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To wonder why people buy clear dog poo bags

147 replies

Littlefroggy18 · 02/04/2019 17:56

I mean really...should they even exist?? Why why would you buy a clear one where you can see all the poo inside considering you usually have to walk some distance before you get to a bin?! The amount of people I see daily walking round with see through bags full of shit is ridiculous! Buy black ones!!!

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motherheroic · 02/04/2019 23:32

They are probably nappy bags or food bags.

chandylier · 02/04/2019 23:39

Smother, as a responsible dog owner, you have to pick it up. You can’t kick into a ditch somewhere. Maybe in the wilderness, but not in a park or woods where it can cause damage and disease to children and animals. Never mind the fines.
I’m not asking in an ideal world what would be the answer to the worlds plastic problem

Dieu · 02/04/2019 23:45

I reckon they're sandwich bags, probably the cheap, thin ones where you get hundreds for a quid, and you can easily fit a bunch in your pocket.

I'm a dog owner and not once have I seen clear poo bags in the shops, or anywhere.

bert3400 · 02/04/2019 23:59

Biodegradable bags that's all that matters ...pink, green, black, clear, whatever.

Stompythedinosaur · 03/04/2019 00:01

Wow, dog poo threads really bring out some strong emotions!

We mainly walk our dog in woodland and have been employing the stick and flick method. 9 didn't realise this was a problem. I too would like to know if there is a definitive answer as to what I am meant to be doing with dog poo.

WendyWoofer · 03/04/2019 00:16

Stick n flick is fine in woodland areas. But not on farmland or parks or streets or gardens....

Still waiting for smother to tell us what we should do with the poo that has been picked up in bags that the council issue for free and who recommend the bag is placed into the general waste rubbish.

According to smother the council are wrong but, as yet, hasn't offered us her superior knowledge of how we should dispose of dog shit from the garden, parks etc..

Smotheroffive · 03/04/2019 00:44

Too much shit talk on this thread GrinGrin

Smotheroffive · 03/04/2019 00:45

Wholly too superior and weird for you woofer Confused

WendyWoofer · 03/04/2019 00:51

Wholly toosuperiorandweirdfor youwoofer

Its very weird that you haven't given us the benefit of your superior knowledge smother. Are you going to? Any time soon?

Smotheroffive · 03/04/2019 00:53

Far too superior and weird for you woofer 😂😂😂

WendyWoofer · 03/04/2019 00:59

Yes absolutely. In other words you were trying to be clever and talking out of your arse...very appropriate for a dog poo thread.

DimplesToadfoot · 03/04/2019 01:08

I'm sure I saw something on the TV recently that had some newfangled design, you would pick up the poop, put it in this chute, the poop would burn and it made enough energy to light a streetlamp, maybe we need a few more of them dotted around?

Smotheroffive · 03/04/2019 01:08

Whatever woofer Grin whatever you say of course superior and weird Grin

projection much, oh and some name calling and goading

Doggydoggydoggy · 03/04/2019 08:01

Stick and flick is absolutely NOT fine in woodland areas woofer!

Bloody revolting, the national trust should be ashamed of themselves.

What about all the dogs that run through woodland that will be getting shit all over their legs and torsos?
What about the horrific smell of hundreds of faeces at differing stages of decomposition?

What about the risk to children who may be having fun trampling through the woods instead of rotting in front of the computer, dog faeces can contain bacteria that can cause blindness in children.
Not to mention the myriad of other bacteria that can cause illness to wildlife.

I would have a very low opinion of anyone filthy enough and lazy enough to stick and flick.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 03/04/2019 08:18

Oh stop it!

Apart from the absolute fact hat all of those beautiful doggies and kiddies are already running through the decomposing shit and consequent bacteria of many other creatures, wildlife most definitely included. Stick and flick is better than nothing.

I have, on occasion, when caught out, done this into the road side base of hedges. The real issue with it is on regular and popular dog walks it would cause a build up that would not decompose quickly enough, plus the possible disease load. That could lead to all sorts of issues.

But the occasion missed poo, flicked or not, isn't the issue. Instead of berating otherwise responsible poo pickers, we all neeed to aim for the inveterate ignorers, especially those who do so on pavements!

Treezylover · 03/04/2019 08:38

Woah, this is a bad thread. So... stick and flick is bad. Sandwich bags are bad. Biodegradable plastic is bad. Putting said bags in household waste is bad. Leaving them to decompose in the hedgerows is bad.

Should we just have done with it and get rid of all pets? I’m imagining pyres of cats and dogs ala foot and mouth epidemic. What a joyous, empowering morning read.

Doggydoggydoggy · 03/04/2019 08:50

Just stick it in a bag and put it in the bin ffs.

Hopefully in future paper bags will be the norm but right now the best option all around is bag and bin...

WendyWoofer · 03/04/2019 09:48

*stick and flick is absolutely NOT fine in woodland areaswoofer!

Our woodland areas have signs stating "This is a stick and flick area". I'll ignore it then.... 🙄

What about foxes, badgers, squirrels and all other wildlife. They shit in woodland areas you know.

Stick and flick areas are a thing. Don't pretend they are not. Why would children be running under hedges? Don't be ridiculous! Strange how I walk a stick and flick area 3 times a week and have done for years. None if my dogs have managed to get covered in dog shit. Although one does like to roll in fox poo. Stinking, dirty fox should wrap his poo up in a bag and take it home with him. No bins in stick and flick areas see.

This thread is disturbing. All it's doing is telling dog owners whatever they do with their dog poo is wrong. FFS just use your head. Stick and flick signs state stick and flick is fine in that area- and the plastic waste is reduced.

Councils tell people not to put dog poo in recycling bins, for obvious reasons. And stipulate that
Pet waste is to go into the main waste bin. Bins scattered around parks, cycle paths with the wording "dog waste" is for, guess what - dog poo.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 03/04/2019 10:12

To be honest this thread has made me consider my use of plastic bags.

You are quite right. I shall cease and desist, leave the poo were it lies. Let nature take its ocurse.

No, wait, that's vile. I'll use a biodegradable bag, coloured obviously. No, that's vile too?

What's left, cork up the dogs bum? Reverse engineer canines so they internallly combust their own wast products and shit out butterflies.. or other environmentally freindly substance?

OK. I shall get on to that this evening!

Springersrock · 03/04/2019 10:20

Our local woods have signs up saying stick and flick is fine.

Some complete idiot has been chucking his dog poo bags over the fence into DD’s ponies’ field. So bloody dangerous.

I caught him at it this morning - it’s fine apparently, the bags are degradable and he doesn’t want to carry the bag for miles. I was so cross, some people make me despair

Doggydoggydoggy · 03/04/2019 11:32

I would definately ignore the lunatic sign yes and continue to bag and bin!

Of course other animals poo but a popular route could easily be used by more than 50 dog walkers in a day, some of those walkers will have multiple dogs, sometimes dogs poo multiple times.
If every single one of those filthy dirty individuals stick n flicks that is a LOT of poo that will take quite some time to decompose and imagine will be extradornarily stinky in the process on a lovely hot summers day...

Why would children be running under hedges?
Oh, I don’t know, looking for the dog’s lost tennis ball perhaps as mine have done?
Looking for bugs?
Wild flowers?
Again, as mine have done...

The reason your dog is clean from dog poo is probably because the rest of us bag and bin it!

This thread makes me feel quite sick.

Filthy, filthy bastards.

WendyWoofer · 03/04/2019 11:45

Doggy why are you allowing your children to scramble under gorse bushes in a stick and flick area?

Your parenting is the problem.

Doggydoggydoggy · 03/04/2019 12:22

Did I say I live in a designated stick n flick area?

I let them because I expect people to have the common sense to bin it..

Would I let them in a designated area?
No of course not but I would imagine the same sort of people that actually do stick n flick in designated areas are the same sort people that would do it anywhere else without a sign.

It shouldn’t be encouraged anywhere.
It’s unhygenic and poses a health risk to just about everyone.
Whoever came up with it must have been on glue.

I think it’s absolutely revolting behaviour.
Utterly, utterly revolting.
The thought honestly makes me feel queasy

Stompythedinosaur · 03/04/2019 13:08

Well, there are nothing like 50 walkers in our area and it is absolutely fine on a summers day. Neither my dc or dogs have area been covered in dog poo. There is plenty of fox poo about though. I'm not convinced it is a huge problem or as disgusting as is being suggested.

MenuPlant · 03/04/2019 14:05

The idea is that children shouldn't be running around in the woods now off the paths as there's probably shit everywhere?

I don't have a dog I didn't know that was a thing.

Seems a bit rubbish for kids everything is so prescribed nowadays.

For PP round here they never come back and take the bags out of the trees! They are festooned it's just weird I don't get it.