In thinking there just aren't enough public bins? Especially dog poo bins?

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Nobody likes dog mess on the floor. I'm a dog owner and it makes me see red. I hate it. There's zero excuse for it.

I think if we had more dog poo bins around it would really help curb the problem.

Every time my dog poos I pick it up with out fail but then I hate walking around with a steaming bag of shit. On residential streets there's just no bins until you get to outside a shop. Rarely dog poo bins.

You can't use people's personal bins so you have to carry round a hot, smelly bag.

Poo collecting is part of dog ownership and ifnyou aren't prepared to do it you shouldn't own a dog but I also think more could be done to help facilitate poop disposal.

For instance, I take my dog to a playing field, it is HUGE , and there is just one dog poo bin at the entrance. That's it.

So people throw the bags into the bushes and undergrowth, I don't agree with it, but I can see why some people do it when if you are walking through you are faced with either carrying a shit bag or walk ing back to the entrance.

Obviously more bins would incur costs for instalment and rubbish removal but why not have 6 months of real enforcement of dog poo fines to raise the money.

There's signs everywhere saying £1000 fine for letting your dog poo but I've never seen it enforced and there's shit everywhere!

I'm really sick of my kids standing in dog shit and just seeing it.

I think it's time we added more bins and a stricter enforcement of fines. AIBU?

They're a security risk for bombs in terms of your average public bin. That's why they never have them in train stations etc.
Poo bins should be more accessible, I can't stand seeing dog poo however pick it up and dispose of it at home if there's none. That's just the responsibility that comes with owning a dog.

Its not difficult to walk round with a bag of poo!!! If its particularly smelly double bag it! Lack of bins is no excuse.

@looselips They've brought them back in train stations, with clear plastic bags to minimise the security risk, and a design that minimises shrapnel.

Plus bombs in bins seems to be a very outdated tactic these days...

There are two of those big double bins and two normal sized bins within sight of my house (near a couple of shops). Yet every day, my street is absolutely covered in dog shit. I don't think it's the lack of bins that's the problem, sadly. The last time I asked a guy if he was going to pick up the giant pile of crap his dog had just produced, he threatened to 'Fing Twt' me.

You could have a bin every 10 yards, and still some **s would leave dog shit on the pavement.

There is no excuse. Carry bags, pick up shit, take home, dispose of like a civilised member of society.

See also: general waste.

YABU.

bombs in bins seems to be a very outdated tactic these days...

Well, to be fair, that's probably because we removed the bins to reduce the risk. It's not as if bombers follow fashion trends in their bombing techniques, they just do what they can get away with.

Plus bombs in bins seems to be a very outdated tactic these days

The skills are being lost, plus generally killing the public tends not to work anyway. If it had the IRA would have had what they wanted after the first bomb and not continued for 30 years.

And anyway, it's all moot. People don't litter (and that includes dogshit donors) because there aren't enough bins. They litter because they are selfish, ignorant, anti-social, twatsacks of the first order for whom forced removal of delicate body parts with a broken bottle and no anaesthetic would still be getting off lightly.

Do many people walk their dogs in train stations?

I'm talking about on the average street where people walk their dogs and in parks.

They are few and far between here. One lovely local landowner has actually gone as far as providing one of his own on a private field which is crossed by a public footpath that is used by lots of dog owners.

It's well used and much appreciated and there is now very little dog poo in his field - there will sadly always be the odd owner who is rude and inconsiderate.

I agree there are not enough poo bins. I hate walking around with a bag of poo. I try and solve this by keeping dog near the bin until he's done a couple of poos.

But I don't think more bins will work. People still don't pick up even when there is a bin.

In other countries they have dog toilets, I think those would work much better.

Looselips may live near The Doughnut, as do I.

Public bins have long been a very good indicator of the current national alert level!

My walk to work passes a number of poo bins, I also regularly have to swerve to avoid dog poo. It's lazy owners and seems to be on the increase. I'd like a dogs DNA database against which poo could be tested and then the owners fined massively - anti-social arseholes.

If there are plenty of bushes and undergrowth, what's wrong with flicking it there with a stick where it can biodegrade naturally and no one will step in it. Much better option than hanging it on a tree in a bag or carrying it to a bin. A local national trust place has this 'stick and flick' policy and doesn't provide any bins at all.

I walk my dog across 3 small parks and then round a nature reserve.
There is a bin in every park, and I pass 4 round the nature reserve, most in hard to reach (in a car) places where paths cross. They are emptied regularly and always clean.

Never have to walk more than 5 minutes before I pass a bin.

There is still uncollected dog shit in all those places.

My walk to work passes a number of poo bins, I also regularly have to swerve to avoid dog poo. It's lazy owners and seems to be on the increase. I'd like a dogs DNA database against which poo could be tested and then the owners fined massively - anti-social arseholes.

I think there is a case for the death penalty for repeat offenders. Usually I'm opposed, but I guess we all have our weak spots.

Nanny I agree, but it does depend where it is.

Some areas of bushes etc are used by kids to hide/build dens/ climb trees, and flicking dog shit in there is rank.
Also, in the open country, dog shit in fields is not OK just because there is cow shit there too. Dog shit can carry diseases that affect the sheep, and make its meat unsaleable.

sorry, but carrying a warm smelly bag is what you signed up for when you volunteered to get a dog. Take it home and put it in your own bin, don't see why the rest of should pay for extra ones.

as pointed out, many dog owners don't bother anyway. Same as you see litter right next to litter bins; usually when kids are around but not always.

The woods where we (and lots of other dog owners) walk has a bin at the entrance and exit but you STILL come across poo on the paths, sometimes next to the bin!
More bins would be great but unfortunately I think that people who don’t pick up their dogs poo still won’t no matter how many bins you provide

I am just sick of all this shit everywhere
whenever I go out I'm faced with dogs defecating, there are just too many of these shitting nuisances

dog owners stop complaining that you don't like carrying around dogshit
it's your shit it's your problem
take it home with you

YANBU OP. I used to live in an area of London where there were specific dog poo bins provided by the council and there was no poo on the streets. Where I live now there are no bins and subsequently piles of shit everywhere, or little packages left under trees. Of course there will always be people who don’t bother and that is disgraceful but there’s no harm in facilitating it for people who would do the right thing if it wasn’t just such a massive effort to find a bin.

We were in France recently and my dog did a crap as we were climbing up to a castle. No bins on the walk up, no bins at the ruins. I simply double-bagged it and carried it around - 7yo referred to it as 'the dog's present'

I looked a bit nuts, and i had to keep handing it to DH sp i could take photos, but it is what it is. Even there i wouldn't have liked to just flick it away with a stick, it was 35° or more and it would have stunk! Imagine if just 4 or 5 dogs/owners did that every day! Beyond disgusting.

I once saw a Modern Toss Christmas card (Google is coming up empty) which had two people talking. One has about 5 dogs on a lead with lots of shopping bags, the other none. The non-dog person asks, "been Christmas shopping?", to which the other answers, "no, just carrying all their shit"! Which is how it should be.

You have a dog, you look after it properly, which includes carrying 'doggy gifts' until you find a bin.

You need a Dicky bag - no smell and easy to carry

I totally understand why people don't want to walk around with a bag full of faeces it's humiliating embarrassing and nauseating, I go out of my way to avoid walking near people carrying little bags of stinking canine fecal matter
Too bad

I totally understand why people don't want to walk around with a bag full of faeces it's humiliating embarrassing and nauseating, Why? It's their dog, their responsibility and is 100% their own choice!

Every dog owner has a perfect solution too, don't own a dog!

And the flick It idea here would get you hung drawn and quartered. There are already far too many animals being killed because of dog poo. No farmer would thank anyone who encourages yet more being left on their land!