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?

Didyousee, why did you get two large dogs if you can't deal with their poo?

Mumsnet on the proposal that supermarkets should provide stronger bags for life: YABU to try to reuse anything plastic when you could be using good strong hessian, you dolphin killing monster.

Mumsnet on the proposal the council could provide more dog poo bins: Oh, just use two (non-biodegradable, plastic) bags and stop whining.

I totally understand why people don't want to walk around with a bag full of faeces it's humiliating embarrassing and nauseating

Snigger. Love the hyperbole. What is humiliating and embarrassing about clearning up after a pet?

I don't have a dog but fortunately most dog owner's around here seem eminently responsible. Unlike the council who are pretty pathetic at emptying bins.

No fucker does anything to make my life easier
Sounds like you work pretty hard to make life difficult for yourself, why when you have a toddler with you also have two large dogs that you struggle to contain and control?

I think its to save money if the council don;t have to maintain and empty it. It would be nice to have more bins but I guess they are going to get rarer as council get more cash strapped.

Dog shit is horrible and I have no problem picking my dog's leavings up but it certainly doesn't encourage you to do it when you then have to carry it for miles.

Please can the dog-frothers just give it a rest? You hate dogs and their owners with a rabid passion - we get it - but there is nothing to be added to the debate but just telling everyone to get rid of their dogs

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
That would be great, and of course dog owners ought to fund it because having a dog is a lifestyle choice its a sort of living toy that you indulge yourself with.
That's my View anyway but many dog owners seem to view dog ownership as a right, whether or not they can afford it whether or not it causes a nuisance or inconvenience to other people.

Increasingly one dog these days is Not Enough, dog owners (presumably as part of a dog owner one-upmanship type thing ) like to have multiple dogs, their own personal dog pack running about everywhere being a nuisance, and of course the dog must be allowed to roam freely off the lead because it has a right to enjoy its doggie life
after all it pays it's taxes doesn't it, it studied hard got an education and a worthwhile job and is a useful member of society so it deserves to run about and have it's doggie freedom 🙄

There is a footpath with a wide grassy area either side behind my house. There are poo bins at the top and bottom, but there is dog poo every where. I think the problem is irresponsible owners, not lack of bins.

There are plenty in my town...just not placed in ideal solutions.

For example, on one route, there’s bins every 10 steps or so.

On another route, I won’t see a bin for a good 20 minutes walk. Both in a particularly busy part

Our county council is cutting school crossing patrols because they can’t afford them, so I doubt they have a lot of spare cash floating around to install dog poo bins and pay the wages of the extra Streetscene staff who would be required to empty them.

If I’m out on a walk and see dog poo bags hanging from the trees, I’ve no way of knowing whether the person who left them will be back to collect them in 20 minutes, two hours or, most likely, never - I just know it spoils my enjoyment of the countryside. Dog owners choose to get dogs, and by extension that means they’ve signed up to carry poo around, however unpleasant that may be.

Dog owners benefit from the fun the companionship etc of having a dog the rest of us have to put up with the shit and the nuisance of these things running freely everywhere getting in the way attacking people etc

I complained to my local councillor about the lack of bins on our local cycle path. It wasn’t for the purpose of dog poo but I noticed the amount of litter and noticed it was about a mile between bins.

Their answer was not only that they didn’t have the money for bins, the people who empty the bins go round in a van and can’t get the van down cycle paths. They also don’t have the money to employ extra people to empty extra bins.

You don’t like carrying a bag of dog shit around with you.
Simple solution let your dog shit at home then take it for a walk.
Then you don’t have to carry dog shit and no risk of anyone else treading in it.
So obvious .

There's a lack of bins generally. Plenty of dog bins in the park (though they moved the really useful one right by the park exit and plonked it a few metres away from another one!) but once you're out of the park there's not a bin to be seen of any sort. And don't even get me started on the amount of recycling the bin men leave floating about on the pavement / verge after they've been round because they can't be bothered to empty the recycling boxes properly!

It depends on the area. For example in Bracknell there are tons of bins but when I walk in Virginia Water (not round the lake) there are hardly any bins at all eg Wellington Avenue, Christchurch Avenue if you know the areas. Same in parts of Maidenhead hardly any. It is always wrong not to pick up but I do get ticked off having to carry it then drive almost home with it in order to find a public bin to put it in. Some areas have hardly any except in parks and people need bins for litter too not just poo!

Where I am, dirty dog owners leave their dog shit unpicked, next to the dog poo bin or underneath it, on the steps to the school , outside the nursery entrance, basically all over the place. The parish council couldn't give a toss as I've spoken about the subject with them many times, as have many others .

Yep, loads of bins but lazy owners here. I find it annoying as a dog owner myself.

Someone has hung 2 bags full of dog shit on a fence near my house and it’s been there for a week🤮 zero bins in my area. My front garden is always full of rubbish passers by throw in. It’s a huge PITA

My neighborhood in Lisbon is covered in dog poo, it’s awful. I hate those dog owners. I keep having to swerve my baby’s pram to avoid rolling in shit! .

There should be a system of “dog permit”, with ownership of a dog meaning hefty taxes to pay for the cleaning up of streets. And if you get controlled and don’t have a dog permit, you get fined.

Dog shit is bad enough when it gets on the shoes of the able. It's not quite as funny when a wheelchair user has to squish their way through it, and it gets on sleeve and cuffs.

Ireland has licensing of dogs. I don't know how strictly enforced it is.

www.anpost.ie/AnPost/Mobile/Personal+Customers/More+from+An+Post/Dog+Licence/dog_licence.htm

Although it would be a bureaucratic nonsense it might be a way to raise some extra money for dog poo bins, emptying bins and enforcing their use, if they were introduced for the UK.

Purplehammer that sounds so easy, but mine will do several at home and still manage to do more when he's out.

but mine will do several at home and still manage to do more when he's out
your dog, your dogshit, your problem.

I do get ticked off having to carry it then drive almost home with it in order to find a public bin to put it in
If you are irritated by the fact that dogs defecate then why would you decide to get a dog?

Juliajaynes I wasn't complaining, merely replying to the suggestion that you could solve the problem by waiting until the dog has already been. I pick up his poo, do not double bag and don't mind carrying it to the bin.

Poo bins won't solve the problem. We live in a cul de sac of about 10 houses... so no length of street at all. There's a council bin at the end of the street, and people still walk their dog up and down our street to have a shit and don't pick it up when they'd have to carry it all of 20 steps along to the bin.

Your dog, your dog's shit = your problem.
Why is the fact that you dislike carrying your dog's steaming bag of shit around anyone else's problem but your own, ffs.
It's sad that local councils have to provide bins for dog shit, if owners took responsibility for their animal's excrement it wouldn't be necessary. I know it's bagged up in most cases but some council employee who's paid less than peanuts has to deal with that bin. Take your dog's shit home with and deal with it yourself
As an aside, several years ago a cf school mum passed our house with her dog, minutes after we'd dropped off our dc at school. She eyed up our dustbin behind the back gate, rang my doorbell and asked if she could deposit her bag of steaming dog shit in our bin rather than carry it home. She was obviously another dog owner thought it was someone else's responsibility to deal with her dog's excrement
She was told that no, she couldn't deposit her bag of shit in our bin, she could walk the extra couple of streets to her own house and her own bin and deal with it appropriately. She wasn't happy and blanked me thereafter in the playground thank fuck
Any owner not prepared to scoop up their dog's shit is bad enough. But an owner moaning about having to carry their dog's shit home in a bag because they're aren't enough bins just beggars belief.