11/07/2017 03:50

Good luck BewareTheUndertoad - excellent name btw Grin

Thankfully our local dog-owners all seem to be good at picking up after their dogs & then disposing of the mess appropriately. So not in someone else's bin (unless they have permission, I guess) but in the dog poo bins in the local parks or the litterbins dotted about the streets. Or sometimes taking it home to their own bins, yes.

I live in an end-of-terrace house so my bins (brown for garden waste; green for recycling [only the lid in my case after it had to be replaced & the council had no green bins... but had green lids...?]; & black for everything else) are kept in the side passage. Due to my disability I'm on the "assisted collection" list, so (apart from the times they don't empty the bins at all & the times they empty them but don't return them 🙄) my bins aren't ever left within reach of the street.

Between the two things the bin-botherers have to open the gate & walk right down the passage to get to the bins; it's not a simple reaching into the garden/over the wall, or "ooh, the bins haven't been taken back in yet today". These are people who think it's fine to use our bins rather than wait until they get to one of the many public litter-bins within a few hundred metres - or even take their rubbish home with them, should their home be closer than the next bin. If you live in this borough you know all rubbish is meant to be bagged. And if you can cope with holding your fast-food box as you walk along consuming the contents, you can keep on carrying it once it's empty rather than dumping it into my bin.

I caused myself multiple joint dislocations & basically turned my knees into giant haematomas extracting wine bottles that had been deposited into my dustbin - with some of their contents still in them, so I then had to clean the bin. (I got a bit ambitious about my physical abilities/frustratedly dismissive of my limitations. And was worried about the bottles smashing & shards being left in the bin. Nobody about to help me, so...) The time I opened the bin to discover the remains of someone's picnic in a poorly-tied carrier bag was particularly stomach-churning - I'm almost!vegan & the sight & smell of the chicken drumsticks was... 🤢 managed to re-bag it without touching it - particularly frustrating = fact that, unless they had, for some reason, been having a full-on picnic in their car, it meant they'd not bothered to find a bin in the park for their rubbish & decided to use my bin when they got back to their car Angry

Was also massively unimpressed with the great eejit who tore open not one but TWO bin-bags of leaking tube-feed (one of the things of feed was damaged during transit & seemingly soya+fibre feed smells so delicious my cats chewed through the cardboard boxes & chomped through/into the tetra packs to try to get to it so I had to chuck a load of them [& clean a massive puddle of tube-feed out of the hall carpet]) to shove some rubbish in. If the letters they dumped hadn't been turned to mulch I'd have been tempted to go & fill their bin with the feed left in the pack after I'd only done a night feed at low volume. That stuff curdles in the heat. I actually had to put an extra dose of anti-emetic down my tube just to deal with cleaning the bin out. And needed a LOT of extra oxycodone to deal with the pain, too. Obviously I realise that most people wouldn't face an exacerbation of health problems/issues relating to their disabilit[y/ies] because of having to deal with what happens when other people go using their bins, but there are plenty of other problems it could cause people.

It would take ages to get the dustbin filled even when my DB's living here too (he splits his time between two cities for work) as we recycle/compost (as applicable) everything possible, but for lots of people, randomers chucking stuff in their bin can mean they can't fit their own rubbish or that it's overflowing & won't be emptied. With dog poo, you could be facing a rancid smell everytime you use your outside bin for a fortnight. And if a bag wasn't tied properly, or it tears, you may we'll be left scrubbing dog poo out of your bin. If stuff goes in the wrong bin you could cause contamination issues. In my borough a bag of dog poo casually chucked onto the top of my recycling would see my bin tagged as contaminated, not emptied, & if it happens multiple times I'd be fined.

I get the temptation to use someone else's bin when it would be convenient - but I keep hold of my rubbish until I find a bin, be that a litterbin in a public place, or my bin at home. It's pretty entitled (not a word I fling about with abandon, so we're clear) to make free with other people's stuff. Including their bins, which they pay for, to put their rubbish in, and have a right not to have filled with other people's (literal &/or metaphorical) crap. Gah.

KoalaDownUnder · 11/07/2017 04:19

I walk my dog all over the neighbourhood every day. Sometimes she does FIVE poos in one walk. Hmm

I carry them to the nearest public bin. I'd never, ever put a poo bag in a private bin. I have been tempted on mornings when I know they're due to be collected, but no. It's rude.

echt · 11/07/2017 05:11

the fur babies mummy and daddy worship the creature so much that they covet it's very shit

Er...no they don't, Provder. They're behaving responsibly and picking up after their dogs.

Jaynesworld · 11/07/2017 05:28

People are fucking grim, who puts shit in someone elses household bin??

echt but they arent disposing of it responsibly. Putting it in someones empty bin causing them to handle their dogs crap is not responsible.
Using a public bin or taking it home is responsible.

claraschu · 11/07/2017 05:47

Wow Zebra what an epic rant.

I am always grateful when people pick up poo and don't leave the little bags hanging from tree branches.

Itwillbefine · 11/07/2017 05:47

People should use their own bins.

We have a litter bin outside our house which is near some woods so people put the dog shit in there on their way home. It hasn't got a lid and when full they just put the bags around, will find a pic...

Take it home I say!

Itwillbefine · 11/07/2017 05:51

Just grim

Dog owner putting poo bags in my wheelie bin
OhtoblazeswithElvira · 11/07/2017 05:58

God YANBU OP

Someone I know had a (similar but not the same) problem- a dog owner let their dog foul the pavement right outside this person's house. They did it early in the morning when it was dark, every day for about 2 weeks. Eventually this person left a note saying:

"No more shit outside our house. If I see you I will push it through your letterbox"

It never happened again!

BonfiresOfInsanity · 11/07/2017 06:00

I have also had this once, empty bin after collection that someone threw their dog shit in. Not sure if that's worse than the person in the village who lets their dog go wherever and leaves it. Last week they thought that leaving a four part poo across my driveway was an OK thing to do. Dirty bastards. Angry

MrsChopper · 11/07/2017 06:06

I would wait and watch one day and have a word once I caught the culprit and throw the poo bag after them

Stormyseasallround · 11/07/2017 06:09

I think you sound utterly mental. It's a bin. Full of decaying rubbish, much of which smells. They're putting in dog poo, sealed inside a bag. You're behaving as if they're shitting on your prize Persian rug on Christmas morning. Honestly, just be pleased that they're responsible dog owners who are picking it up and binning it, rather than leaving it smeared across the pavement or hanging from the branch of a tree.

FrancisCrawford · 11/07/2017 06:12

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Mummyoflittledragon · 11/07/2017 06:13

Stormy. Interesting. I think the same about you.

Absolutely disgusting. I would never throw my dog waste in a private bin. I take it home or find a bin on my walk.

Headofthehive55 · 11/07/2017 06:16

They split, leak etc. Some if us clean our bins which means we have to clean out dog shit. Put it in your own bin.

KoalaDownUnder · 11/07/2017 06:22

Honestly, just be pleased that they're responsible dog owners who are picking it up and binning it, rather than leaving it smeared across the pavement or hanging from the branch of a tree.

They're hardly the only options, are they?

I actually don't care if people put dog poo bags in my bin. But that's because I put my own in there, so it stinks anyway.

It's not up to me to make that decision for anyone else.

Itwillbefine · 11/07/2017 06:26

Just seen the nappy thread, slightly different in that the person asked to put it in their friends bin. Would be cheeky to dump your used nappy in a strangers bin IMO.

LittleBooInABox · 11/07/2017 07:03

The amount of dog hating here, wow!

The council should install its dog poo bins, then the issue wouldn't be so bad.

Some posters say dog owners love their dogs shit, obviously not that's why it's put in the nearest bin. It's a bin. They didn't leave it on your dinning room table, ffs. Get a grip!

Mummyoflittledragon · 11/07/2017 07:11

Wouldn't put a dirty nappy in a strangers private bin either.

morningrunner · 11/07/2017 07:14

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rollonthesummer · 11/07/2017 07:14

For the last three or four of times I have put out my brown bin, after it has been emptied, but before I have had a chance to bring it back in, some dog owner has put a black bag of dog shit into my brown bin.

To the people suggesting a bin lock-it's going not to help in this situation!

Supermagicsmile · 11/07/2017 07:16

Get a bin lock!

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