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

[AndTheyCallitPuppyLove]

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?

Exactly my point the vileness of dogshit need to be totally inflicted on the owner of the dog
non dog owners should not have to come into contact with it whatsoever
I object to having to walk past people fondling thier little back bags of faeces

My hope is that the requirement to pick up shit would put people off having dogs and we would have fewer dogs
but no fondling the faeces seems to make owners feel more emotionally attached to the creatures 🙄

I think the cost of maintaining dog poo bins limits their numbers. I’ve seen a sign at a National site saying they have a ‘flick with a stick’ policy because having a dog poo bin would almost double their maintenance costs.

We are just bags of flesh and bone that hold shit. My dog poo bags are scented and from Waitrose

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.

Unfortunately, what people consider to be a place where "no one will step in it" is a bit of a moveable feast when they can't be bothered to pick dog poo up. Once the precedent gets properly set, dog poo gets flicked into park shrubberies that have been clearly planted to allow kids to build dens in them.

There's nothing like getting dog poo on your hands unexpectedly, I always say. Fortunately.

yabh
you chose to have a pet - you need to deal with it's shit.

you can campain to your council, a few dogwalkers in our park have come together to do that. the council installed a bin - the dog walkers paid for it.

I used the 'net bit' on the outside of my rucksack.

Yeah I just stick and flick it in a bedroom ^^ 😂

On the actual subject, carrying around a bag of poo is part of owning a dog. In terms of some of the disgusting stuff that comes with it, it's not in the top 3.

I agree OP i walk my dog for two hours in the morning on quiet back streets near fields and i have one bin which i go past about 20min into our walk ( have walked different routes and no bins on them either), if the dog goes after this bin then im carrying the poo around until i go past the same bin on my walk home. I have a big dog so its not so much the smell but also the size!
I get so annoyed as i see lots of dog poo on the pavement on my walks, and i would always pick mine up no matter how long i have to carry it for but i wish we had a few more bins.

If you don't want to carry a smelly bag of poo around then don't get a dog! If the bin is full take it home. I'm sick of seeing bags of dog poo all over the ground or hanging from trees when I go for a walk.

Some people are just antisocial and drop litter or leave dog poo lying around even if there are plenty of bins.

I have 6 greyhounds, our shortest walk is usually to the local poo bin, which we can probably fill ourselves in a week, but when they go on the way back I bag it and carry it home and put it my bin.
At time I could be carrying a kilo of poo (I think), there is absolutely no excuse for not taking it Home with you.

I sometimes hang it on a bush and pick it up on the way back. There's no bins anywhere and the dog inevitably shits at least 3 times per walk, I'm not going back home every time one of them drops one and I need a hand to hold the dogs and a hand for child wrangling so what else can I do?

eurgh didyousee that's disgusting. just carry it with you.

To be fair, when we don't go to the poo bin I leave the bags at the side of our lane to pick up on the way home.
But as it's our private lane I'm not too worried about what other people think about that. I'm more irritated by trespassers.
The binmen always laugh about it, they say I'm a sick version of Hansel and Gretel.

From my kitchen window I can see a few fairly large green spaces with various paths running through them and the pavements used to access them from several directions. I see the same several dogs (about 35-40 individual animals as most owners have more than one) with their owners being walked there several times every day.

There is a very obvious dog shit bin. It is about twenty feet from the glass frontage and doors of some council offices. There's no dog shit in that bin. The paths, pavements and grass however have plenty of dog shit on them.

NOT ONE of the dirty fuckers have EVER been seen to pick up their dogs shit, let alone put it in the bin. They just bring the dogs, let them off the lead to shit then fucking saunter off. Most don't even look up from their mobiles.

There's signs warning of fines but no enforcement.
What is galling is that the council workers must watch them do it too without even calling a dog warden in.

How would providing more bins help when dog owners don't even pick it up in the first place.

didyousee - why can't you use a rucksack if you need to keep your hands free - double bag the poo if necessary and place it in an outer pocket or tie it to the bag. What if you forget to pick it up on the way back or can't remember which poo bag is yours or which branch you hung it on? Why should other people have their enjoyment of the outdoors spoiled by the sight and smell of your dog poo bag hanging from a tree?

Dog poo bags are also a hazard to horses and some have died eating poo bags thrown into their fields.

Carry it with me how? In the hand that I'm holding hands with a 3 year old? Or the one that I'm holding two large dogs with?

Like fuck am I putting a bag of shit in my pocket or bag. I leave it hooked on a bush and it can sit there for the 20 minutes it takes me to walk the dogs, pick it up on the way back and straight in the bin. Never lost one yet. If there's more than one bag on the bush I just take both and bin them in case the other person doesn't come back.

They should have more. They actually just took one away from a playing field near my home, and I noticed the normal bins starts to overflow with rubbish including dog poo bags. I contacted the council to ask when they'd be reinstating the bin with overflow pics and they came back to say they weren't. That it's actually ok to have dog poo bags in normal bins this includes bins right next to a small play park which little children use. It's absolutely disgusting and I regularly see them overflowing.

There are at least 5 bins within two minutes walk of my house. We still have an issue with dirty, lazy twats leaving dog mess on the ground. Some people just don't care how their mess affects their neighbours.

You can buy small bags to hook onto a belt/least handle to hold a poop bag. There's no need to leave it on bushes.

I dont want my street littered with dog poo bins. Why cant dog owners just look after their own poo FFS.

Solution, every dog has to be registered and chipped at the owners expense. Registration would include a DNA test. Therefore any dog poo found on the streets could be tested and owners fined £1000. Problem solved overnight.

I'm with JuliaJaynes9. Less bins. Less dogs. Fed up of them running up to me and dd and terrifying the bejesus out of us, yeah yeah they're "only being friendly....!"

Yeah, no thanks. Dog2 is reactive to other dogs, I have a hard enough time managing him and keeping hold of a 3 year old as it is without having to dodge a wildly swinging poo bag and worrying about squashing it while he's going nuts. Much easier to leave it out of the way somewhere and just grab it on the way back.

If it's such a problem, petition for more bins. No fucker does anything to make my life easier so I find I don't much care for opinions. I do what is required of me by law.

Your right OP. There's no money for the NHS, less and less for schools, sweet fa for social care or support for the disabled, no money for housing. But yes, our councils should definitely spend their last two fathings to pay to empty dog bins.

I double bag my neighbours dog's poo when I have him. If we go to the beach there are bins there.

Otherwise when I get home I flush it down the toilet rather than putting it in the bin, the empty used bag doesn't smell as much.

Will look at those Dicky bags.