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To put dog **** bags on top of car?

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thinkingaboutfostering · 21/03/2018 12:53

Sat outside my horses field waiting for the carrier. Car pulls up and two women get out and take 6 dogs for a walk up the path. 3 times so far (they are still in sight at the mo) have they stopped bagged up the dog poo and proceeded to drop the bags on the floor and walk off.

Would I be unreasonable to pick up Sian bags and dump them on their car bonnet with a note saying to take them home with them?

OP posts:
KittenBeast · 21/03/2018 15:58

Take the stick out of your arse, Charolais, there's a good girl.

AboutAGallonofDietCoke · 21/03/2018 16:08

All these people on here saying "but i pick it up later"
WELL DONT, TAKE IT WITH YOU! YOU DIRTY FUCKWIT!
There's no real reason to do what you are doing, the reasons why you shouldn't leave it hanging around, even briefly, are all over this thread.

I'll say it again for the hard of thinking, if you can't cope with carrying a bag of shit on your walk DON'T HAVE A DOG.

LapdanceShoeshine · 21/03/2018 16:24

If we don't get our bins back in fast enough passers-by drop poobags in them. Granted it's nicer for everybody else than having them hung on trees, but I live in dread of one of them tearing/bursting open & smearing shit over the inside of the bin - wheelie bins not easy to clean out tidily Hmm

reallyanotherone · 21/03/2018 16:41

I’ve just had a quick google and apparently dog poo can be composted.

Instead of poo bins, trees and bags would it not be more environmentally friendly to dig a hole or provide compost bins?

SheSellSeaShells · 21/03/2018 17:04

exactly what AboutAGallonofDietCoke said, - it's gross, you want a dog then pick its crap up. Not 45 minutes later.... or never. Really boils my piss seeing bags of poo swinging in the trees!!

TheHodgeoftheHedge · 21/03/2018 17:07

@reallyanotherone

it's a nice idea, and the answer is, technically yes, it can be composted. But it takes a very long time and would result in huge piles or holes of rotting dog poo, which i'm not sure many people would be happy with either. Plus, it would be tricky getting the poo in the hole. You can use a trowel when it's in your own garden, but not really practical on walk. So poo bags it is. Plus that takes care of nearly any poo in any place.

aaarrrggghhhh · 21/03/2018 17:39

TheHodgeoftheHedge

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Elendon · 21/03/2018 19:44

Dog poo is NOT COMPOSTIBLE Please do not do this.

The eggs of various pests in a compost heap are heating up nicely.

Elendon · 21/03/2018 19:47

A dog is not for getting exercise out in the woods. Just go and walk in the woods by a near side canal without a dog.

MrsCrabbyTree · 21/03/2018 21:03

When I walked a friend's dog, I would tuck the poo bag into a fork of a tree and collect on the way home. Darn dog rarely did a poo when on a walk but when she did it was close to home. Our walks would take 1 hour plus. Always thought it was a good idea and had no idea some people would object.

OrangeHorse · 21/03/2018 21:55

@jannier well done, maybe you have a secret set of extra arms that I don't 😂

flowerslemonade · 21/03/2018 22:15

They sound nasty

honeyroar · 21/03/2018 22:41

Well done you. You should have said if you find bags left in your gateway like she threatened you'll either report her or muck your stable out onto her bonnet next time.

AboutAGallonofDietCoke · 22/03/2018 13:48

orange
There's these things, don't know if you've heard of them. They're called bags and pockets?
Look them up.

Yokohamajojo · 22/03/2018 13:59

The amount of bags lying around is proof enough that people do not come back to pick them up! that excuse is just ridiculous! Anyone who walks a dog knows that you don't always come back the same way and that plans change so take it with you

HolyGoats · 22/03/2018 14:03

orange has no one ever confronted you for leaving your dog poo bags on the path? Do you really think it’s acceptable to just leave it to collect on the way back? Genuinely curious.

Lethaldrizzle · 22/03/2018 14:06

my eyes have been opened to the true cause of the scourge of the poo bags. Its all those dog owners accidentally 'forgetting ' to pick them up on the way back, having gone a different route perhaps. I never knew it was a thing - the whole leaving it for later story. Gross - just take it with you

LinkyPlease · 22/03/2018 14:11

Well done OP. If I were the dog walker and if I were genuinely planning to pick them up on the way back I'd have been apologetic and made a joke about how at least you saved me having to bend down and collect them, I'd have been trying to reassure you I wasn't a dirty fucker who leaves shit bags all over the countryside.
I like your idea of reporting to the police - that'll give them a shock. Poo and poo bags etc is one of the main reasons I don't have a dog. At least I have the decency to know I'm too lazy and don't want a pocketful of warm poo bag, so I don't have a dog.

UnimaginativeUsername · 22/03/2018 14:28

Near here there’s a bin that very quickly gets full of poo bags. And then there’s always mounds of poo bags around and on top of the bin too. It’s totally disgusting. It will be emptied and a couple of days later it’ll be the same. Plus the bin men don’t pick up the bags littered around it so the whole area is disgusting.

If the bin is full, the dog walkers should really take their bags home with them. Or keep walking til they find another bin. But apparently that’s too much to ask.

MorningsEleven · 22/03/2018 14:31

Well done.

Some clarty fuckwit recently left a shitbag in the hedge at the side of my house, it's 20 yards from a bin. Lazy fecker!

rascallyrascal · 22/03/2018 14:41

Next time gather up all the horse poo you can find and dump it on the bonnet. Cheeky feckers.

Newname12 · 22/03/2018 15:05

At least I have the decency to know I'm too lazy and don't want a pocketful of warm poo bag, so I don't have a dog

It’s the main reason i got a yorkshire terrier. Tiny dog= tiny shit. Much, much easier to deal with.

Fortunately i also seem to have got one that will only shit in its own garden. Hence me looking into composting or some other disposal system rather than the bin. Which can’t be hygenic.

MorningsEleven · 22/03/2018 16:21

Genuinely, dog shit does not compost. It's too meaty.

Jaynesworld · 22/03/2018 20:03

You should not compost dog poo....
Unfortunately, our pet wastes contain parasites which may not be killed in household compost piles. A constant temperature of 73 C has to be maintained for at least 5 days for this to occur. This is difficult to achieve in home composting situations.
Dog waste in compost can carry a number of unhealthy parasites that can affect humans and other animals. Roundworms are one of the most common pests that afflict our dogs. Roundworms and their cousins, ascarids, may persist in compost made with dog waste. These can be ingested and their eggs hatch in the human intestine.
This causes a condition called Visceral Larval Migrans. The tiny eggs can then migrate through the blood stream and attach in the lungs, liver and other organs, with a host of different unpleasant symptoms as a result. Most unpleasant is Ocular Larval Migrans, which occurs when the eggs attach to the retina and may cause blindness.
It can also take over a year for dog waste to decompose and roundworm can survive for years in the soil.

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