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To think that people who don't clean up after their dogs don't really deserve to live.

53 replies

SoleroX · 18/02/2018 13:22

I know I'm not aibu. Or maybe wishing death is being unreasonable, although in this case I don't think so. I am so fed up of dog shit. On Friday I got home from a dog walk to find dog shit embedded in my boots. Yesterday at the park my toddler fell over into dog shit, luckily just on his knee rather than his hands. I've just got in the car from a walk on the beach to, you guessed it, sandy dog shit on my boots.

If you are a dog shit leaver, I'm sure you won't comment. But let me tell you - you are an awful, lazy person and should feel crap about yourself. I know picking it up isn't fun, I do it everyday when walking my dog. But it's part of what it fucking means to have one.

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Freshme · 18/02/2018 14:41

Yanbu.
I agree it should be smeared on their faces, spread in their cars and carpets.

I did wonder how really old people or someone with back problems cope. I find it most bizarre that some leave their dogs' shit right in the centre of the path/pavement. Surely even if you're a complete knob who doesn't pick up after their dog or forgot the bags, there's something you could do, you can at least get a stick and flick it off the path, then cover it with a big leaf etc??

ShackUp · 18/02/2018 14:41

DS2 put his hand in dog poo today - in a play area. He's 20 months. I just can't understand the mentality of someone who doesn't pick up after their dog Angry

PookieSnackenberger · 18/02/2018 14:45

YANU at all. Lazy, antisocial and disgusting.

Trying to clean dog poo off my toddlers brand new shoes, with leaves as I had no tissues, whilst 9 months pregnant is permanently etched in my mind and was not fun. I would like to meet the person who let their dog poo and then covered it up with leaves.

GreyGardens88 · 18/02/2018 14:46

Those that really deserve death are those that litter, especially on the side of the road. I live in the countryside and the amount of plastic rubbish strewn all down the side of the road is unbelievable.

I can't imagine the mentality of someone who just throws rubbish out of their car window whilst driving a long, just keep it in your car and throw it away. I wish there were more cameras on roads to catch people doing this sort of thing and slap them with £1000 fans for each piece of litter

BakedBeans47 · 18/02/2018 14:46

YANBU. In some ways it’s fairer than my solution which would be to put the dogs to sleep given their owners can’t take care of them properly, it’s not the dog’s fault if their owner is a dirty bastard.

I too am sick of it thankfully no one treads in it often but I am fed up dodging the gauntlet and also the smell of shite everywhere when I am trying to go for a nice walk.

I particularly hate the ones who obviously drag their dog when it’s shitting so it leaves a long trail of shit

GreyGardens88 · 18/02/2018 14:47

*fines not fans Grin

BakedBeans47 · 18/02/2018 14:47

Those that really deserve death are those that litter, especially on the side of the road. I live in the countryside and the amount of plastic rubbish strewn all down the side of the road is unbelievable.

Yes I can’t stand this either. I was on the motorway the other day and for the first time really noticed all the litter on the verges. Awful.

Freshme · 18/02/2018 14:51

My friend who's in her mid -30s said she actually challenges people to pick up fairly regularly, when she's out in town with her young kids 😯 and they usually do!! I asked her what excuse they give for not doing it, and they normally pretend they "haven't noticed" their dog left a massive poo in the middle of pavement.🙄

LuxuryMilk · 18/02/2018 14:51

I think I’d happily murder the ones who leave it in our area. The paths are full of it, it’s disgusting.

I’m not a dog owner but have started carrying poo bags around with me to pick it up myself. I figure someone has to.

theymademejoin · 18/02/2018 14:55

I notice a lot more dog shite in our local park in the winter than in the summer. Presumably because those lovely people don't want to be seen as the utter skanks that they are, so they pick up when there are more people around. I regularly offer them the use of one of my bags if I can catch up with them.

The great advantage to walking the dogs in the park in winter is I don't have to make loud comments on my dogs' toileting habits. I regularly get dirty looks or even comments from people when my dogs are weeing. They obviously don't realise that most bitches squat to wee so they think they are crapping (just to be clear - they don't wee on the path. They go into the bushes to do it).

theymademejoin · 18/02/2018 14:57

I was particularly annoyed the time I cleaned up after my dog, walked back to the bin and stepped in shite on the way.

BuzzKillington · 18/02/2018 14:57

We often walk in a NT park and there are signs telling dog owners to stick and flick. Surely this is the sensible option? Much better than dangling a bag from a branch, and if it's flicked into dense undergrowth, I can't see a problem.

Bravenew · 18/02/2018 14:59

YANBU. They maybe don't deserve death, but they don't deserve to be dog owners. Angry

It's so much worse at this time of year, stealth poop leavers under cover of darkness. Fuckers.

Blackteadrinker77 · 18/02/2018 15:07

I notice a lot more dog shite in our local park in the winter than in the summer

It's also because of the grass not being cut. When it gets cut regularly in summer it chops it all in to the grass so you don't notice as much.

I think there needs to be more done about it. I never hear of people getting fined for it.

Halebeke425 · 18/02/2018 15:10

Don't apologise, some people just don't have a sense of humour. Yanbu at all and yes these people deserve to die. I have a friend who often challenges and gets into confrontations with people on this, if I ever saw someone not picking up I'd challenge it too, so far I've never caught anyone in the act. If people are not physically capable of picking up after their dogs they shouldn't have them, there is no excuse for not picking up shit and it is literally everywhere so loads of dog owners must be doing it. Vile selfish entitled fuckers.

theymademejoin · 18/02/2018 15:10

@Blackteadrinker77 - When it gets cut regularly in summer it chops it all in to the grass so you don't notice as much.

I'm taking about shite on the paths, not on the grass. You can't really see it on the grass in winter as the grass is fairly overgrown.

SweetMoon · 18/02/2018 15:18

YANBU. Lazy shits that they are. The sort of person who leaves their dog shit everywhere is really the sort of person society won't miss.

Better yet. Stick them in the stocks and throw their dog shit at them.

Luxanna · 18/02/2018 15:43

@Blackteadrinker77 - When it gets cut regularly in summer it chops it all in to the grass so you don't notice as much.

True but our local council sent letters to all the local households in several areas stating they would refuse to cut the grass if they showed up to do it and any dog shit at all was visible. They have the ride on mowers and also the robot ones where an operator follows it round with a remote controller and both types of operator (and any passing pedestrian) were apparently getting sprayed with dog shit while trying to do their job. The council are quite rightly citing health & safety as the reason. They even put up CCTV cameras on a pole in the middle of some grassy areas and a few dog owners have been prosecuted, which is a start I suppose.

Need more dog wardens if you ask me.

BumpowderSneezeonAndSnot · 18/02/2018 15:44

Yanbu they're vile and give us dog walkers a bad name

However I have left one once. Ddog decided to target her arse and it's contents over a patch or very thorny brambles and said contents duly ended up as a shit kebab on the thorns. I contemplated for a long time how to clean that up then gave up because no man nor beast would ever get it without serious physical harm coming to them!

Pumpkinisland89 · 18/02/2018 15:46

Yes. I need "Mind the poo" on constant repeat walking down my street. In tye 3 hours we've been out someone let their (seemingly unwell) dog leave a lovely present by our gate.

Sunnysidegold · 18/02/2018 15:51

No one has mentioned pram wheels yet? I hated lifting the pram into the boot to discover dog poo on the wheels. I can't stand the bags of shit left on branches! Why go to the bother of bagging the poo (which is the yuck bit) and then leave it on a branch? For the poo fairy to collect?

HonkyWonkWoman · 18/02/2018 15:54

I don't think that death is too severe for these lazy bastards who leave their dogs shit for kids and us to walk in.
I pick my dogs poo up!
They give me the Rage!

Reddlion · 18/02/2018 16:47

I use to live on a street when I would leave for work literally went passed 10 pieces of dog shit disgusting and even worse when there is snow and you don't realise or put it in your car or carpet

forcryinoutloud · 18/02/2018 17:19

I really don't think the the OP wants people to die, she is just expressing her level of anger here and I don't blame her.

Reading this thread makes me so angry, lazy fucking irresponsible dog owners are among the scum of the earth. And I don't think it's a minor misdemeanor at all! Worse case is a toddler falling in it and picking up some nasty infection, not to mention it ruining upholstery, clothes etc.

It would be quite nice to go back to the stocks and if the fuckers are caught they can have their dog's shit thrown in their faces rather than rotten tomatoes. Ok I exaggerate, but a hefty fine first and then taking their dog away if they keep offending.

flobella · 18/02/2018 19:10

As a dog owner I can't bear it when other people don't clear up after their dogs. It gives the rest of us a bad name.

I think dog ownership and sales of dogs should be more controlled - I have seen a rise in 'casual purchases' of dogs and puppies on sites like Facebook and Gumtree in recent years which makes the purchase of a dog seem like a whim. I don't think people should be able to buy dogs from places like this and that any purchase of a dog should go through the same process as many rescue centres - "is your house suitable, when/how are you going to exercise your dog, how are you going to go about training it?" etc. I think more should be done to ensure that people are serious about providing the right quality of life, for the entire lifetime of the dog (not just bung it back on Facebook when you realise it is actually quite hard work) before they are able to take the dog home and would happily see this funded by a licensing system that dog owners have to pay for. I suspect that the same idiots who don't clear up after their dogs also don't take other aspects of dog ownership seriously either...